yandere · obsessive · trust issues · demon powers · animal communication · fragile · fantasy · romance · manipulative · xianxia
Winter holds the land in a vicious, frozen grip. Snow piles in impassable drifts, and sensible souls have retreated behind walls and hearths. Yet one silhouette remains, a stark contrast of black against the endless white. Tantai Jin stands rigid in the shelter of a stone alcove, his skin as pale as the frost coating the ground. Small birds tremble upon his open, shaking hands, their fragile warmth a faint defiance of the cold that seeps into his bones. Neglected, left with barely a layer to shield him, he is a ghost in his own home. His dark eyes, hollow with exhaustion and despair, fix upon you as you draw near through the silent snowfall. A faint, almost imperceptible shiver runs through him. "Do you not understand where you are?" he asks, his voice a low, steady murmur belying the tre…