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    “Your nickname is Matthew?” Gyuri asks from across the way, loud and obnoxious. “Isn’t that, like, just a regular name?”

    Ricki adds, "A guys' name." More people laugh. How funny is that. A girl named Matthew.

    LipJ packages it nicer. “How did you get a nickname like that?”

    Matthew hesitates.

    That's just the way the cookie crumbles.

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    01 Feb 2024

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    A mother and father place their child's hands upon the sword, and lunge straight for Xie Lian's abdomen. Despite knowing it won't prevent the inevitable, Feng Xin can't help but place himself in their line of attack. If this was reality, it would've pierced right through him instead.

     

    But this is an illusion.

     

    No, in his heart Feng Xin knows...

     

    This is a memory.
     
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    Feng Xin and Mu Qing discover the traumas Xie Lian has kept hidden from them, and the trio have a talk that's eight centuries overdue.

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    31 Dec 2023

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    “You’re welcome to bring people home, too. Just let me know and I’ll give you space,” Jiwoong says.

    “That’s not going to be a problem,” Hanbin averts his gaze, suddenly finding the texture of the wall fascinating. He doesn’t know what drives him to admit a secret he hasn’t even told Matthew, but then the words are spilling out of him before his brain can catch up. “I haven’t been in a relationship since college and that’s probably not going to change any time soon.”

    “Bad breakup?” Jiwoong surmises.

    That’s one hell of an understatement. Hanbin’s smile is rueful as he says, “Bad enough that I haven’t been able to date anyone since. Everyone around me is happily taken or engaged, and here I am still hung up on someone from six years ago.”


    Or, in the six years since Hanbin ripped his heart out of his own chest and watched Hao break it into pieces, he's dreamt of different ways their story could've ended and countless circumstances under which they might meet again. He just wasn't expecting the reality to be finding Hao all these years later as his new roommate's fuckbuddy.

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    12 Dec 2023

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    What Ricky knows: The way he wants Hao is a feeling he can’t domesticate, clawing at his insides like a rabid animal. It’s love, and that's worship. It's desire, and that's a sin.

    What Ricky doesn’t know: Gyuvin burns just to keep him warm.

    Or; Hao shines bright enough that it blinds Ricky to anything and anyone else, including Gyuvin.

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    09 Dec 2023

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    In the three years since ZEROBASEONE disbanded, Hanbin knows that he's got three things: a successful solo career, a home that he shares with a dog that loves her other dad more than him and said other dad, and six best friends that he wholeheartedly believes are his brothers from another life.

    It doesn't get any better than this.

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    01 Aug 2023