everyone get chauyipilled nowwwww 🦭🐰

Sep. 16th, 2025 11:34 am
stoplight: (zhang hao)

talked about this with shakti and realized that i needed it all in one place for my own peace of mind. why is this kind of the best yaoi to come out of boys 2 planet and neither of them are even still on the show anymore.

anyways let me introduce you to chauyi / 赣球港 / 판윗
before we get into that actually let me very quickly give some context for mnet's insanity... basically boys 2 planet (they stylize it as boys II planet but i'm not doing that because it reminds me of high school) is the second season of boys planet, through which 9 members debuted as zerobaseone, who have a contract period of 2.5 years and are thus slated to disband sometime in january 2026. why are they doing another boys season immediately afterward instead of girls? no clue. the difference though is that boys 2 planet initially began as two separate shows: boys 2 planet K and boys 2 planet C, which would each produce their own group of 8 members each and promote separately in korea/china under separate companies. trainees who applied to the show had their choice to appear on the K or C version. then like a month before both shows were set to air mnet suddenly announced that actually they were going to merge the 2 shows into just the K version, and so suddenly instead of 2 sets of 80 trainees competing for 8 spots each there were now 160 trainees competing for 8 spots. and also all the C version trainees were suddenly expected to learn korean/work in korea.

this is relevant because mnet immediately had way too many trainees to handle, and so they did a huge elimination (not viewer voted, mentor/judge decisions only) that got rid of so many trainees they ended up with 52 K trainees and 28 C trainees. yes the K trainees had nearly double the number of C trainees. yes the C trainees got kicked out in the middle of the night with no warning whatsoever. yes it's fucked.

it's pretty much confirmed that the reason why K/C merged is because negotiations with yuehua, the company initially in charge of the C debut group, fell through (due to profit distribution or whatever) and so they pulled out last minute and refused to help mnet with the C group. and mnet decided that the best solution was to eliminate whoever they wanted until they got their ratio. except then they managed to find another chinese company to manage a C group (the company's yet to be announced) and so now after boys 2 planet has ended there's going to be a separate C group spinoff survival show yet again......

ANYWAYS. let me shut up and get into the yaoi now.

the english & korean ship names (chauyi / 판윗) are just their names; zheyi 1 chauyuet 0. in china their name is 赣球港；赣 comes from zheyi's hometown of 赣州 (ganzhou), 球 comes from 星球 (planet) as a reference to boys 2 planet, and 港 comes from chauyuet's hometown of 香港 (hong kong). CP fans are called 小白s, because 小白 is the name of the plushie that zheyi gave chauyuet as a farewell gift after he got eliminated.



🦭 ngan chauyuet / 颜秋越 / 안차우윗 🦭
birthday: october 13, 2002
hometown: hong kong
height: 183cm
mbti: INTP/INFP
final rank: 25*

chauyuet is currently working as an actor/model in hong kong after graduating from the hong kong baptist university's film department. before that though he wanted to be an idol and trained in korea for 5 years (ages 16 - 21), but on the show is an individual trainee with no company. he also went on starlight boys but was similarly eliminated pretty early on 💔

i've put his rank down here as 25 because when the two shows were separate that was his last rank on the C version, before mnet started randomly eliminating people left and right via the mentors.

personality-wise he's a pretty calm/quiet guy. he's introverted and likes photography but will also tell bad dad jokes on account of being "old." and that's pretty much all i can say about him because he quite literally got ZERO screentime on the whole show... his audition didn't get aired his signal song test tryout/reassignment/etc didn't get aired he literally never got screentime until he got eliminated. and it was a this devastating clip of zheyi hugging him goodbye... but i'll get into that later.



🐰 fan zheyi / 范哲逸 / 판저이 🐰
birthday: january 22, 2006
hometown: jiangxi, china
height: 188cm
mbti: ENFJ
final rank: 25*

zheyi is like. douyin influencer campus heartthrob in a similar way that zhang hao was except to a lesser extent (because zhang hao went to a "normal" university and so his visuals stood out pretty drastically while zheyi's in the acting department at donghua and so his campus is regularly filled with extremely attractive people). he got love calls to be on pretty much every single chinese survival show there possibly was but he specifically held out for boys planet, because he's a huge kpop fan and is determined to debut in korea. he's never had proper kpop training (save for a potential summer program he did at yuehua) but has taken dance classes and the like and everyone knew he wanted to be a trainee very early on. he's done miscellaneous jobs involving brand events because brand/talent scouts keep chasing after him. he got a huge highlight in the first two episodes of planet C because he ranked 2nd amongst the 80 C trainees due to all the preshow hype, but once the shows merged he lost all his screentime and ended up falling to 24th. then, mnet decided to hold a live survivor voting for 24th place with 3 contenders from 24 - 26 ranks. mnet gave one of the other contenders a super favorable edit right before the live voting which let him win the survivor vote, even though if you total up their votes zheyi still ranked 24th 💔

personality-wise zheyi is very much a gentle giant... he likes cute things and collects dolls/keychains (clipped all the keychains fans gave him to his backpack), cries super easily (got emotional after reading a fan letter), and also gets scared super easily (in the 6 seconds he got during the horror content they filmed). he cooks for the dorm and wakes up his roommates like this. but at the same time he's kind of goofy like whatever this was and insists on his government-assigned animal being a bunny even though everyone pretty much unanimously decided he was a baby panda (hence why his fans are called panduris) like okay king... whatever you say.

