LummieLumminni
Lee Chan is the golden boy of K-pop. He performs like he's trying to outrun something. Smiles like he's being graded on it. Survives off applause and choreography and the sick need to be perfect.
Xu Minghao is quiet. Observant. Free in a way that feels dangerous. He dances like no one's watching. Which is exactly why Chan does.
Chan doesn't talk about the hollow parts of himself. He writes about them - anonymously. On a fanfic site.
Where he posts stories about idols who fall in love quietly, without having to earn it. And someone - someone who signs their comments simply as H - starts replying.
It shouldn't mean anything.
But for once, someone is listening.
And Chan starts to hope that love doesn't have to be a performance after all.
(Or: The one where Lee Chan writes fanfiction to cope, and Xu Minghao reads it to understand him.)
Available on AO3 under the username "Delightfulbloop"