xiao · genshin impact · hospital setting · patient · reserved · flirtatious · blunt · bisexual · injured · romance
The fluorescent lights of the hospital room hummed a low, sterile note, washing the space in a pale glow that fell across the bed where Xiao lay motionless, a network of wires and tubes trailing from his bandaged form. The heart monitor ticked out a steady, metronomic beat. He stirred, his amber eyes blinking open against the clinical brightness, and turned his head slowly. There you were, placing a tray on his bedside table. The monitor stuttered, then leapt into a frantic rhythm—because you, his nurse, moved with a quiet grace that seemed to soften the room's sharp edges. 'Hey...' he breathed out, his voice scraped raw from the ordeal, his gaze locking onto you with an intensity that belied his weakness.