now you may be wondering. if their only screentime together on the show was literally a 10 second clip of them hugging as chauyuet got eliminated why the hell are you so invested. BECAUSE....... look at the material
  • they met and got close during the signal song because they talked to e/o while filming
  • which meant that during the preshow planet showcase (or whatever the hell they called it) they basically stuck next to e/o the whole time, which meant there are lots of videos like this and photos like this



  • before the show aired they were spotted shopping together in june while wearing matching flannels




  • when chauyuet got eliminated they hug and he says "puppy i'm leaving now" to which zheyi sobs and goes "no... you can't... you can't" x2
  • as a parting gift zheyi gave him his plushie (named 小白, which their fans are also called) which is significant because it's a white dog and chauyuet's nickname for him is puppy
  • and also at the airport chauyuet was listening to zheyi's favorite song (yura yura — zerobaseone)



  • when the trainees got free time (between the first and second stages) chauyuet flew back to korea just so he could hang out with zheyi & co. because he had no other reason to be in korea


  • they went to hotpot & took photobooth photos & shopped together



  • fans noticed that they seemed to be holding hands in one photo (the two in front) so people started talking about it on weibo








  • chauyuet used to post instagram stories right after an episode aired to demonstrate that he was watching the show but the minute zheyi got eliminated he stopped doing all that (one of the qrts was like "i also wouldn't watch a shitty show that made my girlfriend cry")
  • after zheyi got eliminated he made an instagram which chauyuet promoted (the caption says "he is here 🐰")


  • he was also zheyi's first follower and they keep being each other's first likes on their respective posts
  • in one of their posts on instagram they show a bunch of polaroids that basically reveal the fact that they were living together in korea (alongside peng jinyu & sun jiayang, likely during the weird periods between boys 2 planet filmings) because of the same backgrounds/props in each photo




  • they also have matching bios on xiaohongshu


  • and then chauyuet also accidentally followed a fan after seeing a ship post of him and zheyi 😭 basically in the screenshot below the notification shows "chauyuet followed you based off X post" and the post in question says "are you going on a date with fan zheyi" so... you know he eventually had to scramble to unfollow


  • once zheyi flew back to china (specifically his house in shenzhen) he started posting reels. and look who showed up in one of them... which means that chauyuet not only followed zheyi to china but also is clearly living with him (background of the reel matches other reels he's posted before)
  • they played valorant together (alongside peng jinyu) and based on the scores alone you can tell chauyuet dgaf about this game. he is just here to support <3


so now they're happily living together in shenzhen until the finale when they'll head back to korea to be audience members and witness the debut of zb2 or alpha1 or ald1 or whatever terrible name the group winds up with. if they do anything else until then i'll update this post. but otherwise all we can do is pray some company picks them both up to debut or if they've both decided not to be idols anymore that they manage to maintain long distance relationship as zheyi goes back to shanghai for school and chauyuet continues modeling/acting/etc in hong kong while visiting zheyi in between jobs. the end <3
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chenle/jisung otp: quote ranking 2.0

Jun. 2nd, 2022 06:27 pm
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shakti@storyboxed
WHXKWWUZZ WHAT THE FHCKSKS JISUNG IS INSANE. honestly it would’ve been interesting if u just did chenle quotes and ranked his “”””haterism”””. JUST KIDDING

12:08AM · May 16, 2021 · Twitter Web App





crys@stoplight
Replying to @storyboxed
WHAT THE HELL I LITERALLY JUST MIGHT

12:09AM · May 16, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone


shakti@storyboxed
Replying to @stoplight
HELP ❤️❤️ i want to see it. chenji quote ranking the sequel⁉️⁉️⁉️

12:10AM · May 16, 2021 · Twitter Web App

a quick update roughly one year later because this: "the reason why there are literally no chenle quotes in this post is because all of HIS quotes about jisung sound like they're from a jisung-anti who's really bad at being a jisung-anti" maybe doesn't give chenle enough credit <3

sequel to this post
i should preface this by saying that not only is chenle incredibly bad at processing/understanding/expressing his emotions, but also he’s even worse when compared to jisung, who is the arguably the person in dream most in tune with their emotions (renjun is a close second). so—some of the quotes below are going to be fairly generic. but they still matter because it’s chenle saying them, and chenle usually never says anything ever.

