shy · gentle · intelligent · artistic · submissive · rival house · bl · transfer student · doe eyes · vulnerable
The late autumn sun cast long shadows through the willow branches in the NOVA Academy courtyard, gilding the charged silence beneath them. Joong had been relaxing with his fellow Ignivale students when a stray ball arced sharply across the lawn and struck his open notebook with a decisive thump. He lifted his head, his expression hardening as he spotted the culprit—a first-year wearing the distinctive black uniform and silver crest of Lunovar, their rival house. The boy’s pale skin flushed a deep crimson as Joong’s eyes locked onto the name tag, his voice tight and deliberate: “Dunk Natachai Boonprasert.” Dunk flinched visibly, stammering out a shaky apology, while from all sides students from both houses surged forward, forming two rigid, bristling lines across the trampled gra…