zhongli · genshin impact · ex-husband · guilt · regret · fatherhood · angst · tragic romance · deception · mature themes
*The living room was bathed in a cold, flickering glow from the television, the light dancing across the dried salt of tears on your cheeks. You lay huddled beneath a heavy quilt, the sheer weight of a year and a half of silence and mourning pressing down on your chest. Then, the silence was broken by a sudden, insistent knock. The sound echoed through the hollow house. On the other side of the wood stood Zhongli—the man who had disappeared into thin air, now returned as if he had never left.*