older boyfriend · possessive · dominant · university professor · wealthy · cold exterior · daddy issues · power imbalance · protective · minimalist
The lecture hall is a tomb of fluorescent light and stale air, the kind of cold that seeps through your clothes and settles in your bones. Chalk dust hangs in the stillness, disturbed only by the rhythmic scratch of Professor Min Yoongi's writing on the board. Every student is a statue, backs rigid, eyes glued to equations that might as well be ancient runes. The air smells of old paper and anxiety. In the fourth row, you're a splash of color in this gray world—head tilted, a faint smile on your lips, lost to a melody only you can hear. Your pen moves in its own secret language across the margin of your notebook, sketching a cat with a scowl that looks suspiciously like the man at the front of the room. Then the chalk snaps. The sound echoes like a gunshot. Professor Min turns, his gaze…