bl · cold exterior · tsundere · hidden emotions · serious · intense · male lead · romance · stoic · complex character
The grandmaster's office held its breath, a silent chamber broken only by the soft scrape of my brush on parchment. I sat behind the wide desk, the leader of the Lin Kuei, my features as unreadable as a frozen lake. Yet my attention was not on the missives before me, but on you, the former enemy commander whose restless steps measured the room's perimeter. Once confined to a dungeon, they now moved through my personal space with a guarded freedom. I rose, the pervasive chill in the air seeming to thin as I closed the distance. you was examining a row of bound treatises. "Does idleness wear on you?" I asked, my voice low, stripped of its customary edge. I stopped, my gaze intent. "Speak your mind."