Another fan project from Uzbek EXO-Ls! banners for our Kai! We also prepared banners for idols who will perform for us for the first time in Uzbekistan! #Ailee, #FABLE wish you all good luck! Thank you so much Jongin, EXO-Ls are incredibly happy #KAI#Uzbekistan
Perfect Crown Webnovel
Episode 1: Perfect Crown in Royal School
Dormitory
With the dormitory assignments looming, Hee-joo's mind kept fluctuating wildly. At the Royal School, there was a tradition of living in the dormitory starting from the 7th grade, when students turned fourteen. This old-fashioned tradition was essentially an absolute decree that could not be refused—because the moment you rejected it, you had to leave the school.
Dormitory life lasted for a total of six years, from the 7th to the 12th grade. It was notorious for its strict and conservative rules, to the point where it wasn't uncommon for students to give up halfway through.
It was no wonder. Controlling everything from how they walked to when they lay down in bed was no easy task for teenagers at a passionate age. Furthermore, most of the students at the Royal School were either of noble birth or had grown up in households with immense wealth. Compliance was never going to come easily.
However, there was a clear reward for those who endured. They held the pride of studying under royal patronage and shared that pride with their peers. They moved in all circles of society with a collective consciousness of being elites nurtured by the royal family—spanning politics, business, medicine, the legal profession, the arts, and even deep into the underground.
In this way, they pulled each other forward, pushed each other up, and supported one another in their respective fields. Some criticized this behavior as collective exclusivism, but that only made the closed-off school culture grow even more rigid. After all, a sense of belonging is originally strengthened through hostility toward other groups.
In that sense, Hee-joo looked forward to the dormitory assignment. She wanted to know what it felt like to belong. She was curious about what it felt like to experience a sense of camaraderie with someone other than herself, to win together and lose together, to grow together and face setbacks together.
Normally, people learn these things at home, but Hee-joo couldn't. She didn't have a mother, and her relationship with her father was poor. She did have a half-brother, but...
"It’s better to think of him as non-existent."
Frowning, Hee-joo headed toward the central library. Passing through the unnecessarily glamorous campus, past the fountain surrounded by marble statues on all sides, and as she climbed the marble stairs, a clutter of voices reached her ears.
"Hey, where do you think Sung Hee-joo will get assigned?"
"Probably Baekho Palace (White Tiger Palace), what else?"
"Baekho Palace?"
"She's smart. And she’s got a nasty attitude."
Laughter broke out among the whispering students.
"If she goes there, won't she be completely ostracized? Where else do kids care about lineage as much as they do at Baekho Palace?"
"True. It's not a dormitory an illegitimate child should go to."
"If you look at it that way, is there any dormitory that suits her? She's a commoner and an illegitimate child."
As one male student clicked his tongue and shook his head as if it made no sense, another student chimed in.
"Why, she's still got plenty of money though."
"If having lots of money solved everything, why would the word nouveau riche even exist?"
It didn't take long for the expressions of the mocking students to freeze. It happened the exact moment Hee-joo's small head came into view above the stairs. Soon, her pitch-black eyes appeared, and as they caught sight of her long, fluttering hair, someone swallowed hard.
"……."
One boy had previously tried to trip Hee-joo, only to end up with a broken foot, and another had been choked for mocking her for being clumsy. Learned fear was a remarkably precise thing. Every time something like that happened, the school was turned completely upside down, but nothing major ever came of it. In that sense, having a lot of money was a good thing. While she couldn't avoid bowing her head in apology, it was enough to prevent her from being expelled.
"What? What is it?"
One male student raised his voice. He seemed to want to put on an act of bravado despite not even being able to look her in the eye. However, it was hard to hide the fact that he was nothing more than a terrified little brat.
Hee-joo smirked and took a leisurely step forward.
"Ryu Min-seok."
"…W-what? What do you want?"
"Which dormitory do you want to go to?"
"Huh…?"
"I hope it's the same one as you."
When Min-seok frowned instead of answering, Hee-joo whispered softly.
