#help i rambled HDJDKD

[baeshijima]

I can’t wait to read more of your writing ;u; “how to woo the acting grand sage” left a mark on me <3 it was like I was watching a K-Drama. What inspired you to write the fic?

AAAA IM SO GLAD TO KNOW U ENJOYED IT 🥹🫶 and honestly? comparing it to a kdrama is probably the most accurate comparison possible 😭

as for what inspired me, its probably the fact that most haitham fics are academic rivals/e2l !! as much as i love that trope, tension and the transition from rivals/enemies to lovers, i barely saw any with a bubbly/energetic reader :’> since i thought the dynamic they would have with haitham would be super fun and cute (mainly for the grump whose only soft with u ehe) i decided to provide the content myself 😔

as for the actual fic idea and plot, it kinda just came to me right before i fell asleep a couple weeks ago 😭 it was the title that came to mind first, and then the steps after !! fun fact, originally there was 7 steps so the fic couldve been even longer, but i was stumped for what to include so reduced it to 5 :’)

after that the fic kind of just progressed on its own? maybe its just from all the kdramas and manhwas ive consumed, on top of the fact im kind of maybe a hopeless romantic, but once i got down the steps (+ a rough idea for the opening and ending) the writing kinda just went by ;w;