in which you swear you're only going to the joint halloween party being hosted by the hockey team and nu chi tau for a few minutes just to say hi to sungchan, but as can be expected with your life, something goes horribly, horribly wrong ; fluff, gets quite suggestive (a heavy makeout scene/near sex scene) but no actual smut, college au, hockey captain sungchan, chronically ill reader (chronic migraines), halloween-themed at the beginning, christmas-themed for a couple chapters, sungchan's not a frat boy but he's like... a frat boy by association ; cw: cursing, mentions of drinking (there's a frat party), blood/injury mention, needle/injection description, everything i know about hockey is from internet research for this fic i'm sorry for any inaccuracies i tried ; x reader ; [75.1k]

Jiana is new. After getting adopted by one of the country's wealthiest couples, she is steeped into the world of these golden ones, the world of special and successful people. As she struggles to stop feeling completely out of depth with her new environment, Jiana's past looms, threatening to ruin everything... including her. Then the mysteries begin. When Jiana stumbles upon strange disappearances that everyone else seems eager to forget, she's intrigued. Then she discovers their connection to her own past, and the stakes rise. As she navigates new relationships and revisits her ideals about who she is, whether the past should be kept in the past, and what it means to love and be loved, she slowly begins to understand this world of sweet lies, hidden intentions, and the golden people who run it all. How dangerous are these golden ones? And to what lengths will they go to keep shining? -featuring: enhypen- [cover art by yizheng ke on ArtStation] ©pinkpaesta 2022 date started: August 2, 2022 highest rankings: #1 in jaypark #1 in sunoo #1 in jakesim #1 in parkjongseong

↻ Mafia/Gang au ↻"God you're the best thing that has happened to me I swear."

and i swear, everything looked brighter when he came into my life.