no. 10
"since jisung chose sungchan, i won't talk to jisung anymore. who's jisung?"

who said it: chenle
context: 2020 chenle's bubble — he bubbled this after he, jisung, and hendery did a vlive as part of nct 2020 promos. there’s a comment that asks jisung to choose between chenle and sungchan, and jisung keeps trying to weasel his way out of it while chenle presses him for an answer. hendery tries to mediate, and in the end jisung chooses sungchan
commentary: this is so funny to me because chenle is so incredibly petty and he 100% held this over jisung for probably the next month. he wound up doing a solo live the next day or something and chose taeil, mark, and sungchan over jisung in revenge. which is simply like… i'm sure there are healthier ways to express jealousy! but okay.

no. 9
"you might think that jisung's pretending to be innocent and naive, but he's not. he's really dumb. no one can do that all the time. he's simply dumb"

who said it: chenle
context: 2020 chenji's this and that season 2 ep 2 (trying foods they can't eat) — jisung insists on doing something by himself but is clumsy and drops everything in the process. chenle takes over, does the thing properly, and then says this
commentary: this is why i said that all of chenle's quotes sound like they're from a jisung anti who's really bad at being a jisung anti. he's insulting him but he still ultimately always does whatever jisung failed to do for him and never complains about it. your actions don't match your words!

no. 8
"i hope you always stay happy"

who said it: chenle
context: 2020 nct dream the stage — when this video first got uploaded they actually edited out chenle's message to jisung and so many people rioted that they ended up reuploading the video with the message added back in. which is truly incredible because chenle never tenderhearts verbally! the full message goes:
chenle: "you know, you've always been very hardworking"
jisung: [laughs] "okay, thanks"
chenle: "for our success... and also you worry and care a lot. thank you for that and... [laughs] you think a lot too. i hope you can think more positively. don't worry, don't worry a lot, i hope you always stay happy"
jisung: "that was really sweet"
chenle: [sighs] "cheesy..."
jisung: "i just found a new side of chenle"
commentary: was this the most embarrassing and painful moment of chenle's life? it's definitely up there. was it so embarrassing and painful because he was actually sincere? absolutely.

no. 7
"no matter what i say, since we're close, jisung knows all that i want to say"

who said it: chenle
context: 2019 allure magazine interview — the interviewer says that after seeing their youtube content, it seems like chenle's korean improved and that that improvement couldn't have been easy. chenle responds with this
commentary: this is really touching to me because it still goes on to this day… chenle will say a phrase or two, make the most aborted movement i have ever seen, and jisung will know exactly what he's trying to say every time. here are just a few examples of it

no. 6
"my first korean i learned from the person next to me"

who said it: chenle
context: 2018 huya live — i'll be honest i was too lazy to trawl through this 2 hour live to figure out when he said this/what the context was. but the quote is pretty self-explanatory honestly
commentary: this is another callback to their origin story <3 or their "운명" (fate/destiny) as mark calls it (which kills me because the LAYERS of it all but that's for another time)

no. 5
"of course it's jisung"

who said it: chenle
context: 2021 chenra — the question is "who's chenle's best friend?" and he says "that's too obvious. of course it's jisung. jisung and i have completely opposite personalities but i think we're the closest"
commentary: he goes on to say that he didn't pick mark for this question because mark is his son, which is why i'm ranking this quote lower BUT he's still quite insistent about the fact that he will always consider js his best friend :') when push comes to shove etc etc

no. 4
"do you want to be friends?"

who said it: chenle
context: 2017 mbc show! music core monitoring — they're watching their mfal stage and chenle just turns to jisung out of nowhere and says that :') and they have never used honorifics for each other ever since.
commentary: okay sorry that's a lie because jisung (who notably cares more about hierarchy/authority/etc than chenle does) still continues to slip up a bunch and only really gets consistent during we young era. it happens in an instant and it's not obvious that chenle's serious about it but he is… when asked if he ever regretted it in 2018, he says "no… i never did because becoming friends feels more comfortable"

no. 3
"'chenji is ending' my ass"

who said it: chenle
context: 2022 chenle's bubble — jisung bubbles "is this the end [of chenji's this and that]ㅋㅋㅋ / if i said this to chenle he would sulk and say 'you don't want to do it?' ㅎㅎㅎ" and chenle, who is subscribed to jisung's bubble, sees it and goes on a rampage: "does jisung have no idea that i have his bubble subscription or is he doing it on purpose or is he picking a fight or is he saying 'let's fight' to me / chenji is not over do you think it would end / 'chenji is ending' my ass how is that possible"
commentary: i laughed SOOOOOO hard when this happened. and also kind of died inside a bit. mostly because his phrasing is hilarious (it's my twitter header for a reason) but also because i think this really gets at the major miscommunication that's going on between them right now: jisung is like, if you aren't consistently verbally telling him that you care about him and want to spend time with him he's going to come to conclusions on his own ("oh i guess chenle doesn't want to do this anymore") whereas chenle will never say anything ever (as usual) but expect no consequences/nothing to change

