oh my God. This is the most wretched, the most awful, it was so compelling, like it got it's hooks in me. I love so so much. How you jumped scenes, how you pulled in Minghao's three irl lovers (heuheu) and reflected pasts of the hanahaki through all of them. The quiet, sad moment with Jun, DK's offer of love as though it's easy (“I would have loved you back,” Seokmin continues. He sounds really genuine about it, like it’s that simple. Like it’s something he could make himself do.), and then the last piece of the puzzle with Mingyu. Gah. Wtf. I love that reveal so much. And I especially love Minghao's resolve at the end, like despite it all, for better or worse, he's accepted it. As though that memory, the flowers in his lungs, are the last bit of the person he loved.... Wow.

And I'm also so obsessed with how you wrote the hanahaki too, it felt so physical and awful, rooted in real world sick, but twisted up. This is SUCH an interesting take on an already interesting take, you took the chronic aspect and then went a whole nother step forward and it works so so well . Like. This hit so hard. It was so good, I loved it so much!! !! !!