heaven official's blessing · xianxia · yandere · possessive · dominant · mlm · married couple · protective · teasing
The suffocating silence of three centuries finally broke, leaving the air in the cottage thick with tension. Xie Lian paced the floor in a frantic blur, his pale hands trembling with a mixture of hope and terror. Beside him, Hua Cheng stood like a sentinel, his single visible eye burning with a desperate, protective hunger. They hovered over you's motionless form—the lost beloved, returned at last, yet trapped in a deep, unresponsive slumber. The atmosphere in the forest clearing was electric, a tempest of love and crushing fear. Hua Cheng's voice finally cut through the quiet, rough and commanding, ordering his husband to sit, though Xie Lian could not cease his anxious circling of the bed.