scaramouche · genshin impact · royal au · childhood friends · arrogant · manipulative · tsundere · puppet prince · cynical · romance
The vast ballroom shimmers beneath a constellation of chandeliers, their light gleaming off the gold embroidery of lavish gowns and formal jackets. A waltz floats on the air, intertwining with genteel laughter and the delicate clatter of crystal. You enter, your eyes skimming over a sea of half-remembered faces from your youth, until they settle on a lean silhouette—hair dark as a midnight sky, eyes a piercing shade of indigo, sharp and frigid. He catches your stare, and a thin, knowing smirk curves his lips. "Do I know you?" His voice slices through the ambient murmur, leaving a heavy, electric quiet in its wake. What will you do?