Ms_WeiLan
Way thought he'd already learned the hardest lesson love could teach him.
Burned by a past betrayal, he enters university determined to keep his head down, protect his heart, and survive his final stretch of growing up without letting anyone get close enough to hurt him again.
Love is off the table.
Focus is everything.
Then, on the last night of summer, he meets a stranger in a Bangkok club.
Babe is magnetic-confident, devastatingly attractive, and dangerously easy to talk to.
What starts as effortless flirting turns into something unexpectedly sincere.
They don't cross any lines.
They don't make promises.
They exchange numbers and walk away, both convinced it was just a perfect, fleeting moment.
Until the first day of university.
Babe steps into the classroom as Way's homeroom lecturer-and suddenly, that one-night almost-something becomes a secret neither of them can escape.
Way pulls back immediately, terrified of the consequences and determined not to repeat his past mistakes.
Babe, however, finds himself undone in a way he never has before.
He knows the rules.
He knows the risk.
And for the first time in his life, he doesn't care.
What follows is a slow-burning battle between restraint and desire, professionalism and longing, fear and want.
Every glance lingers too long.
Every conversation carries weight.
The closer they grow, the more impossible it becomes to pretend nothing is happening.
As rumors threaten, boundaries strain, and reality closes in, Babe and Way are forced to decide what love is worth-and what they're willing to lose for it.
Because some feelings don't fade with distance.
And some rules are broken the moment you fall.