Hello, I would like to request The8 reading on how he would pursue his crush
🌒✨ How The8 (Minghao) Acts Around His Crush/ Pursues Them: Chaotic Confessions & Chaotic Zen Vibes ✨🌒
Mr cool art boy meets secret hopeless romantic™
👑💭 Soooo... what happens when Minghao has a crush on someone?
Think: your favorite stoic anime character who secretly writes poetry at 3AM and dreams about matching rings... but would never admit it first.
Let’s dive in and expose our ✨ elegant menace in love ✨
🎯 Phase One: “Observe. Don’t catch feelings. Oh no, I caught feelings.”
Our boy is the Knight of Cups in silk smooth on the outside, but don’t let that poker face fool you. He’s giving “I know what I want, but I will NOT embarrass myself” energy.
He watches you. Listens. Absorbs your vibe like a sponge. (Low key stalks your friends socials.)
Meanwhile, you have no idea that he’s memorized your laugh, favorite color, and preferred bubble tea order.
Yup. That’s his love language: silent obsession™.
( okay well I'm starting to gather now is that 4th / 5th gen boy groups depending on when they debuted in fourth gen. Are into people who don't know who the fuck they are and make them work for their love. While third gen boy groups and that weird transition. Which I would count groups like stray kids or the boys in groups are kind of just low key obsessed with the person that they like. It's giving very much so Gomez Addams. Make sure that he knows every and anything about you and would absolutely worship the ground that you walk on and wakes you up every morning with nothing but a bunch of kisses and love and affection and can't get enough of you and if you ever go out together at a place where he can just let loose you're having that iconic dance sequence where he's just sitting there basically trying to make out with his wife while she's trying to dance. Very interesting.)
💼 Phase Two: Emotionally Constipated CEO Hours
Here’s the twist: Minghao may be in his Emperor era, but his crush makes him nervous in the cutest way.
He suddenly becomes a bit possessive (will give the meanest glare to anyone who so much as looks at you for 0.001 second too long.) But won’t admit it.
You smile at another guy? He’s sipping tea like ☕👁️ Interesting.
But will he say anything? NO. He’ll just post a deep caption on Instagram and vanish for 3 hours.
💔 Phase Three: “Feelings? Me? Never heard of her.”
This man has been hurt and now he strategically self-sabotages.
Cue the King of Wands reversed energy:
He wants to make a move… but chickens out.
He crafts a 10-step plan to flirt… then deletes it all and meditates instead.
He tries to play it cool, but his inner world is pure chaos.
( he basically second guesses everything like it's his part-time job. And can bring Shakespearean male leads to shame this is over exaggerated scenarios playing in his head on how wrong it could go.)
😶🌫️ Phase Four: Internal Panic, External Calm
He’s now deep in his feels.
“What if they don’t like me?”
“What if I’m not ready?”
“What if I am ready and it changes everything??”
He lies awake thinking about you, overanalyzing that one time you touched his arm and said “You’re so chill.”
Sir. Get up!
🌱 Phase Five: The (Accidental) Soft Launch
He doesn’t confess. Oh no.
Instead, he starts doing very specific things that scream "I'm into you" if you’re paying attention:
Random philosophical convos at midnight
Touching your arm when he laughs
Inviting you to “group outings” where no one else shows up
Telling you you're "interesting" in a tone that belongs in a K-drama OST
🌞 Phase Six: Glow Up + Go For It
Suddenly... he’s ready.
He’s done the inner work, talked to his higher self, journaled about his traumas, meditated for 72 hours straight, he’s emotionally stable AND down bad.
So now he shows up in full Queen of Wands mode:
Confident. Magnetic. Lowkey terrifying in the best way.
He doesn’t even need to confess. He looks at you and YOU KNOW.
⚖️ The Plot Twist
He hates feeling out of control (he's a little bit of a control freak.) so the moment you start playing games or seem unsure?
He pulls back not out of cruelty, but protection.
He needs mutual energy. No half-hearted vibes. If he’s gonna give you his heart?
You better be all in.
( honestly it's given been there done that lives. It feels like he definitely has had someone play mind games with him just to play or fuck with him. Like he was the rebound and he was unaware of it henceforth now when he likes someone it's like second-guessing everything making Romeo and Juliet look like a fun love story rather than a tragedy. With the way that his mind runs away with all the possible ways this can go absolutely wrong or you don't actually like him etc.)
💌 Summary:
Minghao is the slow-burn, emotionally-evolved chaos king of courtship.
He’s quiet, intense, and kind of terrifying with how deeply he feels but also so romantic you’ll cry into your pillow at 2AM.
He won’t chase he’ll pull you in with quiet power and trust that you’ll see him for what he really is:
A secret soft boy dressed in Emperor robes, ready to build an empire with his favorite muse.