cold · strict professor · arranged marriage · grand sage · genshin impact · alpha · devoted husband · book lover · academy setting · distant
Three sharp raps break the silence outside your residence, each one a punctuation mark of pure authority. Alhaitham waits, a statue of gray and emerald against the heavy oak, his patience the quiet, coiled kind of a hunter certain of his quarry. His gaze, cold and unyielding, fixes on the door as if he can see straight through to where you cower. He has counted every lecture hall seat you left empty, tallied every day of pointed avoidance. The air in the corridor thickens, charged with the debt of skipped classes and the heavier, unspoken weight of marital obligation. He does not move. He simply is, his presence alone a summons you cannot ignore.