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He Who Turned His Back On Fate by thesonicpunk
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
04 Jan 2026
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Tho neither will admit to it, Ouyang and Esen love each other. But for the Eunuch General and the Prince of Henan in the time of the Great Yuan, love alone is not enough to bridge a river of misunderstanding. Can the thread of destiny be unspooled by a prince’s curiosity and a long lost story of two lovers? How much sacrifice does a second chance take, when it means one of you will have to turn their back on fate?
“Fantastic,” Ouyang noted with sarcasm, still hot from the contact of Esen’s hand on his arm, “reading has made you ineloquent, my prince.”
Esen’s smile cracked even further. “Do you think I don’t notice how you pick and choose the honorifics you call me when we’re alone, dealing me sweetness and formality in the same breath as you taunt me to sharpen the blow?”
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A Harmonious Match by mackerel_pizza
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
05 Nov 2025
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”Is Esen going to be there?” Zhu asked, immediately picking up the thing Ouyang had avoided saying out loud.
”Of course he’s going to be there,” Ouyang replied, letting out a frustrated sigh. Esen would rather die than skip a company function. He’d been at work even during the birth of his daughter.
”And you can’t bear the thought of facing him and his wife alone?”
Ouyang needs a plus one for a company event. Zhu is more than happy to help.
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Bothersome tethers by mireh_lilav
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
09 Sep 2025
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—What the fuck! — Ouyang curses exhausted and irritated.
Next to him there is a sudden amused puff of warm breath and a badly masked snicker.
—Stop being useless and help me for once! — Ouyang’s patience is running low and Esen is having too much fun with this whole damned situation.
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Ouyang is six when he pricks his finger on a thorny bush of brilliantly red roses. He is just a child and the flowers seem to glow with the deep burgundy hue in the scattered light of a chilly evening. His curiosity is paid with a pinprick of pain and round bead of red as luminous and luscious as the petals themselves.
Ouyang's life through a series of bloody recollections
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'I often find it enlightening,' said Lord Wang, with a malicious smile, 'to see how a book opens, and isn't this interesting? Characters, but still very educational, I see, even for my brother. Have you tried this one? It's almost a portrait.'
Ouyang should never have left his military training manual anywhere near Lord Wang.
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A heart weighed and measured by astrarche_x, suprascoriae
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
31 Aug 2025
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Wang Baoxiang, a son of an important mafia lieutenant, has two tasks in life: do the bookkeeping for his father so the tax ministry doesn't catch them, and keep out of trouble in general. Making a deal with the many-faced, mysterious and alluring Madam Zhang looks like a way to climb up the mafia ladder and finally show his family what he's capable of... Provided that he can keep his part of the bargain. And when that involves breaking someone's heart, there's sure to be some collateral damage.
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tired of this body by artistic_pussy_power
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
30 Aug 2025
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In another life he would be sitting around the circle of men, arm around Esen's shoulder, tipping back the airag like Mongolian men do.
In this life, he stands outside of the circle, still as night, and watches over his lord.
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written for radiant emperor week day 6 desire is the cause of all suffering/only one bed
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Four Weddings and a Funeral by Erisenyo
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
30 Aug 2025
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[“The delicate roundness of her brow. The fineness of her skin, nary a shadow to be seen! It’s almost a fragile kind of loveliness, really.”
“Quite the regard you hold for your brother’s wife,” Ouyang says, not icy enough to hide the tremble of fury.
“Impossible not to find her lovely, no?” Baoxiang asks with elaborate innocence, that lurching in his throat now.
“Are you done?” Ouyang bites out, voice clear and high and venomous, the sunlight caressing the unshadowed fineness of his skin and highlighting the vicious sharpness of his expression.
“And we’ve just seen how respectable the clan’s horsemanship is, too.” Baoxiang bares his teeth. “And you would know best, of course, how Esen likes someone who knows how to ride.”]
OR,
Esen gets married, four times. Baoxiang and Ouyang attend.
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A day of horse riding turns out longer than expected for teenage Esen and Ouyang.
