Pairing: Jongin/Junmyeon (with side Xiuhan and Chanbaek)
Rating: NC-17
Genre: mild angst, romance, drama, smut, catboy!au, bookshop!au
Summary: Bookstore owner Junmyeon hires catboy!Jongin as a live-in shop assistant. Junmyeon's wary of intimacy but Jongin is determined to get past his defenses.
Author: LotusK (AFF) / Lattelotus (LJ)
I was about to review it here when author suddenly started to post it on her LJ so it motivated me even more to write about it here.
One day Junmyeon, the owner of bookshop, is hiring for shop assistant and roommate at once. He is a bookwarm and unfullfilled writer. Because of his slightly too soft for his own good personality and a bad break-up he closed off himself even more. That’s a moment when Jongin comes in - a catboy who is as softly spoken as his new boss/roommate, but a lot more daring. Somewhere between lines of read out loud book, too fast heartbeats and shared warmth grows up something shy at first. With Joonmyeon’s heart in Jongin’s capable hands it turns in something more and more. I won’t tell where it leads - that would be just cruel!
This fic is like a silence full of whispers. Words are tickling reader’s ears and in no time warmth their way stright to the one’s heart. It’s simple story, without plot twist or overly dramatic scenes, which makes it even more beautiful (and probably 100 more time harder to write!). Once you, dear reader, fall for charas, also side ones! (Xiu is just precious here), it’s impossible to be done with this fic after just one reading! I’ve read it already like 4 times and I’m sure I will come back to in the future.
You can read it here: LJ, AFF.