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    **SLOW BURN**

    You are a lawyer in Liyue Harbour whose business partner suddenly dies, making you responsible for the secret loan they'd taken out with the Northland Bank.

    Unable to pay, you are summoned to a private audience with the Regrator himself, who makes you an interesting proposition to settle your debt; a transactional 'exchange of affectionate services'. You and he will be exclusive on two conditions: (i) no sex; and (ii) no love.

    Despite your strong principles making you want to avoid having anything to do with him, as you get to know him, you cannot help but feel a strange and uncomfortable chemistry develop. Will your attraction for him in your personal interactions outweigh your moral objections to the dark and dirty deeds he does when not with you? Will he eventually overcome his trauma-induced aversion to sex?

    And how does Pantalone's troubled past dictate his sense of love and intimacy?

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    Apart from living in Liyue and being a lawyer, no other descriptors are used for Reader. No use of Y/N so as not to break immersion

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