#Husband!Kun

[chronicallybitchless]

Gays be having sad breakups without even dating

[silviakundera]

Jiang Xuening flipping the script and being increasingly into Xie Wei the more unhinged & messily desperate about her that he reveals himself to be absolutely makes sense for her character.

The girl from the countryside who always knew her mother was searching for someone else in her face & felt a distance there, where they were harassed and never accepted by the villagers... and then came to the capital to find her "real" family where she had been replaced and could never catch up, finding it impossible to compare with the talents and poise of her replacement, who spent years realizing she can't please her birth mother... The woman who climbed up the ladder to be empress in her orginal life so that she could reach what she thought was the 1 unassailable point that demanded the respect & admiration that she's been craving, who since learning the truth of her identity lived in panicked grasping fear that everything she had would be taken away from her. Though at first she's instinctively running away from intimacy because she can't trust it, everything in her instinctively lights up at connecting with someone she feels a physical attraction to AND can't have their attention and love stolen away or shared. Once she realizes and accepts in her heart that this person can be all hers, with NO BRAKES ... She likes that he's obsessive and too much and damaged. He's hyper competent, she believes he can accomplish anything he sets his mind to, and what he wants the most is HER? Sorry not sorry this is 100% Jiang Xuening's secret sauce, she can vibe out on that forever.

[dangermousie]

2023 End of Year Post - cdrama edition

Yes, we have a lot of December left, but I don't think anything else I want to check out will air before 2024 hits (it's cdrama so caveat is - you never know.)

This is only going to cover cdramas that aired in 2023; if I watched it but it was made in a different year, it's not on the list. This was a pretty good cdrama year, all in all.

DRAMAS WATCHED

(In order of liking from least to most as opposed to pure quality; I am including if I’ve seen enough to make up my mind; yes I realize that’s inaccurate, but that’s my list)

30 legend of twin flower - Not dignifying that drama with capital letters, as the only capital that should be associated with this is capital punishment - which is what watching this feels like.

29 Dominator of Martial Gods - sounds like a bdsm gay porn title. Would probably be better acted and written if it was.

28 Beauty of Resilience - you'd need a lot of said resilience to sit through this incoherent, barely acted mess. The thing that I remember the most other than my annoyance is all the jingly-jangly head gear on JJY. Perhaps they could have sold some of them and spent the money on a better script.

27 Divine Destiny - if you think you have too many brain cells and want to get rid of some, boy do I have a drama for you!

26 Wanru’s Journey - honestly it's probably tied with SEL - I mean it's worse but it has actors who are nowhere as well known and a fraction of SEL's budget. Still, this is a big fat nope. I will not say what I think of Aoi Rupeng's "acting" or I'd have to put money in the curse jar.

25 Snow Eagle Lord - Gulinazha's stone face, nonsense plot, terrible CGI. Take your pick as to why this is terrible.

24 Scent of Time - it was uneven but fun but then that ending was dumb enough to destroy the whole thing. Show me on the doll where common sense hurt you, makers!

23 Royal Rumors - Jeremy Tsui and Meng Ziyi are utterly wasted in this nothing trifle of a drama.

22 Legend of Anle - I had high expectations but alas. This is the drama version of color beige. There is nothing offensive about it but nothing good either. Mediocre actors are mediocre, good actors become mediocre, this is just a waste of our finite time on planet earth.

21 Romance on the Farm - it's not you, it's me in action. I can see why people would like this wholesome slice of farming family life, but it's tailored to trigger every one of my "nope" opinions.

20 Back from the Brink - if I were 12, it would be my favorite thing. I am not 12.

19 Journey of Chong Zi - objectively a terrible drama with plot holes the size of Mars and a leading lady whose face has apparently frozen when the wind changed. But I am a total sucker for the trope of upright shizun falling for his demonic disciple and going mental so here we are. Objectively, garbage, subjectively my precious!