no. 2
"i took care of you a little too, but you also took care of me a lot"

who said it: chenle
context: 2021 hot sauce digital booklet messages — they've translated it as "i looked after you, but you also did for me, so thank you" but that loses the nuance of "a little" vs "a lot" (좀 vs 많이) which is so incredibly important here T___T
commentary: i mean yeah… this_kills_the_man.jpg him being aware of the difference (as can be kind of seen played out right now wrt jisung's nagging during chenle's injury & COVID situation because seriously what is this) is so touching to me because he never really acknowledges that care usually and jisung is always so quiet about it, so :')
bonus: jisung's message for chenle is also very this_kills_the_man.jpg but then again when is he not like that

no. 1
"don't give up on me, i'll end up getting hurt"

who said it: chenle
context: 2021 chenij's this and season 2 ep 8 (making rice paper tteokbokki) — the conversation goes
jisung: "i love cheese"
chenle: "no one asked" [peeking to see reaction]
jisung: "don't worry you're always like that"
chenle: "i guess you gave up"
jisung: "i gave up now"
chenle: "don't give up on me! have hope"
jisung: [laughs] "i haven't heard that in a while"
chenle: "don't give up on me i'll end up getting hurt" [laughs] "i do all the mean things, then i end up getting hurt"
jisung: "right"
chenle: "doesn't that mean i'm nice? "
jisung: "does it?"
chenle: "i do mean things but i get hurt by them"
jisung: …?
commentary: sorry to transcribe so much but i have no idea how to verbalize how crazy this conversation makes me feel except to write it out so that you too can hopefully feel as crazy as i do. and if that still hasn't worked then here's the video of it. BUT IT'S LIKE… chenle is always constantly trying to get a reaction out of jisung and that mostly manifests through insults because he's stupid (i say this with love). so for him to admit that he NEEDS the reaction because he WANTS jisung's attention is seriously soooooooo much to see. like wow you are such a loser <3 (again i say this with love!) AND THEN HE IMMEDIATELY FLIPS IT AROUND SO THAT JISUNG'S THE LOSER NOW? CHENLEEEEEE YOU ARE SO YOU THAT IT HURTS!!!!! and i don't even want to think about the implication that this isn't the first time... you're telling me chenle has already said this before???


closing thoughts: these were surprisingly easy to dig up and way more heartfelt than i was expecting them to be. in the process though i stumbled across like five more jisung quotes that i forgot to include the first time around and so in the end it is always going to be jisung more expressive through words chenle more expressive through actions… but that’s why i like them so much <3

since they are now in their estrangement era hopefully they can Stop Saying Things and i can be done with this series for good. it is time i move onto actual meta… OR GO BACK TO WRITING FIC ACTUALLY!
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chenle/jisung otp: quote ranking

May. 15th, 2021 09:20 pm
stoplight: (jisung)

when i first saw the tweet above i quote-retweeted saying "the way that i would never be able to pick a tag bc jisung literally does not know how to repress." on a totally unrelated note i finally cleaned out my twitter bookmarks for manifesto purposes and now i am going to do just that—try and pick a tag <3

believe it or not this is the pared-down version
no. 20
"i have to protect chenle-hyung"

who said it: jisung
context: 2017 we young era, nct night night — he says this at the end of the radio, when they're asking about how this broadcast was compared to the first duo one that they did back in may. the full quote of it is: "back then i had to protect chenle-hyung but now he's good on his own."
commentary: they agreed to drop honorifics back during mfal era but jisung still slipped up sometimes during we young era too. here it's like he's emphasizing that even though chenle's older he's the one protecting him... heh?

no. 19
"gently, like i’m handling chenle"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 chenji's this and that season 1 ep 21 (making dalgona coffee) — when making the coffee you have to pour the dalgona on top carefully so that it doesn't sink to the bottom, and when jisung goes to pour his that's what he says.
commentary: ummm. no words. sorry this quote is just so tender and it came out of nowhere... it really is true though i feel like jisung is always so conscious of their size difference/the way that chenle has no regard for his image whatsoever and has taken it upon himself to rectify that.

no. 18
"why do you love me?"

who said it: jisung
context: 2018 huya live — chenle excitedly leans over to say "i love you" (he's reading a comment) but jisung doesn't realize that so he asks why.
commentary: UM. the way that he genuinely wanted an answer and chenle was so flustered afterward... okay.

no. 17
"watch my videos instead of curry’s"

who said it: jisung
context: 2019 fanmeeting — chenle's reading the anonymous TMIs that the members wrote about him and reads this one out. jeno immediately goes "that's jisung's" and jisung says "how did you know?"
commentary: i feel like it's pretty obvious that jisung's more blatant about jealousy whereas chenle will deny it until he dies (like he does with literally everything. help) but this one is just so blatant wtf. just say you want his attention and go.

