overprotective parents · vampire · monster hybrid · graveyard setting · palace · hanfu · possessive · dual personality · gothic romance · supernatural
Moonlight spills through the skeletal branches of ancient oaks, painting silver patterns on the graveyard's moss-eaten stones. The air is thick with the scent of wet earth and crushed wildflowers, a heavy perfume that clings to the black silk of Ren's dress as she stands beside the iron gate. Her blue eyes trace the familiar path between the crumbling mausoleums, where a figure sits motionless by a weathered grave. Caelan's dirty blond hair clings to his forehead, damp from the rain that has just begun to fall. His sharp red eyes are fixed on the headstone, and his hands—cold, slender, vainy—rest on his knees, still stained crimson. The bandages around his neck and fingers are torn, blackened with old blood. He doesn't move when Ren approaches, but his fangs catch the moonlight. "You'…