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some people want it to happen some people wish it would happen some people make it happen Xu Minghao || associated with limitless

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   nuBLACK modelling contest ft Xu Minghao

‘Think you’re a face genius?’

Such was the headline tag that caught Minghao’s attention. Absentmindedly shuffling through one of Tzuyu’s magazines for brainless people, he was catching up to the latest gossip while eating breakfast and came across such a challenging statement. But no, he didn’t think he was a face genius: he knew it.

Honestly he had no interest in that world of entertainment Tzuyu was starting to show interest in -- he would never in his wildest imagination dream of degrading himself so much as to dedicate his body, mind and soul for the sake of other’s enjoyment, but at the same time he was of a mindset that no matter what it was, he couldn’t lose to his sister in it. Perhaps this was as good a start as any.

Beside, they should be thankful to him for auditioning and letting them familiarise themselves with China’s prettiest face.

Although not his usual sense of high-end fashion, the brand prided itself for carrying luxury and high quality items all the same, so Minghao supposed he could toss his usual dresscode aside for the sake of auditioning. Honestly he didn’t need the extra salary a modelling gig would provide him with as his indulgence with the stock market had already landed him more than a fortune, but there was always room for more wealth and fame.

Such it had been decided and such he had gone out to buy only the finest of what he could find, for not even for a model gig would he dare disgrace himself so much as to wear clothes intended for rabble. 

The filming itself was easy. He simply had to hire a cameraman to get the best possible result. There was no way a shoddy home made video was going to make the cut, and Minghao was under the impression that there was no problem money couldn’t solve. Before the end of the day, he had managed to produce a short video compilation of him posing in various outfits to send off for evaluation.

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My I

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lmaisha‌:

      the sudden chinese startles yoorim, even more so because she understands it and recognizes who it’s coming from. she turns to see minghao, and a soft smile graces her face. 

      yoorim considered herself great at reading people. she was incredibly curious by nature, and she enjoyed understanding people to see how they ticked. minghao, however, was one of the few people that always surprised her. despite being in a relationship for a few months, she still didn’t fully understand him as a person. she knew this was probably on purpose – keeping that mystery makes it easier to keep people at arm’s length.

      when they first started dating, yoorim had been extremely worried. she’d been dating well-off men on and off for the past two years to satisfy her mother’s incessant dream of yoorim getting married and having three kids by 23. but with minghao, he was the first person where it wasn’t her choice to date him. the two had been arranged by their families, and yoorim had been terrified by that just because it seemed a lot more serious and binding. 

      but to her relief, the two hadn’t really anything in common, and minghao also felt that the relationship should end. so after a few months, it was over. since then, the two hadn’t spoken to each other. until now, of course.

      yoorim gives a polite bow, “minghao, it’s nice to see you here. it’s been a little while since we last saw each other.” she places the sweater in her hands back on the rack, “ah, i’ve been doing good i suppose. my mother and father are… good as well. business is doing great from what they’ve told me. what about you? you look very nice today.”

It felt weird, almost unnatural for Minghao to uphold formalities in such a way -- he couldn’t remember many times he had had to do that since coming to Seoul -- but even he knew when a situation called for adequate behaviour. Which was basically whenever someone was close to or on equal social footing as he was. There was absolutely no reason to suck up to no name rabble after all.

Now if this girl had been someone who had dumped him he might not have been as inclined to keep the nice tone. But no such thing had happened; no ugly falling outs simply a mutual agreement that maybe they just weren’t meant for each other, unsurprisingly, Minghao couldn’t help but think as he doubted that he would ever find such a ridiculous thing as love.

But it also made this thing surprisingly awkward. He felt obligated to remain and chat her up due to pleasantries and common etiquette, but all he could think of was stupid questions that would lead to no further advancement in a conversation. 

Holding himself back from blurting out that of course he looked nice, that much was only natural, but instead in the last moment he gave an acknowledging nod. “Your flattery is appreciated,” he said in return and continued: “I must bear myself with poise at any time after all.” Perhaps a bit stuck up after all, but he actually tried his best for a change. Holding out a hand palm up gesturing to his conversation partner he returned the favour. “As expected you’re even prettier than last time I saw you yourself.”