no. 16
"i'm fixing all of his bad habits one by one"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 duo vlive (🐭🐬 One Second) — chenle keeps biting his nails and jisung keeps trying to get him to stop, then turns to the camera and says this.
commentary: same sentiment as the coffee one... i don't know there's just something about jisung (careful, actually has an image) trying to keep chenle (disaster, PR nightmare) in line that is so good.

no. 15
"you’re a flower so you can’t wither"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 duo vlive (🐭🐬 One Second) — jisung reads out a comment asking if chenle's drunk water that day, and when chenle answers that he hasn't he goes and says this.
commentary: he is so cheesy sometimes that it is unreal. like this is ripped straight from idol fanservice 101... every time i see this i'm reminded of that twt edit someone made of him being a huge flirt. like yeah underneath all the blustering he DOES have the confidence sometimes huh.

no. 14
"i could only see chenle"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 vlive w/renjun (RJ😖) — they talk about the kbs song festival performance that all of nct did barring jisung (who had to sit out because of his injury), and jisung says this in reference to chenle's um... unique dancing during the misfit stage.
commentary: within context this quote makes total sense because like chenle was truly just vibing then but also it's like @/jisung we already know.

no. 13
"you are aegyo itself"

who said it: jisung
context: 2018 vlive w/jungwoo and lucas (Park & Zhong’s Consultation) — chenle has to do aegyo and jisung's telling him that he can do it, then says that.
commentary: the way that this is just one of many instances of this quote... i find it so funny because chenle sucks at aegyo.

no. 12
"i like it whenever i’m with chenle"

who said it: jisung
context: 2017 we young era fansign — the conversation goes:
fan: jisung do you like using a room with chenle?
jisung: i like it whenever i'm with chenle
fan: [can you give] specifics?
chenle: you like me?
commentary: i'm losing it at chenle's "you like me?" like help. you are so oblivious it is unreal.

no. 11
"of course he likes me better"

who said it: jisung
context: 2019 boom era vlive w/haechan, jaemin, and jisung ([BOOM!] 🤴&🐹&💚&☀️시즈니와 함께 애프터눈 티타임☕️) — haech calls chenle and asks whether he likes him or jisung better, and chenle goes "i don't like EITHER of you." after hanging up jisung scoffs and says that.
commentary: love to see the CONFIDENCE! even if it is just in response to haech's own. @/jisung you can be arrogant about this. as a treat <3

no. 10
"is it just that i like chenle?"

who said it: jisung
context: one of his voice vlives... i wish i knew which one — he's talking about his reaction to one of their songs and he goes "i liked all of chenle's parts—why? is it just that i like chenle? ah, that must be it."
commentary: UM. sorry i am kind of losing it you can't just say things like that... that is so. heart on sleeve.

no. 9
"why is chenji’s this and that so funny is this being blinded by love or is it because chenle is a little bit cute"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 bubble update — jisung sends it after chenji's this and that season 2 ep 1 comes out.
commentary: chenle did nothing particularly cute during that episode (and i say this as someone whose favorite is chenle) so um. jisung you are down bad.

no. 8
"teasing jisung is a way of saying that i like him"

who said it: chenle (finally 😭)
context: 2020 chenle's birthday vlive (Happy Birthday) — a fan asks him when he'll stop teasing jisung and he answers with this.
commentary: okay this is so like. first of all i know that the comment was in chinese so he answered as such but i find it so funny that chenle only says nice things about jisung in ways that jisung will never know about (on chenra in chinese, on weibo lives in chinese, etc) and then turns around like "you are so stupid" like. @/chenle you are allowed to have feelings sometimes it's okay. sorry that aside this quote literally summarizes his entire personality... he is seriously so twelve-year-old boy (especially with all the denial) in his pigtail-pulling. the reason why there are literally no chenle quotes in this post is because all of HIS quotes about jisung sound like they're from a jisung-anti who's really bad at being a jisung-anti.

no. 7
"this is really fate"

who said it: jisung
context: 2016 chewing gum era iqiyi interview — he gets asked about their soulmate backstory (a quick rundown for anyone who doesn't know: chenle and jisung first met at a children's festival in china in 2012, later debuted in the same group together under sm without knowing that it was the other person, and were later told by fans) and has this to say about it.
commentary: this is the first of many quotes about the predebut lore... i simply have to. textbook soulmatism/straight out of a drama/etc etc.

no. 6
"i was wondering if i’d meet him again"

who said it: chenle
context: 2021 hot sauce era comeback show — they're talking about the soulmate backstory and chenle reveals that when he first came to korea to join sm jisung was the only korean person he'd met and so he thought of him.
commentary: this literally happened four days ago and i'm still not over it. like what do you mean there's even MORE to the lore than what has already been said??? you were thinking of him when you came??????? [regina george voice] shut up. shut up!

