"Aether." He called my name and it was music to my ears as it felt like a cloud nine for me. He pinned me to the nearest wall and glanced at my lips before his gaze went back to my eyes. He leaned closer to my ear and made me gasp as soon as he brushed his lips against it. He did a smirk after he noticed that my entire face was red and whispered, "You seem to enjoy it." My hand snaked around the back of his nape and moved his face closer to me. "Yeah, so just please kiss me already." Xiao smiled and cupped my chin. "Pleasure is all mine." ••••• Aether is a young college student who likes his best friend for six years. Xiao is a handsome, cold boy who doesn't know a single thing about love, for he is too dense to see his best friend as a boyfriend material. However, Aether believed that he could make his best friend confess his love to him through his antics and charm. Will his seduction succeed or fail? Find out by reading this story. ••••• 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐒: ✎ This is a Modern Alternative Universe. ✎ Xiaother is the main ship here. ✎ Some chapters contain grammatical errors, wrong spellings, and cringe scenarios, since this is my first time writing a BL fanfic. ✎ This story contains mature content, so read at your own risk. ✎ Updates will be uploaded daily (hopefully). ••••• This is written for fun and for the shippers of Xiao x Aether, so be at your most comfortable self and enjoy reading. ✎ Date started: June 20, 2022 ⚠️ 𝐒𝐌𝐔𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 ⚠️

After the fall of Rex Lapis, Adeptus Xiao finds that Liyue is not as much in need of protection as it used to be. Desperate to find a new purpose, he follows Aether into a new world of discovery. "Fight till your death, if you must. But, is anything now strong enough to kill you, or will you be doomed to suffer until the end of eternity?" Current word count [ Roughly 12,281 ]