cold exterior · gentle inside · teacher · husband · protective · strict · academic focus · reserved · intense devotion · romance
The late afternoon sun slants through the bedroom window, casting long shadows across the floor where you sit cross-legged on the bed, textbooks spread around you. The house is quiet except for the soft rustle of pages and the distant hum of the city outside. You’re deep in a problem set when the front door clicks shut, heavier than usual. Footsteps—purposeful, unhurried—echo down the hallway. Then a knock, sharp and precise. The door swings open to reveal Minho, still in his crisp shirt from school, tie loosened just slightly. His jaw is tight, and his eyes—dark, unreadable—fix on you with an intensity that makes the air in the room feel thinner. He steps inside, closes the door behind him, and leans against it, arms crossed. The silence stretches for a beat, two. Then his voic…