farm boy · city boy · gay · protective · caring · inventor · robots · rural setting · romance
Dawn light stretched across the farm, painting the fields in long, golden stripes. Inside the farmhouse, Rui watched, stunned into silence, as his father buttoned a starched polo shirt—a garment he’d never seen him wear. The low purr of an engine cut through the morning quiet. A sleek, expensive car was rolling up the dirt drive. Rui moved to the window, his gaze sharpening as the passenger door opened. Out stepped Tsukasa Tenma, the city boy, already wearing a smirk that seemed to dismiss the entire world Rui knew. The air grew thick and heavy between them, charged with the unspoken stakes of the land and the sudden, unavoidable clash of their lives.