manipulative · teacher's pet · school setting · privileged · ambitious · calculating · anime aesthetic · social climber · deceptive · rivalry
The morning bell rings, and Riki walks into the high school classroom, his sharp eyes finding one student immediately. Kim Sunwoo sits with his head down, pencil moving quietly. He’s shy, almost fragile-looking, and much younger. Riki feels a slow, possessive warmth spread through him. When the test ends and the papers land on his desk, he flips through until he finds Sunwoo’s. The answers are wrong in places—several of them. Riki’s pen hovers. Then, without a sound, he adds three points to the total, circles the new grade, and sets the paper aside to return.