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once upon a time, a block of marble came to life.
- i need you and your espresso
jeno is a regular at the coffee shop where renjun works as a barista. one day, jeno stops showing up and renjun finds himself wondering. but when jeno comes back after a long period of absence looking like a wreck, he orders something else from renjun instead.
it was breathtaking, staring at the boy just a few meters away from his reach.
all renjun wanted was a peaceful summer with his friends. no one told him that he'll be stumbling into the animal shelter and meeting the university's infamous lee jeno.
basketball captain jeno and his alien-zombie-believing boyfriend.
in which renjun spends his free time (poorly) avoiding local gangs, and jeno happens to be the leader of one.
- the to-do list after the break up
ten things to do after you’ve suffered a heart break.
google search: how do you politely ask if someone is a vampire?
just a werewolf having his soft hours and decided to list 3 things he loves to do with his human boyfriend.
money is great. money allows him to pay his bills and not depend on his parents so much, he always had preferred to be selfless. but like most things, it came with its downsides. and by that renjun meant the annoyingly amount of bulky sweaty males that decided he would enjoy their crude flirting.
renjun encounters a number of gods in his lifetime.
jeno’s heart skips, flips, trips.
google search: how do you politely ask if someone is a vampire?
- in focus i can see it now
jeno falls in love with renjun on a wednesday at the cafe and continues to love him, everyday, everywhere else.
they say first loves never last, but here's how we're going to do it anyway!
(a series of really good fics !)
- a home for the heart and for the cats
renjun works in the local cat shelter and jeno might be just a little bit in love.
jeno is a child star turned sm idol. renjun is his manager
renjun juggles a secret admirer, his best friend's life crisis, and lee jeno.
- everything i do i do it for you
renjun drags a reluctant jeno to a moomin cafe.
jeno’s always been too much: too kind, too handsome, too good a kisser, and renjun’s always been overwhelmed. opposites attract, but this is a combination for the stars. gravity will tear them to shreds.
Renjun bathes in Jeno's stardust, basks in his glow, breaks under his golden eyes and sparkling arms.
when jeno wishes to be happy on christmas day, he doesn't expect that an elf who's hanging for dear life on his window sill will be the answer.
Two in love can make it, take my heart and please don't break it;
- sober i bet you didn’t know
“Huang,” one of his seniors says. Renjun can barely tell who it is through the haze of alcohol. ”Your boyfriend is here.”
"What?"
Renjun manages to drag his eyes to stare at the figure in front of the table. Tall, dark hair, pale skin, and nose bridge far too distinguishable to be mistaken for anyone else.
Oh god.
Being the legendary Blue Beetle has it's perks. Being the emotionally stunted Lee Jeno does not.
jeno's dream is to be a doctor. his first day as an intern, he meets dr. seo, the surprisingly joyful surgical oncologist, and a cute boy with bad lungs and morbid jokes who somehow manages to make jeno's heart skip a beat.
"Did you catch his name? I didn't," Renjun says.
"Mark Lee," Donghyuck answers confidently.
Mark Lee. Well, this Mark Lee guy won't let Renjun concentrate with his adorable eye smile and his ridiculous bone structure. Perhaps he should just avoid him.
(He doesn't.)
It's Renjun's birthday! — Renjun / Jeno (College!AU)
Renjun doesn't think he's a good omega. Jeno changes his mind.
“Perks and Cons to dating a vampire.” — A book written by Huang Renjun about his immortal boyfriend.
Always the same, like it always has been I will call and make a promise first
-Best Friend, NCT DREAM
Jeno thinks it’s very convenient that his apartment has an amazing(ly cheap) heating system. Not because winters have been getting colder lately, but because the one in his neighbor’s apartment is utterly shitty, and really, he’s just worried the guy will get frostbite.
Jeno's stuck working overtime, and the only thing keeping him going is the hourly "I love you" texts from his drunk boyfriend - each one more incomprehensible than the last.
- give him love letters they don’t expire
someone has been leaving love letters in Jeno's locker, but no worries, detective Jeno is on the case!
