Have you ever been so deeply in love with someone that you start seeing colors whenever they're near?   So in love that the mere thought of them keeps you wide awake at night, making up love scenarios and dreaming about them with a huge smile on your face?   Have you ever loved someone so deeply that you're intimately famil

It all began with a cough and then a subtle sting in her chest.  Kang Gyuri cried, knowing that in a matter of months, she would be another figure in the death toll of the most dangerous and cruelest outbreak in human history.

Being under scrutiny of expectations, contracts, and career meant Minjeong had developed a fear.    A fear of love. (Hanahaki disease trope)

Baekhyun wants to mourn his non-relationship and mope in peace; Jongdae won't let him, because he's a good friend.

There it was. One small petal. And yet with its insignificant size, being only about a bottle cap, it confirmed what Jimin was dreading. Yoo Jimin likes girls.

Hongjoong is just a normal but studying sound engineering along with his friends Wooyoung and Yeosang. Everything was good unitl one night Hongjoong discorvers a a secret that will change his life. Gangs, romance, unrequirted love will define his life from now on and he'll do whatever he needs to survive in this world...until he meets Seonghwa. 

hanahaki disease was something rather unfamiliar to suzuno miihi. she practically ignored its existence. until it infects her, threatening her life.

joohyun has unwanted feelings for her neighbour, which results in an apartment full of flowers and an impending medical debt. using her problems to solve each other, she finds herself working as a florist until her crush decides to cure her of her affliction. or  a crack hanahaki au where the one suffering from the disease sells their flowers to get money.

ryujin can't breathe.

To say goodbye already, it's always Too bad, too bad, too bad

In the world of the fairies—there is an ancient rule. A rule to never, ever fall in love. Bae Joohyun has spent her entire life seeing the aftereffects of love in her parents, and swore that she would never commit the same fatal mistake that they had--falling for another, and loving another. But life has other plans for her, especially when she ends up meeting someone with a lopsided smile, Kang Seulgi.   Posted on AO3 as well under PurelyRed

Lee Yujin falls in love with Kim Taehyung. She falls hard until she coughs up white rose petals.

Who said unrequited love isn't dangerous?  What if you're living in a world where having an unrequited love can lead to your death?  

Taeyong had watched others around him come down with hanahaki disease his whole life; some came out of it just fine, and others didn't come out of it at all. He never thought it would touch his life quite so closely, though. But then, his childhood best friend Johnny comes back from a year abroad, and everything changes. ***WARNINGS*** character death (side characters), heavy angst, hurt, illness, vomit (by nature of the disease), blood & gore (i mean. mild.)

You've harbored feelings for your best friend Sehun. But he inevitably falls in love with someone else. You watch as he becomes enamored with someone else. You've endured the pain for months until you physically can't anymore.  

love is the cure and the disease | a wenjoygi hanahaki disease au

Can love still blossom even after feelings are gone?

Changmin goes to practice with a cough. It blossoms into something much more than he expected. Pain, sickness and bucket-loads of bright red tulips, all for one person. Kim Sunwoo. - A Sunkyu Hanahaki Disease AU

She remembered who Lisa was staring at that day, with the same eyes Chaeyoung always had as she gazed at her herself. She remembered realizing it was not her. And she remembered the exact moment she started swallowing down the first marigold petals trying to make their way up .

Daehyun falls in love for a living. Youngjae wishes Daehyun would stop coughing up flowers to get by.     HA

Hanbin’s in love and it’s killing him. Hanahaki AU

How far are you willing to go to protect the memory of the one you love? Jackson Wang was willing to risk his entire being to protect the memory of the man he knew could never love him. He chooses to suffer in silence, but at what cost? Will he ever find someone who could love him as much as he loves the prince?

The worst flowers to cough are larkspurs, because they always seem to come on the branch, scratching at Yoobin’s throat and tinting the purple of the petals with blood.

When she calmed down, Yuri withdrew her hands in fear. Four flower petals were there. As she looked up she found Tiffany's eyes wide open looking too. "Fany-ah..." began Yuri with a very raspy and hoarse voice of not having spoken in days and because the coughs. Tiffany looked up and saw tears form in Yuri's eyes. "Help me..."

Do we have to suffer just because our heart chose to love someone that is so unreachable? 

Sojin (OC) begins his first year of university and falls for Kim Wonpil in an instant. Unfortunately, things get more complicated once he literally becomes lovesick and begins to cough up flower petals. Sojin finds that he has limited time to make Wonpil return his love or face an untimely demise. Based on the Hanahaki Disease, where the victim dies from blooming flowers if their love is unrequited.

The Hanahaki Disease. An illness that suffocates it's subject to death by the blossoming of a flower within their chest cavity. This disease is born from one-sided love. Symptoms of it consist of coughing or even throwing up flower petals, as well as a throbbing pain within the chest that worsens along with the disease. There is no known

a sequel to vain.

where in momo falls head over heels for mina, but instead momo starts coughing up daisies.

Chanyeol, a sorcerer, decides to use forbidden magic to survive in a world where magic is dying. Through dubious means, he “marries” Kyungsoo, another sorcerer. Chanyeol is just using Kyungsoo as his personal blood bank; but his plan backfires when he begins to fall in love with Kyungsoo and contracts the Hanahaki disease as a result of his unrequited love and unexpected feelings.

Chanyeol doesn’t want to perish as a consequence of the most alluring man he has ever met, all he wants is to love him and to be loved back.

Chittaphon fears Death, Sicheng is in love with Life. When the two meet, things become complicated. Chittaphon struggles with a terminal illness, will he live long enough to overcome his fear?

Ong Seongwoo and Kang Daniel are the classmate in Wanna High School.They are friend together with other 9 classmates,they live together and also hangout together.What will happen when Seongwoo find out that he had a crush with his best friend Kang Daniel and worst he was caught in a hanahaki disease!    

the more he loved him, the more he died.   hanahaki disease AU.   

Kyungsoo coughs up poppies.

Kim Jongin believes in love at first sight. He'll be the first to admit that this belief is pretty cliche, but as someone who drowns himself in overly hyped pumpkin spice lattes every fall, Jongin doesn't exactly mind indulging in cliches. In Jongin's heart, it was fate that his alarm clock had rebelliously decided to not wake him up for his 8:30 class, causing him to be excruciatingly late on his very first day of university. How can it possibly be a coincidence that the final unoccupied sea

Cough cough. It hurts 

'it's fine. i'm fine' he breathes and gets up. his throat is still sore from all the flowers he vomited and his head is spinning but he keeps telling 'i'm fine' as if this will solve something. Baekhyun sits down on his bed, and with his head in the pillows he screams out of frustration, sadness, madness. his phone keeps ringing but all he can think is:

Jeonghan loved him as much as he possibly could. It still wasn't enough.

His voice has never sounded so cold. He knew that was it, the end.

She coughs up petals - beautiful pieces of calla lilies tinted with blood -, and looks into the mirror.

Wonshik is ever oblivious to Hongbin's affections.   The restaurant's atmosphere was pleasant ~ it smelled of vaguely of flowers ~ and the overhead lights were dimmed so that Wonshik and the rest of VIXX were dunked in soft edges. Smiling to no one in particular ~ Wonshik gripped his drink tighter ~ already starting to feel a bit tipsy. He’d always been kind of a lightweight ~ which didn't align with the image Jellyfish Entertainment wanted him to project. He chuckled a