18 Love you Seven Times - just call poor Ding Yuxi "Atlas," he carried this mess so hard.

17 Blooming Days - trashy dogblood harem fight fun throwback. It's not that great (and the fact that it was shredded doesn't help) but it's probably the last gasp of that genre for the foreseeable future, so I am grading on a curve.

16 The Starry Love - a fun fantasy where the secondary OTP stole the thunder but overall a really solid fantasy xianxia romance.

15 The Longest Promise - it could have been better - the secondaries were unbearable and there was too much of them and what they did with Alen Fang's character still gives me rage fits, but the main couple was impeccable and lovely and I rooted so hard for them.

14 Chang Feng Du/Destined - visually gorgeous, solidly acted, impeccable first half. Bland as hell second half. Win some, lose some.

13 Circle of Love - this drama is a nonsense trash heap on fire. After a typhoon hit it. It was also the most entertaining, addicting drama on this whole list.

12 Hidden Love - the sole modern on this list, this story has barely any plot but it made me care about the young, decent lovers so hard.

11 Choice Husband - starts out wacky, continues with angst and blood and happy ending. I loved it, but I've always had a soft spot for melo and schemers turning devoted.

10 Pledge of Allegiance - bromance, super solid acting, visuals, a really dark take on officials and the world. Insanely underrated.

9 Provoke - a truly fun Republican revenge and love tale, showing that short format can be wonderful.

8 Gone with the Rain - some of the secondary characters are rage-inducing (hi there, cardboard boy!) but the scheming, ruthless, vulgar FL is amazing and her slowburn with her age gap general who is delighted by her out-there-ness is great!

7 Wonderland of Love - Fei Wo Si Cun goes wholesome and the result is surprisingly entertaining. Battle couple, glorious visuals, a fast paced plot. It's the first Xu Kai drama I enjoyed in years (and he plays a rare cdrama ML it would be pretty neat to pair up with in rl.)

6 My Journey to You - that ending is infuriating (and I am OK with open endings if done properly) but what a visual feast, probably the most gloriously shot drama on this list, and that's a tough competition. Also it packs a hell of a lot of couples and familial and adversarial relationships into its slim running time; assassin lady won over by a gentle man is my favorite trope and so this is extra great.

5. Till the End of the Moon - the ending is a rage-inducing disaster for me, but this drama was the most incredibly emotionally intense, visually eye popping experience. It was deeply flawed but when it was amazing, it was like nothing else in its visuals, its characters and its narratives. It took insane risks; some paid off and some did not, but it was glorious.

4. Story of Kunning Palace - I don't often care for reverse harem stories but this one was such fun - the main OTP was glorious (strong FL, unhinged ML) but honestly everything about this was just so excellently done.

3. The Ingenious One - the most adult drama on this list. Smart protagonists, intelligent plot, emotions that felt true, this is a revenge and a mystery and found family and goes into so many directions you do not expect (Su Mengyu's PTSD after his first kill - that is something you never see in dramas, definitely not prolonged and profound - not like this.) If I was to say which drama was objectively the best on this list, as opposed to favorite, it would be this.

1 (tie) Lost You Forever 1 - this is an exquisite emotional jewel of a story about damaged people moving forward, with damage always present - their past informs their present and always will. The narrative about Xiao Yao and three very different men in her life makes me think that it's an equivalent of a neutron bomb going off right before the main narrative starts and now we are watching the survivors wander in the wreckage. This is very high fantasy setting but it's one of the most emotionally human narratives out there.

1 A Journey to Love - everything I ever wanted - assassins, ride or die adult OTP with genuine believable conflicts, great and complex secondaries, beautiful fights. Oh, and yeah Liu Shi Shi domming the hell out of every man in a ten mile radius, as she should.

FAVORITE DRAMA

It's a tie between Lost You Forever Part 1 and A Journey to Love. LYF1 is a bona fide art piece but it's only part 1 and who knows if part 2 will be any good (seeing the huge ep number cut, I have my doubts) and so it's incomplete. AJTL is an old school wuxia romance with incredibly competent, adult people in love and great cast of secondaries. I can't pick.

