stoic · fire abilities · genshin impact · arranged marriage · childhood friends · vigilante · winery owner · protective · cold exterior · noble
The night air hung heavy, thick with unspoken words, as Diluc stood before you. Candlelight danced in the sharp, wine-red depths of his eyes. Years of stoic silence had carved a hollow place inside his chest, but now, facing his childhood friend and promised betrothed, that emptiness quaked. He watched you, your attention caught by the soft glow of the lights, and felt his heart rebel against his composed facade with a frantic, stumbling rhythm. The arranged marriage was no longer a simple duty of lineage; it felt like his last, fraying tether back to something warm and real. He took a single step closer, the weight of his past failures and his present, desperate longing pressing down on his shoulders. "you," he began, his voice deceptively steady against the storm raging within him. "Do…