The scent of smoke and blood still clung to the ruins of the Xuan palace. Xuanchen knelt among the rubble, his wrists bound with coarse rope, his royal robes torn and dirtied. Around him, Daqian soldiers laughed and kicked at the fallen statues of his ancestors. The Great Qian had come like a storm, and in a single night, the Xuan Kingdom had ceased to exist.
His father was dead—executed for breaking the alliance, for trusting Junlong's false promises of peace. Xuanchen had warned him. He had begged him not to sign that treaty. But the old king had been naive, and now his people were scattered, his brothers taken, his son somewhere in the chaos.
A soldier grabbed his hair, yanking his head back. "Look at you. Used to be a king, now you're nothing."
Xuanchen said nothing. He stared at the man with cold, patient eyes. He would remember every face.
Far off, he heard a scream—Xuanling's voice, high and desperate, then cut off by a chorus of rough laughter. Xuanchen's jaw tightened. They had given his younger brother to the army for sport. Gang rape in the camp was the standard courtesy of conquerors. He knew what Xuanling would endure tonight, and every night after.
He closed his eyes and let the soldiers haul him to his feet.
The journey to the Daqian capital took seven days. Xuanchen was kept in chains, paraded through villages and towns like a trophy. People threw rotten vegetables and stones. Some spat. A few women wept, remembering the time when the Xuan prince had passed through with grace and gifts. Now he was a fallen king, stripped of dignity, fed scraps, and denied even the right to piss without permission.
On the seventh day, they arrived.
The capital of Daqian was vast, its streets lined with silk banners bearing the golden dragon of the ruling house. The people cheered as the procession entered, but their cheers were for Junlong, the Emperor who had crushed a kingdom and brought home its king in chains.
Xuanchen was dragged to a raised platform in the central square. The altar of conquest. It was made of black stone, worn smooth by centuries of triumph, stained with the blood of countless subjugated rulers. Priests in white robes chanted as they anointed the stone with oil and incense.
He was stripped to the waist. The cold wind bit at his skin, but he did not shiver. Around him, thousands of Daqian citizens packed the square, eager for sport.
Then the cheers rose to a deafening roar.
Junlong ascended the platform.
He was a giant of a man, towering at 192 centimeters, his body a monument of muscle and arrogance. His face was handsome in a cruel way, with sharp eyes that gleamed like polished steel. He wore robes of crimson and gold, a crown of jade upon his head, and a smile that promised nothing but pain.
He walked slowly, savoring the moment. When he reached Xuanchen, he stopped and looked down at him as one might look at a broken toy.
"Kneel," Junlong said.
Xuanchen did not move.
The emperor's smile widened. He gestured, and two soldiers dragged a boy from the crowd—a boy of ten, with Xuanchen's own eyes and a face still soft with childhood.
"Father!" Xuanyu cried, struggling against his captors.
Xuanchen's heart stopped. "Let him go."
"Kneel," Junlong repeated, "or I'll have him gelded and thrown to the dogs."
Xuanchen's knees hit the stone.
The crowd erupted in laughter. The great king of Xuan, on his knees before the sovereign of Daqian. The priests chanted louder, burning incense that filled the air with a sweet, cloying scent.
Junlong stepped closer, his robes brushing against Xuanchen's bare shoulders. He reached down and gripped Xuanchen's chin, forcing his head up.
"You're beautiful," the emperor murmured. "I've heard stories of the Xuan king's beauty. They didn't do you justice."
Xuanchen said nothing. His eyes were fixed on his son, who was being held by a soldier with a hand over his mouth.
Junlong's hand moved from his chin to his hair, gripping it tight. "Open your mouth."
Xuanchen understood. He had heard the rumors of what Junlong did to conquered kings. The emperor had a monstrous appetite, and his dragon root was legend—too large for most men, too thick for any woman. He took his pleasure on altars like this one, in front of crowds, to break the spirit of the fallen.
Xuanchen's lips parted slowly. He had no choice. His son's life hung in the balance, and the rest of his family was in chains somewhere in the palace dungeons. He would submit now, swallow his pride and his rage, and wait. Revenge was a dish best served cold, and he had learned patience in a lifetime of politics.