Perhaps a bit corny, he had to acknowledge that, but flattery was after all the best way to a woman’s favour. He shifted the weight of his body over on his other foot and the basket on his arm over on his other arm considering this seemed like it might take a while. “Everything is pretty much the same for us. Father still insists on this farce and refuses to let me come home. My sister is still as insufferable as ever. But I would rather not bother you with my stories of woe.”

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Can’t See The End

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lmxtzuyu‌:

Unlike some people, Tzuyu liked to go to out and let her hair down every once in a while. Sure, this kind of thing was childish and swarming with people that could have stood to be reminded of their place in society, but she was willing to let them away with being loud and boorish for one night. Besides, she was turning plenty of heads and garnering whispers. Positive, negative? Who cared? She was getting attention, that’s all Tzuyu cared about.

Well, that and dragging Minghao out to mingle with the commoners. Tzuyu could barely contain her glee at how flawlessly her plan had worked. If she was right about her brother being scared of the events, then she had something to hold over him for all eternity. If she was wrong (perish the thought!), at least she had succeeded in making him come out and mix with everyone else. It was a win-win as far as she was concerned.

Though she was loathe to admit it, being surrounded by some many stalls with such interesting things made her temporarily forget her plan and lose sight of herself. Without meaning to, Tzuyu darted from stall to stall, admiring their wares with an almost childlike expression before Minghao rudely brought her back to Earth. Scowling at first, Tzuyu crossed her arms and stuck her nose in the air with a haughty, indignant noise.

“Don’t be ridiculous! I could have brought anyone with me, they would have all fought for my favour! Is it so wrong to want to hang out with my brother and be there for him in case he gets a fright~?” The words were teasing, but as always, laced with the venom Tzuyu reserved for her ‘beloved’ brother.

Despite her words, it was obvious that Tzuyu was incredibly excited about this whole ordeal. How incredibly pathetic. He was definitely not someone to indulge in such foolish errands and although he did know how to seek enjoyment in careless endeavours, this whole thing was just foolish. Using puny tricks for the sake of scaring each other senseless for the sake of amusement? And it wasn’t like he could eat the food anyway, not with the diet he was supposed to be on.

“Then just bring one of your little slaves along next time,” he said indifferent to the offense that his sister’s words suggested. “I’m sure it would be so much more fun to hang out with the gold diggers that like to swarm around you than with your older brother. I can’t make you look better and feed your ego after all. Don’t worry though, it’s not your fault. I mean, anyone would pale next to me after all.”

Finishing his piece of mind Minghao rose his head in his superiority and let a hand pat Tzuyu’s shoulder quick well knowing that she was not going to appreciate it. But it was fine, it wasn’t like a bit of humiliation hadn’t hurt her every once in a while. Or was the word humility? Either way it worked he supposed.

“Beside,” Minghao continued. “Are you sure it’s not going to be the other way around?” Whatever Tzuyu was suspecting about his amount of courage, she was severely wrong. He wasn’t sure how she had got the idea that perhaps he was a coward, because never in his life could Minghao remember showing such behaviour. “I can’t help but wonder what kind of foolish display you will show me today, sister dear. This might after all turn into something worthy of my time.”

[lmxminghao]

Hewwo! I’m having a huge amount of muse for my boys, but am not feeling mentally well enough to spend time and effort plotting right now! That’s why I’m giving out random starters, some with an assumed relationship, others without!

Comment ✩ for a starter from Minghao

Comment ❄ for a starter from Youngjae

Comment ❀ for a starter from Hwanwoong

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the8 - 독 : fear

[lmxminghao]

Fast Pace

@lmsoojin​

Unbelievable. First Aisha and now this girl? To say Minghao was unfortunate in his encounters as of late was an understatement, but his former girlfriend was at least someone he could deal with. When it came to the girl known as Seo Soojin there was only one course of action that made sense. Get away. Escape and that as quickly as possible before she noticed him. Even if it meant that Minghao had to turn around in his tracks and inconvenience himself, he figured it would be an even huger inconvenience to interact the girl who was like peas in a pod with Aisha.

