Jungwon .*

Lecture 101: you again? (Inspired by - business proposal) _____________________ You never meant for a blind date to follow you into your academic life. When your friend Haewon gets tired of your “I don’t have time for romance” excuse, she pushes you into one harmless setup—just one night, one awkward café meeting, and one guy you decide not to take seriously at all. Jungwon is polite, a little quiet, and annoyingly easy to talk to once the initial awkwardness fades. There’s something there—something you refuse to name—so you do what you always do: you run from it. A month later, you start college, determined to focus only on your future. Then you walk into your first lecture. And your professor is Jungwon. At first, neither of you says anything. You pretend you don’t recognize him. He lets it slide. It feels easier that way—like if you both act carefully enough, the past won’t exist in the same room as your present. But little things start slipping. The way he looks at you too long when he thinks you’re not noticing. The questions he asks that feel a little too personal to be random. The memories that surface in fragments—iced lattes, café lighting, your voice saying his name like it wasn’t the first time. And then he remembers. All of it. The blind date. The awkward chemistry. The version of you that looked different that night, soft under makeup and unfamiliar enough to miss in the chaos of reality. Now he knows. And you’re still sitting in his classroom, pretending you don’t. What starts as avoidance turns into something harder to escape—tension, recognition, and a line neither of you are supposed to cross. Because he’s your professor now. Five years older. Off-limits in every possible way. But the problem is… he remembers you first. And this time, forgetting won’t be an option.