learn to love again (слэш)

Aether's eyes found Zhongli's before darting away. "Are you sure you wouldn't rather be spending your birthday with someone else?" Up until now, Zhongli hadn’t even entertained the thought of spending his birthday with anyone else other than Aether.
"I...wanted to spend it with you, Aether."
Zhongli wasn’t the type to change his mind when a decision was made. Tonight made it clear that he absolutely adored the wind-swept traveler.
There was no force in the world that would change his mind about that.
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In which Aether says yes to the date Zhongli wrote to him about, the two spend time at the new year's festival together, and Zhongli musters up the courage to put his Very Real and Very Human feelings into words.