It was not him being a coward. It was a tactical retreat.

Minghao shot a glance backwards to notice her figure still there. Oh god was she coming closer?

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My I

@lmaisha​

It wouldn’t be strange to assume Minghao was incapable of loving another human being. He had never shown much interest in the ways of finding himself a partner, nor was he really the type to go out on silly quests for love and affection. But that didn’t mean he had never experienced being in a relationship before.

Although she had grown some years older now, her face was still easily recognisable to the young male and he wouldn’t doubt that the same applied vice versa. The memories they shared weren’t per say bad, but Minghao couldn’t help but think back on them with indifference. An arranged relationship, that was all it had been, a hope to unite two influential families that had eventually fallen to the ground due to the fact that the two shared nothing. 

“ 傍晚好艾沙.” His greeting was brief and to the point figuring it would put himself in a bad light to simply pretend he hadn’t seen her. Seriously, what were the odds though? Seoul was incredibly big and the two of them didn’t even attend the same schools or live in the same vicinity as far as he was aware, so to think that she just so happened to visit this particular clothes shop at this particular time was unfathomable. Switching to Korean, he continued. “Have you been good? How is your family faring? It has been a while since I’ve seen your mother.”

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Welcome to my space

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lmseolhyun‌:

“Oh, and what am I–a mind reader? You ask me not to make assumptions, and yet you presume that I’d presumably know what you think and what you mean by saying a simple you’re in the way? ” Seolhyun practically scorned at his words, scoffing at how ridiculous the male sounded. 

“Firstly, when you said that I was in the way, what did you expect me to think? That my body is standing right in front of the shelves you want to look at or that I’m blocking your way?” Now the urge to smack the male’s face was even stronger, and Seolhyun deepened her scowl. 

“Did you say excuse me, you’re blocking the bookshelf? No, you just said you’re in the way.” Seolhyun was irate with this self important male. “And if you think that I’d need to stoop to such a fucking degree to get you in trouble while putting my own image at risk–dream on. You’re not even worth a fraction of my time, honey.” She turns back to her book, browsing through the books yet again. She just had one more fucking book to find, and she could finally rid herself of this insufferable plebeian who clearly didn’t understand basic manners. “You can keep your dick very safely in your pants, and I won’t give a fuck. Newsflash, hun. You’re not all that great.” She paused for a moment before turning back to browsing through the shelf in front of her, completely deciding to ignore the male as she quickly ran her finger along the titles of the books, eyebrows furrowed in concentration as she tried to find the title that she needed to complete the entire makeup of her textbooks.

Well. This was starting to get incredibly tedious to deal with. But he wasn’t about to lose his patience over the insolent rabble who knew no better than to bare fangs in an attempt to remain self-important. He supposed that was just how commoners acted when they were obviously in the wrong but didn’t want to admit it. No, he was not going to lose his temper over something that was supposedly second nature to human beings. How grand of him.

But the fact still remained that he needed his book and that this woman refused to move despite his obvious dismay with her current position. How could someone be so foolish? It was absolutely beyond him.

Well, no time like the present as they said. She had basically given him the okay, hadn’t she? As far as he was concerned she had pretty much said ‘I don’t care about you invading my personal space so please go ahead’, and thus he did. “Since you don’t seem to mind.” Bumping shoulders with the woman he let his arm reach in paying no heed to where he might brush up against for in the end it wasn’t his fault. He had tried and failed to be courteous, and thus she left him little other means than to intrude. Granted he could have been a bit more limited in his movements, but why should he? She was the one who didn’t want to move and was wasting his time. Now he just needed to grab the book he needed and get out of here so this farce could be over and done with. Next time he’d definitely have the caretaker run such a stupid errand.

[lmxminghao]

Don’t Wanna Cry

@lmseok​

The thing about haunted houses were that once you knew in your mind that it was just humans behind all the jumpscares they weren’t really all that scary. His sister had been the one to drag him along into the establishment, but somehow she had disappeared within, and Minghao was stuck debating whether to just accept the fact that she must have been spirited away and rejoice in the peace he was going to live in from now on. Alas, he doubted things were going to be that easy -- and his father definitely wouldn’t approve of a story like that either.

