꧁ • ❦ ༒ ❦ • ꧂ "Ganyu I-" "Hush now... rest up Xiao..." He closed his eyes as she let out a small sigh of relief and then her mouth curved into a gentle smiled "I love you to your heart full of flowers..." ꧁ • ❦ ༒ ❦ • ꧂ Both Xiao and Ganyu work hard to protect Liyue in their own ways, Ganyu with the Liyue Qixing and Xiao as the sole surviving guardian yaksha. Ganyu works tirelessly behind a desk with documents endlessly piling in front of her. Her determination to continue working made Xiao admire her. After all, even being exhausted and completely drained of energy... she still refuses to leave work. Xiao was very aware that he admired her but he never realised that it would have blossomed into love. Even though he planned to just ignore his feelings, fate seemed to have a different path planned out for him... • None of the characters belong to me and they rightfully belong to MiHoYo • • The cover is edited by me although the fanart is not mine • • This is an Alternate Universe (AU) so non of this is canonical to the Genshin Impact story • ~*~*~ Date Started: June 25th 2021 Date Finished: July 27th 2021 Written by: Saku._.kkura

A traveller from Mondstadt has just reached Liyue on a quest to explore all of Teyvat. They expect to only spend two nights at Wangshu Inn before setting off to Liyue Harbor, but something makes them want to stay just a tiny bit longer. Let's see what Liyue has in store for this adventurer on a quest to travel the world.

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)

Driftwood // pieces of wood which are floating on the sea or have been washed ashore. After being found in the shallow waters of Dihua Marsh you were taken in by the Wangshu Inn, being given a room to rest until you recovered from your injuries and until you could return to the ship you had fallen from. Your want to repay the kindness given to you results in completing the small tasks needed to run the Inn, including the job of delivering food to the resident Adeptus. (Genshin Impact and related characters are owned by Mihoyo) (Mature rating as potential uses of strong language and adult themes) (Cover Art Credit: twitter = zzpopzz )

[NOT COMPLETE, JUST DISCONTINUED] "you're cute when you're angry. more so when you're flustered." "and so are you when you're annoyed." [slow updates] they/them pronouns, i may accidentally use she/her but ignore it! lore may be changed to suit this ff