7 Works by asterspire
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"If the vast majority of teenage crushes are hormonal, destined to flicker and fade as obstacles present, Jaehyun is happy to be an anomaly."
Dojae/Jaedo drabble collection; Jaehyun-centric.
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But then Jaehyun's expression shifts into something wide-eyed and inquisitive.
"You have a scar," he murmurs — the whisper of his thumb brushing the edge of Doyoung’s lips — "right here. Did you know that?" He leans back, surveying him with satisfaction, and Doyoung resists the urge to shiver.
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Business professor Kim Doyoung is quite literally swept off his feet when a basketball comes hurtling towards his head.
The culprit? Basketball coach Jeong Jaehyun, who's a professor at the same university.
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Looking back on it, this is what does him in: the hope in Doyoung’s eyes, the determined set of his shoulders, the way his hands grip at his knees in the absence of anything else to hold onto.
Jaehyun cannot help but succumb.
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"In other words, he's just like the others: the fisherman whose nets have been empty for weeks, the carpenter whose own roof had collapsed on him, and the apothecary whose own supplements had poisoned her. Misfortune has visited every civilian with the audacity to pay worship to their youngest prince."
Alternatively: a loose Dojae retelling of the myth of Eros and Psyche.
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"He's right to some degree; Jaehyun's dreams are definitely doomed. He's felt the pain of his own death too many times to count, is numb to all the different agonies he's been subject to before his heart stops.
(But that pain still doesn't compare to the emptiness ringing through his chest when Doyoung ignores him, day after day, on their commute.)"
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It takes a time loop to point out the obvious.