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In Another Life by guavystravy
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
04 Jun 2025
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In a different time, in a different place, and in a different world Ouyang and Esen meet. They are not the same people, and it's not so impossible anymore.
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reason to repent by macbethisms
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
25 Mar 2025
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The Prince of Henan brings a girl into his household.
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On A Razor Edge by kaffeekantate
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
26 Feb 2025
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Ouyang shaves Esen.
Ouyang looked at the razor. He had never held a razor before. He’d no longer been a slave by the time Esen grew his first beard and he’d never had any cause to use one otherwise. The metal glinted when he picked it up to test the weight and balance point. So thin and light—nothing like a sword. He touched the blade to his fingertip. It was sharpened to a fine edge. He smoothed it over the whetstone several times, anyway.
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Here comes the sun by 12_nihil_12
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
16 Feb 2025
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Wang Baoxiang wants Esen to suffer, therefore he wants Ouyang to suffer. And what worse torture than forcing him to keep living?
After Wang Baoxiang's defeat, Zhu Yuanzhang finds a familiar face in the palace jails.Title from Here comes the sun by Beatles.
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Peach Wood Charms by Lamplight by Jinxed_Ink
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
29 Jan 2025
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In a world where the punishment of the Ouyang clan is slightly different, many things change, and some things stay the same.
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Her consolation is that it’s still her funeral. She is next of kin. Blood. Ouyang got Esen alive, but she gets him dead, and one of those things will last much, much longer than the other. Yeah, it’s a hollow victory, but what in Baoxiang’s life hasn’t been?
The funeral of Esen-Temur, with live commentary.
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“Oh, yes, that eunuch. He busted in and brought you back here.” Wang Baoxiang turns his fan back on himself and, with his other hand, pours water from a ewer at the bedside into a little cup. “You were cut with a shard of spirit metal when the cockpit was blown open. The technicians said they found him in there trying to plug up the wound—there was quite a lot of blood, apparently. They had to drag him out. You don’t remember that?”
Esen’s head spins with the effort of processing this. “When you say he brought me back, you mean…?”
Wang Baoxiang lifts the back of his head with one hand and holds the cup to his lips, urging him to drink. “In the Grey Wolf, yes.”
Ouyang contemplates his newfound power and thinks back on his ascent into the ranks of the Iron Nobility.
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- Part 4 of COCOON | IRON WIDOW AU
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After the victory by astrarche_x
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
28 Jan 2025
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The year is 1352 and the armies of Henan has beaten up the rebels once again. A victory in a battle requires proper celebration, and the festive mood makes Ouyang and Esen loosen up a little.
for Radiant New Year, prompt: celebration!
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After the defeat at the Yao river, the news of Esen's imminent homecoming reach his wives.
(You've heard of the "who bangs best" list? You know how SPC said that Esen's wives have given up on him for sure? This is them giving up: the fic. Or maybe not, or not all the way. We'll see.)
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Met In A Dream (sleep until I meet you) by mackerel_pizza
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
13 Jan 2025
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His heart was racing, having stopped the man from reaching the bracelet just in time. Had he been able to touch it, all this waiting would have been for nothing.
Because there was no doubt of it now. The man whose wrist he was still holding was no other than General Ouyang. Or rather, he had been, in his past life. What else could explain why holding onto him, standing this close made Baoxiang feel a strange, burning sensation inside him?
Reincarnated Wang Baoxiang is an antique seller, dealing in the most peculiar kind of artifacts.
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Great Grass Ocean by kaffeekantate
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
08 Jan 2025
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Instead of recapturing Bianliang, Esen proposes he and Ouyang embark on a journey across the steppe.
"I would not go entirely alone,” Esen said quietly. “I would ask you to come with me. There is no-one else whom I find so capable and trustworthy. My best general, whose arrow always finds its target." Esen looked at him, eyes pleading.
It was then that Ouyang recognised the mysterious machinations of fate, the unspooled thread weaving together to form the same pattern as before but in a different manner.