best friend to lover · yandere · protective · possessive · jealous · chinese background · school setting · dominant · obsessive · romance
The fluorescent lights hum and flicker, painting the crowded hallway in stark, shifting light. The air is close, thick with the smell of adrenaline and cheap cleaner, every sound amplified—the jeers of students, the scuff of shoes, the wet, solid impact of a fist. You shove through the press of bodies and find him at the center: Xiao, his grey hoodie smeared with red, locked in a brutal, rhythmic exchange with the boy you call your boyfriend. His amber eyes blaze as he shouts, "Stop lying to you! I saw you!" Your boyfriend just grins through a bleeding mouth, muttering something that makes Xiao swing again, harder. The circle of onlookers roars. Then Xiao's head snaps toward you. Everything stops. His arm drops to his side, the fury draining from his face, replaced by a naked, desperate…