#madam zhang

[nineveh-uk]

Physically mutilated former slave now in a relatively high but still precarious social position, in love with a man who is basically decent but fundamentally fails to comprehend them, unable to free themselves mentally from a view of the world that oppresses them and who thus ruins their own life and loses everything they value in relentless pursuit of a goal that ultimately proves meaningless to them.

I refer, of course, to Madam Zhang.

[tumblerislovetumblerislife]

the radiant emperor series may be a buddy comedy, but it is also the worst group project ever. zhu and ouyang spend most of both books working towards the same goal in very different ways. a fraction of this is actually spent working together. ouyang fucks off halfway through hwdtw to do the thing they agreed to HIS way. they attempt to kill each other several times.

[offbrandzuko]

[mispatchedgreens]

toxic old woman yuri scheming and plotting and hustling

[lxh-arts]

Happy Lantern Festival *･゜ﾟ･*:(^▽^)o(◎_◎;)*:.｡.･･*

[gatoraid]

For @radiantemperorweek day 5, minor character appreciation

Madam Zhang/Lady Ki, modern au

6k words oneshot

Grimdark corporate girlboss toxic yuri with a dash of revenge plot

What could be more sexy than bonding over the fact that you both hate Wang Baoxiang?

[kookyburrowing]

characters who self-objectify are everything to me. they’re like “im not a person i dont feel anything i am only good as long as i am useful” and i fucking lose it. horrible mindset but god is it narratively satisfying.

[teartra]

Zhu : I don’t want to be great

Madam Zhang :

Me :

Zhu : I want to be the ✨greatest✨

[ash-and-starlight]

@radiantemperorweek day 7 // free space

i did these lil portraits as warmup during my swbts reread and i guess this is the perfect occasion to post them u.u motivational words from the blorbini

[yorufi]

fluffy middle age women yuri

↓ portrait close up ↓

[macbethisms]

there's something to be said about how zhu sees both ouyang and ma xiuying as alternative bodies for herself. ouyang as her missing hand, her dog on a leash, who can enact violence for her in a way she personally can't; ma xiuying as someone who can feel emotions for her so she doesn't have to, especially things like compassion that zhu thinks will weigh her down, and then later becoming the body that conceives zhu's heir. ouyang gets all the parts of masculinity zhu doesn't like and ma xiuying gets all the parts of femininity zhu doesn't like. how she outsources these gendered things onto other people who she also views as part of her....

[tumblerislovetumblerislife]

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ma Xiuying/Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang, General Ouyang/Esen-Temur, General Ouyang & Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang, Ma Xiuying & Esen-Temur, General Ouyang & Wang Baoxiang, Esen-Temur & Wang Baoxiang, Ayushiridara | Third Prince/Wang Baoxiang (implied), General Ouyang & Esen-Temur, Ma Xiuying & Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang Characters: Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang, General Ouyang (The Radiant Emperor Series), Ma Xiuying (The Radiant Emperor Series), Esen-Temur, Wang Baoxiang, Madam Zhang (The Radiant Emperor Series), Yue (The Radiant Emperor Series) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University, and they were roommates (oh my god they were roommates), Genderqueer Character, LGBTQ Themes, basically a 5 + 1 fic except without the + 1, Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang Uses She/They Pronouns, General Ouyang Uses He/They Pronouns, (eventually) - Freeform, i KNOW baoxiang is the ultimate accountant but you don’t get it., he’s a scholar in a warrior’s world → he’s a theater nerd in a businessman’s world, Canon Disabled Character, modern au esen was totally the ‘i would kiss you if you were a girl bro’ bro at some point, also ft. esen’s famous foot-in-mouth syndrome, Getting Together, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, ma and zhu are honestly too smart for this nonsense they should really be established relationship, but they deserve an epic getting together story. as a treat ❤, implied past ouyang/xu da, leaning into the true potential of this series: buddy comedy, i'm crying in the club about esen and baoxiang being BROTHERS

Summary:

five people. five conversations. who will win this episode of the radiant university?

(spoiler: it's wang baoxiang. everyone else is too busy making out.)

dedicated to @ash-and-starlight !

[fishareglorious]

Most of r1999 characters go by aliases or their first/last names, and so far I think there’s only been a few who've had their full names revealed. From what i can remember:

Shamane - Pushya Shamar

Ms. Moissan - Hannah Geier

Blonney - Jennifer Woods

Druvis III - Druvis Weyerhauser III

Rabies - Adam Miłosz

John Titor - I think you already know this one.

Edit for the other ones:

Baby Blue - Rebecca Jones

Tennant - Ada Tennant

Melania - Melania Ramirez

Do you know any more with their full names? I’m just curious to know how many people have those stated.

[studiesinpolterghost]

me every other chapter of r1999: mmmmm i love doomed yuri

[happyzyx]

ZHANG YIXING for MADAME FIGARO CHINA, october 2024

[cikebabbler]

zhu has killed so many people, only for her to go "i can't kill you if i want to create a new world" and at first i was like lame but then zhu saw how ouyang, madam zhang, wang baoxiang were just like her. they all killed so many people and did everything they can to get what they want. and at the end, everyone got what they want. but none of it was worth it for any of them. and that is why zhu said enough was enough

okay but shelley parker-chan might be the only person to make the "i'm not going to kill you, it's not worth it, said by the person who already killed so many other people" trope make sense