- ❥ enchanted to meet you
The letter is addressed to Lee Jeno, tall, handsome, and is generally the perfect personification of Renjun’s ideal type but the more important detail about him is the fact that he’s a student from Durmstrang.
renjun doesn't get how jisung and chenle are so oblivious of one another's feelings.
Renjun thinks Jeno hates him, Jeno thinks Renjun hates him, and Jaemin thinks both of them are dumb.
Renjun moves into a new apartment for his pet dog and gets a new job to sustain his lifestyle. Along the way, he learns that cats and dogs can be friends, too.
Alternatively, this is the story of subtle flirting and mild sexual tension.
Just when Jeno thinks his boring life of committing himself to studying, hanging out with his three friends, and also binge watching dramas could get more boring, the universe proves him wrong by giving him the trainwreck that is Huang Renjun.
Jeno doesn’t mean to stare, but there’s something about the boy with the vibrant red hair that captures his attention.
One day, Jeno saw how someone dropped papers full of drawings of him. The author? The boy he has been crushing for months.
(Or where Renjun is a cold arts boy and Jeno is a shy basketball player.)
When he offered the small kid a lowly glow-in-the-dark Saturn sticker as an apology for bumping into him, Renjun didn't expect Jisung's adorable friendship as a 'thank you'.
(Also, he never meant to have flirtatious intentions with the father, really.)
In his defense, ever since their family moved, Renjun has met what feels like fifty Mr. Lees, he had two different professors last term with the surname Lee, he has two friends with the surname Lee and he doesn’t even have that many friends. Not that he would admit that. But all that being said, all the odds in his favor it’s just his luck that Chenle’s Mr. Lee is Jeno Lee. As in Jeno Lee of cardigans and glasses and thousand yard stares in the library, Jeno Lee. Jeno Lee of crinkly eyed smiles and gently chastising Renjun for bringing his coffee into the library, but never asking him to throw it out. Jeno Lee who sits across from Renjun while they study sometimes, but not really talking besides the occasional hushed comment.
Renjun is tired.
So. Impossibly. Tired.
But it's a little more bearable with someone by his side.
“Haven’t you learnt that it’s rude to stare?” (The only similarity between Renjun and Jeno is the fact that they are notorious, for very different reasons. But they find themselves catching feelings anyway.)
getting abducted by aliens really sucks, but jeno is determined to make the best of it.
Oh, Jeno doesn’t usually get into trouble, no. Still, there are always exceptions. This exception involves bookmarks, mochas, and a boy.
Jeno’s in love with basketball, and Renjun’s in love with Jeno. Their paths don’t cross, parallelism but on different planes.
That idiot who dances to 90's pop songs next door might or might not be The Most Wanted Vigilante of the city.
And Jeno has the hots for him.
Oh, no!
(Alternatively, Jeno is a Superhero and Renjun is Baby. No, literally, he is Baby.)
jeno works in an alternative record store and renjun definitely isn't the type of person who shops at alternative record stores. featuring dubious 80s fashion and not-so-dubious heartfelt mixtapes.
They always watch horror movies together, it’s their thing, their arrangement, ever since they pinky-promised to do so at twelve
it starts like most things do: with a boy brighter than the stars and another who lives by them.
it’s then that jeno decides if love is anything like this (interesting enough to make his days pass faster, strong enough to fill him with a new sense of purpose, bright enough to make the sun more dazzling and the stars more vibrant), then maybe love was worth it.
“Lee Jeno, Lee Jeno–looks like someone’s here for you!”
- colouring book oh maybe maybe
huang renjun is in the art club and gets assigned to run a face painting booth for his school festival with his lovely best friend, lee donghyuck. he gets introduced to a certain someone along the way and then everything else falls into place.
Jeno does not realize, as he lifts the little broken-legged fox from his back shed floor, that he's gotten far more than he's bargained for.
(In which Renjun is a fox. Not an actual fox, but like, a boy-fox. You know. A fox boy.)
It takes Jeno a little time and assistance to realize that a gentle demeanor and a sensitive heart doesn't equate to a lack of interesting character.
