Ten Things Kim Jungwoo likes about Zhang Yixing
All the Little Things
10) He likes that Yixing always manages to find him.
"You should look under the chair for all the things you lose. Sometimes I look under there and I find stuff like a pencil or my pants."
"... You find your pants under your chair?"
"Only once!"
"Look for me instead."
"Silly, I look for you everywhere. All the time."
"And you always find me. I like it when you find me."
"Sometimes you leave trails and it's nice."
"I'll leave trails often."
"Giant rice kernels and piano melodies down the hall."
"Bread crumbs and P.I Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor."
"Sounds perfect."
9) He likes that Yixing relies on him to remind him of home [and how he lets him do the same thing].
"Can I come see you? I feel like I'm not ... holding myself right."
"I feel like anyone would feel weird if they were holding themselves, but yeah. Come over. I'll hold you right."
"And I get to stay, right?"
"Where else would you go? You belong here."
"I do. You belong here, too."
"I only belong where you belong."
"I like that."
"Me, too."
8) He likes that Yixing [almost] dislikes everything he likes.
"I think whoever invented pineapple soda is a genius."
"I've never heard of that. Does it really taste like anything other than pain?"
"Like joy and joyness."
"I don't know if I trust you."
"Ouch."
"Yes, that's exactly what bubbly drinks do: ouch."
"Lack of trust!"
"Only when it comes to bad beverages."
"Yummy beverages."
"Yeah. See. Can't be trusted."
"Oh, you just hate everything I like."
"That's not true! I like raspberry truffles."
"Oh. Right. Yeah, okay."
"And as for the rest of the stuff, I still like that you like it."
"So it's like by association?"
"Sure!"
"I'll take it."
7) He [kind of] likes that Yixing has a fixation with their cat, Cat.
"I think I'm in love with him, can you okay that? I do think I'm in love with him."
"What?"
"I am in love with this cat. He is metaphorically tiny but not actually tiny and he still thinks he's two weeks old because he won't stop the kneading thing. Is the kneading thing a problem? I hope it's not a problem. Sometimes he pretends like he doesn't need me or something but he probably does and that feels nice. It's nice and I love him. Okay goodbye."
"I knew it. I knew you'd fall in love with him and then push me aside. You and your mistress, Cat."
6) He likes that Yixing babies Cat.
"My hair is still damp, don't towel me in my sleep."
"You need to towel a lot more vigorously on your own or I'd have to stick a vacuum right by your face and you know I don't like vacuums."
"Only because Cat broke it with his hair. You need to learn how to brush him."
"Didn't I tell you? He wriggles away!!"
"You have to hold him firmly!"
"But ... he doesn't want to do it!"
"You are too soft on him, I will do it."
"I am not soft, leave him be."
[ . . . ]
"What if - hypothetically - your cat threw up all over the living room lamp shade. How would you go about cleaning that?"
"Did Cat throw up?"
"Very hypothetically."
"What are you doing to our cat?!"
"I've done nothing! This is an imagined situation!"
"You know what. It's probably because he keeps himself and the fur that you don't brush sits in his stomach so he throws it up."
"Sounds like a perfectly natural progression of events, then."
"Also known as, you need to brush him."
"But he doesn't want to!!"
"Baby, it's bad for cats if you don't brush them."
".. Really?"
"Really."
"....... Can you do it?"
"I'll do it, darling."
"But be nice!"
"I'll be nice, love."
".... Okay."
5) He likes that Yixing crawls into bed with him in the wee hours of the morning.
"I think you're right, needles are stupid."
"Told you. Did you get pricked?"
"It's okay. Did you wake up all right?"
"I slept wonderfully. Warm. Did you sleep okay?"
"Of course!"
"When did you even come in? I didn't feel the bed move."
"I think, um, three? Two? ... No, probably three."
"Better than 6am. I don't even know how you function at 6am."
"If the sun can do it, so can people!"
"The sun sleeps, too."
"Not really, it just goes to be awake somewhere else."
"... Shh!"
"I'm right!"
"No, shh."
"You ridiculous bundle of ridiculous."
"Yeah, but you are stuck with this."
"I love you, too, and how your face distorts when you sleep."
"You watch me?"
"Maybe."
"Creep."
"And you drool. It's kind of endearing."
