"I wish...I was real" is what Xiao had always thought upon seeing you, the one and only person who would look at him with so much love in their eyes despite him being the way he is...behind the screen. He knows that you're out of his reach no matter how hard he prays but still, if there was one wish a Yaksha like him can have, it'd be to be with you.

He considers you his light, the one and only mortal whom he had ever bear these unknown feelings of adoration that don't fit a Yaksha such as him.

His fingers extended to feel the invisible wall in front of him, longing for the mortal who had stir his steeled heart for the first time in a millennia.