The iron gates of the Xuan Palace groaned as they were torn from their hinges, the sound echoing through halls that had once known only silk and incense. Xuan Chen stood in the great courtyard, his robes still bearing the royal dragon of his fallen house, watching as the Daqian soldiers dragged his people into the cold morning light. The sky above the capital was choked with smoke, and the air stank of blood and burning tapestries.
He did not struggle when they took him. He had seen the bodies of the generals who had fought back, their heads mounted on spears at the city gates. A king's duty was to his people, not to a futile death. So he stood still, his long black hair falling over shoulders that had never known a burden heavier than a ceremonial crown, and let them bind his wrists with coarse rope.
Beside him, Xuan Ling trembled. His younger brother had always been the softer of them, with eyes like a startled doe and lips that parted easily in fear. The soldiers noticed. They always noticed. One of them reached out and cupped Xuan Ling's chin, forcing his head up to better see his face.
"Pretty thing," the soldier said, his thumb pressing against Xuan Ling's lower lip. "The emperor will have his pick of the litter, but the rest of us deserve a taste, don't we?"
Xuan Chen's blood ran cold, but he kept his face still. "Do not touch him," he said quietly, his voice carrying the weight of a command he no longer had the right to give.
The soldier laughed and released Xuan Ling only to backhand Xuan Chen across the face. His head snapped to the side, and he tasted copper on his tongue. The soldiers dragged them apart, and Xuan Chen could do nothing but watch as they pulled Xuan Ling toward the barracks, his brother's desperate eyes finding his for one brief, terrible moment.
The Training Department was a name that hid nothing. It was a compound of low stone buildings where the Daqian army broke the will of captured royalty, turning them into something less than human. They herded Xuan Chen past the open gates, and he saw Xuan Chi there, kneeling in a stall meant for animals, his robes gone, his body bare and marked with the evidence of what had been done to him. His eyes met his older brother's, and there was no shame in them—only a hollow acceptance that was worse than any scream.
Xuan Chen turned away. He could not afford to break. Not yet.
That night, they held Xuan Ling down in the center of the barracks square, and the soldiers formed a line. Some cheered. Some watched in grim silence. The first man took him from behind, and Xuan Ling's cry was raw and animal, a sound that cut through the night and lodged itself in Xuan Chen's chest where he sat bound in a holding cell, unable to see but able to hear everything.
They lasted until dawn. By the time the last soldier had finished, Xuan Ling could no longer stand. They carried him out, his thighs streaked with blood and seed, his anal cavity swollen and red, a ruin that would need weeks to heal—if it ever truly healed. When they threw him into the cell beside Xuan Chen, he did not speak. He only curled on the cold stone floor and wept silently, his body shaking with a violence that spoke of horrors Xuan Chen could only imagine.
Xuan Chen reached through the bars and touched his brother's hair. "I am here," he whispered. "I am here."
But the words were ash in his mouth.
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The journey to Daqian took seven days. They traveled in chains, packed into a iron cart like livestock, the royal family of a fallen kingdom paraded through villages where the people threw rotten fruit and called them dogs. Xuan Chen kept his eyes forward, his back straight, refusing to give them the satisfaction of seeing him bow.
He counted every jolt of the cart, every mile that brought him closer to Junlong.
The Daqian palace rose from the plains like a mountain carved from white jade and gold, its towers piercing clouds that seemed to gather low, as if even the sky feared to rise above the emperor's domain. Xuan Chen was bathed and dressed in thin silk robes the color of pale jade, robes that left more than they covered. They painted his lips with cinnabar and dusted his eyelids with powdered pearl, and when they led him to the great altar in the center of the throne hall, he knew exactly what they had made of him.
The altar was broad and low, a slab of black marble polished to a mirror shine. Thousands of candles ringed it, and the air was thick with incense that clung to the back of the throat. Junlong sat on his throne above, a man built like a siege engine, his shoulders broad enough to block the light from the windows behind him. His face was handsome in a brutal way, with a jaw like a cliff and eyes that held no warmth.
"Kneel," the eunuch said, and Xuan Chen knelt on the cold stone before the altar, his knees aching against the marble. The silk of his robe pooled around him like spilled water.
Junlong rose and descended the steps slowly, deliberately, savoring each moment. He stopped before Xuan Chen and looked down at him the way a man might look at a dish he was about to consume. His hand reached out, and he grabbed a fistful of Xuan Chen's hair, yanking his head back so that his throat bared itself to the candlelight.
"Your kingdom is dust," Junlong said, his voice deep and rough, the voice of a man accustomed to being obeyed. "Your people are cattle. Your gods are dead." He leaned in close, his breath hot against Xuan Chen's ear. "And now I will teach you what you are."
He released Xuan Chen's hair and gestured to the altar. "Mount it."
Xuan Chen rose on unsteady legs and climbed onto the black slab. The marble was cold beneath his palms. He lay back, his hair spilling across the polished surface, and stared up at the ceiling painted with the Daqian dragon. He did not close his eyes. He wanted to see every moment of what was about to happen, to remember it, to feed it into the furnace of his hatred.
