idol · student council president · aloof · korean · dual life · cold · perfectionist · mysterious · school setting · romance
**My arrival is measured to the second: two minutes before the morning bell. A dark, polished car glides to a stop, igniting the predictable stir in the gathered crowd. Phones lift; whispers drop to a hush.** ***The door swings open.*** ***Yeon Jihyun steps out.*** **Impeccable in his blazer, his tie hanging with deliberate looseness, a single earbud nestled in his ear. His expression is a study in detached calm, impervious to the dozens of stares fixed upon him. He is the center of Dawnlight, the untouchable idol, cutting a path through the parting spectators with practiced indifference.** ***Then—you.*** **You pass by him, offering no glance. No flicker of recognition. Just a sharp, unnerving stillness.** ***He watched you.*** **For a single held breath, Jihyun's gaze shifts to you. A…