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Dearest gentle reader,
The time has come to place our bets for the upcoming social season. Whispers speak of a foreign emissary’s arrival in London, a duke nonetheless! It appears that the Duke of Fujian will grace our fair city with his presence for an extended period of time. And, oh, what an impressive presence it is! This author wonders which brazen matchmaker shall rise to such a challenge…
“Standing before you, here and now,” he pauses and inhales sharply, voice becoming but a whisper, “I burn for you.”
Or, the bridgerton au nobody asked for, complete with forbidden romance, scandals galore, a ridiculous class system and of course, a love that conquers all… hopefully.
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07 Aug 2025
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"I will miss you."
Hao smiles. "When you do," he lowers his voice. "Tell the sea, then. When it's at its quietest."
"Tell," the captain echoes in a whisper. "The sea?"
"About us," the siren bats his eyelids. He tilts his head, too, as a wave of dark red strands filters the moon, soft curtains that let Hanbin take a peek into Hao's soul. "About the words that tie us together, the stories you bring to life, the stars we call glimmering pearls."Bookmarked by highlightae
04 Jul 2025
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Zhang Hao has been single since birth.
So when he finds himself stuck on campus over break with no plans to fly home, no boyfriend, and an embarrassingly high score on the Rice Purity Test, he does what any sexually repressed twenty-something would: he downloads Hinge.
Enter Sung Hanbin, with his dance major hips and psychology minor words. It’s Haover before he even knows it.
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27 Jun 2025
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Matthew does his best to remind himself that the very attractive Alpha in front of him is completely off limits. He's not going to ruin his chances at this job by doing something foolish like sleeping with the very attractive single father who was paying Matthew to look after his daughter, Wonhee.
Even if Jiwoong had, admittedly, played the hot doctor on Chicago Med that Matthew had fantasized about before.
[or: In which, Matthew really needs a job with the right benefits to keep his visa valid and stop him from getting shipped back to Canada. When this leads him to single father Jiwoong, Matthew tries not to let his attraction to the actor ruin a good thing, but things have a way of getting complicated when there's mutual attraction and a pack bond involved. (This fic is prequel to the other fics in this series, & can be read as a standalone.)]
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- Part 3 of GSM Verse
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31 Mar 2025
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Hanbin’s other hand caught his wrist in a bruising grip, eyes shifting into something darker he couldn’t quite place and for the first time Zhang Hao was almost afraid that he might have pushed him too far.
“You have no idea what you do to me, do you?”, Hanbin whispered into the space between them, eyes glancing at his lips and Zhang Hao struggled against the grip around his wrist.
“I want to ruin you”, Hanbin groaned, catching Zhang Hao’s jaw between his fingers and forcing him to look him in the eyes.
Or; Zhang Hao thought the campus nerd Hanbin was nothing but a blushing virgin until he found himself in a rather compromising position.
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31 Mar 2025
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“You turned me,” Hansol says. That’s what’s happened. He’s sure. He lifts his thumb to his mouth anyway, pressing the pad into his canine. It doesn’t quite break the skin, but it’s sharp enough that it could. “Did I die?”
“Not quite,” Jeonghan plucks the pen out from behind his ear, holding it between his teeth to uncap it. He picks up his notebook and scribbles something down. “It was close. Not as close as Channie, but close enough that we were worried. You’ve been out for about a month.”
“Oh, fuck,” Hansol pushes himself to sit, but gets so dizzy that he slumps back down right away. “I missed Return of the Jedi?”
(OR: learning how to be a vampire, flirting with homosexuality, and the summer of 1983.)
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28 Mar 2025
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"Each flower blooms in its own time."
The One where Hao and Hanbin learn about love by living close together and they live to love each other.
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27 Mar 2025
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“Well, it doesn’t matter anyway,” Zhang Hao says with a sigh. “I already gave up, you know? And, I mean, it’s not likely anyone’s going to prove me wrong now when no one did before — ”
“I could.”
“So I don’t — ”
Hold on.
What?!
Zhang Hao, burned by bad relationships, believes sex can never feel good. Hanbin, for some reason, wants to prove him wrong. By...having sex with him?
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20 Mar 2025
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“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
The night of Valentine's Day, in a remote room of a mansion, an angel and a knight meet.
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05 Mar 2025
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On the very edge of making it or going broke, rookie actor Zhang Hao auditions for a lead role in the Japanese bl indie film, Afterglow.
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28 Feb 2025
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Hao is tired, sleepy and stressed so the last thing he needs is a loud motorcycle driving by his apartment at the most inconvenient times of the day and night to disrupt his sleep schedule or his study session.
On a whim, he decides to start a petition for a new stop sign to put an end to his frustration and find the mysterious biker, but things don't go according to plan.Or, the One where Hao starts dating a biker and all the crazy, embarrassing adventures that come with that decision.
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11 Jan 2025
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“I need to take a fucking sabbatical.”
OR: After being dumped by his boyfriend and dropped from a brand deal, Los Angeles model Ricky books a two week stay at a coastal bed & breakfast.
Only to stumble across a friendly farm boy, one that's overflowing with love.
