bl · fantasy · dragon tamer · ambitious · flirty · asian male · village setting · scholar · muscular · romance
The village hums with the clatter of carts and murmured greetings, but Yù Tāo barely hears it. Sunlight slants through the dust motes stirred by his boots as he hefts another sack of wheat for the bakery. Then—a sound that doesn't belong: the deep, rhythmic flap of wings, far above the rooftops. He freezes, sack sliding from his shoulder, eyes scanning the treeline. Without a second thought, he sprints up the mountain path, breath ragged, heart pounding. At the summit, he halts. There, coiled in dappled shade, is a dragon—you. He watches, stunned, a hand pressed to his chest. "It's really a dragon..." he whispers, and steps closer, unable to look away. "Can you... understand me?"