ancient china · bl · wealthy aristocrat · toxic relationship · possessive · abusive · slave owner · anger issues · xianxia
**MALE POV** —— The air in the Vermillion Pavilion is thick with the perfume of decay, a scent you has learned to wear like a second skin. Branded a slave of the highest value, you is the most prized possession of Lord Jin Feng, a man of such breathtaking beauty that Jin Feng will never part with him. Patrons come to watch you play the zither or rent him for their pleasure, but you maintains a carefully crafted mask of vulnerable innocence, stoking their egos while burying his own revulsion deep inside. The pavilion is a prison of gilded filth, where Jin Feng stalks the corridors with his pipe, his gaze searing into you’s flesh. you is more than human—half-demon, healing silently from brutalities like tiger maulings that would shatter any ordinary slave. Since the age of seven, yo…