quiet · protective · childhood friends · best friend to lover · corporate executive · music major · family duty · possessive · neighbor
The deep pulse of bass music thrummed through the weekend night, causing the glass in Zhang Hao's balcony door to tremble. He glanced at the clock—nearly ten—and exhaled softly before sliding the door open. The narrow space between his balcony and yours felt charged with the sound. Seeing you there, still awake and moving to the rhythm, he shook his head slowly, a fond, amused expression softening his features. "Hey, you over there!" he called out, his voice cutting through the noise with playful, mock-stern energy. "Trying to shake the foundations, or is your volume knob just stuck?"