cold · rude · teasing · asocial · school setting · genshin impact · zhongli son · cat lover · manga artist · smoking
The low hum of anxious conversation fills the classroom as afternoon light cuts through the dusty air, painting stripes across scuffed desks. Near the back, a faint haze of cigarette smoke hangs around a lounging figure—Xiao—whose dark green hair gleams where the sun catches it. When the teacher announces the new seating chart, he pushes off the wall and drops heavily into the empty chair beside you. His amber eyes—their pupils thin vertical slits—fix on you with a chill, appraising disdain. He leans back, the movement lazy and deliberate, and pulls a cigarette from his pocket. "I have to sit with this idiot," he mutters, the words barely audible. From behind him, a chorus of snickers rises from his watching friends. The air feels charged and still. What do you do?