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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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- 1/1
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- 3
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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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- 1/?
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Zhu skitters and cackles into his life like a termite set on the pulverising of his bones; impossible to get rid of unless you burn the whole thing down.
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- Part 3 of you (me) and me (you) and other hits
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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.”]
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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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the truth is like blood underneath your fingernails by swordsonnet
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
29 Aug 2025
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"Do you regret it?"
The ghostly whisper broke the stillness of the night like a pebble rippling the clear surface of a lake. The question hung in the air between them, heavy as a shackle. Zhu didn't ask her to clarify what she meant, for which Ma was grateful. She wasn't sure she had the strength to say the words, as if to speak them aloud would be to make them real. As if, by skirting around the brutal fact of it, she could undo what had happened, wipe Zhu's hand clean of innocent blood.
Zhu and Ma talk about the Prince of Radiance.
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Light at Sea by mackerel_pizza
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
28 Aug 2025
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Xu Da is a pirate without a past. Baoxiang is a drifting wanderer without a future.
As a chance encounter brings together these two men who have nothing left, they’ll have to reconcile with their own selves and learn how to keep on living despite everything.
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- Part 2 of Drowned, Not Dead
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The dress was a gift from an auntie: too small, in an unsubtle hint for Ma Xiuying to lose weight, flimsy teal polyester that would be knee-length if she ever put it on, which she hasn’t. Instead she shoved it in the back of her closet because she would’ve felt guilty about throwing it out, and somehow it’s followed her from the house in Chuzhou all the way back to Beijing, where it now hangs, questioning, in Wang Baoxiang’s hands.
Ma Xiuying, between selves.
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Not Drowning, but Wading by Nineveh_uk
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
27 Aug 2025
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'There's one kind of person who can't be killed. Someone who's dead already.' Xu Da had blanched, but she knew that he would follow her. It was Ouyang who had said no.
Ouyang objects to Zhu's plans at Lake Poyang.
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Before the Inevitable by mackerel_pizza
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
26 Aug 2025
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Baoxiang found himself moving in the water, slowly but surely approaching the Prince’s side. Even though the Third Prince had been reluctant being seen bathing with Baoxiang during their stay at the springs, he allowed him to approach now.
Here it was just the two of them. Their naked bodies in the darkness, with none of the oppressive stuffiness of the palace, the constant reminders of their roles.
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a servant of two masters by astrarche_x
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
25 Aug 2025
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Ouyang dreams that Esen accompanies him on a trip to the Zhangs... and things take a sexy turn.
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Lady Rui knew to deal with traitors.
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Such a Woman by mackerel_pizza
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
24 Aug 2025
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Curious about the life of courtesans, Lady Ki asks Minister Wang to arrange her a meeting with one. As identities are revealed and uncomfortable truths uncovered, she ends up getting more than she had bargained for.
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He Who Turned His Back On Fate by thesonicpunk
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
16 Jul 2025
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Tho neither will admit to it, Ouyang and Esen love each other. But for a 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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The two of you are waiting for his friend/acquaintance/brother-in-law to appear so you can have a threesome with him before he goes back to Anyang. All of this was arranged twelve days ago. You gave the name, Ouyang someone, to the doorman so he’ll be able to come up unchallenged — the fewer questions about this visit, the better.
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Like holding his own hand by mackerel_pizza
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
05 Jun 2025
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Zhu looked at the silk thread of the stitches she herself had put in place on Ouyang's arm. It was only fitting, that she should undo them too. Just like they had undone and rebuilt each other, over and over again. Ouyang had burnt down Zhu’s home and put a sword through her, only making her reach higher and higher toward her fate each time. She would keep doing the same to him if needed.
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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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