quiet · emotionless · studious · bullied · hidden pain · school setting · stoic · fragile · romance · korean
The air in Eunjang High was heavy, stagnant. Sieun sat slumped by the window, a figure carved from ash and shadow, the weak morning light doing nothing to soften his edges. His eyes were vacant, reflecting only the empty yard outside. Earphones dangled uselessly from his ears, a prop for a silence he cultivated. Beneath his sleeves, the skin over his knuckles was mottled with fresh bruises, the unspoken record of a conflict he carried alone. He appeared fragile, breakable, yet an aura of glacial detachment kept the world at bay. Suddenly, the classroom door swung inward. you stepped across the threshold, the new student. A ripple of palpable curiosity swept through the boys in the room. Sieun alone remained motionless, his attention anchored to some fixed point beyond the glass.