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    “I’d like an iced vanilla cappuccino please. But with far more milk than coffee.”

    Maomao blinks at him.

    “So you want a latte.”

    “What?”

    “A cappuccino is equal parts espresso and steamed milk. A latte is a little bit of coffee with a bunch of milk. You want a latte.”

    For the first time in this interaction, the customer frowns.

    “No,” he says, “I want a cappuccino. With extra milk.”

    Maomao’s eye begins to twitch.

    “No, you don’t.”

    “Yes I do!” The customer insists, pouting his lips.

    The man is attractive, no doubt, and this look would probably have most people of any gender swooning over him. But Maomao has been immune to such things for a long time now, and so she just looks at him again.

    For a moment, he seems surprised, like he really thought the pouting would work. He’s quick to change tactics though. “How about this,” he says, “You give me my cappuccino with extra milk, and I give you my number.”

    He says this triumphantly, like he’s certain he’s finally gotten through to her. Maomao is sure he expects her to blush, but instead, she laughs. Loudly.
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    Maomao hates being a barista. A charming new customer makes her hate it even more.

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    Loid Forger was not jealous.
    It was impossible, by definition. Jealousy was a primitive emotion, irrational, incompatible with the cognitive structure of a top-tier agent. It was the flaw of ordinary men — the kind who let feelings colonize judgment, who confused possession with affection, control with love. Twilight had studied jealousy the way an entomologist studies an insect: with scientific detachment, with the sole purpose of recognizing it in others and using it as leverage. A jealous husband was predictable. He was manipulable. He was vulnerable.

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    Yor Briar, a socially awkward yet captivating woman, enters high society under pressure to secure a marriage. Loid Forger, a composed and calculating nobleman with a hidden agenda, needs a respectable wife to advance his covert mission within the aristocracy. Their arrangement begins as a convenient façade, but emotions always get in the way of things.

     

    Or, a Bridgerton inspired fake marriage fic!

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    Fumbling waitress by day, struggling camgirl by night, Yor Briar's doing all she can to pay her bills and fund her younger brother's college education. When she's fired from her dayjob, she scrambles to find a replacement—even if it means being the overworked, over-stressed assistant to Westalis's most popular idol: Twilight.

    But beneath the golden crown and killer smile of ED/EN's beloved pop culture icon is Loid Forger, compulsive perfectionist-control freak with an arsenal of bad coping mechanisms. His neuroticism is what keeps him at the top—but also what sends every assistant running teary-eyed in the opposite direction. So when Loid's manager tells him they've hired yet another PA for him, the last thing he expects is some weirdo. And why does she look so familiar?

    Yor knows this job is temporary. She knows she'll be fired from this one like every one before, and she knows her best shot at stability is turning her failing night job into the cash cow it could be—and Twilight might just be the key.

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    An actual shiver shook the girl at his voice, like she physically couldn't contain her disgust. Jinshi's cheeks heated in excitement at the delightful reaction. She seemed determined not to engage him again, eyes firmly fixed on her book.

    Jinshi was itching to distract her, to tease her, to make her look at him again.

    But before he could think of the best way to do this, the door flew open.

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    A Jinmao College/Coffeeshop AU with a crime/mystery twist

    Born from a medical doctor's musings on which modern drug would constitute an aphrodisiac and how it would look to be drugged by it (and the rest of the story just happened.)

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    26 Mar 2026