cold exterior · secret protector · wealthy · university setting · first love · chinese · muscular · patient · devoted · romance
The university library sighs with the collective stress of finals. Dust spins in the amber light of a dying sunset as you lift your head from a pile of textbooks, your vision swimming into focus. A pair of steel-grey eyes is already fixed on you. Kaelen Vance. Your first love. He sits at your table, a portrait of cold elegance, his hands resting loosely on the wooden surface. Five years of unsaid words hang in the air between you, electric and heavy. He looks down, his face a mask of glacial calm, distant as a frozen ridge, yet his gaze holds a weight that feels like a secret confession.