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  1. Public Bookmark 12

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    'That’s why he had to believe that Kim Dokja would keep his promise.

    Even if it was painful, or pointless.

    Even if all the probability in the Star Stream dictated it would never happen, he would believe it. Because perhaps even the Star Stream could not possibly understand him — that he knew only one thing that could never, ever, happen again.'

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    A tragedy forces a change of plans, and Lee Gilyoung was made to flee alone to a realm of relative safety through the Great Hole. There, in the vast abyss, a story unfurls. This is the story of Lee Gilyoung.

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    13 Jan 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 30

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    Deliriously, He Xuan thought that if he could just get close enough, if he could press their lips together, he could steal the air in Mu Qing’s lungs, swallow it down into his own so that they’d both survive. But Mu Qing pressed a hand between them, palm against He Xuan’s mouth, and kissed the back of it before pulling away.

     

    *Could be read as a standalone

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    02 Jan 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    Hua Cheng stares, unimpressed, at the gloomy man next to him. He knows a great many things from his twenty-one years of being alive, but among them, the most immediately pressing are:

    1. He Xuan is a loser
    2. He Xuan needs a loser boyfriend, specifically so he wouldn’t spend all day at their shared dorm studying and making it impossible for Hua Cheng to invite Xie Lian over
    3. Hua Cheng will need to make this happen because god knows He Xuan won't (See point 1.)

    And he had a plan.

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    02 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    He looks exhausted already even though it was less than an hour ago that he’d woken up. He Xuan nearly lets the conversation drop, but Mu Qing looks at him too intently. “Tired of what?”

    “This.”

    Mu Qing sets his chopsticks down. He doesn’t ask He Xuan what he means. He doesn’t look confused.

    He Xuan swallows down the bitterness on his tongue. It says enough that he doesn’t really have to explain. But he tries anyway and Mu Qing nods along almost passively, for all appearances unaffected. It’s reassurance when he finally speaks, when He Xuan can hear how close to desperate it is when Mu Qing replies,

    “So let’s make something change.”

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    29 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 66

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    “Standing amidst grandeur doesn’t make you great.”

    Mu Qing’s eyes sting. His breathing wavers. The twinge in his heart pulls too hard, as if he’d strained the muscle. It takes a little longer to reply. “Yes, Guoshi.”

    He understands perfectly.

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    29 Dec 2024