Terrible likeness - naysaltysalmon - a Radiant Emperor fic - AO3
Words: 3,066
Genre: Drama/tragedy
Rating: M (body dysmorphia, sexual content)
Pairings: Ouyang/Zhu, Ouyang/Esen
Characters: General Ouyang, Zhu Chongba/Zhu Yuanzheng, Esen-Temur
A/N: I wrote this fic months ago now but Tumblr hasn't been letting me post AO3 links for some reason, so here I am finally posting it!! Enjoy~
“Did you let Fang Guozhen fuck you? You did, didn’t you.”
It wasn’t a question he expected to have answered, but he could already tell: The flush lingered in Zhu’s cheeks, and there was an unusual slackness in her spine, all-too-familiar in the months they’d been traveling together, shared clandestine moments together. The accusation had made her eyes widen with bemusement and consternation, but more than that, Ouyang had sensed it after the competition in front of all of those people, Fang’s interest in him. In the woman he presumed Ouyang to be, how this large and powerful man pursued every rare and interesting thing in his midst until it was in his bed.
Would he have pursued Ouyang still, had he known Ouyang’s true nature?
Or would he have become nothing in Fang’s eyes, a disgusting conventionality?
Ouyang trembled from the thought. A powerful man like that – he didn’t deserve to gaze upon Ouyang’s body, or the man Ouyang presumed Zhu to be.
Zhu was using him for her own end, all along.
Ouyang learns from Jiao that Zhu is female, but things turn out quite differently.
