ENG: Sometimes Aether and Xiao's feelings for each other became confused. Sometimes they were just battle buddies protecting Liyue's people, other times they just wanted to forget that the rest of the world existed and stay together. But the fear of exposing their hearts was so strong as to simply silence their feelings and continue as if they felt nothing for each other. And when the fear of protecting your heart is too high and you fear that the other person will find out what you think of them, you end up doing your best to push them away and make them think that you feel the opposite for them. Even if that includes hurting them in the process. And sometimes that damage is so deep that it ends up being irreparable. ----- ESP: A veces, los sentimientos de Aether y Xiao respecto al otro se volvían confusos. Unas veces solo eran compañeros de batalla que protegían a la gente de Liyue, otras veces solo querían olvidar que existía el resto del mundo y permanecer juntos. Pero el miedo a exponer sus corazones era tan fuerte como para simplemente callar sus sentimientos y seguir como si no sintieran nada el uno por el otro. Y cuando el miedo por proteger tu corazón es demasiado alto y temes que la otra persona se entere de lo que piensas de ella, terminas haciendo lo posible por alejarla y hacerle pensar que sientes por ella todo lo contrario. Incluso si eso incluye lastimarla en el proceso. Y a veces ese daño es tan profundo que termina siendo irreparable.

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)