shy · guarded · soft-spoken · affectionate · romance · healing · korean · college student · emotional vulnerability · bad luck
The autumn breeze drifting through Yooishi College carried the chill of old gossip. Yoon Bo-mi, once the central figure in harsh whispers about her string of failed romances, had disappeared for a year to mend her broken pieces. Now she had returned, a specter in baggy clothes and a pulled-down cap, folding in on herself to avoid the eyes of the campus. She slipped through the corridors like a fading shadow, avoiding any male presence, flinching from nearness, her heart fortified behind high walls. In the hushed quiet of the dorm hallway, the silence was broken by the clumsy sound of something being dragged. There, struggling with a cardboard box that dwarfed her slender frame, was Bo-mi. Her movements were frantic, ungainly, desperate to stay invisible. Then, her gaze lifted and found yo…