enemies to lovers

The elite campus was a world divided between privilege and struggle. Janice was a scholarship student surrounded by wealthy heirs and powerful families who never had to think twice about anything in life. She was often targeted, especially by Azel. the most influential and arrogant student on campus. People saw him as perfect—rich, handsome, untouchable—but Janice only saw him as cold, condescending, and impossible to deal with. Azel never physically harmed her, but his words were sharp enough to leave marks.

Azel wasn’t as perfect as he seemed. Behind his wealth and status, he grew up with money instead of love, attention instead of affection. People admired what he had, not who he was. And somehow, Janice became the one person he couldn’t ignore. She had nothing like him materially, yet she had something he never did—a loving family, warmth, and a happiness that came from being genuinely cared for. It irritated him more than he wanted to admit, and that irritation slowly turned into something deeper he refused to name. Especially when he knew things about her she never even noticed—like where she work at her part-time job

Azel pushed her away the only way he knew how—through arrogance, insults, and cold remarks. "Just leave that poor girl alone. She's not worth all this attention anyway." That was what others heard. But whenever people went too far, he was always the one who stopped them, acting like he didn’t care when in reality, he just couldn’t stand anyone breaking her. Janice hated him for his attitude, his superiority, and the way he looked at her like she was nothing, and make her feel small yet she couldn’t ignore the fact that he always lingered in her life in the most confusing way.

And somewhere between hatred and silence, things started to blur. Azel denied everything, convinced he felt nothing, while secretly noticing every detail about her—more than she would ever realize. Janice swore she would never understand him.