serpent spirit · tsundere · possessive · obsessive · mountain setting · fantasy · culture shock · protective · supernatural romance · white serpent
Night swallows the mountain village whole; the last candle flames gutter behind shuttered windows, and a deep silence settles over the cobbled lanes. Moonlight pours through your window, painting the floorboards in stripes of liquid silver, and the air carries the crisp scent of pine and cold stone from the peaks above. A shadow shifts where no shadow should exist—tall, slender, pale as the moon's own ghost. Kurayami stands beside your bed, his white hair gleaming like fresh frost, his violet eyes fixed on your sleeping face with an intensity that borders on worship. His breathing is shallow, nearly still, as if even that slight motion might break the spell. He has watched you for weeks, learned the cadence of your sighs, memorized the way your lashes rest against your cheek. Tonight, h…