All the same it was an undeniable fact that right now he was alone, although it was deep within a maze of horror (or at least what was supposed to be such). He had to get out soon and enjoy the time he could have for himself to its fullest.

That was the plan at least.

So what was that sudden loud scream all about?

And why did it feel like it was coming closer to him?

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Can’t See The End

@lmxtzuyu​

Let it be known that Minghao was not one to engage in foolish commoners’ ordeals and that he had no intention of seeking out the endeavours of the seasons, the games and folly that came along with such occasions. In fact it was a miracle that he had dared to show his figure in a place such as this one, and as usual, the only person who could make him go out of his way was right next to him.

Tzuyu was the one who had shown him the pamphlet that described the event, asked him if he was going, and then, foolish as she was, suggested that he didn’t want to go because he was scared. Absolute rubbish. He couldn’t stand by and accept such slander, and thus he saw no choice but to attend.

But something was strange.

The way the girl by his side was bouncing around from stall to stall like an excitable rabbit made him suspect something that he could definitely use for his own benefit. “Wait,” Minghao ordered and grabbed his sister’s collar before she was about to hop off to some kind of food stall. A sly smile appeared on his face. “Could it be you dragged me along to this because you really wanted to go but didn’t feel like going on your own?”

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Welcome to my space

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lmseolhyun‌:

Seolhyun was just having a splendidly fine life searching for the books she needed for her current studies in K-ARTS when a male’s rude voice reaches the timbre of her very ears.

You’re in the way. Almost instinctively, her lips pull downwards into a distinctively disgruntled frown. Who the fuck was this male to tell her she was in the way when he was the one that had got in her way? Plus, she didn’t take up much of the aisle. It wasn’t as though he didn’t have space to even move. Seolhyun’s eyes flicker over the wide space behind her, her lip curling prettily in distaste at his words. Her body didn’t even occupy half the space of the aisle, and there was more than enough space for him to slip past her, even with extra berth.

“There’s something called manners, you know.” She can’t help herself but respond snarkily at his words, already deeply unhappy with how her previously wonderful day was turning out to be. First, she had to get new textbooks, since she’d misplaced her old ones, and then secondly, this pretentious little male had to come and insist that she was in the way when there was enough space behind her to fit at least two more people in the aisle.

The nerve of him–Seolhyun wanted to smack her book in the male’s face. Such depths of inconsiderateness.

“An excuse me would have warrantied me simply moving out of your way without much problem. But…rude much? There’s space behind me enough to fit two people, and you say that I’m in the way.” Clearly, his words pissed her off, and she wasn’t about to let him go without giving him a piece of her mind. “Don’t you have eyes to at the very least–see that much?”

Had he heard her right? All he did was state the obvious and Minghao didn’t for a second believe that anything he had said warranted such a reaction. He was simply stating facts: he needed that particular part of the bookshelf and her frame stood in a position that prevented him from accessing it, and yet, now here he was, having his ears rambled off with pointless complaints about his manners of all things.

“How long are you going to keep up that unsightly display?” he asked obviously disinterested, obviously not agreeing with her words. For how could Minghao possibly be wrong in what he said and did? That was simply impossible. Incomprehensible. What kind of person even remained so insistent after obviously being told they were an inconvenience? Minghao could easily have mirrored the woman’s ire, but he was far above such for such meagre reasons. This woman was not nearly as infuriating as a certain other girl in his life, and thus he could easily remain calm in her presence.

“Excuse me,” he commented as suggested, and then continued with his former spiel: “you’re in the way.” He pointed on the shelves in front of her on the book he had finally spotted the title of. “I’d like for you to not make rash presumptions in your weak attempt to retort when what I’m looking for is right there and I wouldn’t be able to get hold of it by walking around you either. Unless you want me to invade your personal space even further, I’ll have you move. You seem like the type who’d have me arrested for sexual harassment if I tried to get too close and I don’t want that so. Move.”

