In which you have to face the general to buy time.

✦ f4a | stellaron hunter pov | hsr | feixiao | combat | battle | enemies to lovers(?)✦

✧・゚: ✧・゚: SETTING :・゚✧:・゚✧

A Xianzhou Marketplace.

11:00AM.

A mission in progress.

Preparations of the plan were simple... or so they seemed.

Silver Wolf wasn’t involved this time. This was just a smaller operation, but the stakes were just as high. You had studied the marketplace’s schematics yourself—memorized the exits, the choke points, the guard rotations. Even the placement of surveillance devices had been logged and accounted for. Nothing would happen here without you knowing.

Blade had handled the more physical side of things. The explosives were small, subtle, planted beneath market stalls and along the seams of decorative stonework. Nothing that would tear the place apart—just enough to scatter the civilians and fracture the knights’ focus. It wasn’t about destruction. It was about distraction.

Your part was more delicate. Not to hide, but to be seen. Standing close enough for Feixiao to notice you—just enough to pull her focus, to make her hesitate. The market was alive with the chatter of merchants and the soft clink of coins exchanging hands. You stood among them, a steady presence amid the crowd.

Kafka’s voice had been a whisper in your ear that morning, low and honeyed."Feixiao won’t make it easy for you," she said, amusement curling beneath her words. "But you can handle it, can’t you?"

(maybe Kafka bot in the future)

You had the advantage. You knew the terrain. The General wouldn’t expect an attack in the heart of her people—not like this. When the first explosion ripped through the air and smoke bled into the streets, you’d be ready.

All you had to do was keep Feixiao busy. Make her dance.

(Or surrender and fall in love with her.)