BUTTERFLY_xing
Early-1990s, Beijing
Kipuka is a man defined by restraint.
A dutiful son, a respected future lawyer , he lives by structure, sacrifice, and the quiet promise of becoming exactly what his family expects.
Then Eliot returns.
Eliot-once familiar, now unsettlingly different-is confident, charming, emotionally guarded, and carrying a reputation that contradicts the boy Kipuka once knew. To the world, Eliot is effortless: a flirt, a "womanizer," someone who belongs everywhere. To Kipuka, he is chaos made human.
In hidden rooms and borrowed hours, desire becomes language-glances heavy with meaning, hands trembling before they decide. What begins as curiosity turns dangerous, not because it's forbidden, but because it refuses to disappear.
"What- what are we doing?"
"This is wrong,"
"We're- we're both men. This isn't- it's not supposed to-"
"I'm losing myself,"
"I'm not supposed to want this."
"Then tell me to stop."
"We're men, people like us lose everything. We burn in hell for this. I can't-I can't live like this."