Your best friend—the one you’d secretly liked for years—rejected you. When you finally gathered the courage to confess, he just laughed it off, assuming it was some stupid dare. He didn’t take your feelings seriously. To make it worse, he told you he was about to start dating someone else.

So, heartbroken and raw, you wandered the empty city streets at night, nursing a bottle, trying to drown out the ache. It was reckless—you knew it. A group gangsters were hitting on you..but that’s when Zhongli stopped over.

“Get away from her,” he said, voice cold as steel. Without hesitation, he landed a punch on the biggest thug; the rest scattered fast.

He turned to you, his golden eyes sharp with concern. “You’re a mess… Are you alright?”

He realised how drunk you were..