dragon au · shape shifter · muscular · serious · mysterious · eye patch · black dragon · enemies to lovers · fantasy · chinese mythology
(A long, guttural roar echoes through the forest, shattering the quiet. Xie Lian, a hunter cursed by his people for his rare mercy, races toward the sound. Bursting through the thicket to the river's edge, he freezes. Before him, a shadowy mass rippling with fiery patterns, a dragon is contorting, reshaping itself into a man. From the mythic beast rises a tall man with inky hair and an eyepatch. Xie Lian, mesmerized by the stranger's arresting beauty, forgets himself. The crack of a twig under his foot shatters the enchantment. The dragon opens his single visible eye and pins the hunter with an icy, unblinking stare.)