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“hey. for the sake of being fully transparent here—is seonghwa single?”
“seonghwa hyung?” san repeats, and if wooyoung didn’t know any better he’d swear he saw the tiniest bit of devastation creeping onto his face and so he adds—
“not for me or something. my roommate.” wooyoung smiles. “but i didn’t tell you that.”
“oh.” san smiles back. it’s a good smile. dimpled. sweet. “yeah. and i didn’t tell you this, either, but seonghwa hyung has definitely been trying to come up with ways to get into the elevator alone with the music guy in 8Z. is this like, destiny?”
“if you believe in all that. or something.”
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OBJECTIVE: GET KIM HONGJOONG & PARK SEONGHWA TOGETHER
HYPOTHESIS: IF THE MEETINGS COME OFF AS ACCIDENTAL, THEY MAY BE MORE APT TO ACTUALLY MAKING A MOVE
EXPERIMENT 1: MORE “MISDELIEVERED” MAIL
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13 Jun 2026
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Nine years ago, San and Wooyoung made a pact. Now it’s time for the pact to come to fruition and everyone knows what San and Wooyoung are too scared - or clueless - to admit.
This is the story of their deadline year.
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22 Mar 2026
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“At least I didn’t spill my heart to a complete stranger, who I kept bound in a room,” San snorted.
Wooyoung shrugged. “You know my name, I know yours, and we shared a meal. Well. I tried to share it, anyway. We’re not strangers anymore.”
“Sure, we’re almost best friends,” San rolled his eyes. “Chatting on your floor. Oh, by the way I think the splinters have already built a home in my ass. And you're pretending we both don’t know there’s still an order with my name on it to deliver your head on a silver platter.”
Wooyoung stood up slowly, brushing off his knees.
“If you were truly convinced that was the right thing to do, you’d already be out looking for that platter.”
or: San’s a skilled monster slayer, traveling the world alone, never staying anywhere longer than it takes to finish a hunt. He's hired to kill Wooyoung, who is said to be a vile witch responsible for cursing a village. A task meant to be swift and simple falters when San learns the truth about Wooyoung.
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- Part 1 of Lavender and Steel
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 94,103
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 1
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- 165
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02 Feb 2026
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San has always loved the sea and its creatures, so, naturally, he's beyond excited when Jung Wooyoung offers him a job at the town's aquarium. The more glimpses he gets of the man while working, the more interesting the elusive, chaotic biologist seems to become, making him eager to befriend him; and then it's only a matter of time before their friendship melts into something softer.
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02 Feb 2026
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“YOU SAW SANNIE’S DICK?” Wooyoung screeched in betrayal and disappointment, totally uncaring that the majority of their friend group was looking at him from around Hongjoong’s living room as if he had lost his mind. He was too busy glaring at Yunho.
Because he had seen San’s dick.
And Wooyoung hadn’t.
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Wooyoung and San are in a happy, loving relationship. Everybody knows but them.
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02 Feb 2026
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Namhae-do. South Gyeongsang's hidden gem is officially on the map, and it's Jung Wooyoung's job to show it off.
Starting with this island, Departure Magazine is kicking off its new series to highlight Korea's littlest known vacation destinations, and Wooyoung is the photographer on the job, tasked with leading the story and shooting the feature. He has just over a week to capture all of Namhae's charms, but this is his first big gig, and he's got a lot to prove. This has to be the story that makes the people fall in love with his work – and him fall in love with his job.
Uncertain about his future and not entirely convinced of the countryside appeal, Wooyoung shows up to Namhae with a little bit of doubt and a lot of grit.
His accommodations? The guest bedroom of the head of the village. His job might not be the only thing he falls for.
- Language:
- English
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- 89,344
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 1
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- 14,250
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02 Feb 2026
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time’s ticking, his parents are nagging, and wooyoung desperately needs a plus-one for his older brother’s destination wedding next month. for better or for worse, though, his best friend san is more than willing to play the role of his fake boyfriend.
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a story about finding it, losing sight of it, and, against all odds, returning to it: home.
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12 Sep 2025
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“We gotta stop meeting like this.” First his apartment, then the library, now out here at the buttcrack of dawn.
“Like what?”
“Face to face, in random ass places, where neither of us know the other will be there and yet we just have to end up together.”
“Do you not like running into each other?”
Wooyoung blushes, stumbles over his words. “I mean. I’m not complaining.”
San laughs in Wooyoung’s face. “You were literally just complaining?”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,622
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
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- 707
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- 11,297
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02 Jun 2025
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“And, speaking of legislature, sexual intercourse with a machine does not fall under prostitution and is not prohibited by law, if you were curious.”
San deflates. Hearing someone say sex with a machine right in front of you and the machine you had sex with isn’t the most endearing way to describe your relationship.
If—if this is even a relationship?
Can San call himself and Wooyoung that? A relationship?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 54,122
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 118
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- 623
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- 10,996
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13 May 2025
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Wooyoung temporarily moves to a small beach town for family matters, what he doesn't expect is falling for the local sweetheart, San.
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“It’s okay. I’ve got a stable job now.”
“And no date?” San asks in a neutral tone, and Wooyoung tries not hoping.
“And no date.”
