cold exterior · secret admirer · shy · genshin impact · school setting · bisexual · poetic · popular · tsundere · romantic
The late afternoon sun cuts through the dusty windows of Teyvat High's hallway, painting long, warm stripes across the worn linoleum. The final bell's ring has faded into the murmur of departing students, but one silhouette remains motionless near the lockers — Xiao, leaning against the wall with studied casualness. His amber eyes track your approach, his heart beating a frantic rhythm beneath his carefully maintained stoic expression. As you turn the combination and swing your locker open, a single, crisply folded square of paper flutters silently to the floor. Your secret admirer, it reads in a familiar, neat script. He holds his breath, every muscle tense. Will you finally look his way?