#chuyao

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:eyes: The title is already making me feel soft and m up for some fluff so "Domesticity is Intimacy Earned" if that's alright!

(though if it does turn out to be angst, I don't mind either lmao)

Oho okay, but this is for the My Roommate is a Detective fandom. Written right about when the show ended, but I ended up getting distracted with uni, so it never progressed past 3 chps lol

Chapter 1 & 2 can be found HERE.

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(Random snippet from chp 3)

“What are you guys talking about?” Lu Yao’s entrance startles them both. He raises an eyebrow at their fluster and then proceeds to ignore it, “Anyway, I’m done here. I need to go back to the forensic department. Chusheng, are you coming?”

“Ah, no, you can take the car. I’ll follow after we finish taking photographs.”

Youning looks at him with wide eyes as Lu Yao leaves. “Chusheng,” she whispers, “Chusheng?”

Well, that confirms it that Lu Yao hasn’t told her yet. And as usual, he has left it to him. 

Chusheng looks back at her calmly. “Yes?”

“Huh,” she says, then swipes her notebook out of his hand. She looks at him consideringly, “No wonder you actually listened to me talk about Lu Yao’s ex-girlfriend.”

He clears his throat, “Now, that’s nothing to do with the case, so–”

“How long?”

“Youning,” he says, exasperated, “calm yourself. Why are you so upset?”

“Upset? Who’s upset, not me, I’m not upset!” She certainly looks upset.

“He would have told you when he felt ready, you can’t demand this of him.”

Youning bites her lips but nods understandingly, “When would that have been though?”

Thanks so much I LOVE these questions!!!

3. What do you think makes your writing stand out from other works?

I think my writing style is very "direct" and "to the point", more shorter fics. I have like one objective or one idea, develop that and that's the fic.

I try to show the characters and their thoughts through the dialogue and body language, rather than extensive descriptions (also because I am unable to lol).

Rather light on the plot side, like there is a storyline but it's more... Scenes strung together like beads to form a collar that kind of make sense than a whole ass planned, fantasy adventure with side quests and stuff, and big reveals. I cannot deal with sad endings, so (one excepted) most of my fics you can expect a happy ending lol.

I try to balance out different emotions in a fic, some moments of tension, some moments of angst, trying to make it funny, some moments of comfort. I do love a good domestic- kind of closeness.

I would say angst is the genre I have the most trouble with. I can only handle so much haha then I have a need to comfort. Smut is also smth not completely easy for me.

What I love the most are satisfying resolutions, where I manage to tie together every kinds of character thoughts, clues and hints that I gave-not necessarily on purpose lmfao.

5. What’s the fic you’re most proud of?

I love allllll my little fics. They're like little pebbles that I collect. Like they're not necessarily the shiniest or the most polished and maybe quite plain for the outside observer, but I like to sift through them and when I hold one up to the light it shines pretty colors and I'm happy to just have it in my collection and be able to look at it y'know?

I will show u some of my little pebbles tho, since that is the question:

I like this Chuyao (Chusheng/Lu Yao from cdrama My Roommate is a detective) fic - Empty space. Because I do feel like I managed to "tie everything together", despite the fact that the writing process was a trainwreck lmfao. Like I started the fic intending Angst (which is why the title sounds the way it does), was unable to finish it for a YEAR and when I returned intending to mark it on hiatus, inspiration came back, the fic made a 180° turn in mood, but still kind of made sense and I loved it.

Also this Xicheng (Lan Xichen/Jiang Cheng from the Untamed) fic called trying to hold on (to you). Idk I just really love the VIBE !? It's like rain and dancing and pain and understanding and comfort. Idk man, I love it.

I am also particularly satisfied with the last fic in the Devil Judge Yohan/Gaon series called New Beginnings. It's like, hope and forgiveness and dealing with the past and moving on to the future and I LOVE IT.

7. What element of writing do you struggle with most?

Descriptions!!! Sometimes I picture a scene sooooooo very clearly, but I just... Don't find the words or the elegant sentences to describe it in a way that satisfies me. I really really admire the writers who can write 100k+ fics and it's not boring and the descriptions are great like how.

That's where I really notice that English isn't my first language, because I know that in my own - thanks to years of mandatory language & literature classes, that I am now very thankful for lmao - I am able to.

I'd love to take that kind of classes for english.

On a tangent, I really really respect translation as a craft because damn, it ain't easy.

The ship in question: