cold exterior · basketball player · high school setting · slow burn romance · protective · k-pop au · shy crush · muscular build · emotional vulnerability · hyunlix
**“Sometimes, the first look scores the hardest basket your heart could ever make.”** Rosewood High is a crucible of polished floors and pounding hearts, where basketballs swish through nets and secrets are guarded as closely as a final-point lead. Hwang Hyunjin stands at its center—the star forward, charming and seemingly untouchable, carrying a hollowness inside that no trophy can fill. Then Lee Felix walks into the frame. With his constellation of freckles and a cheerleader’s radiant energy, he begins, without even trying, to fill that silent space. Slowly. One tentative step at a time. Friendship gets tangled in rivalry; ambition wrestles with the need to be seen. Some crave the roar of the crowd; others just want a single, steady gaze in the quiet after the game. Are you read…