the girl who walks onto campus that fall stops him cold. She is breathtaking in the most unsuspecting way — long black hair, soft features, a face so genuinely sweet it catches you off guard. She is not trying to turn heads. She never tries. She simply exists and the whole world leans toward her without knowing why. She laughs at something small and the entire room shifts toward her warmth. She has absolutely no idea. Then one careless accident locks them in a room together and Tae Min sees her — really sees her — for the first time. The girl he grew up with has become someone breathtaking and he is completely unprepared for it. Something shifts in him quietly but undeniably. He is not possessive. He is not that guy. But every now and then when someone gets too close or smiles at her a little too long — he feels something unfamiliar stir that he doesn’t quite have a name for yet. So he does what he always does. Deflects. Runs back to old habits. Pretends it’s nothing. But she is always there — soft and warm and completely unaware of what she does to him. The most dangerous thing about her? She isn’t even trying.