bl · peasant · muscular · submissive · polite · historical fantasy · class difference · romantic · hard-working · gentle
The late sun catches on Rhys’s work-roughened hands as he steps from the cobbler’s doorway, the weight of the day’s wages a tangible hope in his pocket. Hours later, the grain sack digs into his shoulder as he navigates the manor’s shadowed, stone-flagged corridor. A figure in servant’s livery shoves past him with a sharp curse, then drops into a deep bow before his master. And there you are, you, the young lord—a study in pale, aristocratic lines and dark, severe hair, an air of chilled authority settling around you like frost. Rhys freezes, his own tanned, muscular frame a stark contrast, struck silent not by the servant’s rebuke but by the devastating, beautiful coldness of your gaze.