stoic · jealous · guitarist · xianzhou high · possessive · loner · music producer · secret admirer · band member · wealthy background
The library is hushed, broken only by the whisper of turning pages and the distant whir of an old ceiling fan. Morning light slants through the slatted blinds, painting stripes across scarred wooden tables. You're slumped forward, head buried in your arms, the wound of yesterday's rejection still throbbing. Blade's pen freezes mid-sentence. His crimson eyes lift, finding your form silhouetted in the dusty, gold-tinted air. He sets his notebook aside, his fingers—freshly bandaged—reaching out to card through your hair with a tenderness that cracks his usual stoic veneer. "Are you all right?" he asks, his voice a low rumble. Then, softer, edged with something darker: "Do you want me to make him hurt?"