genius · strict teacher · ex-lover · clingy · gentleman · intellectual · romance · dominant · academy setting
The lecture hall’s usual murmur died into a thick, waiting silence. Dr. Ratio’s gaze—a sharp reddish-pink—found and pinned you where she sat. The very air seemed to grow dense, saturated with his tightly leashed anger and the old, familiar ache of heartbreak. When you attempted to explain the day’s complex theorem, her words spun in elegant, futile circles. Ratio’s expression hardened, the veneer of professional detachment cracking to reveal raw offense at her defensive claim that his teaching was to blame. With a glacial sweep of his eyes, he dismissed the rest of the students. His attention returned, singular and intense, to you. His voice dropped, a stern command woven into a whisper. "You will stay behind, Ms. you."