Junlong released his hair and undid his belt. His robes fell open, revealing his arousal—a monstrous length of flesh, already hard, at least twenty centimeters thick and longer than any man had a right to be. The crowd gasped and cheered.
He stepped forward, pressing the head against Xuanchen's lips. "Take it. All of it."
Xuanchen opened wider, and the emperor pushed in.
The taste was salt and musk. The sheer size filled his mouth, stretched his jaw to its limit. He gagged, but Junlong held his head, forcing deeper. Tears streamed from Xuanchen's eyes, but he did not close them. He stared at his son, who watched with wide, horrified eyes, and he let the emperor use his throat.
Junlong groaned with pleasure. "Good. Very good. A king's mouth is a fine thing."
He thrust a few times, deep and slow, savoring the warmth and the resistance. Then he pulled out, leaving Xuanchen gasping, spit-slick and trembling.
"That's just the appetizer," Junlong said. He turned to the crowd, raising his arms. "Now, your emperor will claim the land between this king's legs!"
The people roared.
Soldiers grabbed Xuanchen, forcing him onto his hands and knees on the altar. His wrists were bound behind his back, his thighs spread, his ass exposed to the cold air and a thousand watching eyes. They poured oil onto his hole, slicking him, preparing him.
Junlong knelt behind him. He pressed his dragon root against the tight entrance.
Xuanchen braced himself. His anal cavity had never been breached. It was tight, virgin, unprepared for something this massive.
The head pushed in. Xuanchen screamed.
It was too large. The ring of muscle resisted, straining, burning. Junlong grunted and pushed harder. Half the head entered, then stopped, stuck in the impossibly tight channel.
"You're tight," Junlong growled, slapping Xuanchen's ass. "Good. I like breaking tight things."
He pulled out slightly and thrust again. Still only half could enter, the thickest part of the shaft lodged against the entrance. The pain was blinding. Every nerve screamed. Xuanchen bit his lip, drawing blood, refusing to give the crowd the satisfaction of more screams.
Junlong began to move. Short, brutal strokes, each one battering against the resistance, each one forcing a tiny bit more inside. The emperor's balls slapped against Xuanchen's thighs. The ropes cut into his wrists. His face scraped against the stone.
The crowd counted. "One! Two! Three!"
Junlong laughed. "We'll count to a hundred, king. By then, I'll be all the way in."
At thirty, the pain became a white-hot roar. Xuanchen's vision blurred. He thought of his father, dead in the burning hall. He thought of Xuanling, being passed from soldier to soldier. He thought of Xuanyu, watching his father be defiled.
His rage kept him conscious.
At fifty, the prostate was teased for the first time. A jolt of unwanted pleasure shot through his body. His cock, limp and ignored, twitched. Junlong noticed.
"Oh, you like that? Good." He adjusted his angle, aiming for that spot again.
At seventy, the root began to slide deeper. The oil and blood had made a slick channel, and the muscle was giving way. The walls stretched thin around the monstrous intrusion.
At ninety, Junlong's hips were flush against Xuanchen's ass. The entire dragon root was inside, buried to the hilt.
The crowd erupted in applause.
Junlong leaned forward, his chest against Xuanchen's back, his lips against his ear. "I'm going to move now. And you're going to take it. All of it. Every day, for the rest of your life. You'll be my concubine, my whore, my little king to fuck whenever I please. And if you resist, I'll take your son and make him my whore too."
He pulled out and thrust back in, hard. The head of his root struck the prostate directly, a direct hit that made Xuanchen's entire body convulse. A moan escaped his lips, shameful and helpless.
"Yes," Junlong purred. "I'll teach you to enjoy it."
He began to fuck in earnest, fast and brutal, each stroke a declaration of ownership. The altar rocked. The crowd cheered. The priests chanted.
Xuanchen closed his eyes and let his mind go blank. He did not feel the pleasure that Junlong was trying to force on him. He felt only the cold stone against his cheek, the rope biting his wrists, and the slow, steady beat of his heart.
He counted each stroke, not from one to a hundred, but from one to the day when Junlong would kneel before him.
And he smiled into the stone.