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- Part 2 of Hollywood & Highlands
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09 Jan 2025
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And oh no. He’s beguiling, enchanting, mystical— pink lips jutted out, luminous sparkles on his lids, heavy blush on his cheeks, smudged eyeliner on his waterline. Black hair, brown eyes, wearing a fitted crop-top and Doc Martens. He’s blinking slowly, struggling to stay awake and steady as he grips onto the wall. Hanbin realizes in horror that this man looks like his next mistake.
“Uh. Hi?”
“Hi. Can— hiccup we— hiccup dance?”
In which Sung Hanbin becomes enamored with an influencer after a night out in West Hollywood.
Only to find him working at the most pretentious store on earth, complete with a nasty attitude that he can’t seem to get enough of.
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- Part 1 of Hollywood & Highlands
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08 Jan 2025
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you're the risk (i'm gonna take it) by stuckbyglue
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
13 Dec 2024
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"I’m Hao, nice to meet you.”
It's a bit deceptive to say, since there's at least twenty thousand people in the audience, and Hao hasn't actually met any of them. Though he may not know them, with the way the crowd roars in excitement at the sound of his voice, it's clear they know him. The rest of the lights flicker on, and behind him, the screen displays his face in a truly incredible number of pixels. Are those phones he sees being held up in the audience? People are actually recording this?
“You might know me because of a song I wrote a while ago,” he continues. “I was wondering, would you like to hear me sing it?”
Where Hanbin is the charismatic leader of the world-famous boy group Rose Horizon, and Hao, a normal college student, becomes an accidental pop star when he lands a spot supporting the band’s summer world tour.
The catch? The song that catapulted Hao to stardom was inspired by a chance encounter with Hanbin months ago—an encounter that Hanbin doesn’t seem to remember at all.
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18 Dec 2024
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Junhui looks at him— half thoughtfully— and says, “We should go exploring. See where we end up.”
Minghao is a big fan of letting things happen. It’s a cornerstone of his life plan. A pillar of his guiding philosophy. Sure, this stranger could kill him, but it’s probably more likely that he’s his soulmate, and he’s willing to try his luck. Pull a few petals off a flower or two. Run his hands through a patch of clovers and see what comes up.
(OR: Minghao meets a man (who might just be perfect) on his roof.)
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11 Dec 2024
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Come A Little Closer by Nej_Illjuna for cyanowrite
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
08 Dec 2024
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“Hello” said Hanbin with a polite bow. “My name is Sung Hanbin. At your service, sir.”
He shook Hao's extended hand, his long fingers closing around Hanbin's glove. Hao blushed and smiled a bit too much. It was subtle, but a trained eye could notice it. If they had been in another situation and Hao happened to ask him out on a date, Hanbin would’ve said yes.
Hanbin pulled his hand back, a bit harshly, and Hao’s smile dimmed, just like the bodyguard’s barely appearing feelings for him.
___This new assignment feels like Hanbin's dream job. The ambassador's son is easy to follow around, doesn't resent having a bodyguard, and is even trying to be his friend. If anything, the hardest part of this job is that Zhang Hao is being too friendly.
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09 Dec 2024
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emails i (did) send by hopeinabottle for tangerinezzn
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
27 Oct 2024
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FROM:[email protected]
DATE: March 11, 2025
SUBJECT: when i met you
ricky,
i found this website, it lets you write emails to people in the future. i thought it would be fun to send it to you ten years from now. can you pretend it’s just as romantic as sending a love letter? haha
i know we will still be together, but i will ask you questions anyways: do you still have dyed hair? what’s your favorite k-drama right now? do you still make me cut your food for you? i think i’ll know the answers but please turn and tell me anyways.
Ten years after their break-up, Ricky receives an email from Kim Gyuvin.
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19 Nov 2024
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Amid their turbulent and messy public divorce, actor Sung Hanbin and former-idol-turned-soloist Zhang Hao fall in love – for the first time.
(Or, in the space of a single summer, a mutually-beneficial PR relationship between two celebrities goes from bad to worse.)
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14 Aug 2024
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Sure enough, when Hanbin flings open the door to his father’s bedroom, he comes face to face with a tall figure reeling back in shock at the sudden proximity. Spurred by the advantage he’s obtained, Hanbin lunges forth and captures the intruder in his arms. A strangled intake of breath huffs out as the two of them engage in a power struggle—the stranger wriggling with all their might to break free; Hanbin gritting his teeth and holding on for dear life.
Somewhere in their tussle, he manages to yank aside the hood pulled low over the intruder’s head, letting out a shout of victory that dissipates into thin air as quickly as it began upon the reveal of a stricken face.
Flawless skin. Full lips. Delicate nose. Sweet, floral perfume. Thick, dark hair spilling into wide eyes gleaming in the moonlight.
Oh, Hanbin mouths, stunned. His grip slackens. He’s beautiful.
Hanbin's a rich kid perfectly content with his monotonous life. A sexy cat burglar might just be the thrill he didn't know he needed.
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12 Jul 2024
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“Uhm, and well, no, not exactly. I’m single,” Hanbin supplies, lowering his palm.
His eyes land on the collectibles laying on Hao’s dresser. They’re photocards from a male celebrity Hao is more than obsessed with, showing him in various poses and cute garments.
In a flash, there’s a daring smile playing at his lips, like he’s privy to some information Hao is yet unaware of. It makes Hao jittery.
Hao's AC breaks. Hanbin comes to fix it.Bookmarked by highlightae
16 Jun 2024