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“I finally felt like I wanted to like you for once. If you pull that kind of sh*t out of nowhere, don’t you think it’d sting, even if I’m a complete bastard?”

Seokdal Oreum is a part-time university lecturer, scraping through each day beneath the weight of betrayal, depression, and poverty.

Then a student named Eom Itae enters his life, slipping into the cracks of the unhappiness that has become second nature. Before long, the fragile routine Dal Oreum has barely managed to hold together begins to fracture.

The third-generation heir of a wealthy family, son of a gangster, top of his department, devastatingly handsome, and infamous for never turning away anyone who comes onto him, regardless of gender, Eom Itae stands at the center of countless rumors. Openly intrigued by Dal Oreum, he approaches him without hesitation, while Dal Oreum can only find the younger man’s interest unsettling and impossible to read.

Unable to reject Itae’s persistent approaches disguised as questions about class, Dal Oreum’s situation worsens when the perceptive young student uncovers the secret he has hidden from everyone else.

From that moment on, he is swept along helplessly.

“You’re gay, Professor. It’s okay. I’ll keep it a secret.”

”…”

“Well, of course… that depends on how you behave.”

Just as a relationship that began with idle curiosity starts becoming something genuine…

Joo Yoonhyuk, Dal Oreum’s former lover, reappears, and the arrogance that has always defined Itae begins to crack.