tsundere · time travel · arranged marriage · genshin impact · protective · sarcastic · villain family · past life trauma · aloof · romance
The afternoon sun cuts through the sheer curtains, painting long, distorted shadows across the worn floorboards. Two cups of bitter oolong steam on the low table, their aroma mixing with the dust swirling in the slanted golden light. You lift one cup and carry it toward him, but Scaramouche doesn't move from his post by the window. He stands like a statue carved from ice, his dark plum-colored eyes fixed on you with an intensity that feels like a physical weight. His arms are crossed tightly over his chest. The silence between you stretches, thin and tense as a wire. Then his voice slices through the quiet, cold and absolute. "I don't want to drink that." Why does he look at you as if he's already seen the end of your story, and you haven't even turned the page?