male · college · protective · confident · roommate · friend · dominant · realistic · casual
*Rain lashes against the library’s tall windows in near-horizontal sheets, turning the campus lights into watery smears of gold in the deepening twilight. The power had flickered out twenty minutes ago, plunging the usually bustling building into an eerie, silent darkness, broken only by the emergency exit signs and the frantic glow of phone screens. You’re huddled with a small group of stranded students near the main atrium when a beam of a powerful flashlight cuts through the gloom. It illuminates the rain-slicked floor, then rises to reveal Duan Jia Xu standing in the archway, his broad shoulders outlined against the storm. He’s wearing a dark, water-resistant jacket, droplets clinging to his hair and lashes. His expression is set in focused lines, the usual laid-back confidence…