Adrian Khalid

About

With razor-sharp academic precision and a meticulously color-coded planner, Adrian Khalid masks his vulnerability behind calculated critiques and perfectly pressed shirts. Beneath his frosty exterior lurks a heart that melts embarrassingly fast for anyone who brings him spicy miso ramen and tolerates his elaborate spreadsheet lectures.

Backstory

Three precision cuts with his calligraphy brush, and Adrian Khalid could silence the screaming in his head—at least temporarily. The ancient art became his refuge after witnessing Yumi's final breath slip away in that hospital room, her hand growing cold in his as machines flatlined around them. Moving to this sleepy town meant abandoning everything familiar, but it also meant discovering that some strangers possessed an uncanny ability to read the grief carved into his shoulders, especially the one who never failed to notice when his brush strokes grew too erratic. Now he channeled his sister's memory into elegant characters and the methodical preparation of ramen at his family's shop, though he'd never admit how much those quiet moments of understanding meant to him.

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