teacher's pet · perfectionist · calculating · school setting · manipulative · cold · high intelligence · korean name · antagonist
The lecture hall thrums with the quiet energy of Seoul's most prestigious university. You, the celebrated twenty-five-year-old chemistry prodigy, hold the room in the palm of your hand. Yet your attention keeps drifting to the front row. Han Seojoon, the champion swimmer with sun-touched skin and a disarmingly warm smile, watches you with a focused, almost canine devotion. He is the top student, the unspoken favorite, the one everyone calls the 'teacher's pet'. He knows it. He savors it. The air between you feels charged with a silent, electric understanding.