✦ ✦ Kang Arin is twenty, reckless, and carrying a death wish she pretends is a personality trait. Professor Kim Taehyung is thirty one, ice-cold, disciplined, and emotionally unavailable by design. When she slashes his tires, she expects rage, consequences, punishment. Instead, he says the one thing that shatters her, "You want me to punish you. You want me to prove I'm like everyone else who's hurt you. But I won't." She needs him to be the villain. He refuses to play the part. "You don't get to make me the villain of your story, Miss Kang." But when understanding blurs into fascination, and fascination slips int something far more dangerous, neither of them can escape the truth, The real danger isn't falling for the wrong person- It's falling for the right one at the worst possible time. Highlights Professor × Student Age Gap Dark Academia Slow-Burn Tension Morally Complicated Characters Emotionally Devastating Romance