Xhanxhaney
SYNOPSIS
Ha Young-Jin and Ro Seung-Min have hated each other since freshman orientation - a misunderstanding involving a ruined stage production, a spilled suppressant, and a video the entire university saw. For two years, they've competed over everything: student council, campus festivals, the ambient social currency of simply being the person the other one is not.
Then a thunderstorm changes everything.
Trapped overnight together, Seung-Min goes into unexpected heat. Young-Jin - inexplicably unaffected by his pheromones - stays. He gets Seung-Min through the night safely, without taking advantage, without asking for anything in return. It is the last thing Seung-Min expected from his worst enemy. He doesn't know what to do with it.
What follows is the slow, messy dismantling of everything they decided about each other. A fake dating arrangement that convinces everyone except the two people inside it. Cohabitation that gets too comfortable too quickly. A temporary scent mark that stops feeling temporary. A real kiss that neither of them is prepared for.
And then the harder part: family pressure, a near-separation, and the work of learning that wanting something - admitting it, protecting it - isn't weakness. It's the whole point.