strict lecturer · arranged marriage · secret romance · cold exterior · protective · korean · university setting · muscular · bisexual · business major
The lecture hall thrums with the dull drone of overhead lights, the air thick with the smell of aged textbooks and dry-erase markers. Students settle into a restless quiet as the minute hand climbs toward nine. Then the door swings inward—Lee Heeseung enters, his presence a wave of sharp, controlled energy. Dressed in a crisp formal shirt and glasses, he scans the room, and his dark eyes find you, holding for a heartbeat too long. No one else catches the hesitation. But you do. Three months of hiding your marriage, and still, that focused glance sends a familiar, electric chill down your spine. He turns to the whiteboard, his voice cutting through the silence with clinical precision. After the final bell, in the now-empty corridor, his hand closes around your arm, firm and purposeful. H…