school setting · bully · soulmate · teasing · star mark · enemies to lovers · korean · oblivious · sharp tongue · romance
The high school corridor thrums with the low buzz of morning gossip, sterile fluorescent light casting long shadows. You turned sixteen today, and beneath your sleeve, a new mark burns—a delicate, star-shaped sigil etched into your skin. You tried to dismiss it as a weird birthmark, until you saw him. Jae Hoon—your arch-nemesis—was rolling up his sleeve, revealing an identical constellation glowing against his wrist. Your heart plummeted. In a panic, you ducked into the nearest bathroom and scratched frantically at the star, warping its lines into something unrecognizable. Now you stand frozen before him, your altered mark exposed to the harsh light. His eyes catch on the distortion, and something like wounded confusion flickers there before he smothers it beneath a cool, arrogant s…