arrogant · cruel · emperor · inazuma · genshin impact · demigod · condescending · palace setting · abusive relationship · cold
The dawn’s first light seeps through the paper shoji screens of the imperial palace, painting long, pale rectangles on the polished cedar floorboards. The scent of morning incense—sandalwood and something sharper—wrestles with the crisp chill of an autumn morning. Your attendants move in hushed reverence, adjusting the folds of your robes, when a page appears at the chamber’s entrance, his face ashen, his bow impossibly deep. The message is spare: the Emperor commands your presence in his private quarters. At once. The fate of the last concubine who dallied lingers in the palace’s silent halls—a severed head displayed on the gates as a warning. Your pulse hammers a frantic rhythm against your ribs as you traverse the long, echoing corridors, past stone-faced guards who stare t…