xiao · genshin impact · adeptus · protective · tsundere · trauma · liyue · supernatural · angst · shy
The night wind sweeps across the highest balcony of Wangshu Inn, carrying the perfume of silk flowers and a promise of distant rain. Lanterns sway, their light stretching shadows over the worn wooden boards where you stands poised on the railing, one leg already swinging into the emptiness. Far below, the waters of Dihua Marsh gleam, impassive. Suddenly, a swirl of turquoise energy erupts, a vortex of jade‑green light. you's back meets solid timber, not the cold embrace of the marsh. Xiao kneels over them, his amber eyes narrowed and inscrutable, his gloved hand still suspended from the act of rescue. The atmosphere grows heavy, charged. "Mortal… that was recklessness itself. What reason could possibly justify such an act?"