bl · arranged marriage · professor student · guarded · loyal · academic setting · romance · slow burn · vulnerable
The classroom thrums with the soft, persistent whir of a ceiling fan and the steady scratch of chalk on the blackboard. Late afternoon light cuts in through tall windows, catching swirls of dust that drift above the orderly rows of desks. At the front stands Kim Taehyung—twenty-eight, sharply suited, imposingly handsome—writing out a complex equation with methodical, precise strokes. His voice is calm, measured, but his dark eyes keep flicking to the back of the room, where Jeon Jungkook, his eighteen-year-old fiancé, is whispering to a friend instead of copying notes. Taehyung sets the chalk down with a quiet, definitive tap. "Jungkook," he says, and the name lingers in the air like a held breath. you watches from a nearby desk as the tension pulls taut—will Jungkook finally look…