FIC: Poison Heart and Scorpion Soul (Gan Shoucheng/Tan Qi, NC-17)
Title: Poison Heart and Scorpion Soul Author: Snowgrouse Fandom: The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019) Pairing: Gan Shoucheng/Tan Qi Rating: NC-17 Genre: Tragedy, Darkfic, Horror, Post-Canon Warnings: Serious, serious warnings for graphic violence, especially brutal and realistic sexual violence. No ravishment this time. No respite. Just dark as fuck from beginning to end; heed the Ao3 tags. Length: ~14 000 words Summary: During the An Lushan Rebellion, General Gan finally gets to possess Tan Qi, and to have his revenge. It's all he's ever wanted--and yet, not at all what he had wanted.
A/N: This is what really would happen, would Gan get his hands on her--and it's not at all like his sexy fantasies. Do not expect ravishments, i.e. the sexy kind of non-con here (if you want that, go read the Secret Diaries). Just him beating up and raping her for 14 k. Unfortunately, I had to write this to get it out of my system. Perhaps, my subconscious guilt for ever even writing porn of these two pushed me into writing this, if only to prove that I *do* know exactly what kind of a monster Gan is, and exactly how it'd really go down if he got to own her. Call it an act of balancing out the narratives, and a show of what exactly it is that I'm subverting with all the hot porn and all the CharmingRogue!Gans. So, yep, this is unflinchingly canon-compliant Gan. I do hope to get back to the happy fucking as soon as possible, though. Because that's what we'd all prefer, right?
"I am telling you this now, missy: it would serve you best if you were to teach yourself to love me, to mould yourself to my desires as slaves do; it's for your own good. You'll be a lot happier that way."
"Is that what this is about?" she says quietly, in genuine astonishment. "Am I to take it that all these years, you've been pining for me, madly in love with me? And that you voted to kill Her Highness--and break His Majesty's heart--just for my sake?"
Gan sneers. "Don't flatter yourself."
"I don't have to. You're the one doing it."
"And it's high time you thanked me for saving your neck," Gan says and yanks her up by the rope between her neck and her wrists. He sets aside his lance and arranges her to kneel before himself, taking her hands to the apron panel of his armour. "Now, I presume you know what to do. Go on, prove your worth; the better you please me, the better I'll treat you."
She huffs incredulously.
He slaps her with the full force of his arm, a blow so hard she falls onto her hands and knees.
"Enough insolence!"
He yanks her head up by the hair, grinding her face into his armour scales. "Is this how you want it, then?" he asks and slaps her again, laughing. "Or are you trying to turn me on, perhaps? Acting like a brat, so I'll have an excuse to beat you?"
"No," she groans into his groin, her lip-paint now but a red streak across her cheek.
"That's right," he says and squints, grinning maliciously. "I don't need an excuse to beat a woman," he says, slapping her cheek as he dangles her there. "But you deserve it," he spits and slaps her again. "Your karma has finally come to get you. Welcome to your hell realm, wench; meet your personal executioner!"
And at that last slap, he truly lets go. After all, he's wanted to teach her a lesson for a long time, so he might as well make it clear to her who's in charge. Thus, still holding her by the hair, he mauls her face the way he's always wanted to: his laughter rings high in his throat as he slaps her cheeks to redden them, pinches her skin to break blood vessels, beats her mouth to make it warm and swollen for him. He spits in her eyes, and when she tries to turn aside, he snaps his fingers off the bones of her temples, flicking his fingers into the corners of her eyes; oh, but the sight of this proud woman's haughty, frosty exterior cracking with horror is the most arousing thing he's ever seen in his life.
(Ao3)