WORST DRAMA

romance of twin flower - this is a drama that should not exist. If I could hex everyone involved with it, I would. It's a terrible, stupid, shrill, badly acted drama to start with, but where it really is catapulted into stratosphere of horror is that is took my very favorite non-danmei web novel of all time, a smart and complicated tale with incredible protagonists and turned it into that barftastic abomination. Peng Xiao Ran kept making horrible drama after horrible drama but I kept giving her a chance because of Goodbye My Princess but after this disaster, I've had to accept GMP was a fluke and she is on my "if she's in it, I am out” list. Ding Yuxi is not that far yet (his performance in Seven Lifetimes was the one thing carrying that mess afloat) but he's on freaking thin ice. Anyway, I like to pretend this drama does not exist.

FAVORITE MALE CHARACTER

It was hard because there were so many I loved this year - Deng Wei's traumatized, gentle Seventeen from LYF1 (if someone told me I'd swoon and weep for a character played by Deng Wei, I'd have told them to examine their brains asap), Liu Yuning's incredibly capable, deadly, contained Ning Yuanzhou from AJTL, Zhang Linghe's unhinged Xie Wei from SoKP, Chen Xiao's schemer with a heart Yun Xiang from TIO.

But ultimately, it couldn't be anyone else but Luo Yunxi as Tantai Jin/Demon God/Ming Ye/Cang Jiumin in Till the End of the Moon. He was everything - a demon, a saint, a martyr, a monster, a tormented abuse victim, a savior, joyful, unhinged, smart, pitiable. It was the cdrama performance of the year for me. Luo Yunxi even in a mediocre role is impressive but in a complex (series of) role(s) designed for his strengths, he is a force of nature.

FAVORITE FEMALE CHARACTER

Xiao Yao (Lost You Forever Part 1). Once again, there were runner ups - Bai Lu's smart a little evil FL in Kunning, the gloriously unhinged assassin domme Liu Shi Shi in AJTL, Esther Yu's assassin longing for a different life in MJTY etc etc etc. But Xiao Yao's damaged, difficult, very self-aware woman stole my heart. I was skeptical going in because I haven't enjoyed a Yang Zi performance in a long time, but she was the wounded beating soul of this incredible drama.

NEEDS TO BE MURDERED

Where do we start? How about all of Seventeen's (LYF1) monster family? His brother, who tortured him for years physically and emotionally to such a degree his body is a horror map and his personality is permanently altered because "mommy liked you better." Psycho mother who created a situation where the kids were going to turn on each other and "let's get my grandson raped" grandma. Where is a well-placed meteorite when you need one.

FAVORITE SHIP

Xiao Yao/Seventeen, LYF1. Yes, a ship of characters played by Yang Zi and Deng Wei is my favorite. Leave me alone, I am on my tenth helping of crow already. They are both incredibly damaged, barely functioning survivors who find what they need in the other - he finds a savior and someone who sees him as a man and rebuilds himself around her and she finds someone who will always put her first and only, and subsume himself in her. Is it healthy? No. Does it make sense for them and is it making them slowly functional? Yes.

Runner up: Ren Ruyi/Ning Yuanzhou, AJTL - two adults, so competent, so chemistry full. She has so much damage and so little normalcy but is so strong and he is oddly gentle (in between murders) and incredibly self-reflective. They are each other's mirrors and I love them.

FAVORITE SECONDARY OTP

Su Mingyu/Ke Menglan, The Ingenious One - the idealistic merchant who wants to join jianghu until he sees its horrors firsthand and a slave entertainer who wants security but decides she wants him more. They are gorgeous and glorious and wholesome and I adore them.

Runner up: Liu Gong Quan/Ming Zhu, The Ingenious One - that drama was a shippy gift, especially impressive considering it wasn't even romance-centric. He's the officer who has to bring down her treasonous father but loves her. Delicious.

