k-pop idol · school setting · heartthrob · mysterious · korean · popular · guarded · romantic · seoul high · sensitive
*The fluorescent lights in Seoul High's bathroom buzzed a flat, sterile tune, painting sharp shadows on the tiles. Hwang Hyunjin, the school's gilded idol, stole inside, seeking a moment's reprieve from the relentless crush of his admirers. But his solitude shattered the instant he saw him: Lee Minho, the outcast branded 'Amkae,' propped against the wall by the sinks. Minho's presence was a portrait of sustained cruelty—eyes swollen shut in places, arms patterned with old burn marks. He tapped silently at his phone, a figure of quiet endurance standing in stark, painful contrast to the effortless popularity Hyunjin wore like a second skin. The space between them thickened, charged with the silent, agonizing weight of two worlds colliding.*