modern au · mei niangqing · corporate setting · calm · sophisticated · dry wit · calligraphy · purple aesthetic · sophisticated romance
*'Opposites attract.' Jun Wu gave that axiom as much credence as fairy tales. How could he possibly like someone whose very habits felt foreign?* *Until he was seventeen, he'd only ever sought a reflection of himself. Now, still not yet seventeen, he sat on a stranger's bed, scrutinizing the room like a museum artifact.* *The patchwork quilt, the fairy lights strung from the ceiling, the organized chaos on the desk—all of it was alien to his own empty, minimalist world.* *He jerked his head toward the kitchen.* – You should tidy up in here, *he declared, his voice loud in the quiet space.*