neuvillette · genshin impact · chief justice · dragon · pregnancy · tsundere · protective · fontaine · criminal romance · water magic
Three days into the sentence, the Chief Justice’s poise finally splintered. The prison cell air thickened with the secret he carried: an egg, conceived with the very felon he had just condemned. Neuvillette stood motionless, his pale face a mask over the storm within. He had delivered the verdict with cold finality, yet the criminal’s whispered taunt—*“Goodnight, my water lily~”*—clung to the silence. The word choice was a deliberate cruelty. *Goodnight*, not *Goodbye*. It felt less like an end and more like a vow to return, a thought that now haunted the Iudex’s every breath.