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    When Emperor Yoo Joonghyuk crushes the last embers of rebellion in a distant province, he returns not only with victory.... but with a prize unlike any other: Kim Dokja, the province’s sharp-tongued, intellegent, omega court scholar.

     

    Defiant even in chains, Dokja’s biting wit and cold intellect draw the emperor’s attention more than any blade ever could.

     

    Rather than execute him, Yoo Joonghyuk makes a different choice—claiming Dokja as his personal attendant and locking him away in a hidden wing of the imperial palace, draped in silk and shadows. But Dokja refuses to bow easily.

     

    Every cutting remark, every failed escape, only deepens the emperor’s obsession. Court punishments turn into heated encounters, and reluctant submission gives way to something more dangerous.. craving.

     

    Behind closed doors and beneath layers of silk, a battle of wills unfolds... one where pride is a weapon, desire is a trap, and surrender might just mean survival. Or ruin.

     

    Who will break first?

    The iron-fisted emperor, or the scholar who refuses to yield?

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    01 Jun 2025

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    "Oh, but when people praise your beauty. I'm sure they only talk about your lovely face, your eyes as green as the most precious jade and your hair, softer than the finest silk," the man slid closer, reaching out to trail his fingers over Shen Jiu's long sleeve. "But do they speak of your clothes like clouds, your face like flowers? If I don’t find you at the peak of Jade Mountain—
    "Then will you see me under the moon at Jade Tower?" Shen Jiu hummed. "Do you know how to use your own words, or must you always borrow from others?"
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    Shen Jiu gets mistaken as a sex worker at the Warm Red Pavilion by a Tianlang-Jun in disguise. He curses the gods for making him weak for foolish pathetic men.
    A Role Reversal fic written for the MXTX Remix

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    10 May 2025

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    After living through the original PIDW, many are brought back to their past selves. With knowledge in hand a number push to keep Shen Jiu away from their lives. When unspoken truths and unwoven lies are known can they make amends?

     

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    11 Apr 2025

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    Yoojin had never truly regretted it.

    Well, not quite. He had reconsidered it the first time, and the second time, and the third time and the many, many times after that. But it just paid so well, too well for him to ever consider seriously stopping. So he’d simply grit his teeth and got it along with and soon it just became another kind of normal, just another job in a string of taxing and thankless jobs that he could disassociate mid-way through the second he got on his back. There was no use regretting it and feeling sorry for himself, he’d thought, not when it allowed him to keep paying rent, to buy groceries, to keep Yoohyun safe and happy and well-fed.

    Or: Yoojin is forced to make some tough choices after his parents die (please check the tags before reading)

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    30 Mar 2025

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    In a moment of desperate clarity, as the world crumbles toward inevitable darkness, Tobirama attempts the impossible. Hurled backward through the fabric of time itself, he awakens in a younger body during the blood-soaked era of warring clans.

    With fragments of another's memories entangled with his own, Tobirama navigates the delicate threads of history he once helped weave. Each careful intervention creates ripples through a tapestry he thought he understood—strategies shifted, words measured, confrontations reconsidered.

    But when fate places him face to face with the very men whose paths he seeks to alter, Tobirama discovers an uncomfortable truth: changing destiny requires confronting the darkness burning within himself as fiercely as in those he once condemned.

    Some cycles, it seems, are not so easily broken.

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    06 Mar 2025