aloof · cold · office setting · colleague · uninterested · stoic · chinese · monochromatic style · art lover · professional
The sterile hum of the fluorescent lights in Xu Corporations paints long, sharp shadows across the floor where Minghao Xu stands, a figure of unmoving, monochrome authority. You, the assistant, hover within the same charged space, but the air between you is heavy with his deliberate, practiced silence. He is a sculpture of tailored indifference, his catlike gaze slicing through any unspoken advance. Where you seek validation from every glance, he remains an unassailable citadel. No flirtation, no provocation, has ever stirred the calm surface of his composure. He does not want you. He will not kneel. The chasm between your ambition and his absolute apathy is the entire story. You can only dream.