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Park Seonghwa is a model college student. He's smart, like, really fucking smart. At least, that's the answer one would get if they asked his friends. Seonghwa himself though, he begs to differ. Seonghwa is a 2nd year college student in the Seoul University of Social Sciences and Humanities, majoring in Langage and Sociology. Seonghwa enjoys studying, but above all that, he has grown to enjoy his classes in Prose and Fiction, a literature class run by the campus' devil professor, Kim Hongjoong.
Kim Hongjoong is what every student and faculty member will call an utter asshole, for lack of a better word. Students don't enjoy the lectures and tutorials they spend getting berated and scolded. Faculty staff resent the fact that he cannot hold a proper conversation without an insult being hurled their way. Which is why nobody bothers to talk to him beyond work matters, nobody except the only 2 professors willing to tolerate his nasty attitude and sit with him for lunches and dinners. Professors Jeong Yunho and Choi Jongho.
One may wonder, what does a grumpy professor and straight A college kid have to do with each other? Normally, nothing much, but not for Park Seonghwa. Park Seonghwa who is Kim Hongjoong's research assistant. Park Seonghwa who is a little overly eager to help the professor who everyone hates. Park Seonghwa who stares a little too long at his professor's smooth skin, his glistening hzael eyes that glance and glare at students, his veiny hands with a tight grip on the marker, scribbling on the whiteboard. Park Seonghwa, who slowly found himself to have caught feelings for his professor.