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185. EXO Lay - Lyrically Inlove

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Summary: Yixing had employed you to help him with his English diction with his upcoming album. What you hadn't expected was the lyrics you were working on would draw you into a giddy world of imagining Yixing loving you.

Characters: Zhang Yixing x reader

Genre: mostly fluff, and some incredibly minor suggestive stuff at the end

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"Hey, are you ready for another session today?" you asked, knocking lightly on the studio door you had just opened. The man sitting alone at the desk turned to see your arrival, smiling brightly at you.

"Of course, I've been waiting for you to arrive!" he replied genuinely and you bit at your bottom lip to dampen down your elation, crossing the space until you were positioned in the chair next to him.

You had been working with Zhang Yixing for three weeks now, helping him translate his songs into English for his upcoming double album release. Although he knew sufficient amounts of English to speak the language, he lacked a deep knowledge of emotive words and you had been employed to help him produce the English versions of his songs on his NAMANANA album.

At first, you had assumed this would be a translation job. Take the original lyrics and put them into the most logical sentence structure. But Yixing hadn't wanted that. He desired to know what he was singing, to understand why the words were in the order they were and put each song together with the same energy he had with the Chinese versions. He didn't ask you to write his songs, he wanted you to assist him in writing them. It was pretty admirable, and you had quickly found your teamwork was effortless.

Yixing asked a lot of questions. He wanted to ensure his thoughts were expressed fully in each song, and that he knew exactly what you meant. And you helped him with completing his vision, tweaking the lyrics with him until they were perfect. It was into the recording booth from there, your native English pronunciation being mirrored through his attempts. Each song had a demo track completed before you moved onto the next one.

It was an exciting environment, but it also came with some complications.

Working in the music industry for as long as you had, you knew lyrics could hold vast meanings and normally you didn't blink at the racier ones. You knew romantically brazen lyrics were popular in worldwide music trends currently, and Yixing was aiming to do something similar with NAMANANA. His feel-good music was great, and the lyrics were even better. He planned to make all his fans fall further in love with him with these songs.

The problem was as you invested your energy into expressing the emotions he wanted in his lyrics, and he himself spoke of them in great detail, you began to believe them. The lyrics set up this idyllic world where Yixing was seducing you with his magical words, falling in love with you, confessing how he felt and then spending forever with you. Every song backed into the next, not one was really full of any angst. They were love songs listing what he wanted to do with you, and you were stupidly struggling to not drown within the lyrics.

It didn't help that his personality was gentle and comforting. You didn't feel the awe of working with someone incredibly famous, he had gone to the effort of making you belong in this studio just as much as he did. There was no difference between you, both creating music with the lyrics you worked on together.

It was crazy to think that three weeks had been enough for you to feel something toward Yixing that you knew was going to affect the way this album was being produced.

"So today, let's look at Flavour, okay?" he suggested, pulling open a tattered book that literally held all his thoughts and secrets. You had become privy to the contents of the pages, smiling at some of his endearing thoughts he had jotted down in between sessions. Today was no different, your index finger pointing to his thoughts about how to express a Chinese saying into English with confidence. You helped him with it before he turned to the lyrics for Flavour, your mood jovial until you cast your eyes over the lyrics.