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Hao’s life is a script written by others. As the son of a pastor, he’s been taught to walk the straight and narrow, but the arrival of a new neighbor threatens to upend everything. Hanbin, with his leather jacket, motorcycle, and rebellious defiance, is everything Hao has been told to avoid.
“Why do you keep holding back, Hao? Don’t you ever wonder what it’s like to just live?”
Will he risk it all to rewrite his story, or will he stay trapped in the confines of expectation? After all, salvation doesn’t always come in the form of angels—sometimes, it rides a motorcycle.
“You keep saying salvation will come, but maybe it’s already here. Maybe salvation is your gospel on my lips.”
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04 Feb 2026
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The first thing Hanbin notices is that Zhang Hao looks just as luminescent under the waning dusk light as he does under the moon. Perhaps it’s just an innate quality of his, perhaps it isn’t the moon at all, but a sort of lunar countenance that he inherently possesses.
And it keeps Hanbin in fervent rapture now, unable to look away even when he knows he should. He hasn’t been able to look away for years.
Or, despite perilous dangers and dark secrets, Zhang Hao and Hanbin realize even among shadows it happens: the coming of love.
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31 Jan 2026
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my absolute FAAVOURITE fic of all time. nothing even comes close. on my third reread and i’ll probably be back here again ❤︎