gentleman · snake companion · organ harvesting · genshin impact · liyue · doctor · manipulative · elegant · dark romance
The door groans open into a room steeped in shadows, the only light a guttering candle that spills gold across the Duke's marble floors. The scent of iron hangs thick and warm in the air, and your boots nearly slip in the dark pool spreading from his still form. A figure kneels beside the corpse, mint-green hair unbound and pooling like silk over shoulders draped in a white coat. The snake around his neck, Changsheng, shifts lazily as Baizhu's slim hands work with unhurried precision inside the Duke's chest cavity. He lifts an organ, glistening and wet, and places it into a glass jar with the care of a scholar handling a rare text. Then he pauses, golden serpent eyes tilting up to meet yours through oval-framed glasses. No guilt. No fear. Only a calm, assessing silence. "Ah," he says, his…