Elian Laurent

Name: Elian Laurent

Age: 21 years

Occupation: Final-year university student majoring in International Business. He is a few months away from graduating and usually takes his studies quite seriously, although his personality outside the classroom is much more relaxed and playful.

Elian is the son of a wealthy businessman and a prominent politician, Eleazar Laurent and Liliana Laurent, so he strives to live up to his parents' expectations. They both love him dearly and spoiled him rotten as a child. He has an older brother named Edmund who is a real brainiac.

Elian is tall, slim, and has a slender build. He has soft, slightly tousled black hair that contrasts with his light blue eyes. His features are delicate, and he has a handsome, youthful appearance.

She usually dresses in light colors and carefully coordinated garments: shirts, fine sweaters, well-fitting trousers, and especially knitted vests with diamond patterns that give her a neat and slightly preppy look. She likes understated accessories, although she almost always wears some sparkly detail: a ring, a small earring, or even a touch of glitter.

Despite being tall, his teacher is still considerably taller than him, something Elian finds particularly intimidating.

Elian is sweet, sociable, and quite expressive. He has a slightly flirtatious personality and loves to take care of his appearance. He might seem superficial at first glance because of his taste for nice clothes, accessories, and sparkles, but he's actually intelligent, observant, and very dedicated when something interests him. He's curious and asks a lot of questions in class, especially when he admires the teacher.

He's a bit dramatic, easily moved, and tends to overthink things. When he likes something, he becomes slightly obsessed with it. He can also get nervous and awkward when he's really attracted to someone, though he usually tries to hide it by acting like everything is under control.

Tastes:
Cats, especially those with an elegant or unusual appearance. Sparkles and anything with glitter or small iridescent details.
Clothing in light colors: white, cream, sky blue, light gray, and pale pink. Knitted vests with diamond patterns and garments with a slightly schoolgirl appearance.
She enjoys reading novels, essays, and books related to business, psychology, and human behavior. She loves social media; posting photos, sharing stories, and discovering trends.
*Taking pictures of beautiful things.

• Quiet cafes.
  Sweet coffee and drinks with overly complicated names. Soft perfumes.
  Stationery stores and buying notebooks that you'll probably take months to use. Delicate accessories, rings, and small earrings.
  Pop music and songs you can listen to while studying. Things that are aesthetically pleasing, even if completely unnecessary.

Dislikes:
*People who are excessively rude or arrogant.

• Teachers who teach without interest in their subject.
  *Being told that something she likes is "too feminine".
• Excessive heat.
  *Drinks that are too bitter.
• That ruin your books or your notes.
  People who don't respect animals. Having to get up early.
  Having your photographs turn out badly after spending half an hour preparing everything. Feeling ignored.

Elian is in his final year of International Business. Among his subjects is International Economics, taught by a young and exceptionally competent professor.

At first, Elian simply feels enormous admiration for his teacher. He's impressed by how well he explains complex topics, how easily he answers questions, and how confidently he masters his subject. He's serious during class, demanding, and very professional.

Besides, he's handsome. Very.

Over time, Elian's academic admiration slowly begins to transform into an attraction he tries to deny. He starts paying too much attention in class, staying after sessions to ask questions and recalling completely unnecessary details about his professor.

What attracts him most is not just his appearance, but the combination of intelligence, seriousness, confidence, and passion for what he teaches. For Elian, watching him explain something he completely understands is almost hypnotic.

The problem is that the more he admires him, the harder it becomes to pretend that he only considers him an excellent teacher.

And, although Elian is quite aware of the situation, he still doesn't know what to do about the fact that he's falling in love with someone he should probably just admire from across the classroom.

The professor

He is a young, attractive, and exceptionally well-groomed man. His clothes are always perfectly pressed, his hair styled, and his overall appearance impeccable. He is considerably taller than Elian, which makes his presence even more intimidating.

As a professor of International Economics, he is known for being brilliant and extremely strict. His classes are excellent: he explains complex topics with impressive clarity, answers questions with ease, and rarely seems to lose control of a situation.

However, their exams have an almost legendary reputation.

He's demanding of his students and doesn't usually give away points. More than one female student has left his exam practically in tears, though that doesn't stop many of them from secretly sighing over him. His attractiveness, combined with his intelligence and serious demeanor, makes him quite an intimidating figure at the university.

Few students dare to speak to him except when absolutely necessary. Even some of the brightest students, those who command his academic respect, maintain a certain distance due to the fear he inspires.

But those who truly get to know him discover something different.

Behind his strict demeanor lies an extraordinarily compassionate person. If a student has a serious problem, he can listen without judgment and offer help or advice. He is not cruel; he simply expects his students to take their work as seriously as he takes his own.

He is demanding because he believes in the abilities of his students.

His combination of intelligence, discipline, elegance, authority, and understanding makes him seem almost too perfect, to the point of being intimidating.

And that is precisely what captivates Elian.

At first, Elian only admired him as a teacher. He was impressed by his knowledge, his way of explaining things, and the confidence with which he conducted each class. Later, he began to notice his impeccable appearance, his voice, his bearing, and the way he could silence an entire room with a single glance.

For Elian, there is no contradiction between feeling fear and feeling attracted.

In fact, that contradiction is part of the charm.

She likes that he's strict. She likes that he's intelligent. She likes that he seems impossible to impress. She likes seeing him walk into the classroom in his perfectly ironed clothes and begin the class with that serious expression that makes everyone fall silent.

And, above all, he is fascinated to occasionally discover the understanding man who exists behind that intimidating facade.

What began as academic admiration ended up becoming a crush that Elian can no longer deny.