Another runner up is Chao Feng/Qian Kui, the angelic good girl and the scheming bad boy in The Starry Love. They stole the drama from the main OTP for me.

NOTP

Scent of Time endgame. What the hell was even that. It made NO sense.

FAVORITE SCENE

So many good scenes this year - Tantai Jin taking apart Li Susu in prison in TTEOTM, the OTP fighting in perfect sync and insane rhythm in the gorge battle in AJTL, Chen Ruoxuan's character stopping the execution in Pledge, Yan Lin's coming of age in Kunning, the poison/antidote "gamble" in MJTY, Cang Xuan detoxing in LYF1. But I think ultimately, me being who I am, my favorite scene is Xiao Yao kissing Seventeen's damaged, scarred knee to show he is in no way inferior for her. AAAAA!

In terms of pure jaw dropping visuals tho nothing will ever beat Ming Ye’s battle against the Devil God in TTEOTM.

BIGGEST CRUSH

Ning Yuanzhou, AJTL. He's sexy as hell (that height, that way he moves in battle) but he's also so incredibly competent, so adult, so self-reflective and so attracted to a woman for her strength. He also gets whumped on the reg. Anyway, my hormones are ready.

BEST SCENE STEALER CHARACTER

Gong Yuanzhi (My Journey to You) - I loved the unhinged, brocon poison boy. He was everything. Also Yan Lin (Kunning) - talk about sunshine; I totally got why all these people felt they needed to save him.

NEEDS A SEQUEL

My Journey to You - what the HELL was that ending?

NEEDS SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

legend of twin flower - that is, stab it with scissors like it stabbed the novel until it's dead.

TOO MANY SCISSORS TAKEN TO IT

Till the End of the Moon - they clearly cut stuff to fit into the new regs about runtime and it made the last 1/5 rather abrupt. Gimme!

TROPE THAT NEEDS TO DIE

The emperor cannot be irredeemable. WTF, China, you are a communist country!

FAVORITE TROPE WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF

This is the year of a ML who yearns to be dommed by his FL. Long may it continue.

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT

The Legend of Anle - the novel had a great plot, the cast were all actors I either enjoy a lot or somewhat and we got - whatever that soggy piece of wonderbread toast was.

BIGGEST GOOD SURPRISE

LYF1 - I only checked out to mock because nobody could explain the story to me and nobody in the cast did anything I like either ever or in years. And then I fell utterly and completely in love and had to eat so much delicious crow.

2023 DRAMAS I HAVEN’T SEEN THAT I MOST WANT TO WATCH

Ancient Love Song is the only one on that list. It looks really good, I just need to brace myself.

BEST NON-2023 DRAMA I’VE WATCHED IN 2023

The Imperial Doctoress - best slowburn and pining and glorious character development and adult leads.

MOST ANTICIPATED

Anticipating any nonaired cdrama is a mug's game but if they air, I will definitely check out all the Fox Matchmaker dramas, LYF2, JoL2 and The Last Immortal. If Prisoner of Beauty ever is allowed out of the vault (dubious), it goes on the list too.

[vanesycho]

Can you write something about taking care of Kun when he is sick or tired, please? I know he takes care of everyone, but I want him to be taken care of too💖it can be smut too, whichever you prefer 😘

I don't know who you are but THANK YOU for your request, because this man... will make me cry because of his beauty(I'm serious, I was going to die while writing this, i wish he was real😔)

f!reader x kun

just fluff, cutie patootie kun, cutie relationship🤍

wc:0,8k

You went to check on your boyfriend who hadn't left his room for a long time. Normally you would always leave him alone while he was working, but this was too much even for you and you couldn't help but get curious. You knocked on his door and walked in when you heard him say 'yes?'. He was sitting in front of the computer as usual, you went behind him and placed your hands on his shoulders and started massaging him. You could practically feel his muscles tense up and it made you sad. “Why don’t you take a break? I made you dinner and you still haven’t even eaten it.”