Junlong undid his belt, and his robes fell open. His cock was immense, thicker than Xuan Chen's wrist and long enough to be almost obscene, a shaft that had been the ruin of countless bodies before this night. It rose from a nest of dark hair, already half-hard, the head flushed deep red and glistening.
"Open your mouth," Junlong commanded.
Xuan Chen obeyed. His lips parted, and Junlong pushed the head past them, filling his mouth with a taste of salt and musk. The shaft stretched his jaw wide, and when Junlong thrust deeper, it pressed against the back of his throat, making him gag.
"Do not bite," Junlong said, his hand gripping Xuan Chen's jaw with brutal force. "Or I will have your son Xuan Yu brought here, and I will take him while you watch. And then I will give him to the army, as I gave your brother."
Xuan Chen's eyes burned. His son. His youngest. Sixteen years old, still with the softness of youth in his face, still innocent in ways the other boys had long since ceased to be. He forced his throat to relax, forced his body to accept the intrusion, and let Junlong fuck his mouth in long, punishing strokes.
The emperor's hips slapped against his lips, a wet rhythm that filled the hall. The eunuchs watched in silence. The courtiers stood frozen, their eyes fixed on the sight of the former king being used like a common whore on the altar of their emperor's pleasure. Xuan Chen's hands curled into fists at his sides, his nails biting into his palms hard enough to draw blood.
Junlong pulled out and stood, his cock slick with saliva, jutting out obscenely. He grabbed Xuan Chen's hips and flipped him onto his stomach, pressing his face down against the cold marble. Xuan Chen felt the emperor's thumbs spread his cheeks, felt the air against his exposed hole.
"Touch yourself," Junlong said. "Open yourself for me. If you are too tight, I will simply tear through you."
Xuan Chen's hand shook as he reached back, his fingers slick with the oil one of the eunuchs had poured into his palm. He pressed two fingers into himself, circling, stretching, the sensation a violation he performed on his own body. He heard Junlong chuckle above him, a sound of deep satisfaction.
"Good. You learn fast."
The first push was agony.
Junlong's cock pressed against his entrance, and the head was so large that it seemed impossible. Xuan Chen gasped, his fingers curling against the marble as the pressure built, a burning, tearing sensation that made black spots dance in his vision. Junlong did not stop. He pushed, and pushed, and the head slipped past the ring of muscle with a wet sound that made Xuan Chen's stomach lurch.
Halfway in, Junlong paused. "You are tight for a king," he said. "I expected more use."
Xuan Chen bit his tongue and said nothing. The cock inside him was a foreign object, a violation that seemed to reach up into his very core. He could feel every vein, every ridge, the heat of it threatening to overwhelm him.
Then Junlong began to thrust.
The first strokes were shallow, only the head and a few inches of shaft moving in and out. But each thrust stretched him further, opened him wider, and Xuan Chen could feel his body beginning to submit against his will. His anal cavity spasmed, trying to reject the intrusion, and the clenching only made the emperor groan with pleasure.
"I will break you open," Junlong said, his voice rough with exertion. "And when I am done, there will be nothing left of the king you were."
He drove forward, and the entire length of his cock slammed into Xuan Chen's body.
Xuan Chen screamed. The sound tore out of him, raw and animal, as the massive shaft buried itself deep, deep, deeper than anything had ever been, pressing against a spot inside him that sent lightning through his nerves. His vision went white. His body arched against the marble, his back bowing as the sensation overwhelmed every coherent thought.
Junlong found that spot and stayed there, grinding his hips in slow circles, letting Xuan Chen feel every inch of him. "There it is," he whispered. "There is your weakness. Every man has one. Yours is here, buried where no one has ever touched you."
He began to thrust in earnest, each stroke hitting that same sensitive node with brutal precision. Xuan Chen's body betrayed him. His anal cavity clenched around the invading shaft, gripping it, milking it, even as his mind screamed in horror at what his flesh was doing. He heard himself moaning, a sound that did not belong to him, and he hated himself for it.
The thrusts grew faster, harder, the slap of Junlong's hips against the backs of his thighs echoing in the hall. Xuan Chen's hands scrabbled against the marble, his nails leaving streaks, his body shaking with each impact. The emperor's breath came in hot grunts, his weight pressing Xuan Chen into the stone, using him like a sheath for his pleasure.
"I am close," Junlong snarled. "Take it. Take all of it."
The final thrust drove his cock as deep as it could go, the head pressing against Xuan Chen's deepest reaches, and then the hot flood of semen filled him. It came in waves, thick and copious, spilling into him with such force that he felt his stomach distend slightly. Junlong held him there, buried to the root, riding out the convulsions of his own pleasure.
When he pulled out, his seed dripped from Xuan Chen's stretched hole, pooling on the black marble in a translucent puddle. Xuan Chen lay there, trembling, his body wrecked, his mind a battlefield of shame and hatred and something else—a spark, cold and bright, that refused to be extinguished.
Junlong tucked himself back into his robes and looked down at Xuan Chen with the satisfaction of a man who believed he had won.
"You will serve me tonight in my chambers," he said. "And every night after. Do well, and your family will live in comfort. Displease me, and I will have your youngest son brought to the Training Department tomorrow morning."
He turned and walked back to his throne, the candles flickering in his wake.
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