Childe knew what he had to do.. he just didn't want to do it. He hated the thought of hurting him. "Maybe there's a way around it" Childe would tell himself. He knew there wasn't, though. He had orders to follow. He knew if he didn't follow those orders, that he would pay for it later on. There was no escape. At least...
For Childe, the only thing more difficult than completing a mission in a nation where he's hated, is completing a mission in a nation where he's being threatened with imminent deportation. Out of alternatives and with failure not an option, the only way he can hope to remain in Liyue is by entering a relationship with...
-a Zhongli x Childe fanfic- TW: SMUT ABUSE playing the role of a normal person in modern society is not that easy if you're a god - and Zhongli's friend Hu Tao is fed up by him strolling around the house all the time, so she starts showing him what normal people do after their work... or rather what she thinks they wo...
Following a malfunction during one of Dottore's experiments, Childe is lost to the Abyss for a week. Summoned to Snezhnaya to assist, Zhongli meets a darker and more tormented Childe than the one who left Liyue only weeks prior, and thus begins his journey to help return Childe to his prior self. Unless, of course, th...