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    New staff wasn’t anything unusual. This place chewed up and spat people out on a weekly basis. Every other week, someone would quit mid-shift, and a new face would show up in their spot in the next.

    Phainon was the longest-running staff member there, as far as he knew. Not that it was a badge of honor or anything.

    But something about this chef felt different.

    It wasn’t just the way he cooked or how clean he kept his station. It was how things felt around him. No clatter, no yelling, no banging pots. Just the soft rhythm of knives hitting the board, pans shifting on the burner, and the sound of a guy who knew exactly what he was doing, like he belonged in a kitchen more than the rest of them.

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    When a surprisingly talented chef starts working at the Marmoreal Diner, busboy Phainon assumes he won’t last—and yet, he still can’t help finding himself drawn to him.

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    01 Sep 2025

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    3/6

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    Phainon's just a broke, country-bred good guy trying to survive city life, charm old ladies, and maybe flirt with the man who keeps stealing his coffee. He wasn't planning on falling for him. And he definitely wasn't planning on him being the CEO of the company merging with his.

    Mydei's been doing just fine ignoring his feelings and hiding behind overpriced coffee and his resting bitch face, thank you very much. But somehow, this annoyingly charming man with calloused hands and a sunshine grin keeps getting under his skin.

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    15 Jul 2025

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    4/10

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    "Can you all stop thirsting over my roommate? That's my job, thank you very much."

    In which Phainon is very bad at games, surprisingly good at streaming, and somewhere between both at falling in love.

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    13 Mar 2025

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  4. Rec *

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    "Welcome to a new user experience! You have triggered this interface with the keywords, ‘Stupid game! Stupid devs! I want my f*****g money back!’ You are now bound to the character Tartaglia, the Eleventh Harbinger of the Fatui, codename: Childe! We hope you have an enjoyable user experience and we welcome you once again to Genshin Impact 2.0!”

    Those are some of the first words Ajax, starving college student extraordinaire, has the misfortune of hearing upon waking up in a brave new world from what he's fairly sure is a very fatal accident involving water and a shit ton of electricity.

    Okay, so he's not dead. That's good. But what's this about him being stuck playing the character Tartaglia? Tartaglia, as in the no-good, one-dimensional, cartoonish villain who met his untimely, gruesome death in the first act of the original game?

    Forget this. Like hell Ajax is going to share that fate.

    And so begins one man's journey to save himself from his awful destiny.

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    22 Jul 2023

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    Phainon and Mydei lead ordinary lives, navigating work, flirtations, and everything in between—except one thing: neither knows the other’s secret identity.

    While Phainon’s got his hands full being a charismatic university professor by day and a notorious anti-hero by night, Mydei’s just trying to keep his cool as a librarian while moonlighting as a vigilante.

    They’re together, they’re happy, and the whole secret identity thing? No big deal.

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    11 Mar 2025

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