(a/n): happy birthday to my loveliest cheol. he’ll probably never read this, but if he does-thank you for being soft in all the ways that matter
“Cheol. Wake up. It’s your birthday.”
You whisper it just above his ear, careful not to startle him. But all you get is a soft grunt and the tightening of his arm around your waist. His face is buried in your neck, hair a messy mop against your cheek, warmth radiating off him like a living blanket.
"Seungcheol," you try again, stifling your laugh as you poke his cheek. "You turned thirty today. You can't sleep through it."
"Exactly," he mumbles, lips grazing your skin. "I’m older now. I need rest."
You roll your eyes fondly, pulling back slightly just to look at him. His eyes are still shut, but there's the ghost of a smile tugging at his lips — he’s awake. He’s just being annoying on purpose. Typical.
You nudge a little envelope against his cheek.
“…wha’s this?” he mumbles, voice still gravelly.
“Your birthday present.”
He squints at the envelope. It’s hand-decorated with a crooked heart, and inside: 10 hand-cut paper coupons tied together with red ribbon.
He pulls them out, curious, sleep still heavy in his eyes.
You rest your chin on your hand, grinning. “You can redeem them any time today. No substitutions or refunds.”
He lets out a soft snort, flipping through the stack.
#coupon 1: one nap on my lap while I play with your hair
#coupon 2: one uninterrupted cuddle session (max. 1 hour)
#coupon 3: you get to be the little spoon (don't abuse it)
#coupon 4: one opportunity to “accidentally” walk in while I’m changing
#coupon 5: watching movie of your choice
#coupon 6: play a round of any game you want
#coupon 7: shower together (more if you like ;) )
#coupon 8: I'll cook whatever you want me to
#coupon 9: film one tiktok you always wanted
#coupon 10: one wish (no questions asked)
Seungcheol pauses on the last one.
"You're serious?" he asks, blinking at you.
You nod. “Even if it’s big. Or cheesy. Or ridiculous.”
He smiles. “Even if it’s marrying you?”
Your heart stutters. "Is that your wish?"
He shrugs, eyes twinkling. “Might save that one for later.”
You roll your eyes, cheeks warming, and grab the first coupon. “Well, start small, birthday boy.”
You lean in, gently brushing your lips against his — slow, soft, and sleepy. He sighs into it, arms coming up around you lazily.
“I like this game,” he murmurs, “Can I get duplicates?”
You raise a brow. “Only if you behave today.”
He kisses you again — this time a little more awake. “No promises.”
one commoner, two princes, and three tales far too complicated to comprehend.
★ FEATURING; chan, joshua, and jeonghan!
★ STATUS; ongoing
★ TAGS; royalty au, magic, jeonghan being a menace (yes, it's a tag that's effective for the entire series lol), slow burn, fluff, angst, smut (MINORS DNI!)
★ NOTES; ok i lied abt posting this later hehe i've been soooo excited to share this entire series since i posted chan's story a few weeks ago <3 i hope you all like it!
★ BANNER CR; @himbocoups thank you so much for helping me out, nu!!!
✧ promise ring // chan ✧
word count: 21k words
summary: no one would’ve guessed that the daughter of the town’s royal mage has a soft spot for the clumsiest fire elemental in the entire realm. but when the crown prince suddenly asks for your hand in marriage, you’re forced to consider how you feel about a certain lee jung chan a lot more seriously.
tags: childhood friends, mutual pining, love triangle
✧ eyes meeting, hearts apart // joshua ✧
word count: 30.2k words
summary: you could've fallen for the childhood friend who owns a flower shop, the singer who takes the stage of the bar every other day. hell, even the owner's flirtatious son could've been a better choice. but you can't really help it if your heart longs for a prince who's in love with somebody else.
tags: bartender!reader, requited unrequited love, pining like no other, angst
✧ starcrossed losers // jeonghan ✧
word count: ~60k words
summary: at age fifteen, you’re betrothed to a prince named jeonghan. at age twenty-five, you’re set to marry him. so, when your father gives you a chance to find love all on your own, you immediately take it. now if only jeonghan would stop fucking sabotaging every relationship you’re trying to get into.
tags: royal!reader, enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, emotional romantic and sexual tension all in one lmao, more angst than intended
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synopsis: A dandelion is resilient, it can weather any storm, and at the end of its life it will even grant wishes to whoever sees its worth as something more than a simple garden weed. Your relationship with Joshua is the same, you hope, but maybe it wouldn’t hurt to make a wish that your love will last a lifetime anyways.
word count: 2.0k
genre/contains: fluff, hints of angst, flowers, lots of flowers, established relationship.
rating: sfw, all ages
a/n: here's my secret garden collab fic for the warm summer days ahead. it's short but sweet, I can pinky promise that much!
check out the other fics in this wonderful collab with the amazing authors from svthub here!!
