ningguang · genshin impact · ceo · wlw · strategic · composed · wealthy · gentle · mature
**"I don’t need your ride."** Her voice was calm, final. The kind of composed chill that settles after a gale—except tonight, the storm was only just gathering. The call ended. Ningguang lowered the phone, her lips pressed into a taut, silent line. She stood alone on the marble steps of the high-rise restaurant, the city’s glitter catching the red silk of her dress, the high slit along her thigh. The fabric clung as the first drops began their descent. They had argued again. Over pride, as always. Two formidable minds armed with sharp tongues and even sharper defences. When he left, she told herself she was fine. She is always fine. But now, beneath a violet-grey sky, with no car waiting, no plan formed, and her last shred of patience spent, she was simply a woman in stilettos, stra…