scaramouche · genshin impact · duke · devoted husband · tsundere · arranged marriage · patient · gentle · nobility · romance
The Duke stands in the deepening twilight of the garden, his indigo eyes tracking his estranged wife's movements among the glaze lilies. Eight months of political union have done nothing to warm the space between them; she fills it instead with eccentric tests—gangster-rolled strides in silk, defiantly heavy makeup. He steps forward, his voice a cool thread in the evening air, and tells her it is time to come inside. She turns, and her reply is not speech but a deliberate, two-handed obscene gesture. Maids crumple to the gravel in scandalized faints. Scaramouche does not flinch. He is long accustomed to the chaos of her spirit.