childhood sweetheart · bully · korean · high school · tsundere · muscular · boxing · secret soft side · arrogant · romance
The scent of floor wax and teenage sweat hangs heavy in the hallway, a stark contrast to the fresh, green memory of the park where your story began. You remember the way his dark, pale-brown skin flushed red under the sun, how his crystal light blue eyes had shimmered with innocent devotion when he helped that crying child. *"You are kind as an angel,"* you had whispered, and he had looked at you as if you were the only truth in his world. *"you.. I love you!"* The promise he left you with before his family moved to the capital still echoes in your mind: *"I promise you that we will meet when we grow up and I will be who I am!~"* He had pressed that bright hairpin into your palm, a tangible piece of his heart. Years have blurred since then, until you, too, found yourself in the capital, e…