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The spring sun was warming the surface of your skin. A calm breeze swept by, ruffling the high grass in the field you were laying in with your boyfriend.
Your head was in Joshua’s lap and his shadow worked as a way to avoid getting the sun in your eyes. For the past hour or so your mind had been completely immersed in the fantastical story you had been dying to read for a while, only just finding the time to pick up as the hectic spring period was coming to an end and summer was on the horizon.
Joshua had been the perfect headrest and parasol the entire time, and you hadn’t paid much attention to what he had been doing. When you looked up it gave you quite the fright to find that he was staring down at you, a small smile gracing his lips and a spark in his eyes. A spark that both intrigued and terrified you since you had seen it before and what would happen next was always a game of guessing the impossible.
“Why are you looking at me like you’re gonna do something…?
He smirked, making you even more nervous. “Stop it!” You warned, but he didn’t stop. Instead, he gave you an even bigger smile and a nod, conveying the feeling of having made a decision in his own mind. “I think you need a new nickname,” he said.
This was not the kind of mischief you had been expecting. Usually he would tease you, tickle you, or attack you with kisses. You stared up at him, trying to tell if he was joking with you or if his serious tone mirrored his feelings correctly. “Why?”
“Don’t know, just thought you looked like a spring flower and that you needed a name that properly reflected that.” he deadpanned.
You couldn’t help but burst out in laughter at his cheesy line. “Oh really, am I that pretty today?” You said and pretended to fawn over yourself, hands underneath your chin and fingers wiggling as if you were a flower, making Joshua crack up as well.
“You’re always pretty and you know it,” he chuckled, “but the flowers around here just seemed to match your gorgeousness so perfectly.”
“I’m pretty like a spring flower!” you giggled and kicked your legs up into the air with a little shout of “Yay” before you relaxed and just smiled up at Joshua’s pretty silhouette that was being lit up from the setting sun behind him. “Are you serious about this, Shua?” you questioned with a small smile.
“Which flowers bloom first after winter? Daffodils?" he said and quirked an eyebrow in question as to how you liked it as your new name. He was definitely serious, you realized. Daffodils are pretty, but their other name is narcissus… You looked at him with an offended look, “Are you calling me narcissistic?” you said as you gasped jokingly.
Joshua gave you a dashing smile in return, making you instantly forgive him. “Okay, not that one…What about tulip?” You thought about it for a while, not bad, but it just didn’t feel right. Maybe they were simply too common, you thought.
“Better, but there must be an even better one.” you decided.
“Oh, I know! What do you think about dandelions? They’re pretty, but everyone doesn’t see just how pretty they are. Me, however, I see it and it is blinding.” Joshua said, looking down at you with an excessively smug face. You were going to protest. A common weed that grew stubbornly by the side of the road? Was that how he saw you? But before you could find the words your mind looped back to the book that lay heavily on your chest where you had stopped before.
“Dandelion! That reminds me of a really cute quote I read just a couple of chapters ago!! They were racing with their horses and she was looking at the queen being all happy and carefree,” you rambled on, excited to get an excuse to talk about the book on your chest. “Wait,” you said as you picked up the book and began searching for the words you had been reminded of.
“Okay, so here’s the quote: “Ead felt her own cares lifted from her shoulders. Like seeds from a dandelion clock.” Isn’t that so pretty?”
Joshua’s eyes were big now and his smile was one you had come to recognize as him thinking you were adorable. “What? Is it silly?” you asked, a little shyer than before. He had this eerie ability to make you feel so heard, so seen, and usually, it made you happy. Now you felt slightly embarrassed about having digressed from the conversation so suddenly.
“No. I like it, it’s a great quote,” he reassured you fondly. “Dandelion it is then! Your new nickname I mean.”
His smile shone brightly as he declared his final decision. “It’s bright just like you.”
That smile, like every other perfect smile Joshua had given you over the years, quickly imprinted itself on your eyelids. The sight of his smile was as common as daffodils, but beautiful nonetheless. During those times when he had been unable to smile at you like this had been the hardest months of your life.
You never wanted to go a single day without seeing that very shining expression on his face ever again.
