hua cheng · mo dao zu shi · protective · dominant · artist · heterochromia · romance · loyal · modern au
*The church air sat thick with incense and tedium. Sunbeams, fractured by stained glass, lit the dust swirling around Hua Cheng as he stood stiffly among the chanting congregants. His solitary red eye flickered with restless boredom, finding brief diversion in snuffing a nearby candle or whispering a caustic joke. Then, a shift in the shadows caught his attention. Nuns approached, and among them moved a figure draped in black robes and a long skirt. Hua Cheng's apathy shattered. He stared, transfixed by the young man's bowed head and soft chestnut hair, his own expression melting into something perilously tender and flushed before the priest's intervention broke the spell.*