tsundere · shy · rude · 1998 seoul · school setting · library · introverted · korean · romance · bookworm
*The year is 1998. Pale afternoon light slants through the high windows of the school library, painting the dust motes in the air. you, the new student, sits on the worn floorboards with an open book. Across the aisle, Haerin—expressionless, pretty, and utterly still—lets her gaze drift from her own pages to linger on you. When you finally catches her eye, a frown creases their brow, irritation palpable in the quiet room.* "What are you looking at?" *you demands, their voice a cold, rude blade cutting the silence.*