- take the food and my heart too
fake dating au: “i’m super popular and have a bunch of fangirls in school that line up to date me but i’m also a nice person and i don’t want to straight up tell them to back off so i tried to get you to be my pretend boyfriend but you refused until i bribed you with free food for three months and now we’re fake dating but i think i actually like you”
Renjun thinks his dorm room is haunted.
In which Renjun has forgotten what it means to be young, careless and courageous and has quietly locked himself in his room for the most part, trying to process the feelings of growing up. But while figuring out his life, his college courses and his career path, he rediscoveres other things, like the value of a good friendship, the excitement of love and the taste of sweets over a nice cup of tea.
or
Through their small, silly bookclub, Renjun meets Jeno, and together they practice being human, as uncomfortable and imperfect that is.
Jeno and Renjun are on vacation, and things get complicated. Jeno sort of walks out and he regrets it.
Jeno is executing the most dignified desperate escape possible when Renjun calls out to him, voice pitched up at the end with uncertainty. “See you next week?” Or: Jeno falls in love in the middle of a presentation on space rocks. It snowballs from there.
“And then another email from imasamoyed@nctu.com titled -,” Donghyuck ruffles dramatically through the printouts he’s holding, which is both unimpressive and completely uncalled for, since Renjun is well aware it’s the one at the top of the pile, “ ‘How to tell my crush who is also a radio host to stop being so cute while he’s on-air’. He even added a smiley face”. He sounds kind of impressed.
Renjun lets out a surprised snort, because there have been a lot of weird subject lines coming from this one specific email in the past few months, but it seems like the sender might’ve hit a new low.
Donghyuck sighs. “This is the third one in two weeks. Maybe we should tell Jeno we know it’s him. It’s honestly getting kind of embarrassing”.
Another week in detention for another failed prank, Jeno starts to question if he needs new friends. One look at the new boy in detention and Jeno decides they're meant to be.
It’s a classic love story. Boy (in wolf form) meets girl (not a girl, but a man, and a very beautiful one at that). Boy (in human form, this time) roleplays as a hypochondriac until girl (again, not a girl) takes pity on him and agrees to date him.
Boy (not quite a wolf, not quite a human) and girl (still not a girl) spend the night together.
Jeno is sure everyone's heard this one a million times before. Tale as old as time.
Renjun isn't really sure what exactly he is waiting for. Why is he still standing there instead of leaving? Perhaps he's hoping for a more polite expression of gratitude, something which—he figures out not that much later—Jeno simply cannot give.
Because when Jeno turns back and sees Renjun peeking inside, the former immediately rushes back to slam the door shut.
"Have a good night!" Jeno says through the door.
"Asshole," Renjun says through gritted teeth.
Renjun declares to himself right then and there that he hates popular boys like Lee Jeno.
Jeno, a certified 'gym rat', if you will, attends his boyfriend, Renjun's, yoga class. All is well until it's not and Jeno has murder on his mind.
Cat-collector Jeno finds a kitten that's only as big as one and a half handfuls abandoned in a mandarin box. Jeno invites one hundred and a half handfuls of trouble into his apartment.
Renjun has always wanted a dog. He ends up with a 23-year-old fuckbuddy who's allergic to his cat in the form of Jeno Lee, and decides that's close enough.
The thing is, Jeno is cute. But this doesn’t change the fact that he's probably (definitely) a werewolf - and Renjun isn’t just going to let that slide.
One of Jeno’s hands falls to Renjun’s cheek. Absent-mindedly, he strokes over the flushed skin. His hands are big against Renjun’s face. Renjun leans into the touch, ever so slightly.
“I see you,” Jeno murmurs, voice thick.
(When Jeno is asked what he would say to his trainee self, a single name rises from his heart up to his tongue.)
INSOMNIA and 3PIPHANY are working on a collaboration for a year-end festival. Maybe that wouldn’t be a problem if their comeback dates weren’t clashing all the time, they weren’t always attending the same festivals, or, worse, if the public hadn’t decided that they are rivals.
(or, Jeno and Renjun are part of the two most popular K-pop boygroups of the generation, and Renjun thinks Jeno hates him just because they’re rivals.)