no. 5
"i can’t forget the moment i saw you for the first time"

who said it: jisung
context: 2019 chenji's this and that season 1 ep 19 (first anniversary) — he just... kind of says it out of nowhere. (the reason is that their ipods had the same color). "we both realized that we had the same ipods. it was the first time that i said hello to you. we've come all this way since then."
commentary: yeah we are still on the predebut lore... i don't know what to say like!! there's just so much to it. this doesn't even get into all of it... and also jisung getting all sentimental and talking about their #growth up to that point... okay!!!! if you knew how i felt!!!!!

no. 4
"i’ll forgive you because it’s you"

who said it: jisung
context: 2019 chenji's this and that season 1 ep 19 (first anniversary) — they wrote letters/certificates to each other and chenle made a spelling error on his. when jisung sees it he goes "this was cute 'spilled' spelled wrong was cute ah... i'll forgive you because it's you."
commentary: i don't know this is just like. well isn't that kind of the entire summary of their relationship from jisung's point of view. i'm losing it.

no. 3
"because of you the sky is never dark now"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 ridin' era studio k boatta ep 11 w/nct dream — dream guested on a variety show and had to write poems about each other; this is a line from jisung's ("because of you the sky is never dark now / although it can be a little noisy, sometimes").
commentary: i feel so insane just thinking about this... everyone wrote such stupid poems for each other (jaemin's entire poem was just calling jisung's hair greasy or something) but jisung took his so seriously and wrote the most heartfelt thing out of nowhere on a VARIETY SHOW. like!!! i read the chinese translation of it and it's actually so poetic... this one is my favorite <3 there's a reason it's my twitter bio :')

no. 2
"thank you for always giving me the answer"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 dream show tour live album messages to each other — "when you tell me, 'then, you can just do it!' i immediately say 'right?!' thank you for always giving me the answer."
commentary: UM. i don't know this is kind of poetic too... to me this is about how chenle gives him confidence (because one of the biggest ways that they're opposites is the cautious/hesitant vs carefree/confident dynamic) and reassures him. like that's something that can actually be so personal.

no. 1
"but you have me"

who said it: jisung
context: 2020 ridin' era vlive (Ridin on the road💚) — this was done after their first win for the song.
jisung: after we got first place my family all contacted me
chenle: really? that's warm
jisung: but you have me
chenle: ...okay
commentary: finally at no. 1 T___T i don't know them relying on each other is nothing new but especially considering that chenle's family is all back in china and jisung saying that chenle has him in korea is just so like. al;skdfkladsf. sorry i literally do not know how to be normal about this.


tldr: i stand by what i said jisung literally does not know how to repress <3

edit (jun 6 2022): part two

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nct dream chinese cp names

Jan. 13th, 2021 06:26 pm
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unlike english-speaking fandoms or kfandom, which tend to name pairings by combining the names of members together (ex: markhyuck/맠동), cfans often come up with a single-character nickname for pairings so that non-shippers, who tend to look down on CP fans (couple fans), won't find them when they search the tag. these single-character names often have pretty unique meanings so i've done my best to list them all down below!

some pairings have other names (less commonly-used than the single-character ones) and fan names (names for the fans of the pairing themselves). if a pairing doesn't, it's either because they're not popular enough in cfandom to have one, or i just couldn't find it.

a quick disclaimer that i wrote this up for fun and am by no means an expert on any of this stuff, so please take everything with a grain of salt!

the names
🐯🦊  mark/renjun
  • single-character name: 典 (diǎn)
  • meaning/origin: 字典 (zì diǎn), dictionary, because they exchanged dictionary gifts—mark gave renjun an english dictionary for his birthday, and then renjun gave mark a chinese dictionary back for his birthday
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: 典籍 (diǎn jí), means ancient documents

🐯🐶  mark/jeno
  • single-character name: 树 (shù)
  • meaning/origin: 圣诞树 (shèng dàn shù), christmas tree, because renjun once said that they looked like a christmas tree
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: N/A

🐯🐻  mark/donghyuck
  • single-character name: 传 (chuán)
  • meaning/origin: taken from 凤凰传奇 (fèng huáng chuán qí), phoenix legend, which is the name of a famous singer/rapper duo in china. mark and donghyuck are also a singer/rapper duo (see: their billionaire cover) and thus they're called 传 in acknowledgement of such
  • other names: 船 (chuán), boat, because it has the same pinyin as 传
  • fan name: 传真机 (chuán zhēn jī), means fax machine. this is a play on words—solo fans tend to insult CP fans by calling them xx鸡 (jī, chicken, if the pairing is popular) or xx狗 (gǒu, dog, if the pairing isn't so popular). 机 (machine) has the same pinyin as 鸡, so CP fans poke fun at themselves by calling themselves xx机. thus mark/donghyuck fans call themselves 传真机

