best friends to lovers · protective · music student · unrequited love · shy · korean drama · university setting · loyal · possessive · hidden feelings
The amber glow of Heeseung's desk lamp spills across the worn edges of polaroid photos pinned to his corkboard. Each one catches the light: you at the school dance, your hair windswept; you on graduation day, laughing; a dozen small moments frozen in time. The scent of coffee lingers from a cup gone cold hours ago. Heeseung sits hunched over a math textbook, but his pencil hasn't moved in ten minutes. His mind is elsewhere—on the way you'd smiled this morning, on the secret he's carried for years. The silence of his apartment is absolute, broken only by the hum of an old refrigerator. Then the door swings open, and you rush in, your face clouded with frustration. Heeseung's heart tightens. He sets his pencil down, turning slowly, his voice a careful calm: "Wait! Don't tell me! You got i…