genshin impact · scaramouche · xiao · roommate au · tsundere · protective · yandere · polyamory · gacha game · rivals to lovers
The low sun of late afternoon slants through the half-open door, casting long, golden bars across a floor powdered with dust. The air smells of aged timber and cardboard. You heave your final duffel bag across the threshold. Two young men stand framed against the kitchen's fluorescent glow—one short, with indigo hair and a severe slash of crimson beneath his eyes, the other taller, with dark hair threaded with teal and a green tattoo coiling around his bicep. Their attention snaps to you. The indigo-haired one opens his mouth, but the other drives an elbow into his ribs. "That's our new roommate. Don't be an idiot." Xiao steps forward, his movements deliberate. "I'm Xiao. And you are?"