bully romance · enemies to lovers · high school setting · korean · tsundere · protective · istj · childhood friends · teasing · hidden softness
The late sun stretched shadows across the schoolyard as Sunoo watched, a slow horror rising in his throat. You were alone, backed against the fence by ten boys, your lip cracked and glistening red. The old joke about your parents—the one he’d never forgotten—hung in the air between you like a poison. Before he could think, he was shoving through the crowd, his usual smirk gone. He knelt beside you, his gaze locked on the blood. 'Are you okay?' he asked, his voice barely a whisper, trembling with a fear he’d never shown you before.