🐯🐰  mark/jaemin
  • single-character name: 链 (liàn)
  • meaning/origin: 手链 (shǒu liàn), bracelet, because mark gave jaemin a bracelet for his 20th birthday (coming-of-age)
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: 链机 (liàn jī), which is just the single-character name with 机 tacked on at the end for the same reason that mark/donghyuck fans are called 传真机 (see above)

🐯🐬  mark/chenle
  • single-character name: 球 (qiú)
  • meaning/origin: 篮球 (lán qiú), basketball, refers to them being basketball bros
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: N/A

🐯🐹  mark/jisung
N/A

🦊🐶  renjun/jeno
  • single-character name: 降 (jiàng)
  • meaning/origin: 天降 (tiān jiàng), to descend from the sky/love that came down from the sky. originates from this phrase "纵使竹马情深, 难抵天降意中人" that's pretty popular amongst cfans, which roughly translates to "even if childhood sweethearts (jeno/jaemin) are deeply in love, it's hard to resist the heavenly person/destined love (renjun)." it refers to how jeno and jaemin are childhood friends and how renjun joined SM much later on; the person who falls from the sky (renjun) does so because fate draws them to the other person (jeno). (sidenote: 竹马 (childhood sweethearts) and 天降 (destined love) aren't exclusive to nct—in general fandom too they're pitted as opposites against each other)
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: N/A

🦊🐻  renjun/donghyuck
  • single-character name: 搜 (sōu)
  • meaning/origin: 搜美 (sōu měi), the words themselves literally mean "search beauty" but the pinyin sounds like soulmate (the real meaning behind the name), refers to how donghyuck once called renjun his soulmate
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: N/A

🦊🐰  renjun/jaemin
  • single-character name: 镯 (zhuó)
  • meaning/origin: 手镯 (shǒu zhuó), bracelet, refers to the couple bracelets that jaemin bought renjun for his birthday
  • other names: 鞋 (xié), shoes, because they bought couple shoes together
  • fan name: 镯学家 (zhuó xué jiā), means bracelet (renjun/jaemin) scientists

🦊🐬   renjun/chenle
  • single-character name: 搞 (gǎo)
  • meaning/origin: to do (but with a slightly aggressive connotation), refers to chenle going "搞搞搞搞搞搞" at renjun during nct dream's mafia game (the entire clip is hilarious but the moment of chenle saying 搞x100 is here, at 0:54)
  • other names: 君臣仁乐 (jūn chén rén lè), means monarch renle (it's a clever way to rearrange their names while preserving the pinyin, and it also has a nice meaning), and 雷俊 (léi jùn), which is another way to combine their names together (léi from zhōng chén léi, a mispronunciation of chenle's name that fans like to use for fun, and jùn just from renjun's chinese name)
  • fan name: N/A

🦊🐹  renjun/jisung
  • single-character name: 瓶 (píng)
  • meaning/origin: 玻璃瓶 (bō lí píng), glass bottle, because of the glass bottle incident at the dorms (explained here)
  • other names: 糯米系 (nuò mǐ xì), sticky rice line, because renjun's nickname is injeolmi and jisung's nickname is mochi
  • fan name: 颗糥米团 (kē nuò mǐ tuán), means rice balls

🐶🐻  jeno/donghyuck
  • single-character name: 望 (wàng)
  • meaning/origin: full moon, because the moons on the days that the two of them were born form a full moon together
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: 望仔 (wàng zǐ), means princes. it's a play on words: 王子 (wáng zǐ) means prince and sounds similar to 望仔

🐶🐰  jeno/jaemin
  • single-character name: 笃 (dǔ)
  • meaning/origin: 青梅竹马 (qīng méi zhú mǎ), childhood sweethearts, refers to jeno and jaemin being together since childhood because 竹马, or bamboo horses, are childhood toys (like how you might hold a broom between your legs and pretend you're riding a horse, in china kids tend to do that with bamboo stalks) and are often closely associated with childhood. cfans use 笃 because it's a combination of the 竹 radical and 马, so 竹马 becomes 笃
  • other names: 同 (tóng), same, because they entered the same company on the same day and debuted in the same subunit of the same group, etc etc
  • fan name: 笃机 (dǔ jī), for the same reason that mark/donghyuck fans are called 传真机 (see above), or dominos, because do(mino) = mino = min+no = jae(min) + je(no)

🐶🐬  jeno/chenle
  • single-character name: 叠 (dié)
  • meaning/origin: to fold, refers to how jeno's always draped over chenle like so
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: 知识分子 (zhī shì fēn zǐ), intellectuals, because their actual cp name 诺乐 (nuò lè/nò lè) is similar to k(no)w(le)dge

🐶🐹  jeno/jisung
  • single-character name: 惹 (rě)
  • meaning/origin: a smashing together of their chinese names to form one character (the 若 comes from the 诺 of jeno's chinese name, 杰诺 (jié nò), and the 心 radical from the 志 of jisung's chinese name, 志晟 (zhì shèng))
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: N/A

