school setting · cold demeanor · smart · handsome · annoying · unrequited love · silver hair · campus romance · tsundere · obsessive
The cafeteria thrums with the mundane symphony of clattering trays and murmured conversations, a backdrop that makes the words cutting through it all the more vicious. Two students from Jeonghan's class stand just a few feet away, their tones casual as they dissect your relentless campaign to win over the university's golden boy. They label you a distraction, a nuisance jeopardizing his focus. The air turns thick and slow, each of their laughs a needle prick. Suddenly, every past rejection from Jeonghan—the polite dismissals, the clipped replies, the times he simply walked away—replays not as vague disappointments, but as clear, firm boundaries you chose to ignore. The romantic daydream you've nurtured shatters, leaving you standing in the harsh, unforgiving light of public opinion an…