When Renjun grabs the sealed envelope, he inspects it in hopes of finding a hint that could reveal the identity of its sender. He keeps receiving anonymous letters full of encouraging messages. It's silly, but they help him go through his week and pretend that he's not currently in a slump, stuck under piles of workload—well, the kind Math teacher who always smiles at him also plays a big part on why Renjun is slowly feeling more enthusiastic about work again.
The only strange part about this is that his students behave weirdly whenever he receives another letter.
Renjun juggles a secret admirer, his best friend's life crisis, and Lee Jeno. — Renjun / Jeno (Highschool!AU)
Renjun’s heart was a mirror image of his home: small, closed, and secured away from strangers. And he didn’t think anyone could ever change any of that — until Jeno came along.
A lucky accident helps late-bloomer Jeno find out exactly what he's been missing. Or, Renjun inadvertently gets put through endurance training after taking Jeno's virginity.
Renjun’s issue is that he keeps falling asleep while drunk.
Jeno’s issue is that Renjun keeps falling asleep while drunk in his immediate vicinity. And that he often does so in Jeno’s bed. And that Renjun is really, really, pretty.
(Five times Renjun falls asleep, and the one time Jeno does first.)
Renjun thinks Jeno is like music: beautiful, unattainable, untouchable.
Or: Jeno works at a record shop, and it takes a little push to get Renjun to stop staring at him through the window and finally speak.
Everyone is going home for the holiday. Mark already flew back to Canada last night. Chenle also left for Shanghai this morning. Renjun has been brooding in his room all alone after his roommate left, wishing he can afford an airplane ticket to go home and see his family.
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It's true that Jeno feels bad when he hears Renjun is staying back all by himself in the dorm. He asked everyone in advance to have the last dinner before they leave to cheer Renjun up.
"How to confess to your best friend?"
Jeno couldn't even begin to fathom that there would come a time when he would seek for Google's help to finally confess his feelings towards his best friend.
Apparently, pining for your best friend for seven long years wasn't fun. Just who would have thought?
--
five times jeno tried to confess his feelings and one time renjun did it himself.
“Oh my God,” Renjun breathes, turning wide eyes on Yangyang. “They’re avoiding me because they're not human!”
“You really are this dense,” Yangyang sounds half pained, half impressed. “I thought they were exaggerating.”
Or: NCT DREAM's scheme to push Jeno and Renjun together backfires. Kind of.
Renjun knows that men have their needs. He is not unique to that clause either. He's had to share a room for years, he's had his 45 minute showers, he's gone through puberty with the rest of NCT Dream in tow, and so, he knows that everyone needs some quality alone, and how to keep quiet and leave them be at their request.
But what was that?
- i'll be your home please dive into me
In which Renjun hates swimming with a passion, Jeno loves teaching children how to swim, and fate in the form of a child makes their paths cross.
- jeno's top 10 couple costumes for singles
Jeno absolutely, completely, does not believe in soulmates.
The kid scoffing at the back of the class during the read through of Romeo and Juliet in AP literature? Yep. That was Jeno. And the one fake-gagging during a promposal blocking his way to geography? Yep. Also Jeno.
So how on earth has he accidentally done couple costumes with that one boy three years in a row?
- ❥ hard times gonna make you fall in love
"It's university!" Donghyuck exclaimed. "It's like the perfect time for romance."
"It's also a perfect time to have a breakdown." Renjun deadpanned. "It's not happening, Donghyuck. Just because the dramas made it look cute, that doesn't mean I'm about to fall in love in university anytime soon."
(Renjun was having a hard time. With his extracurriculars being ever so extra, his scholarship on the line and his studies keeping him occupied, there was no way he could fall in love.
But, a speed dating activity might just changed his opinion on that.)
It goes without saying that they have to set a few baseline rules.
No outright asking if Jeno is a dog or a human, or anything of the sort. (For fairness.) No more than one question per person per day. (To avoid suspicion.) No speaking about the bet when Renjun’s around, and no texting about it, either. (For plausible deniability.) No invading Renjun’s privacy—any information should be voluntarily and knowingly given. (Jaemin vehemently tries to protest this one, and is overruled.) Or: The residents at the Neo Tech Medical Center play a game of dog or husband. It goes about as well as one would expect.
mar 22 2024 +