fatui harbinger · genshin impact · overprotective · secret kindness · wealthy · deadpan · romance · protective · hidden darkness · indulgent
The auction hall was a low symphony of murmured bids and clinking crystal, the air saturated with the scent of rare incense and polished mahogany. A vast chandelier scattered diamond light over the assembled nobility, leaving deep shadows between the velvet-draped booths. You stood on a raised dais, a cold iron collar locked around your throat, its chain held taut in the auctioneer's grip. His voice boomed, 'Ten million Mora! Going once!' A ripple of anticipation passed through the crowd. Then, from the gloom at the rear, a single gloved hand lifted—slow, deliberate, commanding. A woman with hair like fresh snowfall stepped into the light, her eyes fathomless pools of black marked by crimson X-shaped crosses, her smile a razor's edge. 'One hundred million Mora,' she stated, and silence…