🐻🐰  donghyuck/jaemin
  • single-character name: 黏 (nián)
  • meaning/origin: 黏糊糊 (nián hú hú), sticky, because they both have a lot of aegyo and stick to the other members well
  • other names: 黏着 (nián zhuó) line, same meaning and reason as above
  • fan name: N/A

🐻🐬  donghyuck/chenle
  • single-character name: 烁 (shuò)
  • meaning/origin: a smashing together of their chinese names to form one character (the 火 radical comes from donghyuck's chinese name, 嗨灿 (hāi càn), and the 乐 is from chenle's 辰乐)
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: 熊熊园丁 (xióng xióng yuán dīng), means bear gardeners

🐻🐹  donghyuck/jisung
  • single-character name: 钻 (zuān)
  • meaning/origin: a much more complicated smashing together of their chinese names to form one character (jisung's chinese name is 朴志晟 (pǔ zhì shèng), but fans also call him 智星 (zhì xīng) and from that he's nicknamed 星星 (xīng xīng), or star. cfans used the bottom half of 星 (生) and the 火 radical from donghyuck's chinese name, 嗨灿 (hāi càn) to make 生火 (shēng huǒ). 生火 means to start a fire, and in chinese culture there's a saying, 钻木取火 (zuān mù qǔ huǒ), which refers to a traditional chinese fire starting method. from that saying, cfans simplified it down to 钻. here's a much more concise explanation for chinese speakers: 星的下半部分是生, 灿的偏旁是火, 连起来是生火. 生火 = 钻木取火 = 钻)
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: N/A

🐰🐬  jaemin/chenle
  • single-character name: 盐 (yán)
  • meaning/origin: salt, refers to how their names together spell out NaCl (Na from jaemin's last name, Cl from the shortened version of chenle), and NaCl is the chemical formula of salt
  • other names: 电闪雷鸣 (diàn shǎn léi míng), thunder and lightning, because the pinyin has léi from zhōng chén léi (a mispronunciation of chenle's name that fans like to use for fun) and míng is close to the mín of luō zāi mín (jaemin's chinese name in pinyin). also jokingly called 蕾哈娜 (lěi hā nà), or rihanna, because it sounds similar to 雷和娜 (léi hé nà, literally means léi and nà)
  • fan name: 磕盐人员/磕盐分子 (kē yán rén yuán/kē yán fèn zi) or salt (jaemin/chenle) officials/salt eaters

🐰🐹  jaemin/jisung
  • single-character name: 铺 (pù)
  • meaning/origin: 上下铺 (shàng xià pù), bunk beds, refers to all the anecdotes of them sharing a room and a bunk bed
  • other names: 明治 (míng zhì), meiji, because their names together, 民志 (mín zhì), sound similar to the chocolate brand, and also 床 (chuáng), which just means bed
  • fan name: N/A

🐬🐹  chenle/jisung
  • single-character name: 壳 (ké)
  • meaning/origin: 手机壳 (shǒu jī ké), phone case, refers to the stephen curry phone case that chenle gave jisung for his birthday
  • other names: N/A
  • fan name: 壳技人员 (ké jì rén yuán), which comes from 科技人员 (kē jì rén yuán), technicians, because 壳 and 科 sound similar, so 壳技人员 means phone case (chenle/jisung) technicians

some bonus ones

🐯🐻🐬  mark/donghyuck/chenle
  • name: coco 可乐 (kě lè)
  • meaning/origin: 可口可乐 (kě kǒu kě lè), coca cola. this is a really clever play on words—the pinyin of coca cola and coco 可乐 sounds very similar. coco is donghyuck, 可 is mark (kě, same pinyin as 克 from his chinese name, 李马克, lǐ mǎ kě), and 乐 is chenle (lè, from his chinese name, 钟辰乐, zhōng chén lè)

🦊🐶🐰  renjun/jeno/jaemin
  • name: 尾号三 (wěi hào sān)
  • meaning/origin: last number three, because the dates of all three of their birthdays end in 3 (3/23 for renjun, 4/23 for jeno, and 8/13 for jaemin)

🐶🐻🐰  jeno/donghyuck/jaemin
  • name: 笃立方 (dǔ lì fāng)
  • meaning/origin: includes donghyuck in the jeno/jaemin childhood sweethearts 竹马 bamboo horse narrative

🐶🐰🐬  jeno/jaemin/chenle
  • name: 叠叠乐 (dié dié lè)
  • meaning/origin: jenga, refers to how the three of them are often seen stacked on top of each other like jenga pieces

sources: one / two / three / four / general weibo supertopic trawling

as you can see, there are still some gaps in my knowledge so if you have any comments/suggestions feel free to comment down below and i'll update this post accordingly. thank you to di for reading this over, and thank you for reading :') i hope this was enjoyable, or informative, at the very least!
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thank you for always giving me the answer