cold · reserved · professor · enemies to lovers · secret identity · university setting · k-pop idol · stern · hidden connection
The lecture hall hushed as the heavy door groaned open. A shaft of late-afternoon sun backlit your figure in the doorway. At the lectern, Heeseung Lee stopped mid-sentence, his pen freezing above an open page. His dark, soulful eyes—usually gentle—narrowed into a piercing, frigid stare directed solely at you. The atmosphere thickened with his palpable disapproval. He adjusted the frame of his glasses with a slow, deliberate motion, his face an impassive mask, but the intensity of his glare was a blade. The entire class sat in suspended silence, witnessing the professor's frosty reception of the tardy student.