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Beneath the Cherry Sky

The first time Ren saw Aoi, he was crouched beside the old vending machine outside the corner bookstore, sketching something into a tattered notebook. His blue hair shimmered faintly in the spring sun, like the sea had gifted him a crown. Ren almost walked past him. But the breeze carried a whisper of graphite on paper, the soft rustle of pages turning, and something made him stop. “You’re drawing?” Ren asked, unsure why he even said it. Aoi looked up, blinking once like he was waking from a dream. His eyes were a startling grey, like rain on glass. “…Yeah,” he said quietly. “You’re blocking my light.” Ren awkwardly stepped aside. “Sorry.” For a moment, they stared at each other. Then Aoi returned to his sketch, and Ren left, but something about that moment stayed with him — like a bookmark placed in a chapter he hadn't meant to read. Ren had moved to the seaside town of Hoshinawa after his mother passed away. He lived with his aunt above a quaint little flower shop, spent afternoons helping arrange lilies and writing poems he never let anyone read. The town was quiet, and Ren liked it that way — until he started seeing Aoi everywhere. At the bookstore. Near the cliffs. At the library where he sat in silence, scribbling in his notebook, always alone. They spoke rarely, but when they did, Aoi’s words were careful, like he measured every sentence before letting it out. He didn’t smile much — but when he did, it was faint, fragile, like a star peeking through a cloudy sky. One day, Ren found a sketch slipped into his poetry book at the library. It was a pencil drawing of the cherry tree that bloomed outside his flower shop — and beneath it, a figure that looked suspiciously like him. The next time he saw Aoi, he waited until they were both at the vending machine again. “You left this?” Ren asked, holding up the drawing. Aoi flushed, eyes darting. “Maybe.” Ren smiled. “I write poems about that tree.” “I know,” Aoi murmured. “I’ve read them. You leave the scraps behind.” A silence stretched between them — but it wasn’t uncomfortable. It felt… intimate. “I think,” Aoi said slowly, “your poems make me feel less alone.” Ren’s chest ached, soft and sudden. “I think your sketches do the same,” he whispered. And that was how it started. Over the weeks, they met more often. Exchanged words, drawings, half-written poems. They didn't need grand declarations. Their closeness grew in the quiet spaces — the brush of hands as they reached for the same book, the shared silence watching the sea, the way their shadows leaned into each other as the sun set. One day, under the blooming cherry tree, Ren turned to Aoi and said, “You make me want to write again.” Aoi looked at him, eyes gentler than ever. “Then write me something I can keep.” Ren leaned in, nervous but certain, and kissed him — soft, slow, like poetry in motion. And in that moment, the world wasn’t loud or broken. It was just them — beneath the cherry sky, finding something beautiful in each other.
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Burning Beneath His Touch

MATURE CONTENT WARNING!!: These people be getting freaky in the sheets! "You think I haven’t noticed your eyes on me?" Kai En's voice was dangerously low, his lips curled into a cruel smile. "The way they linger— you can’t decide whether to kill me or kiss me. Am I right, little alpha?" ... For as long as Jun could remember, vengeance had been his only purpose. The last survivor of a disgraced family, he vowed to tear down the empire that destroyed his life, starting with its most prized jewel—Prince Feng Kai En.  Now, under the guise of Xiao Liu, a lowly servant in the prince’s retinue, he plans his revenge. But nothing could have prepared him for what awaited within the palace walls. Neither Xiao Liu’s sharp blades nor detailed plans were good enough to fall the man behind the title. Every failed assassination attempt and heated exchange left him more entangled with the man he was meant to destroy. Kai En—ruthless, untouchable, and powerful. An alpha in the eyes of all. Xiao Liu uncovered the prince’s greatest secret—beneath the façade lay something far more dangerous and vulnerable. Something Xiao Liu intended to exploit. Duty had always been Kai En’s burden. Yet Xiao Liu’s presence stirred emotions long buried—desires with no place in his world. Every attempt on his life only deepened the prince’s fascination, pulling him into the chaos Xiao Liu brought. As war looms and enemies close in, their dangerous dance intensifies. Desire grows where hate once ruled, pulling them into a storm of violence, lust, and something deeper. “You’ll never belong to anyone else,” Xiao Liu snarled, his lips finding Kai En’s neck again, biting down hard. “Not her. Not anyone. You belong to me.” Xiao Liu knows Kai En is the key to his revenge, but the more their lives tangle, the harder it becomes to tell if it’s vengeance he craves… or the prince himself. And Kai En must face the ultimate test that could break his kingdom and heart. Can Xiao Liu destroy the man he’s come to obsess over, or will he fall first?
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