"Stop!"
4) He likes that Yixing refutes his pet names when he's unhappy with him.
"Shoebill birds are over five feet tall and their mouths are huge."
"A perfect amount of space to chop off your foot."
" "Hello Yixing." "
"Stop!"
" "I think you look absolutely Delicious today." "
"Why is that capitalized. Cut it out."
" "Yum!!" "
"I don't love you anymore."
"Oh, darling."
"No darling here. Go get your ankle drilled through by a crazy beak manbird."
"You don't mean that~"
"I so do!"
"Honey~."
"No honey here!"
"I'm sorry, I love you."
"Nope. I'm unhappy with you, you lump."
3) He likes that Yixing calls him 'hyung' even when he's not.
"Some days, you are not worthy of my addressing you as hyung."
"Yeah, but you still do it anyway."
"I should boycott, really."
"No!"
"You clearly don't deserve it."
"Gege. Call me hyung, gege."
"How did you suppose that was gonna help? I think I am going to boycott this. I can't remember the last time I boycotted something."
"Don't boycott me!"
"Not you! Just the word."
"Call me hyung."
"Go back to your noodle fail."
"I could yah you right now."
"In your big person voice, I see~."
"My hyung voice!"
"Nope, still not giving you that. When were you born again?~"
"199--0!"
"This child and his lies! How immature."
"I may not be your hyung, Zhang Yixing. But I am your sunbae. Take that."
"Well...."
"Call me sunbae."
"Hehe, I thought about it and laughed."
[. . .]
"Hyung. Hyung. Hyung! Hyung! Jungwoo!!!! Hyung!!"
"... Yixing."
"I don't want to live on this planet anymore. The birds are here again, go shoo them away for me."
"On it."
2) He likes that Yixing likes Heffalumps.
"The Heffalump movie has a Halloween sequel?"
"Yes! They find some other creature to be weirdly scared of, but I don't think it exists."
"Oh, oh! Lumpy is dressed as a pirate with Roo. Well, isn't that darling?"
"They had a Lumpy-shaped pumpkin, too."
"I'm surprised you watched this."
"I like Heffalumps."
"I like you, you're cute."
1) He likes that Yixing fixes him [even when he doesn't ask].
"There are approximately one hundred and twenty things I love about you, but, say if I tell you things and you go, "oh, so that's what makes him tick" - that's not so interesting. I can move on with my life. Like, if you spend all your life thinking about what the moon's made of and one day you finally get there and it's just a bunch of dust so you go, "okay well, let's go back home" and you decide to think about what it's like on mars instead."
"I'm not going anywhere and you're gonna have to trust me on that. And if we're speaking realistically, it might as well be the other way around."
"This just makes me feel deeply annoying and it feeds into the cycle of me thinking I'm boring and you think you are. And this is why I am bad at talking about real things so I'm really, really sorry. Also, I don't understand your realism."
"You have nothing to apologize for. And you know, it's like - what if one day you look at me and go, "hm. He's kind of broken all over the place." and don't want to deal with trying to fix things all the time? I wouldn't blame you for that, it's kind of a burden to even think about it. It's like looking at a broken toy car and then seeing a shinier, brand new toy car that moves properly and even has options and things you can play with. You know, instead of a missing wheel and doors that don't even open."
"You aren't broken."
"-- Or if one day, you realize you don't wanna be the person to go in and manually fix thin--"
"It's the only thing I can do and I think it's all right to have me do it."
"... What if there are bigger and better things out there for you? What if you want to be like a balloon and float and see how many things you can do without being tethered down to a boyfriend whose heart may or may not give out."
"I've told you already. I know my bigger and better things and they all go back to you."
"What if one day, they don't?"
"Can't happen unless you die."
[ . . . ]
"You know. I can't even actually fix you."
"I never asked you to."
"What could you constantly need me for if I can't fix you?"
"You. Just you. And all the little things that come with being you."
"So if you get sick of them?"
"I said I was in love with you, just trust me on this."
"Even though I lie and avoid things and sound irredeemably stupid when the sun's about to come up?"
"Even with all of that."
"You have horrible tastes, but okay."
"You're dating a guy who wears bowties on Wednesdays because he declared it an unofficial national holiday. My tastes are a little abnormal."
"Bowties are always acceptable."
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