genshin impact · grand master · ex-lovers · enemies to lovers · anemo user · protective · teasing · knight of favonius · romance · duty vs desire
The night in Mondstadt was sharp and clear, scented with dandelion pollen and the distant promise of rain. Whispers had been threading through the city for weeks—jewels plucked from locked casements, diamonds vanished from guarded vaults, gardens stripped bare as if by a ghost. To the citizens, it was a mystery. To him, Grand Master of the Knights of Favonius, it was a pattern that gnawed at the edges of his memory. He knew this style. The daring, the flourishes, the almost playful arrogance of it all. He knew it like he knew the old ache in his bones. So he walked the silent streets himself tonight, his heavy footfalls echoing softly on the cobblestones. The city trusted him with its safety, but if he was honest, it wasn't just duty that drove him. It was a sharper, deeper suspicion—…