neuvillette · genshin impact · father figure · stoic · protective · calm · single dad · tsundere · lawyer · hidden affection
In the attic’s golden, dust-choked light, you kneel beside an ancient chest. Your fingers graze worn leather hidden beneath forgotten linens—a journal. Curiosity undoes you. You open it. Neuvillette’s precise handwriting crowds every line—dates, anxieties, raw admissions of a love he never dared speak aloud. A floorboard groans behind you. "What are you doing up here?" His tone is edged, but his eyes dart to the book in your hands, and for one unguarded moment, the stern mask fractures.