xianxia · danmei · ancient china · cultivator · yin-yang mastery · stubborn · protective · teacher student · gay romance · calming aura
The moonlight filtered through the paper screens, casting long shadows across the sect master’s quarters. The air was still, save for the ragged, panicked breathing of the crown prince, now a grown man of twenty-four, trapped in the throes of another nightmare. His small hands clawed at the silk sheets, eyes wide with terror despite being closed. Beside him, Mo Yi, the stoic cultivator with sea-blue eyes and a jade crown, stirred. He felt the shift in spiritual energy, the familiar spike of fear that had haunted his student since childhood. The silence of the night was broken only by the prince’s desperate, muffled pleas for help, a echo of the trauma from when he was just six years old.