PondPhuwin Uni AU | Slow burn • Angst • Friends with benefits to Lovers One drunken neon night, one laundry room kiss, and everything changes. Best friends Pond and Phuwin swear it meant nothing. So they make rules. Just sex, no feelings, stay friends. They both know it's a lie. Glitter, heartbreak, 3 a.m. confessions, and seven steps across the hall that feel impossible. A messy, horny, aching story about the boys who tried to keep it casual and accidentally fell in love instead.

Five university friends buy an old book as a joke. They never expect it to choose them back. Through a mysterious antique book, the five friends are pulled into another world. It does not erase who they are, but it renames them, binds them to unfamiliar fates, and scatters them across a land that already seems to know them far too well. Their faces remain the same. Their memories stay intact. But their names and the world they belong to are no longer theirs. Separated upon arrival, each must survive in a realm filled with danger, power, and histories they do not remember living, yet others remember for them. Old grudges, unspoken expectations, and unfinished destinies close in as the five struggle to understand why this world called for them. The book that brought them there burns away, leaving no path back, only forward. Bound by friendship and fractured by fate, they must find each other again in a world that insists they were never strangers to begin with.

Pond Rattanakosin is not the kind of man people fear because he shouts. He is feared because he doesn't need to. Cold. Quiet. Surgical in his cruelty. A man who commands syndicates the way a conductor commands an orchestra- with a raised hand, a flicker of an eye, a silence heavy enough to suffocate a room. No one knows his past. No one knows his scars. No one knows why he wakes in the night with blood on his tongue and someone's name in his throat. He lives in a mansion built on ancient ruins, surrounded by shadows that seem to know him. Stained-glass windows watch him like old gods waiting for a mistake. Pond carries himself with the exhaustion of a man who has lived too many lifetimes and loved only once. And lost him every single time. Behind the empire, behind the precision, behind the violence- Pond is nothing more than a curse-bound soul seeking the boy he failed centuries ago. A boy who forgets him. A boy he remembers too much. And when Pond whispers Phuwin's name, it is not a prayer. It is a vow. "Even if time erases me from your memories... I will find you."

"I'm not a doll. If I were, you would've broken me already." In the neon-lit rot of St. Juniper, Pond Naravit is the king of the streets. He's a man who has never lost a race or a fight. Until he meets Phuwin Tangsakyuen. Phuwin is a prince of high society, a doll built of old money and cold silence. But behind the porcelain mask lies a man who can outrun the devil and someone who isn't afraid to look a monster in the eye. Now, someone wants the Tangsakyuen Patriarch dead, and Pond has the contract. He was only hired to kill the leader of their family. Now, he's obsessed with their future heir. (Vibe: When Phuwin's characters from Dalah: death and flowers meets Pond's character from High & Low) Note: Since English isn't my first language, feel free to correct me if I make any mistakes <3

At Aureline University, people like them don't usually belong. Not in buildings named after billionaires. Not at invitation-only parties hidden above the city. Not in hallways filled with students who wear power like perfume. But this year is different. A new batch of transfer students arrives on campus under circumstances nobody fully understands, and suddenly Aureline feels smaller than it used to. Friend groups shift. Rumors spread faster. People start paying attention to the wrong things. Especially the wrong people. Diesel. Style. Atom. Warich. Boys everyone knows about long before meeting them. And somehow, despite every warning, Day, Fadel, Tinn, and Tan keep ending up in their orbit. Maybe it's coincidence. Maybe it's curiosity. Maybe some disasters are impossible to avoid. Because somewhere between late-night conversations, reckless decisions, crowded dorm rooms, and the kind of secrets nobody says out loud, things begin changing too quickly for anyone to stop them. At Aureline, appearances matter. Reputations matter more. And love? Love is the easiest thing to lie about. Afterall, love is easy. It's trust that ruins people.

Phuwin is a witch and Pond is a witch hunter.

Before college, Phuwin confesses in a letter and hides it in Pond's bag. Pond never finds it. Years later, after drifting apart, Pond cleans his old backpack and finally opens the letter. But Phuwin's married now, and the timing's gone. "You told me everything too late. Or maybe I found it too late. Either way, we missed it."

Phuwin is an introvert Chef and Pond is a famous food critic. How will they navigate their story? Read to find out.

What happens when Pond's best friend, Tian, mysteriously dies? When Pond's best friend Tian dies under mysterious circumstances, the truth is buried as quickly as his body. Found lifeless on the campus of an elite school, Tian's death is ruled an accident - a reckless mix of drugs and a fatal fall. But Pond knows better. Tian would never live that way and someone is lying. Driven by grief and suspicion, Pond transfers to Kingsmere Academy, a prestigious school where wealth buys silence and power rewrites the truth. Behind its perfect halls hide secrets far darker than he ever imagined. There, he meets Phuwin - the spoiled, reckless son of a powerful politician. A boy who lives for parties, breaks rules without consequence, and seems completely untouchable. Everything about him screams trouble. Pond despises him. Until he realizes Phuwin may be the only person who knows what really happened the night Tian died. Forced into each other's worlds, anger slowly turns into attraction, and attraction into something dangerous. The closer Pond gets to the truth, the deeper he falls for the one person he shouldn't trust. In a school where lies protect the rich and secrets can kill, Pond must choose: follow his heart... or expose a truth powerful people will do anything to keep buried. Because Tian's death wasn't an accident. And someone at Kingsmere knows exactly why.

At university, Pond Naravit, an engineering student driven by logic and precision, and Phuwin Tang, a fine arts major ruled by emotion and creativity, become infamous rivals after clashing during a basketball tournament. What begins as an ideological conflict turns personal, leaving them to graduate with unresolved resentment and words left unsaid. Years later, fate forces them to reunite as professionals on the same project-Pond as the lead engineer, Phuwin as the creative consultant. Time has changed them, but the tension remains, slowly unraveling into understanding as old wounds resurface and hidden truths emerge, revealing that what they once called hatred may have always been something far deeper. NOTE: Only the story line is mine..the people mentioned in the story are not related to it in real life. Credit of the pictures to the rightful owner.