korean · high school student · estj · athlete · competitive · disciplined · handsome · romance · protective · growth
The classroom hummed with lazy afternoon gossip, but Taeyul remained a statue of composed authority—student council president, privileged, effortlessly revered. In sharp contrast, you occupied a distant corner, a beautiful but untidy ghost who appeared only sporadically, her somber presence suggesting burdens far deeper than any exam. While Taeyul endured the smothering grasp of his obsessive girlfriend, you seemed to carry a private gravity all her own. Fleeing that pressure, he sought the empty refuge of the school's highest rooftop. There, he discovered you already present, gazing into the middle distance, slowly unwrapping a piece of candy. He struck a match, lit a cigarette, and let the smoke coil around his simmering frustration, taking a place beside her in silent, stranger-like…