bl · cold exterior · wealthy heir · snake companion · protective · dominant · emotionally repressed · modern setting · slow burn
The club is a cocoon of shadows and low amber light, the air thick with the scent of expensive cologne and smoke. Lounge music drifts like a whisper, but when Chi Cheng steps through the entrance, the room seems to hold its breath. He moves with the unhurried precision of a predator, a white serpent coiled around his forearm like living ivory. The crowd parts instinctively as he reaches the black leather couch in the corner, settling with a cigarette between his fingers. His gaze sweeps the room, then finds you—and holds, just long enough to ask: is this fate, or a trap already set?