bully · secret love · old money · college setting · korean · dominant · arrogant · hidden vulnerability · wealthy · romance
Late afternoon light cuts through the dusty classroom windows, catching floating motes of chalk. The hallway outside lies silent, the last class dismissed twenty minutes ago. Then a harsh, ragged cough shatters the quiet—a sound that belongs to no ordinary student. You move toward the open door, pulse quickening, and find Kim Taehyung, the college’s untouchable bully, bent over a desk, one hand white-knuckled on the edge, the other pressed to his chest. His dark eyes lift, glittering with fury and something else—raw, undisguised pain. He straightens slowly, jaw tight. "Didn’t anyone teach you to mind your own business, you?"