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    “You’re so lovely like this,” Guanheng groans into his ear. “So pretty.” He is the only person in this town who thinks Dejun is pretty.

    “You’re annoying,” Dejun tells him, but his eyelids flutter closed as Guanheng spreads his legs and gets him dripping wet. “I hate you.”

    “I love you,” Guanheng tells him. “I love you.”

    It is a week later when Dejun comes home in the early morning to his parents dead in their bed. It is a week later when the collectors come for him and he has not even a penny to his name. It is a week later when he stands on Guanheng’s doorstep and tells him: I have nothing, I can’t give you anything, I am nothing.

    It is Guanheng who draws him close. Who says, I love you, I love you, I will keep you, you don’t have to give me anything… tell me you love me, Jun, that’s enough… you are enough, you are enough… just tell me you love me and I’m yours…

    In the dream Dejun doesn’t tell anyone about, he is allowed to say it back.

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    Dejun; the outlaw. Guanheng; the bartender. Thirteen years between them. All the times Guanheng cares for him and the one time Dejun can take care of him right back.

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    07 Aug 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    “Are you... scared of me?” the stranger breathed against his neck, sending a shiver down Hendery’s spine. Hendery couldn’t fight it – he’d always been particularly sensitive there.

    As the stranger ran his lips over Hendery’s neck, Hendery couldn’t help but let out a small whimper, so quiet he prayed the stranger wouldn't catch it, but the soft chuckle he felt against his neck rather than heard told him otherwise.

    “Or…” the stranger smirked, lips curling up against his skin, “tell me, do you actually want this?”

    Or: Hendery walks home alone at night, the same way he had done so many times before. Except this time, he isn't alone.

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    04 Aug 2025

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    31 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 38

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    "So, did you miss me?"

    Yoohan sighed in exasperation, skillfully twisting his body away from the grabby hands from beside him. "Give it up already. You've been asking the same damn question the whole night."

    He could hear the amusement from Jay's chuckle. Damn him. "Well, you haven't answered me. Your husband's finally back after two weeks of being overseas, and you didn't even give me a proper greeting."

    Yoohan's shoulders stiffened at the stabbing words. It's subtle, but he could hear the underlying hurt behind Jay's seemingly light-hearted jab. The hands trying to grope him retreated, and he unconsciously grabbed onto them, hesitantly letting them rest around his waist. "We had video calls every night you weren't here. What's there to miss about?"

    An exhausted Jay just returned from overseas, and Yoohan tended to him as best as he could.

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    28 Mar 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    "You don’t have to hold it in."

    Guanheng shook his head. “I’m not—” His voice cracked.

    Fuck.

    He turned away quickly, blinking up at the ceiling, fighting the burning behind his eyes. He gritted his teeth, shoulders tensing, if he could just hold still, just keep it down, it would pass—

    A hand pressed lightly against his back, warm and steady. A solid presence he’d craved his entire life.

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    Huang Guanheng was raised to be the perfect son, the model student, the heir who never wavers. He's spent years building an unshakeable exterior, keeping everyone at a distance where it's safe.

    Enter Dejun, who doesn't let him get away with it. Being the first person to see straight through his carefully curated exterior, Dejun unsettles him in a way no one else ever has. Terrified at the new presence in his life, Guanheng wants to run before Dejun gets any closer. And yet another, quiet, desperate part of him, aches to be seen.

    And Dejun isn't the kind of person to look away.

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    27 Mar 2025