Dying_by_a_Microscope

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  1. Public Bookmark 21

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    “Huh, this bastard’s face really is wasted on him.”

    Joonghyuk's head is tilted left and right, really not great for his consciousness which has begun to slip further and further away. Kim Dokja is still musing low and thoughtless like a drone of rain in the background: “Jeez. If he wasn’t such an asshole, even I’d fall for him.”

    [Target [Kim Dokja]'s affection towards User [Yoo Joonghyuk] is currently 82. Keep up the good work, User!]

    Joonghyuk’s consciousness is shrinking fast but even then he has the awareness to question why exactly the affection stat is so stupidly high when Kim Dokja drops his face unceremoniously back onto the ground and leaves. Yoo Joonghyuk passes out and misses the entirety of the Absolute Throne’s demolition and Kim Dokja’s troublesome antics.

    Yoo Joonghyuk’s guide on navigating otome game affection systems when the target is the annoying conman who wants to be your companion, and also dodging constellations who now think you're a homosexual. (You are not a homosexual.)

    Or: Yoo Joonghyuk gets an otome affection system that shows him Kim Dokja’s affection stat. It's bizarrely high.

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    21 Feb 2026

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    A seemingly innocent question from a not-so-innocent constellation tips them off that Kim Dokja is hiding something from them. Kim Dokja tries to deny it, but a spontaneous Bounty Scenario prompted by several constellations tells them everything they need to know.

    “A thousand coins each for being nice to Kim Dokja?” Han Sooyoung said, folding her arms across her chest. “Easiest money we could ever make, don’t you think?”
    Jung Heewon cocks a sceptical brow. Out of all of them, Han Sooyoung would likely face the most difficulty in completing this scenario. Second only to Yoo Joonghyuk, should he choose to participate. So Jung Heewon has no idea where the woman is getting this unfound confidence from. But it sure promised to be entertaining.

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    Kim Dokja is trying to hide the fact that his birthday is coming up. KimCom is trying to hide the fact that they know. Somehow, it works out.

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    20 Feb 2026

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    OH MY GAWWDDDDD. Ts fic cleared my skin, watered my crops, made the sun shine it’s SO GOOD. holy shit dude. I love the characterization and the prose and the dialogue and the scenarios. ITS SO CANNON TYPICAL AND THE DIALOGUE IS SO NATURAL I WAS LAUGHING MY ASS OFFFFFF. The bad poetry—the kids fighting—ysa stealing the ring—they were SO INTO CHEATING SCANDAL ARC. AUGHHHHHHHHHH ITS SO GOOD

  3. Public Bookmark 56

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    His fingers clutched the edges, pressing down as if holding onto it might keep him grounded. But the words? They weren’t words anymore. They were just shapes, just smears of ink on paper, dancing out of reach no matter how much he tried to focus. His eyes moved over them, but it didn’t matter—he couldn’t catch them. Couldn’t hold them. His mind kept drifting, too far away. Too far from the pages, too far from himself, too far from the quiet, pulsing thing that was sitting right next to him.

    Yoo Joonghyuk.

    He was there, too close. It was almost like he didn’t have to try to be near—his presence simply took up space, filled the room in a way that made everything feel tighter, more immediate.

     

    Or: Yoo Joonghyuk, in love, steals a few kisses, leading to (a touch-starved) Kim Dokja feeling extremely flustered.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    Awe

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    Kim Dokja wants it on the record that he absolutely loathes those cringey royalty isekai stories and even more so the cliché archetype of cold and murderous but devastatingly handsome black-haired dukes with a troubled past.

    He really should learn by now that the universe has a hobby to throw him into the lion’s den and make him swallow his own words.

    After all, he and the God up there do not share the same taste of humor.

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    19 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 60

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    “I want you–” Yoo Joonghyuk bites. “ –r’e number. I want your number.”

    Kim Dokja blinks like a deer in headlights.

    The idiot looked silly like that, dressed in the ice cream stalls squid mascot hat and ogling. But he also looked so beautiful — Yoo Joonghyuk didn’t understand how all these people on the pier could walk past like Kim Dokja was invisible. He glowed like sunlight on water.

    “My…number.” Kim Dokja repeats slowly.

    Solemnly, Yoo Joonghyuk nods.

    Kim Dokja blinks furiously. He squeezes out, “...Why??”

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    Yoo Joonghyuk is absolutely terrible at flirting, but it's ok because Kim Dokja's terrible at this whole thing too

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    19 Feb 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    LMAO cuties