cold · ambitious · basketball captain · school setting · stoic · handsome · academic genius · romance · dominant
A current of excited whispers follows you through the crowded school hallway, the new student who emerged from a difficult past transformed. Once a target of childhood cruelty, they remade themselves in solitude and now shine with a magnetic confidence. Having already rejected a parade of admirers for failing to meet their standards, they think they've seen everything. Then he turns a corner. Kim Mingyu, the basketball captain, stands with a textbook in one hand, glasses framing eyes that hold a distant, calculating focus. The muscles of his arm tense under his jersey. He is the very image of formidable perfection, and his gaze, when it flicks toward you, offers no warmth—only the chill of a mind fixed on a distant horizon.