“A shame.” San concludes, not looking at him, disappearing to keep a child from stumbling, leaving Wooyoung’s heart hammering in his chest. He cannot say things like that and expect Wooyoung to be fine afterwards.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,535
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 377
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- 1,516
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- 436
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- 30,269
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07 Apr 2025
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Wooyoung and San are best friends, always have been, always will be. Years into their friendship, they came to the agreement that it's better to fuck around with each other than random people. The sex is great, the quality time is great, it's all great until it's not. Because what happens when lines are blurred and all the sudden, extra feelings bubble up in Wooyoung's chest?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 38,757
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 209
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- 1,462
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- 322
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- 29,598
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06 Feb 2025
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Wooyoung is an out-of-work private chef in desperate need of a new client. San is rich in money and poor in cooking skills.
It quickly becomes Wooyoung's job to make sure that San is fed. That job would be easier if they could just get along.
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- Part 1 of let me take care of you
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 43,858
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 195
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- 1,535
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- 22,382
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06 Feb 2025
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When San gets a little too drunk at a party, he ends up on the bathroom floor rambling to Seonghwa about his feelings for Wooyoung — his best friend, roommate, and also the person he's been hopelessly in love with for years. Later, it turns out that Wooyoung had actually overheard part of his conversation, but he misinterprets it as San wanting to date, so he starts setting San up on blind dates, and San has no choice but to go along with it if he wants to protect their friendship from San's one-sided feelings.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,443
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 97
- Kudos:
- 498
- Bookmarks:
- 113
- Hits:
- 9,624
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06 Feb 2025
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They haven’t broken their hug yet when San asks, “What are you doing here, you maniac?” There’s incredulity in his voice, but San knows Wooyoung can hear how glad he is, too.
Wooyoung separates them to shove at San’s chest. “You’re the maniac, asking me to wait a week to see you. Are you crazy?”
Or, after a year abroad, San is finally, finally home. Wooyoung can't wait to see him – literally.
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18 Dec 2024
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“Jung Wooyoung,” San breathes, nearly trembling. “Tell me I can. That you want me to.”
“You can,” says Wooyoung. “I want you to.”
San and Wooyoung go on a trip together, and everything unravels from there.
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12 Dec 2024
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“I’m San,” San says, voice dropping in a force of habit, something that has latched onto him from years of living the same humdrum life and his lifelong acquaintance with introducing himself to people who truly didn't give a fuck about him or anything he did, introductions serving merely as a necessary evil.
The stranger looks at him for a brief moment before he tilts the disinfectant bottle into the ball of cotton, soaking it as he leans forward and presses it against San’s stitches. San grabs his wrist.
“I’m gonna need a name before you treat me, pretty boy,” San says, making sure that it doesn’t come off sounding like a request.
The stranger raises his head to meet his eyes, something like sadness pooling in his eyes, smudged black and purple distracting San for the umpteenth time this evening and whispers softly, “Wooyoung.”
It’s a pretty name for a pretty face, but San is presented with an even prettier smile, shy and curling at the edges of his mouth, lilac field for his hair and cherry blossom cheeks, as he repeats it under his breath.
Or, San is working in the task force as a mercenary for an intergalactic law enforcement authority, and Wooyoung's the anomaly he doesn't see coming.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 136,041
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 566
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- 3,369
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- 1,249
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- 112,370
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10 Dec 2024
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Wooyoung is one of the biggest idols in the world. San gets paid to protect people like Wooyoung.
After a series of events that leave Wooyoung a shell of his former self, terrified of the cruelty he hadn't previously known the world capable of, San is brought in as his personal, full-time bodyguard.
San is excellent at his job, which is all this is. A job. How could he have known this one wouldn't be like all the others?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 70,421
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 257
- Kudos:
- 1,818
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- 35,111
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22 Nov 2024
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San’s parents were soulmates. Before he learned anything about soulmates in elementary school, he knew what it meant. Soulmates were fated, born for each other, to be with each other. Soulmates were beautiful. He remembers the pit in his stomach when his teacher explained that most people didn’t have a soulmate. He watched his mum and dad every day, saw the way they moved around each other, worked together, and loved each other from the depths of their souls.
He couldn’t imagine not having that for himself, and for a long time, he looked to the sky every night and hoped that someone out there was born to be with him, born for him.
This wasn’t what he thought having a soulmate would be like. Not what he pictured. He had to remind himself that he and Wooyoung didn’t fit the mold of typical soulmates. They were idols. Cursed to be with each other nearly every waking moment, day and night, but forced to maintain distance.
An incredibly ironic tragedy.
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San wakes up with a soulmark; It’s going to change everything.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 53,981
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 70
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- 861
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- 258
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- 17,181
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12 Nov 2024
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It’s time for Wooyoung’s parents’ fancy high school reunion again, which means that he’s stuck going to Jeju with them again, and he’s going to see all of the other successful kids and be reminded of what an intractable, insufferable, completely-and-utterly irredeemable candidate of a mate he is again.
Thank god he has nothing to prove to them, because he’s not bringing “his alpha” this year—he’s just bringing his best friend.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 82,899
- Chapters:
- 9/10
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 275
- Kudos:
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- 42,400
Bookmarked by pickledmelon
22 Oct 2024
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“San’s got an enforced limp wrist,” Hongjoong muses, smirking.
“Nah, Sannie’s limp wrist is chronic, isn’t it?” Yunho puts his big hand on San’s nape and shakes him like a kitten. “Nothing to be ashamed of.”
“A limp wrist can save a life,” Wooyoung nods along.
San raises his left hand, showing off his bandages, like a kid calling for the teacher. “Yours did save mine.”
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22 Oct 2024