"The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win." The FIFA World Cup is just around the corner. For Minho, it's the chance to make history with his team-a dream he's willing to sacrifice everything for. But while the entire world has its eyes fixed on the pitch, there's someone waiting beyond the stadium lights. Someone who already has his whole heart. -- - Minsung Au.

Some scars don't disappear just because you leave the place that gave them to you. Jisung spent most of his childhood learning how to survive. An abusive father. A mother slowly losing herself to an illness she never deserved. A school where cruelty followed him into every hallway. And Minho-the boy who somehow became both the person Jisung hated most and the person he could never stop looking at. At seventeen, Jisung thought there was no future waiting for him. Four years later, he returns to Korea carrying the same scars beneath a different life. His mother is still fighting for her health. His father is still the man Jisung has spent his entire life being afraid of. But Jisung is tired of being afraid. So when an unexpected encounter leads him to an underground boxing club and a job that might finally give him a way out, he begins building something of his own. For the first time, Jisung starts learning what strength actually feels like. Then he finds Minho again. The same boy who once made his life a living hell. Except Minho isn't the same anymore. And neither is Jisung. Because sometimes, the person who hurt you is also the person who knows exactly where your scars are. And sometimes, the kindness you've spent your whole life wishing for comes from the last person you ever expected to give it to you. Jisung doesn't know what scares him more- forgiving Minho, or realizing he never stopped wanting him. And while his mother fights to hold on to the pieces of her life, Jisung has to decide what he's willing to fight for in his own. Revenge? Freedom? Forgiveness? Or the possibility that some people can change enough to become something they never were before. Because what once attracts you never quite stops. Especially when, for the first time, it's finally giving you the love you thought you never deserved.

It all starts with the end. Han Jisung (a clumsy chemistry student with a painful past) crosses paths with Lee Minho, better known as Venom (the new leader of the notorious Vipers) when two kilograms of Venom's cocaine are mistakenly delivered to Jisung's doorstep, then lost by Jisung himself, under circumstances the idiot cannot remember. Minho accuses him of theft, giving Jisung a fourteen day deadline to either find and give back the cocaine, pay an impossible debt, or take the mysterious third option which, Jisung assumes, has to mean death. In his desperate quest for a way out, Jisung stumbles through a waking nightmare: unexpected connections between Minho and people he thought he could trust, mysterious news articles, abandoned mansions, crime scenes, black-tie parties, chaebol gossip, mafia families, escaping gunfire on the back of Minho's motorcycle. But every single path only leads him back to the night he lost the drugs, and to unanswerable questions: What the hell happened to the two bricks of cocaine? Why can't he remember losing them? What is Minho hiding? And what does the bastard truly want from Jisung? MAFIA AU 16+ (tws in the introduction) COVER MADE BY THE TALENTED ICHINISAMFOLIO ON DISCORD

minho happens to sit outside of a peculiar musician's practice room

[C O M P L E T E D] The last thing Jisung thought would threaten his life was a job offer and a crown prince. He'd think alcohol poisoning would get to him first, or the menace of Goguryeo guards at his heels. But here he was, at the mercy of the crown prince of Baekje with one job for him and Hwang Hyunjin- unless they choose death. Find, protect, and humor the supposed crown prince, his older brother: Lee Minho. And he thought it'd be easy. How hard was it to protect someone? However, he didn't think he'd be the one he's protecting the future king from. --- /I don't boast about my achievements in the tag rankings but on 07/25/2020 this book just got #1 on #HanJisung and I'm so proud of it 😌👉👈 And #1 on minsung on 08/25/2020

where jisung and minho fall in love on the baseball field

♡ It's important to cherish the fleeting things. Someday, they'll all be gone. ♡ 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 1x ━━━━━ ❛ EXTENDED SUMMARY: Nineteen-year-old, cancer-stricken Lee Minho is well aware of the presence of his impending death. Exhausted by relentless treatments and facing another relapse, Minho contemplates giving up. His mother's unwavering hope clashed with his own yearning for a life (or lack thereof) beyond chemotherapy. As a compromise, Minho reluctantly agrees to attend a summer program for chronically ill youth. It is there where he meets Han Jisung, a boy whose terminal illness makes Minho rethink his outlook on life. ━━━━━ ❛ QUICK INFO: • LGBTQ+ Romance (albeit minimal) • Friendship Heavy • Ex-Idol/Ex-Backup Dancer • Magical Realism • Novella (~32k words), Completed Rated 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 for swear words, mental hoplessness, and other mature themes. (16+)

A proposal. A full collection dedicated to a single person, a single name. Han Jisung. Minho laughs. "The performer?" Yes. That one. The cabaret star. The headline act for the ultra-rich and tragically bored. Minho thinks, why not? Just another face behind the lens. He is, historically, shit at lying to himself.

"It was how much of himself he'd given up just to stay near Minho. Just to be wanted, in any way. Just to be his, in any way."

Jisung's stone heart contains crystal tears. In a world of mafia and danger, these are shed. "I hate you." "Liar." TWS!! ⚠️ -SA -violence -injuries -throwing up -smut -trauma -death -others