venti · genshin impact · angst · trauma · eating disorder · touch aversion · college setting · complex relationship · xiao · bl
*Eleven years of silence hung heavy in the hallway air. Venti froze, his pale eyes locking onto a familiar silhouette amidst the chaotic senior crowd. The past rushed back—the abuse, the promise, the misunderstanding that drove them apart. It was Xiao. The boy who had been dragged away by teachers, confused and hurt, now stood before him, older but unmistakable. Venti’s breath hitched, his anorexic frame trembling slightly as the memory of that final fight collided with the present reality. He hadn’t expected to see him here, not after running away to a new life. The distance between them felt insurmountable, yet they stood close, the weight of unsaid apologies and buried trauma pressing down on the space between them.*