Joshua had turned his gaze toward the field of flowers, expecting you to go back to your book. When you instead began talking his head snapped back down to you, his pretty doe-eyes made your heart flutter just like they had done so many times before. “I wanna come back here later and make a wish on a dandelion clock. I wanna feel all my worries lift from my shoulders just like the seeds the girl in my book talked about. Could we come back once all of these have finished blooming?”
“Mm, of course. Could I ask you something though?”
You nodded. “What are you planning on wishing away?” he asked, even though something in his tone was telling you that he was a bit afraid of the answer.
“Well, you know, it’s a bit silly to say it out loud like this… but I wanna make a wish that we can stay like this forever.” When recognition lit up in Joshua’s eyes you averted your gaze, instead opting to reach a hand out to play with strands of grass beside the baby blue blanket covering the ground below.
“Do you still have doubts that we’re gonna last?”
You heard the genuine concern lacing his voice as he found the courage to ask. You nodded slightly. “I mean, I know that you do love me. You’ve told me so many times. Some days it’s just harder to believe in what I know. I thought you loved me back then too, and still, we couldn’t do anything but fight.”
Joshua stayed silent for a moment. The buzz of the field and the birds in the distance filled up the silence. It wasn’t as awkward to talk about it anymore, you felt it in the way neither of you was getting angry. There wasn’t any frustration or tension surrounding that period of fighting and the weeks when you had broken up anymore.
The relief was immense. You felt it in your bones. Maybe you were strong enough to weather any storm that may lay ahead if you had managed to heal and grow even past that horrible time in your relationship. At least you hoped so.
“Yeah,” he sighed, leaning back onto his hands in the grass. “I get what you mean.”
“I’m really happy now though, I hope you know that. I really wouldn’t change anything in the past if it meant I would lose what we have now.”
Joshua’s face lit up into half a smile yet again. “Me neither.” With a soft kiss on your forehead, he lifted your head off of his lap, making you pout in confusion when he got up from your little blanket. “Wait here, I’m just gonna go get something, I’ll be right back!”
“Okay, but where…” you began but changed your mind as you saw him begin to wander across the entire field, apparently searching for something among the high grass and wildflowers. You chuckled and went back to finishing the chapter you had left off at as you waited for Joshua to come back.
It didn’t take long for Joshua to come running back to your blanket with his hands full of small yellow flowers with petals that sprawled out like a tiny explosion from their stems. You looked up at him as he dropped the flowers in a neat pile on the edge of the square of fabric splayed out on the ground before he sat down next to you, slightly turned away from you so as to not have his project within full view of your watching gaze.
That didn’t stop you from curiously peeking over his shoulder to sneak a peek at his crafting. You weren’t sure what he was doing, even as you recalled childhood memories of doing the exact same thing as he was currently doing with the flowers he had picked.
His fingers were surprisingly nimble for their size as he wrapped the stalks of each flower around the next one, forming a long string of flowers tied together. It was pretty, but your imagination ran wild trying to figure out what he was intending to make. A necklace? A rope? Why would he need a rope of flowers?
As you wondered, Joshua looked back to see your confounded face as he began turning around, his hands very obviously hiding something behind his back. You were pulled back to reality when you heard him chuckle at your zoned-out expression.
“Oh, you’re done?” you asked excitedly, putting down the book to pay all your attention to whatever Joshua had ended up creating.
That mischievous look was back, his eyes shining in the light of the setting sun that was sinking down below the treetops. “Ready?”
“Show me!” you exclaimed with curiosity. You gasped when he brought his hands out from behind him, showing you what he had ended up making. In his hands was a round wreath, dotted with the bright yellow dandelions you had seen him bring with him.
“That’s so pretty Shua.”
“You like it?” he asked, seemingly a bit nervous to hear if you truly liked his gift. You nodded and he softly placed the flower wreath atop your head.
“Thank you, I love it,” you laughed, adjusting the flowers so they wouldn’t fall from your head. “What’s it for though?”
“Well… it just means ‘I love you’, nothing more, nothing less, really.”
You pouted, he made you a wreath to assure you that he loves you? It was a strange way to tell you, but it definitely worked.
“I just want you to know that you don’t have to wait until you can make a wish on the dandelion clocks to know that I will love you forever.”
“You’re gonna make me cry if you talk like that,” you said, fanning your eyes in an effort to stop the tears.
“I have one more thing, so don’t cry just yet!” he hurried to say, making you laugh and pushing the tears away momentarily.
