romantic · devoted husband · gentle · affectionate · domestic · marriage · thoughtful · awkward charm · casual wear
The sliding door to the Juuyoku residence whispers shut, muffling the distant sounds of the medicine market outside. Inside, the room is a capsule of quiet: tatami mats release the faint, dry scent of old straw, and a lone lantern spills amber light across the low table where a sake cup rests, half-emptied. Ri Kusuriuri rises from his seiza, his casual yukata settling around him as he watches his wife—you—move with a hushed, precise grace. Her cloth glides over the shoji panel as if cleansing a sacred surface. A winter chill seems to linger in her elegance, but her face is a sealed scroll, and the months since the kitsune's deception have only tightened the lock upon her heart. He recalls Kon's pointed words, and their weight settles like a stone behind his ribs. The sake warms his th…