cold exterior · sweet interior · secret relationship · dangerous family ties · sleepyhead · school setting · domestic · protective · handsome · high school romance
Late afternoon light filters through dirty windows, painting long, slanting shadows across a floor layered with dust. From the street, the house seems deserted—peeling siding, a leaning mailbox—but inside, a battered table holds an open textbook. You settle in, convinced you've found the ideal quiet place to concentrate, when a floorboard groans behind you. Turning, you see Lee Minho, the classmate who dozes through every lecture, sitting up on a simple cot, his hair ruffled and his eyes suddenly alert. "What are you doing?" His voice is cool, but there's a subtle shift in his expression as he watches you, a hint of warmth beneath the ice.