第二章  .                                          BURDOCK  (  牛蒡  )

• summary: when you last set foot inside the palace seven years ago, your heart was shattered into a thousand pieces. now, after the dowager empress’s death, you find that you still cannot even dare to hope.
  
• pairing: yanjun x f!reader
• genre: historical, royals au
• word count: 7654
• a/n: so. excuses. i have none, and although writing has never been anything other than a hobby for me, i do feel incredibly bad for making the 50+ people who enjoyed this wait so long to see the second part out of fifteen. the truth is, i’m a terrible procrastinator. when i wrote chapter one in about three days, it was kind of a fluke. it was also during the summer, which enabled me to spend hours of my day whittling away at something to post on tumblr instead of “actual responsibilities.” i thought i might be able to sneak in chapter two and a little bit of chapter three during the last month or so of my summer break or at least by yanjun’s birthday, but because i ( shocker ) procrastinated, that didn’t happen.
  
  and then school started, and things basically went to shit. but since i started working on a show, i’ve been again enabled with a bunch of free time with which to fluff up this plot bunny, and so here we are with chapter two. i can’t make any promises for when chapter three will be out, because we’ve seen how that works out when i try to give myself deadlines and no real consequences, but i hope you enjoy what i have for this chapter.
  
  i do promise that i have a lot of muse for this story and do plan on seeing it through at some point in time, and i am again super sorry for the very long wait between chapters.

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• summary: when you last set foot inside the palace seven years ago, your heart was shattered into a thousand pieces. now, after the dowager empress’s death, you find that you still cannot even dare to hope.
  
• pairing: yanjun x f!reader
  
• genre: historical, royals au
• word count: 6855
• a/n: please expect a lot of artistic license in terms of historical accuracy and medicine i am neither a doctor nor an expert on the song dynasty :’)

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when you last set foot inside the palace seven years ago, your heart was shattered into a thousand pieces. now, after the dowager empress’s death, you find that you still cannot even dare to hope.

• persuasion-inspired, historical/royal!au
• yanjun x reader

     ❝ IT’S GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK,” Yanjun says. For all the refinement in his dress, he still slouches a little, shoulders raised as he cants a hip to the side —- the way he used to when the two of you were still kids. He’s twenty-five now. Handsome as ever. Voice still rich and soft and tender when addressing you. One would think that his father-in-law isn’t standing less than a foot from him. The emperor’s Right Hand eyes you with obvious distaste, sleeve already raised to his mouth as if he is mere seconds away from whispering disparaging comments about you into Yanjun’s ear. You have no doubt that he will as soon as you are out of sight. Seven years have brought very little change to Lin’an.

     In the wake of your silence, the emperor looks at you expectantly. You have to remind yourself that this isn’t the little boy who used to fish your ribbons out of the river for you, who would stand on his tiptoes to pick the ripest fruit to share. You doubt he is still the same man that you loved. He is a man of power, now. He is atop the world’s finest nation. He is expected to lead it in war, to become a conqueror. “This humble servant thanks the crown,” you tell him, lowering yourself to your knees. Hands folded in your sleeves, you bow once more. “It is an honor to serve the great Dragon Emperor.” When you dare to glance up at Yanjun, his mouth is drawn into a tight line. Perhaps that was the wrong thing to say.