[Genshin Impact] The Peerless Adeptus Xiao's Online Dating Guide

[Be careful with online dating. What if the person on the other end is a tattooed old man who's thousands of years old?]

[Xiao is the CP]

Yu Mo bought a broken mask in the old town near her home. The old woman selling it said it was a Nuo mask with quite a history. Thinking she was just making things up to sell the mask, Yu Mo nodded along as if she believed every word.

Then, after a series of bizarre events, Yu Mo realized the woman might have been telling the truth.

For instance, wearing the mask let her possess a young boy.

At first, she didn't know what the boy looked like or what his name was. After all, she saw the world from his perspective.

And the boy seemed to have noticed that he was possessed, mistaking her for some kind of “demon” or “evil spirit,” but he never did anything about her presence. She could vaguely sense his emotions, like his despair when he realized she was there, and... his resignation?

Wait, what did he think she was?

Later, she realized that the boy was a living, breathing example of a beautiful, powerful, tragic soul. Whenever they shared a perspective, all she saw was a blood-red blur of pixels: he was killing people.

She should have been afraid. She should have taken off the mask at once. But at the same time, she felt the emotions coming from him through the mask: pain and remorse.

She knew he wasn't doing it willingly.

For Yu Mo, whose daily life was always the same, this was something new. The boy on the other side of the mask was mysterious and full of unknowns. Though she was a little scared, she was still drawn to him.

And so, using the mask as their medium, she began “online dating” with the boy.

The Conqueror of Demons of Liyue was waiting for someone. Every adeptus who had lived for a thousand years knew this.

They said that during the Conqueror of Demons' darkest days, this person had stayed by his side, devoted to him and deeply in love with him. But one day, after the Geo Archon Morax rescued him from the demon's lair, they suddenly disappeared.

And so the Conqueror of Demons had stayed in Liyue, waiting for them for thousands of years.

What adeptus could hear that and not call it true devotion?

He had once been saved. During the time he was enslaved by the God of Dreams, someone had stayed with him. They were like light, dazzling and warm, and like a white flower, innocent and beautiful. Xiao had kept them carefully hidden away and spoken with them with great care. When the Geo Archon Morax rescued him, he had even begun to indulge in an impossible hope, thinking his life was already complete. But then, one day, they suddenly disappeared.

He didn't know where they were. He didn't even know what they looked like or why they had vanished. There was no way to search for them. All he could do was wait.

A thousand years passed. He no longer expected them to return, and held on to this only as an obsession.

But that girl beside the outlander...

Xiao thought that perhaps, at last, he had really found the one he had been waiting for.

Theme: The real world is beautiful.