
The Trapped Teacher
Setting/Genre: Modern / School Life
Work Keywords: Modern, School Life, Student–Teacher Relationship, Age Gap Couple, First Love, Emotionally Unavailable Male Lead, Reserved Male Lead, Ordinary Guy, Gentle Male Lead, Passionate Male Lead, Pure-hearted Male Lead, Virgin Male Lead, Chaebol Heiress, Straightforward Female Lead, Sly Female Lead, Wounded Heroine, One-sided Love, Girl Crush, Cheerful and Lively Heroine
Male Lead: Joo Hyungwon
A man who’s newly assigned as the homeroom teacher for a senior high school class. He’s tall and broad like a walk-in freezer, with stunning looks and athletic abilities. Due to his dark skin and sharp features, he’s often mistaken for a PE teacher—but he actually teaches math. He starts paying attention to Hayoon, a student who tends to be a loner in class, like one might look after a stray cat.
Female Lead: Lee Hayoon
20 years old, but still a student after being held back a year due to an incident. Thanks to her wealthy father, she could live a life of luxury doing nothing. Unsurprisingly, she has no real goals in life. After a year of aimless drifting—drinking, smoking, dating—she’s tried everything that seemed fun, but life still feels boring. That’s when she meets Hyungwon.
When to Read:
You want to see a diamond axe chop through an iron-armored tree a hundred times until it finally falls.
Relatable Quote:
“Ugh, will you stop playing hard to get? What, did you paint your junk gold or something?”
Trapped Teacher
Story Introduction
“3rd Year, Class 2, Lee Hayoon?”
Hayoon, a 20-year-old repeating senior who lives surrounded by alcohol, cigarettes, and men, meets her new homeroom teacher, Hyungwon.
Unlike others, he doesn’t care about the rumors surrounding her, and that sparks Hayoon’s curiosity.
“Wanna do it with me?”
“You’re just a brat acting grown.”
“I’m legally an adult. If it’s because you think I’m underage…”
“If you’re in a school uniform, you’re still a kid.”
What started as a provocative joke slowly became sincere as her emotions deepened—until it turned into love.
First love was never going to be easy.
“I like you, teacher.”
“That’s not love. At your age, it’s easy to confuse your feelings.”
Not only because of the teacher-student relationship—but also because he’s the most emotionally impenetrable man alive.
But that’s fine.
“I fall asleep every night imagining you, teacher.”
“……”
“If this isn’t love, then what the hell is?”
If he’s a fortress, she’s a nuclear missile.
“Oh dear lord…”
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TTT 1.1 New Semester
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