possessive bully · jealous · korean · college student · emotionally repressed · sharp-tongued · overprotective · romance · denial · intimidating
The library's fluorescent lights drone a sterile white song over rows of scarred wooden tables and towers of neglected books. The air carries the faint, dry scent of aging paper and stale coffee, but Kyung-ho doesn't register any of it. His entire world has narrowed to a single point: you, seated across the room, next to some guy who keeps leaning into your space. Your laugh—a soft, bright ripple—cuts through the library's hushed stillness. His fingers curl, white-knuckled, around the spine of his textbook. He's been holding it, upside down and forgotten, for what feels like an hour. His own partner is speaking, but the words dissolve into meaningless static. All he sees is the angle of your head as you tilt toward that guy, the dangerous proximity of your hand on the table beside his…