From behind him, he brought out something small, it fit in the palm of his hand with ease. A single dandelion was wrapped around itself and created a ring of its stalk. Your hand flew up toward your face to cover the scream that tried to escape at the thought of what this ring-shaped flower might mean.
“I know it’s not perfect, but… my dandelion, will you be mine forever?” Joshua was smiling again, encouraged by the way you were almost jumping up at the sight of his creation.
Tears were pricking your eyes again, and you nodded. “Yes, of course, I will!” you exclaimed, your voice barely holding up as you shrieked and threw yourself into Joshua’s arms. His body wrapped around yours as he held you close, accepting all the kisses you gave him as the tears of joy flowed from your eyes.
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note: i havent fully read all the smaus so idk how angsty or fluffy they are
GENRES || fluff, sort of childhood friends to lovers, college au
SUMMARY || when you entered college, the last thing you expected was to see your childhood friend lee seokmin in a sea of unknown faces. but just as you had expected, he didn't even remember you in the slightest. you didn't blame him; he had moved away in first grade and how many people remembered their best friend from kindergarten? but that didn't stop you from falling for his cute smile and sweet personality, so now you were stuck in love with a boy who barely knew your existence.
or, in which, if you were a sunflower then seokmin was your sunshine.
WARNINGS || mentioned in the chapters!
A/N || here i am as promised; after my 12th but with a svt smau instead. pls do tell me what you think about it!
START DATE || 23.05.2023
END DATE || -
TAGLIST || @alyssng @dr3aluv5 @mirxzii @sinsgaybutthatsokay @youre-on-your-ownkid @deeekay @lightprincess-world @jaeskz @musingsofananxiouspotato @kayleeshinee @dkluvrsclub @canberrachloe @sheraayasher @camerastereopaper @sunshinekyeom-sang @urdads @multiplums @haneulparadx @wonuulvr @kissesfrmwonwoo @embrace-themagic @sp1ng @dinonuguaegi @wondering-out-loud @minhui896 @hannahhbahng @vivibelov3d @kawennote09 @insert-a-creative-url-right-here @delicatewinterenthusiast @scarfac3 @winterbeartaehyungbestboy [if you want to be added to the taglist, send me an ask!]
CHAPTERS ||
one. profile 1 !!! we need to meditate club
two. profile 2 !!! drama cult
three. 01 !!! the dating situation
four. 02 !!! secret cupid
five. 03 !!! feels familiar?
six. 04 !!! it's a date! (exaggerated)
seven. 05 !!! wrong move
eight. 06 !!! bs (+95z) to the rescue
nine. 07 !!! still not close
ten. 08 !!! the party 2.0
eleven. 09 !!! alexa play 'perfect' by one direction
twelve. (bonus) profile 3 !!! the new campus crush
[Tales from the Pack] Seungcheol: Stubborn Mini Masterlist
Tales from the Pack Masterlist
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You’ve heard the stories your relatives told you about werewolves when you were younger, but you always thought it was just a scare tactic to make kids behave. Well, up until you woke up in a den full of werewolves.
I know some people say in comments say that all Yuri has done is hurt everyone around her and even make things worse but I don’t think that way.
She is not in an easy situation her plan was not to show up in everyone’s lives but to protect her child. She has endured so much pain in the last 5 years and all she wanted was to protect her daughter. Realizing that her daughter loves someone else as a mom and Yuri only wanting the beat for her daughter was so heartbreaking but touching at the same time.
I can say with my whole heart, that I'm not prepared for Yuri to die even though I guessed she would from the start. Everyone's life has improved with her re-emergence whether she believes it or not. Her family is a family again, MinJeong finally stood up against those mean moms from the daycare with support from her friends ( which she never had before), ganghwa starting taking therapy seriously. Everyone is healing and it's gonna be ripped away if she goes again. WHY IS TVN DOING THIS TO US?!?
i’m starting to doubt if she will die…maybe it’s the denial
but they cannot do that?? this is gonna help NO ONE, they’re not moving on, she didn’t help anybody move on from her death, it’s just gonna be even more painful if she leaves again. i cannot watch everyone go through that again, and i understand that she wants to protect seo woo but also isn’t that kind of selfish? like think about ganghwa and your family yuri, this is not about just breaking ganghwa and min jeong up, it’s about your entire family having to mourn your death again and for what? this is not right. also i love min jeong to death and she deserves to be happy but maybe she deserves to be happy with someone else who can actually provide that for her. and that is not ganghwa
