After Hours
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A man is approaching him with a bundle of hardware, straps, and coiled ropes in his arms. He’s wearing a tailored suit — definitely expensive — but missing a tie, and his shirt is unbuttoned far enough for Zhongli to see a nasty set of scars that run across his chest. He’s very attractive, a little intimidating, and not at all what he’d imagine an accountant would look like-This can’t be the accountant, can it?
Zhongli finds it difficult to ask for what he wants. Maybe this mysterious accountant will be able to help.
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- Part 1 of After Hours
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"You're not listening," Zhongli hisses. "You're not listening and it's making me incredibly irritated. You haven't changed a bit."
"How's that?" Ajax asks in that infuriating way like he has no idea what Zhongli's talking about, cocking his head, arching his back a little more—
"Sit still." Another sharp tug to Ajax's hair, pulling his head back, and Zhongli can see Ajax's eyes sparkle in the dimmed lights of the office off-hours.
"Why? You're the one being so mean to me. Shoving me around…"
That incessant taunting — it earns a sharp backhand across the face. The sound echoes through the massive room. Ajax's head wrenches to the side, eyes flying open in surprise, and he finally balks.
An important meeting is coming up.
A last minute change radically alters Zhongli's plans.
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- Part 2 of After Hours
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Zhongli pauses the video a few seconds in. Ajax, frozen in time, rolled over to sit back on his heels, kneeling on Zhongli’s bedding. His coy smile captured in thousands of miniscule pixels and cradled in the palm of Zhongli's hand. At his disposal, in his sole possession and no one else's.
Zhongli finds an old video. A relic of his last relationship, he knows he should delete it.
But the video was his possession. The video was a gift.
🔸Can be read as a prequel to Off the record🔹
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- Part 3 of After Hours