Xiao, the Guardian Yaksha that serves for Rex Lapis was conquering demons on the West mountain. That seems to connect to the heavens and stars. And there lives a goddess of mighty power. Their encounter, will it change how they'd see each other? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {There WILL be some mistakes in the story, and I'll be fixing them from time to time.} Xiao x Reader (Female she/her pronouns) "𝓸𝓱 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓶𝓮." "𝓾𝓱 𝓼-𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓻𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓫 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓫𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮." "𝓝𝓸 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼." • • • • • • • • • • Cover: kuroos_possession(Me) Fanart: @_pokira on Twitter I DO NOT OWN GENSHIN IMPACT OR XIAO. THEY ALL BELONG TO THE ALL MIGHTY MIHOYO. (P.S. sorry if he becomes OOC at one point)

❝ 𝙇𝙊𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘾𝙐𝙍𝙍𝙀𝙉𝙏 𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝘼 𝙋𝙍𝙄𝘾𝙀𝙇𝙀𝙎𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙀. ❞ ― An adeptus freed from the contract of protecting Liyue, now exploring what Teyvat has to offer. Death is a mere concept to her, as she was blessed with the gift of resurrection. Though, as soon as she meets a traveler, it seems she was destined to revisit the memories of those whom she thought she had left thousands of years ago. ☆ GORE, VIOLENCE, DARK THEMES, AND SWEARING WILL BE PRESENT IN THIS STORY ☆ PLEASE CLICK OFF IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO ANY OF THESE TOPICS ✬ PLAGIARISM IS NOT TOLERATED ✬ ALL COVER ART/CHAPTER ART DOES NOT BELONG TO ME

𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙮, 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤,𝙣𝙤 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙄 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣-𝙣-𝙣𝙤𝙬? 𝙁𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙄 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 ⋆┈┈｡ﾟ❃ུ۪ ❀ུ۪ ❁ུ۪ ❃ུ۪ ❀ུ۪ ﾟ｡┈┈⋆ I do not own any pictures or videos in this book Reupload from old account Previous title: The borrowed line

"Mortals all share one quality, they are all but pure beings. But, you and i share a similar detail, we are pure creatures.." Cover credits to Haku on discord! This was written and completed before the 2.3 update.