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Six years ago, Hyunju blocked Gyeongseok's number. Six years ago, she walked out of her best friend's life without a proper explanation.
Today, Gyeongseok walks into the very coffee shop she works at.
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In a world where alphas and omegas are a rarity, and betas have a notoriously low fertility, Cho Hyunju, alpha, commits the unthinkable crime. She transitions fully, rendering herself sterile. It costs her everything. Her family, her friends, her job. Her dream of ever becoming a parent. But she endures. Moves on. Finds a place for herself amongst the cheerful misfits. Tells herself it’s all she needs.
And then Junhee, her roommate, her best friend, a beta beating the odds, gets pregnant.
Newly moved in next door, Gyeongseok’s past makes him harbour a deep mistrust for alphas. He tries to keep his daughter Nayeon, always too curious, too trusting, at a safe distance. Fails utterly himself, once he realizes there’s a baby on the way. That the woman next door is not anything at all like his past. Could maybe even be his future, if he dares to let her in.
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It starts as mere pleasure. An indulgence.
There’s nothing personal about it. That’s not the arrangement they have. That’s not anything he will ever allow. Gyeongseok is unapologetic. Confident, with a bite to him that makes her shudder, an angry heat that makes her ache. He’s exactly what she needs right now. It’s an agreement. A transaction. It’s uncomplicated. Up until it isn’t. He’s a closed book. An enigma, carefully contained. Until he isn’t.
Until she starts catching glimpses of the man outside the performance. Until she finds that he has walked through a hell of his own. That in his wake, he drags a shadow, unshakeable, and if he falters, if he wavers, it threatens to swallow him whole. And in his hands, clasped tight, so tight, shielded against the storm, he carries a weakened flame. Bright-eyed. His whole world. Only five years old.
And it’s none of Hyunju’s business. He makes that beyond clear. She is a pay-check. A means to an end. Who he is outside of their arrangement is none of her concern.
Her heart does not agree.
COMPLETE
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Canon divergent, College AU
Hyunju is in over her head.
It started as a simple tag-along to a party to help Youngmi finally talk to her crush, Semi. It ended with Hyunju in the snogging closet, getting promisingly aquainted with an art student, Gyeongseok. But when Hyunju angrily goes to confront him for never calling him about that promised date, she finds him holding the very baby he thought his ex had never wanted.
And Hyunju, well, she never backed down from a challenge before. So now she's juggling a budding friendship, co-parenting, college, alongside merely trying to exist as a trans woman.
Oh, and trying not to snog Gyeongseok. And sometimes failing.
COMPLETE
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“Could you help me with something?”
The question had lodged in Hyunju’s throat so often, had rang in her head like an unheard bell, that at first, she almost didn’t believe she had finally said it out loud. Still didn’t fully believe it, even as Gyeongseok turned his head to her with a curious tilt.
“Help with what?”
After the games, after Thailand, Hyunju finds herself moving back to Korea, moving in with Gyeongseok temporarily. After all, what are friends for, if not helping each other?
And they're both adults. Both single. And Hyunju trusts Gyeongseok more than any other man... so yeah, why not?
Hyunju, post op, wants to try things out on her own terms. Gyeongseok, lovesick, never could say no to her.
COMPLETE.
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Renowned actress Cho Hyunju crosses paths with a modest artist who appears unaware of her fame...
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Hyunju laughs. It shouldn't be this fun talking to someone who doesn't know who she is.
"No, I'm in the films."
"Ohh...so you're like an actress or something?"
"Or something."
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03 Dec 2025
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Gyeongseok has amnesia, that's the whole fic.
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01 Dec 2025
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we'll see how brave you are by indifferent_stars (holymiercoles)
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
14 Sep 2025
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Back in the games, Gyeongseok put his life in her hands. Now that they’re over, Hyunju doesn’t know how to stop holding it. Not even months later, with the games and Thailand behind her. Not even living with her best friend and his daughter and finally getting the chance to be happy. She doesn’t know how to believe the worst is over. She just wants to put her body between the games and everyone she loves, but the games are embedded there, the games are everywhere.
(Hyunju’s back from Thailand, and between finding a job, living with her best friend who she’s also in love with, and the barrage of everyday triggers in a country where the games have made it into the news cycle, she’s having a bit of a hard time adjusting.
Also, there’s something Gyeongseok needs to tell her about Song-i’s mom.)
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14 Sep 2025
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Spring comes, and the weather of Seoul warms. Hyun-ju's heart warms alongside it, coldness and internal walls slowly waning as she gets used to a life of love.
On a particularly warm spring day, as things are looking up, she gets it - a letter from Geum-ja, inviting her and Gyeong-seok to the dinner that had been promised in the games.
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- Part 8 of The Peak of My Existence
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07 Sep 2025
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She’s twenty-four, broke, and untouched.
He’s forty-five, ruthless, and watching her every move.
When her staged mistakes catch his eye, he makes her an offer: let him teach her how to be his submissive.
From whispered commands in his office to risky encounters behind boardroom doors, each lesson pushes her further, until obedience becomes devotion.- Language:
- English
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31 Aug 2025