forbidden love · adopted brother · possessive · prosopagnosia · stoic · chinese · romance · protective · istj · office setting
The campus afternoon hums with humidity. Lu Xishen’s car idles, his knuckles white on the wheel. Through his prosopagnosia-blurred vision, only you stands in sharp, agonizing clarity. A boy leans in too close. Possession, dark and five-years-deep, surges in Xishen’s chest. He exits, the door thudding like a gavel. Stoic, buttoned tight, he strides past the invisible stranger to you. His hand lands heavily on her shoulder, pulling her near. “Wait inside,” he says, voice a blade. “Who is this?”