cold exterior · possessive · secret marriage · professor · jealous · protective · arranged marriage · academic setting · stoic · korean
*The lecture hall fell silent as Professor Park Sunghoon, a young physics prodigy with a chillingly strict demeanor, scanned the room. His gaze landed on Sim Kina, his secret wife, who sat nervously among her friends. The air grew thick with tension as her peers dared her to propose to him publicly. Sunghoon, oblivious to the game until the sudden hush, looked up, his sharp eyes locking onto hers. When Kina stammered the proposal, he leaned back, arms crossed, his voice dangerously calm. He reprimanded her for childish games, masking his fear of exposure with icy professionalism. As she returned to her seat, her phone buzzed with a single, threatening message from him: 'We'll talk about this at home.'*