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Welcome to my space

@lmseolhyun​

The thing about living in Korea that bothered him the most was that unlike back home the housekeepers weren’t available at all hours of the day. They came in every once in a while to cook and clean and provide basic necessities, but other than that the two siblings had to take care of themselves. Something Minghao still felt was absolutely outrageous. Why should he have to go buy his own books for school just because the housekeeper had forgot to go by the bookstore? The teacher was at fault too for announcing it so suddenly. Of course he could have just waited for the following day to receive his book, but that would mean that he would fall behind in his reading, and that thought alone was disastrous. And thus he had ventured out into the evening to locate a bookstore.

The inside of the establishment was rather empty -- only what appeared to be the clerk and a single customer around, but he supposed the late hour was to blame for that. A single disinterested glance was shot at his peers before Minghao moved to the bookshelves trying to locate what he was searching for. Was there some kind of system to this thing? Honestly he didn’t know. But he couldn’t just go straight to asking without making the effort himself -- that would just be proclaiming his immediate loss and prove that he wasn’t even capable of running a simple errand for himself. His sister would laugh at him for certain.

“Let’s see...” he muttered in his mother tongue, running his slim fingers over the backs of the books in the row, the Korean letters registering within his mind practically effortlessly. As he moved his body down the aisle, suddenly it came to a halt as he bumped shoulders with the sole customer who appeared to have been at a standstill reading a book of her own. “Ah,” Minghao spoke with a monotone voice. His eyes locked on her for a moment. Despite having zero interest in finding a partner in life, it wasn’t like he couldn’t appreciate the beauty of people, and this woman was definitely beautiful. She was, however, also something else. “You’re in the way.”

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So-called apology

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lmxtzuyu‌:

@lmxminghao

She owed her brother an apology. At least, that’s what her step-father had told her over the phone the previous night. And no matter how much Tzuyu had wheedled and whined, the man had stood firm. She was to apologize within the day and he’d be checking with Minghao as to whether or not said apology had been delivered.

It figured he’d take Minghao’s side. The idiot was his son after all, she was just a step-daughter. (Even if her step-father treated her like a princess, before her exile at least)

Arriving home from a photo shoot, Tzuyu invited herself into her brother’s room, placing down a colorful bouquet of flowers before him. Though the flowers looking pretty and joyful, Tzuyu had picked out blooms that represented her true feelings, hidden under the guise of repentance. A fact Tzuyu knew Minghao would figure out quickly. Not that she cared. The apology had been delivered, no-one had said it was to be sincere.

“I’m so sorry, big brother. Can you ever forgive me~?” Apologetic words betrayed by a fake sugary-sweet tone and an even faker looking smile.

Honestly it wasn’t that big of a deal. Tzuyu had in an attempt to learn about the commoners’ skill of ironing accidentally burnt a hole in a very particular piece of clothing -- namely one of his shirts, and of course Minghao had ratted her out to the higher ups as being useless. Not that he could iron himself but it was the thought that counted. He didn’t mind much for he had plenty of shirts, but somehow the fact that it was her who had ruined it just made it impossible for him to put water under the bridge and let bygones be bygones.

No, he just had to rub it in and make a big deal out of it. And of course she responded in ilk if one was to judge by the extravagant bouquet that presented itself upon their shared dining table. Perhaps a sweet gesture in anyone else’s eyes, but to Minghao the language of flowers was easily read, and the bouquet spoke only of ill will and loathe. Not exactly something one would feel sincerity in and not exactly something that screamed ‘forgive me’.

But Minghao was above such petty feuds, and he refused to let himself get worked up over something so meagre. Instead he went over to take in the scent of the flowers and let his discerning eye run over them. “20000 won?” he questioned, glance going from the token to his sister. “Is that all your discontent for me amounts to? If I didn’t know better I’d say you were losing your touch.”

[lmxminghao]

Hewwo! As mentioned here comes a lil starter call for Minghao! What you need to know about him:

Just as egocentric as he is rich

Doesn’t care about you and doesn’t hide it

Incredibly hard working to the point of passing out

An actual shitty brat proceed with caution

Anyway! For me to write up a random starter for you, please comment on this post with a random song. To plot with me and my shitty child, please like this post and I’ll hop into your dms.

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