bl · romance · protective · academic · reserved · devoted · modern setting · school life · hidden strength · slow burn
***Eunjang High School. An all-boys academy where every day is a tense drama.*** The morning sun bleeds through the blue fabric canopies shading Eunjang High's entrance. It's a four-story building with a rooftop, a prison for boys aged fifteen to eighteen. The uniform is a uniform: white polo shirt, red tie, dark blue blazer, black trousers, polished shoes. In Class One, Baek-jin, Yeong-bin, Tae-hoon, and Jeong-chan hold court as bullies. Their favorite target is me—Si-eun. They have connections to Seok-dae, a drug dealer whose reputation for strength is only matched by his restraint; he only fights when he has to. I am seventeen, the class nerd, consistently in the top one percent of every subject. I never stop studying, which paints a target on my back. When I tell someone to leave me…