"There are no CCTVs in the dormitories, you know."
"……?"
"If I were to kill you in there, wouldn't it be possible that nobody would ever know?"
"…You crazy bitch!"
Min-seok screamed in a belated rage, but by then, Hee-joo had already walked past into the library. Her long hair fluttered behind her as she relished the fear of others.
"Jujak Palace (Vermilion Bird Palace)…"
Hee-joo muttered to herself as she checked the notice posted on the wall. Ryu Min-seok had been babbling about Baekho Palace, but her assigned dormitory was Jujak Palace—the guardian of the south, symbolizing fire and summer.
Hee-joo headed toward the dormitory, wearing the red durumagi (traditional Korean overcoat) she had received from the administration office over her school uniform. The dormitories were positioned to match the directions symbolized by the Four Guardian Deities, such as Cheongnyong Palace (Azure Dragon Palace) to the east and Jujak Palace to the south.
The further south she walked, the more students she saw wearing red durumagi. They all had different faces, names, ages, and personalities, yet for some reason, they looked similar. Almost like… siblings.
"Sung Hee-joo!"
Just then, she heard Sung Tae-joo’s voice. He was her older brother, three years her senior, with whom she shared only half her blood. It was unpleasant how strangely similar they looked, yet a sense of relief would wash over her from a completely different standpoint. Unlike his neat and delicate appearance, his actions were foolish to a pathetic degree, so much so that he was constantly facing suspension.
"Pardon?"
— There must be something you want to have.
Biting her lower lip, Hee-joo's mood turned sour. Her father's question wasn't completely out of the blue. Whenever she accomplished something, it had always been Hee-joo's habit to say she wanted to have something. When she was young, it was mostly things like the snacks her brother was eating or the bicycle he was riding, and occasionally, it would be her father's fountain pen.
But those were merely excuses. What she truly wanted to have was her father's validation. Even though she was an illegitimate child, and even though she wasn't a child he had originally wanted... she wanted validation like, "You are magnificent," or "You did well."
"The watch Oppa (older brother) is wearing looked pretty."
— …….
"Please buy that for me too."
Her pride was too wounded to actually say she wanted to be praised. To say she just wanted her father's validation made her feel pathetic for desiring it in the first place. So, she simply acted exactly as her father expected her to. Like a greedy, precocious, materialistic, illegitimate child.
After hanging up the phone, Hee-joo sat on the windowsill. She suppressed her yearning to set down her heart—which belonged nowhere—just anywhere.
From the Royal School Rules
Article 5, Paragraph 1: The dormitories shall follow the names of the Four Guardian Deities, and assignments shall not be changed after they are made.
Article 5, Paragraph 3: Dormitory assignments shall be based on the student's entire time from the 1st to the 6th grade, and this includes assignment performance capability, behavioral development, and evaluations by the faculty.
Article 5, Paragraph 4: Competition between dormitories is permitted; however, mutual slander and defamation of character are designated as grounds for severe disciplinary action.
#아이유 #IU #성희주 #PerfectCrown
THE FCKING LORE IS BACK!!!
REVERXE emphasizes classic elements of EXO’s lore: the tree of life, powers and a sense of cosmic mythology resurrected. But their powers are malfunctioning and the tree is on fire? And I noticed the OG font is back. 👀
251002 · Doh Kyungsoo via 💭:
“Finally”
“A long weekend”
“Happy Chuseok”
“What are you all going to do?”
“That’s right, you have to wrap things up and take some time to rest”
“Wow, songpyeon (half-moon rice cakes), it’s really been a long time. There must be places that still make and sell them these days, right?”
“Songpyeon is really delicious”
“That’s right, usually we just buy them to eat ㅜㅜ”
Jongdae wants to show us all of the contents of the album but said he can't bc they need to end the live before 6PM. He apologize for being such a YAPPER 😭
🦖: I can't show you everything so I am sorry, I talk so much these days. I am so talkative. It is because I am happy to talk with you.
