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1. To love is to suffer by Youthgoneoscarwilde

   Fandoms: Tennis RPF  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   22 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Karen Khachanov/Andrey Rublev
   • Andrey Rublev
   • Karen Khachanov
   • Original Characters
   • secretly in love
   • Forbidden Love
   • Crushes
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Breakup
   • Getting Together
   • Pain
   • Abuse
   • Abusive Partner
   • getting beaten
   • Black Eye
   • Fights
   • Beating
   • happy end
   • Fluff

   Summary

   “If he beats you, he loves you” it is an old russian saying, at least according to Andrey’s online research once. It is a horrible saying. One no one should ever hear and yet Andrey has seen and heard it all his life.

   Series

   • Part 9 of It is the most wonderful time of the year (Advent calendar 2025)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   6,120

   Chapters:

   4/4

   Comments:

   11

   Kudos:

   4

   Hits:

   108