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When the trumpet had resounded, clear and firm as a nagging mother and holding the note for so long Renjun feared it’d never cease, he’d decided to hunt down the Horsemen. They were all here, spat out of the Heavens in a ball of fire, fallen in different parts of the globe like fiery meteors. He’d remembered the few times where he’d had his faith questioned: give me a sign, Renjun would say. And there it was. A mockery. From God.
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Doyoung and Renjun decide that it would be fun to experiment and swap partners for a bit.
Jeno gets to wear a pretty maid dress and learn how to cook under Doyoung's wing.
Jaehyun is not so lucky...
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“And why, exactly,” Renjun starts, taking his sandwich out of his bag and unwrapping it. He already regrets having asked. “Are you talking about Kun-hyung’s thighs?”
“Because, my friend,” Donghyuck says, with the air of someone about to reveal a great secret. “They’re amazing. Have you seen them?”
or: Kun's NFTs (nice fucking thighs) are the talk of the town. Renjun is intrigued.
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Renjun has the power to escape into any fantasy book world he chooses. It’s all fun and games until he notices the same face crop up again and again across universes.
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Renjun woke up with a splitting headache, a lump in his throat, and the ability to only breathe out of one nostril.
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Kissing a demon is not much different from kissing a human, Renjun has learned.
Prompt: Renjun's first taste of the underworld comes in the form of a nightmare that pulls him through a portal in his studio apartment and onto the lap of a provocative demon who has the face of his English group project nemesis. After a week of nightmares, he can't say he hates it.... but he starts to question who his nemesis, Na Jaemin, really is.
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An overnight train ride doesn’t bode well when the Haerang Rail has been plagued with murders over the past few months, but Renjun is determined to make the journey—as are the other passengers on board, including a car salesman, a doctor, and the heir to the largest electronics empire in the region. A saving grace presents itself in the form of fellow passenger Mark Lee, well-known private detective, whose presence on board means there’s little need for worry.
Unless, of course, he’s the first to get murdered.
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“Do you want to go to Jeju then? Maybe we can meet my family too.”
Donghyuck held one of his hands and gave it a light squeeze. “I want to officially introduce you to them, baby."
Renjun squeezed Donghyuck’s hand back. A smile slowly etched on his lips, his cheeks turning into crimson.
“Yes, I would love that.”
Donghyuck really wants to personally introduce Renjun as his boyfriend to his family and it takes a weekend getaway to Jeju for him to make things official. -
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“I,” Yangyang proudly proclaims with all the grandeur of a town crier announcing the arrival of royalty. “Am a baku.”
Renjun’s brow furrows. Huh?
"A bak-what?"
"A baku," Yangyang corrects. “Meng mo. Otherwise known as a dream eater. An ancient, mythological creature that’s been a friend to children and nightmare sufferers since the dawn of time."
Renjun takes the opportunity to scan him up and down. Yangyang's hair is an absolute mess, almost like he spent the night outdoors sleeping on Renjun's doorstep, which Renjun supposes he did. He's dressed in baggy, tie-dyed jeans today, paired with a bleached denim jacket, and is wearing a ratty university-brand hoodie underneath it. There's orange potato chip dust down his front.
"Right," Renjun deadpans.
(or: Desperate to vanquish his nightmares, Renjun turns to a self-professed sleep specialist for help. What he ends up finding is his literal dream boy, and so much more.)
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Their window is cracked and left wide-open. This can only mean one thing. Mark turns to the fridge, next, and sure enough, there’s a note stuck to the front with the Eiffel Tower souvenir magnet Renjun bought on their first trip to Paris.
We’re out of milk, the note reads, in Renjun’s perfectly neat handwriting. And also, I got kidnapped again.
And underneath that, in Donghyuck’s chicken-scratch scrawl: Plz bring laundry detergent. I ran out. ☹
Mark is the greatest superhero-slash-boyfriend this side of Neo City. Or he would be, if he could just get all these villains to stop kidnapping his boyfriend. And if he could stop forgetting to pick up milk at the grocery store. That would probably be good.
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In March of 2022, something odd starts happening. Out of seemingly nowhere, NCT University’s baseball team starts winning scrimmages. Like, actually consistently winning, by a large margin, which hasn’t happened since their baseball program was formed five years ago.
Their new assistant manager might have something to do with that winning streak, but it's hard to say when even Huang Renjun himself doesn't understand just how far his team will go to impress him.
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For all of Huang Renjun’s career, there’s only been one constant: cooking. Unfortunately, with Jaemin thrown into the mix, it’s only a recipe for disaster.
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If Mark was asked to name the most deadly verbal warriors in the world, his answer would be immediate: kindergarteners.
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For employees at Dream Parks, the summers are hot and the romances are hotter. Hard-working concierge Renjun finds himself being courted by the theme park's mysterious, unpredictable lion mascot. Will he figure out Ryan's secret before things end up not-so-cotton-candy-sweet?
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The touch is already a lot for Renjun to handle, as most things with Mark and Jeno are, and yet he pushes on. This brings about a valuable lesson he’s learned throughout the course of his training—it’s drive that’s powered him through law school, that’s kept him on his toes no matter what impossible fitness program was thrown at him these past few weeks, and it’s still that very same drive that will get him fucked six ways to Sunday. There’s no turning back now. He’ll make sure of it.
(Or: Renjun is in need of some strength and conditioning. Mark and Jeno are more than happy to assist.)
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Renjun and Jeno broke up.
The next thing they knew, Jeno spent his rut with Renjun.
And the next thing they knew, Renjun's pregnant with Jeno's pups.
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With Renjun and Jeno left with a cute toddler, what could go wrong, right? So many things, Renjun thinks.
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Yangyang one of the youngest thriller/mystery genre writers in the past decade, was struggling coming up a new plot. After being gifted a stunning, blue journal and hit with writer's block, he decides to try writing a romance story he has toyed around with the past. Who knew that the book ended causing the events he wrote to happen in real life, to him and his publisher Renjun.
As he digs deeper into the plot, he realizes that his heart began to bleed into the plot. He cannot stop writing nor can he fix was already written, leaving him all tangled up in a romance novel with him as the main character.
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His story ends halfway through the novel.
Now that he really thought about it, the death of this character was definitely oddly placed in the novel, a scene so out of the blue with no use for the plot. But does that really matter now? Probably, but not really.
He has now become Renjun Huang, the semi-villain, the background antagonist.
And if he doesn't do anything, death will be his only end.
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Renjun has seen much of what the world has to offer during his long life as an undead, predictably turning to nostalgia as he paces through an exhibit at a museum. A letter he reads in a collection about love and writing brings him back to the memories, the places, and the person he once tried to leave behind.