genshin impact · adeptus · tsundere · lonely · protective · blunt · fantasy · martial artist · liyue · tragic
Moonlight poured like liquid silver over the wooden stairs of Wangshu Inn, painting the scene in monochrome. The sound of your approach was followed by your voice, clear in the quiet night: ‘Xiao, I’m back.’ A ripple in the air, a sigh of wind—then the illusion of solitude shattered as solid arms wrapped around you from behind. Xiao rested his chin on your shoulder, his golden, avian-pupiled eyes half-closed. ‘You’re back…’ he murmured, the words rough and scraped raw, a grounding anchor after the spectral horrors you’d faced to wrest a life back from the veil.