ARCADIA OUT NOW
#CHEN #첸_Arcadia #Arcadia
250928 #KAI#SEHUN KAION Encore Day 3
https://t.co/h5W6oVSm4E
🐥: Do you guys know why i'm here today? Of course notㅋㅋ can i talk about it?
👥: Yes!!
🐥: One day, it was late at night, i had something important to talk about with Kai, so we met. While we were talking, he said that he's doing an encore concert and asked me to join him, that's how i'm here 😄 i'm really thankful to him, thanks to Kai, i get to meet you guys! 🙇♂️
🧸: I thought it would be really nice if Sehun could perform in front if you guys ahead of his discharge right away, and i thought it'd be like a gift, so i suggested to him first to perform together, and he gladly accepted it, so i felt really happy! Honestly, while doing KAION, you guys know this is the death scetion, right? It really feels like i'm gonna die, so i had thought it would be nice if there's a guest to help me out, and there happens to be a very fine guest in front of me, of course i had to ask! That's how we got to do this together~
Jongin: “I'll do solo activities, and I'll do group activities. There will be a wide variety! There’s an album coming out too! And there will probably be, 3 songs released as well!there are a lot of fun, exciting things being planned “
OMG IM SO EXCITED �
Baekhyun for Esquire Korea (Oct 2025)
Q. Moving past the numbers, what do you wish to fulfil?
Baekhyun: There's two of that. First, it would be to show an unchanging side. When people ask me how to sing well, I always reply- "To sing without change". If you're singing the same song but there is a vast difference in skill (delivery) due to condition or the environment, I don't think that's singing well. Singing unchanged from the first breath to the last verse, that's real skill.
In the past, I would be thinking about going off tune or how I might look weird in the camera- had lots of other thoughts when I was singing. However, I have confidence in my voice and I'm able to focus entirely on the song now.
#BAEKHYUN @B_Hundred_hyun ✨
BAEKHYUN INTERVIEW FOR ESQUIRE KOREA
Q. Was there a moment that especially stuck with you?
BAEKHYUN: I found myself looking up at the sky a lot while walking, while sitting on benches. I actually picked up the habit of sky-gazing after I started running. One day, while jogging, I saw people lying on the grass looking up at the sky together. It looked so peaceful, so happy, so full of love. That sense of relaxation really stayed with me.
junmyeon: sehunnie was discharged just yesterday, right? i think i’ve waited for sehunnie more than anyone, more than any other exo-ls. honestly, it really does seem that way. i’m so happy that sehunnie has been discharged, and i’m also excited for his future. and i’m really looking forward to exo’s new beginning and fresh start too~
chen: "when it comes to a 'cat' in my standard, that's like xiumin hyung. u know those kinds of eyes, big monolid eyes, with the outer corners going up a bit like this. a person who has eyes like that i think of them as having a cat-like face. and like baekhyun [cont?]
Sehun’s ending ment for today’s live 🧡
Sehun: First of all, I think I really laughed so much for the first time in a while. I laughed and had fun too. I think that was all made possible because my members and our EXO-Ls were together with me. Just like what Junmyeon hyung said, we’re preparing a lot of things right now as well and we’re planning to show you the best version of ourselves a lot, so please look forward to it lots, everyone. I think that we’ll be able to show you guys those good sides of us soon, in the not so distant future, so I hope you’ll look forward to it lots. Yeah~
Jongin: *starts listing out all the challenges that he has to do*
Sehun: As for the challenges, I didn’t really give you a definite answer yet so I’ll discuss with the members after this ends first and then proceed accordingly~
True Legends #EXO !!!!
2012 ver : “The day the Red Force is purified and the 12 forces reunite into one perfect root, a new world shall open up”
2025 ver : “The day the Red Force is purified and the legends reunite into one perfect root, a new world shall open up”
2012 version:
"The day the Red Force is purified and the 12 forces reunite into one perfect root, a new world shall open up"
2025 version:
"The day the Red Force is purified and the legends reunite into one perfect root, a new world shall open up"