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• Finding Geng (Finding China) ♡ by canttakeabreath

Summary: Non au. Hangeng joins Super Junior and struggles with the language barrier as it slowly takes his identity as a casuality. Hint of Hanchul.

Comment: Just brilliant. Very simple premise but completely interesting execution. Canttakeabreath has never missed.

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• encore une fois, my face remains ♡♡ by predictator

Summary: Model au. Eunhyuk loses himself to the life of being a runway model in a never-ending downward spiral, at the risking of losing the one who he did all of it for.

Comment: Literally above and beyond any words I'm capable of offering. I was kept up at night, I gasped out loud, cried, paused in horror, and was genuinely filled with dread as I went from one chapter to the next. I can't say enough praises for how creative and engrossing this story was. This is just... so unlike any other fanfiction I've read. It left such a huge impression on me I still think about it despite how dark it is. As usual, changdictator offers a creative deconstruction on a different perspective of life.

• Love Like Chocolate ♡ by PandaOcean

Summary: Chef au. Eunhyuk, a prodigious patissier, and Donghae, a renowned chef with a frightening temper, who becomes his new boss. Their lives slowly become intertwined and the walls between them fall down one by one.

Comment: I waited years to read this and I was so excited for it, but it did not disappoint at all. Very fun and definintely a fanfic that deserves to be made into a tv show or kdrama. One of those stories where everything just comes together so perfectly in the end. While the main couple is not quite what I envisioned, the author made such an enthralling dynamic.

• Stops Along the Way by numbuh_009

Summary: Slice of life au. Donghae can't help but fall in love, every day, with the strangers he crosses paths with.

Comment: Put a smile on my face.