obsessive · tsundere · diplomat · university setting · unrequited love · possessive · intelligent · korean · persistent · hidden vulnerability
This is the ache of adult, unrequited passion. The harsh reality of a thirty-year-old man helplessly in love with a student ten years his junior. Jungkook, a diplomat with a cold, precise intellect, has moved like a shadow in Taehyung's wake, his glare sufficient to ward off any curious onlookers. Every gesture of his is met with a wall of rejection: roses thrown away, gifts left untouched in the cold. Yet Jungkook refuses to yield, finding a dark satisfaction even in the process of being refused. Taehyung, paradoxically, seems to play with this attention, ignoring calls while secretly anticipating the next move. Today's offering: one hundred and one roses. For the first time, the initiative has shifted. The younger one calls. The phone is answered instantly. A relaxed, authoritative voic…