He took his hands off the table and leaned back, breathing a sigh of relief. He groaned in pain as the places you massaged hurt, closed his eyes. You kissed his cheek when you leaned down and he put a little smile on his lips. Took one of your hands that you were massaging and brought it to his lips, kissing the palm of your hand. He turned his chair towards you, and when you looked into his tired eyes you felt your heart ache for a moment. “Kun...I think that’s enough for today, wouldn’t it be better if you continue tomorrow?”

He smiled tiredly and hugged you, placing his head on your chest. You quickly wrapped your arms around him, placing a few small kisses on the top of his head. "It's just a little while and then it'll be over." You rolled your eyes, taking a deep breath and making him look at you. “No. Now get out of your room and eat your food first while I’m telling you nicely.” He chuckled at how much you cared about him and stood up. You smiled when he kissed your lips. "Okay bǎobèi." He gave you a small kiss on the nose and walked towards the kitchen. You looked after him for a while, smiling.No matter how much time passed, you were in love with every move he made.

After eating the meal you prepared for him, you made him -or forced him- to go to the living room. You turned on a movie that you both liked, Kun immediately wrapped an arm around your waist and kissed your head, you looked at him with a smile and you brought your lips forward, he laughed and gave you a quick kiss on the lips, when he was about to pull back you grabbed his neck and kissed him longer. He laughed between kisses and kissed back. Pulled back, sucking on your lower lip and whispered against your lips, "I love you."

You shyly turned your head to the TV, he chuckled and returned his attention to the movie as well. He liked that you were still embarrassed by some of his actions, he found it cute, you were cute.

Half an hour had passed, you made comments about the movie you were watching, you were usually a duo that never stopped talking watching a movie, so the other members would usually complain about you. "What? Did you see what happened?" You looked at Kun but when you saw that he had fallen asleep on your shoulder you immediately stopped, his mouth was slightly open, you smiled at his cuteness and took the remote and turned off the movie.

Trying not to wake him, you carefully stood up and made sure he was lying down comfortably on the couch, as you were going to get a blanket for him, he held your wrist which made you stop. Kun's eyes were still closed, he mumbled something "Don't...Go..." You leaned over to him and caressed his hair, he melted under your touch. "I'm not going anywhere baby, I'll get a blanket for you."

He grabbed your hand that you were caressing your hair with, pulled you towards him, and hugged your arm. "I don't need a blanket, I need you." God, this guy could even embarrass you in his sleep. You didn't keep him waiting and lay down next to him, your face was turned to him and your faces were very close to each other because the couch wasn't very big.

You studied his face in the dim light of the living room, trying to suppress the urge to kiss him, you didn't want to wake him up, he was already tired enough. Still, you gave him a quick kiss on the lips, you saw the corners of his lips turn up slightly. He pulled you closer to him, laid his head on yours, one hand resting on your waist, and you listened to his heartbeat and breathing sounds. This slowly made you sleepy, you whispered to yourself before surrendering yourself to Kun's arms and sleep. "I love you too shǎ guā."

[mistawolfie]

Series WIP since 2017…added 8 more this year…I am on a ROLL

[ID: Characters from Land of the Lustrous in black and white bookmark form with a splash of the color of their hair. Page 1, top row, Phosphophyllite, Cinnabar, Lapis Lazuli, Yellow Diamond, Amythis 84 and 33; bottom row, Diamond, Bortz, Antacticite, Cairngorm, Ghost Quartz. Page 2: top row, Rutile, Padparadscha, Morganite, Goshenite; second row, Euclase, Jade, Red Beryl, Obsidian, Alexandrite. Each character has a white or black simplified sun-shaped halo over their head. End ID]

[shgark]

these boys are bestfriends and boyfriends and just thinking about them has me on the verge of tears while i’m on the bus to class

[louinthesky]

WAKE UP, BABY!! A new video of Kun lifting Leo has been uploaded! 🤲

[valentinejaes]

Kun — NCT 2023 【Golden Age】 Teasers

[somegirlsnerdywords2]

