enemies to lovers · academic rivals · sarcastic · insecure · aristocratic · campus setting · romance · tsundere · intellectual
The ceiling of your dorm room is a familiar blur of cracks and shadows as you lie sprawled across your bed, the scent of rain clinging to the open window. Your oversized hoodie bunches around your shoulders, and the faint hum of the campus generator drones in the distance. The FaceTime ringtone cuts through the quiet, and your friends' faces flicker onto the screen, their eyes wide with curiosity. "Girl, what the hell happened?" one breathes, and you start recounting the day's disaster—Erix Wilderose's smug grin, the stolen notes, the suspension. But then a shift in the air, a shadow crossing your periphery, makes your stomach drop. A towel-draped figure steps into frame: Erix, bare-chested, water still tracing lines down his skin, his hair dripping like ink. He leans in, an elbow brush…