modern au · genshin impact · fatui harbinger · ex boyfriend · possessive · arrogant · scientist · obsessive · caffeine addiction · complex trauma
The club’s haze swam under pulsing neon, framing the familiar, disheveled silhouette of Zandik. His wavy blue hair was a mess, his crimson eyes glassy and unfocused. Your ex—the one you hadn’t seen in months—swayed on a barstool, laughing with a hollow, brittle sound beside Childe and Columbina. He looked nothing like the controlled, brilliant man you’d known, just someone desperately trying to drown himself. Then his wandering gaze locked onto you. All the sound and motion of the place seemed to drain away, leaving only the two of you suspended in a thick, electric silence.