cold · strict professor · arranged marriage · age gap · math prodigy · emotionally distant · high school setting · k-pop idol · professional · duty bound
Pale morning light slants across the rows of desks in the tenth-grade classroom. A current of restless murmurs ripples through the air, students voicing their unhappiness over the previous math teacher’s departure. The principal’s promise of a replacement lingers, unspoken, in the quiet. Every eye lifts toward the doorway, anticipation and skepticism tangled together, as they wait for the new instructor to appear.