Life As We Know It

I'm a bonafide speech geek, anime nerd, and disaster management enthusiast. Also, I'm a party of energy and pretty good at sarcasm. I'm a busy little bee.

[thegatheringdust]

if you told me that to my shore is actually just one long, gay ad for cigaronne royal slims, i would believe it because it’s honestly the world’s best marketing campaign. i don’t even smoke but i too want to homosexually light a black and silver cigarette with a match for my lover in the middle of fucking them and then call them a slut

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Me, a simple fan fiction author, smiling evilly as I read people’s predictions for my story and excited to drop some bombs over the next two weeks.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[mysterygrl20]

Nov 15, 2025 | Shine Fancon - MileApo 🐈‍⬛🐾

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There’s a fancon and then there’s whatever the hell Apo and Mile did yesterday.

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Some people still think it’s crazy that Sheng Shaoyou forgave Hua Yong so quickly after the lies were revealed and how he fell harder after learning how obsessed with him Hua Young was.

But this part from his birthday short story is such a phenomenal description of exactly why:

When he was a teenager, in a classmate's yearbook under "Your lifelong wish" Sheng Shaoyou had once written truthfully:

My lifelong wish is for someone to love me — only me.

Now, he didn't need to wish anymore.

Because if some god were to ask, When do you feel most certain that you are loved?

Sheng Shaoyou would answer without hesitation:

"Every time I think of him."

Every dream had already come true.

There was no need to wish again.

Sheng Shaoyou believed—

Someone would love him fiercely until death — far more than they loved themselves.

Shaoyou was so affected by his father’s adultery and his mother’s early death and his entire personality as an adult is built from that trauma.

One of the parts in the novel/show that’s stuck out to me the most is when he visits Sheng Fang in the hospital after the public proposal and ends up saying:

"Being the child you value most is honestly meaningless. You give me all the responsibility, but your favoritism goes to someone else.”

In the Viki translations for the show, ‘affection’ is used instead of ‘favoritism’ and I like that.

Sheng Shaoyou always wanted someone who loved him and showed him affection, without having to worry about the one he loves straying from him or showing someone else more love. The love and affection he didn’t get from his family, the love and affection his mother never got from his father.

Shaoyou wanted to be an adult who had everything he and his mother never got.

Pure devotion.

Hua Yong was literally what Sheng Shaoyou wished for every year on his birthday.

So happy birthday, Sheng Shaoyou. I’m so happy you got your wish.

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After the short story for Sheng Shaoyou’s birthday, I’m positive Hua Sheng is going to be an Emigma.

Based on the way Hua Yong is described as a child in the novel.

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I had a dream that they dropped descriptions for three mini-specials and I can’t remember what those descriptions were, but I do remember they made me mad.

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I would like to personally thank Gaga’s social media team for waking up and NOT choosing violence today.

On this, the first week without Desire.

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I can’t believe so many people were upset at the end of Desire.

I, for one, loved the teddy bear shirts.

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Shen Wenlang with Lele crumbs

[rosesofstydia]

Shen Wenlang public apology video be like:

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This would definitely be a screenshot from Hua Yong’s account. You know he would dislike it instantly and then leave a petty anonymous comment.

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As promised, I posted the first chapter of a fic I’m working on.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

An unknown entity has set out on a mission to divide the business partnerships between X Holdings, Shengfang Biotech, and HS Group. However, their plans fall short as they don’t understand just how deep their bonds run.

Destructive tactics turn erratic and one person’s life hangs in the balance.

A look at the events over the next two years after the series ends as the three familial companies race to uncover the culprit threatening their businesses and families.

Notes:

This is a continuation from the end of the show.

A lot of the chapters will be from Gao Tu’s point of view. Since we don’t know how he spent his three years away, I’m using the assumption that it’s the same as the novel. So, Ma Heng will show up a few times.

The timeline will change between chapters, so I will include a note that puts the chapters in chronological order at the beginning of each chapter.

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Bless the fact that these crumbs were provided in the last episode.

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I love how, even though they changed the plot of the club scene from the novel, we all know that they ended the same way.

Hua Yong and Sheng Shaoyou went home and fucked.

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I don’t know why, but the reflection in the window is cracking me up. Shaoyou is just all / against the back of the couch.

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I am so grateful to have seen two of my favorite scenes included in the show:

Sheng Shaoyou threatening to cut himself in order to prove a point

Hua Yong shooting Shen Wenlang with a tranquilizer

But now that I look at what my two favorite scenes are, I have to ask myself… what is wrong with me?

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Anyways,

I’m working on a fanfiction and I’ll probably put the first chapter up today or tomorrow depending on how motivated I am after work.

It’ll be very Gao Tu-centric.

Here’s the summary:

An unknown entity has set out on a mission to divide the business partnerships between X Holdings, Shengfang Biotech, and HS Group. However, their plans fall short as they don’t understand just how deep their bonds run.

Destructive tactics turn erratic and one person’s life hangs in the balance.

A look at the events over the next two years after the series ends as the three familial companies race to uncover the culprit threatening their businesses and families.

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Seeing Shen Wenlang with Peanut is just so….

He’s so good with him and he’s going to be such an incredible father to Lele.

These men are over here giving these children the love and familial bonds they never received.