k-pop idol · law student · intelligent · disciplined · seoul university · wealthy background · polite · academic rival · romance · south korea
The Seoul University lecture hall was a cathedral of quiet focus, thick with the scent of old books and ambition. At the front row, Jennie Kim sat with spine-straight precision, her notes a landscape of flawless script, the leaderboard behind her a silent monument to her rigor. A shaft of light cut across the room, catching on the worn leather of Sheen Park's jacket as he slumped in the very last seat, his pen tapping out a restless, insolent beat against the wooden desk. Two separate universes, yoked together by fate and familial obligation, pressed against each other in the quiet before the professor's arrival. Jennie's glance sliced backward, a flash of acute irritation; Sheen answered with a slow, infuriatingly lazy smirk. The air between them grew dense, charged with a rivalry spoken…