Updated Manga: August 2024

Death is the Only Ending For the Villainess: Ch. 157-159 added since August 1st

It Looks Like I've Fallen into the World of a Reverse Harem Game: Ch. 122-125 added since August 1st

For My Derelict Favorite: Season 2, Ep. 84-88 added since August 2nd

I Want to Be the Wall: Ch. 12-16 added August 2nd

Akatsuki no Yona: Ch. 261 added August 4th

Morgana and Oz: Ep. 68-71 added since August 4th

I'm the Queen In This Life: Ep 93-96 added since August 4th

Tower of God: Season 3, Ep. 206-209 added since August 4th

Jujutsu Kaisen: Ch. 265-267 added since August 4th

The Tyrant Wants to Be Good: Season 2, Ep. 65-68 added since August 5th

Hotaru no Yomeiri: Ch. 43 added August 5th

Windbreaker: Ch. 150-153 added since August 6th

The Price is Your Everything: Ep 30-33 added since August 6th

The Summer Hikaru Died: Ch. 27 & 28 added since August 10th

Kaiju No.8: Ch. 112 & 113 added since August 15th

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun: Ch. 152 added August 17th

Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun: Ch. 117 added August 17th

19 Days: Ch. 450 & 451 added August 19th

Yubisaki to Renren: Ch. 45 added August 23rd

The Way of the House Husband: Ch. 101-108 added since August 25th

Men of the Harem: Season 3, Ep 159 added August 30th

Ended This Month:

Boku no Hero Academia (430 chapters)

[rainee-chu]

Panel redraw from the anthology :3

[khathastrophe]

you know when people joked that 'Marry My Husband' needs to be more 2013 I think they meant the fashion not reused kdrama plots cause what was episode 12 even

[professional-idiots]

Best parts of/my overall thoughts on ch. 109

1. BABY YASHIRO IS SO CUTE OMGGGG

2. She is canonicallly in love with another man and acting like this lol 😭

3. Teru commits every word Akane utters to memory (cannon)

4. The husbands are going through a painful divorce 😓

5. Mirai can’t read T~T

6. THE PAUSE??? WHAT WAS THE PAUSE FOR???

7. JUST ALL THE PANELS OF BABY YASHIRO BEING SO CUTE

8. USISKAKDBD HE LOOKS SO COOL

9. Kako pulling up the receipts

10. Have I mentioned that she is a CUTIE PATOOTIE

11. AKANE PROMPTING BABY YASHIRO ON WHAT TO SAY TO TRY AND HELP HER OUT 😭😭😭

12. The owl screeching out Yashiro’s confession followed by this face from Hanako (plus imagine how embarassed she’s gonna be when she ages up again 😭)

13. Mansplain Manipulate Malewife

(Though we can all agree Aoi is the malewife of their couple)

14. *sigh* The husbands are fighting again

UGH THIS CHAPTER WAS SO AMAZING!!!!!! Less happened in it than last chapter but still amazing!!!

God, if you’re up there, please let Akane make it through the next few chapters 🙏

OH MY GOD AND WHAT WAS THAT THING WITH THE PAUSE WHEN AKANE WAS READING TSUKASAS NAME I NEED TO KNOW MORE!!!!!!! I wonder if like a different name was written cause he’s being like possessed or something hmmmm…

Speaking of Tsukasa he is going rouge and killing people again. And I was just starting to like him too 😞… I wonder if Kako is alright (honestly likely not, but I don’t wanna say anything for sure bc… yk… time… and all that)

I love everything about this arc we’re in rn but I need the next month to pass INCREDIBLY fast. I don’t know if I’m gonna make it to the next chapter T~T

[mothgoddesss]

OUR DAUGHTER.

[asmodeusamaryllis]

Glad the thirteenth crowns like collecting sapphic women to be apart of the cool club ™️

[rennzzar]

WIP coming out as a karamatsu girl

[louinthesky]

Kun: "Alta foto con el diez 😎"