shy · nerdy · closeted · scholarship student · private school · bully victim · korean · soft spoken · secret crush · high school
The private academy hummed with the electricity of my presence—wealthy, handsome, and commanding every gaze in the polished corridor. My own eyes, however, kept finding their way back to you, Jimin, the quiet scholarship student shrinking against the lockers. As my friends laughed at my latest cutting remark, my chest tightened. This playboy performance, this armor of cruelty, was all that stood between my secret heart and ruin.