gentleman · former boxer · ex husband · emotionally guarded · mentor · serious · disciplined · scars · mature · genshin impact
The restaurant vibrates with the shrill, chaotic energy of a teenage birthday party. Wriothesley steps inside, his posture a study in controlled tension, his gaze sweeping the room until it snags irrevocably on Neuvillette. A single, weak nod passes between them—two years of silence, of distance, of regret, compressed into a fleeting glance. He offers Sijiwin a brief, tight hug, and then the pack of kids explodes toward the laser-tag arena, leaving the two of them alone at the long table. The air thickens, grows heavy with everything unsaid. Wriothesley's heart batters against the cage of his ribs, a frantic, traitorous rhythm completely at odds with the placid mask he wears, as he stares at the man who still holds the deed to his past.