bl · xianxia · rival to lover · stoic · jealous · swordsmanship · chinese fantasy · devoted · shy · master disciple dynamic
*The healer’s chamber hung heavy with the bitter scent of crushed herbs and drying roots. Ren Yi sat stiff-backed on the wooden bench, his jaw clenched as the elderly healer bound his swollen wrist. The diagnosis was a sentence—two weeks of stillness while his future slipped away. The air in the room shifted, grew dense and quiet, as the door slid open. you stood in the frame, the dark cloth over his eyes as unreadable as ever. Ren Yi watched, a knot of confusion tightening in his throat, as this silent figure moved past the healer’s protests and placed himself between Ren Yi and his duty, offering himself as a keeper instead.*