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Mulan never returned as a hero - she returned as something else. After surviving in the untamed nature and among the Huns, she finds herself in a society where women are fighters, healers and survivors, but how much will she lose herself to survive in a world where strength and power are determined not by gender but by ability and intelligence?
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"Where is she? Answer me now!" The Hun man shook the Chinese in his grip.
"Died!" The statement was almost a cry as Hua Zhou closed his eyes and gave the answer. He was sure that this was the last act of his life. However, the hand that held him weakened.
"No, that can't be." When he looked up at the Hun, he shook his head.
"I sent her home, but she died!" Zhou repeated. The Hun man closed his eyes and a tear seemed to roll down his face. His hands were clenched into fists and he didn't speak for a long moment. Finally, he slowly turned his back on Zhou.
"I'll let you live today because of your honesty. Next time, I won't be so kind to your kind." He announced before leaving the humiliated Hua Zhou alone.
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China and the northern steppe have been bleeding each other dry for generations — one slow border stone at a time, one unanswered treaty at a time, one burial at a time. Shan Yu rides south carrying thirty years of his father's patience and two fresh graves. Hua Mulan rides north in her father's armor, carrying his name like a borrowed life and a country that will not remember her name correctly even if she survives to let it.
Shan Yu is not what they said he was. Neither is Mulan. It takes both of them longer than it should to figure out that this is the most dangerous thing they've learned about each other.
A historically grounded, slow burn enemies-to-friends-to-lovers romance set along the fault lines of Northern Wei China and the Rouran confederation. Rated E for wartime violence, grief, political consequence, moral ambiguity, explicit sexual content and two people taking far too long to admit what everyone else already knows.
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Mulan expected death on the mountain.
Instead, she was left behind.
Betrayed by the men she fought beside and abandoned in the snow, she is prepared to disappear into the cold until she is found by the enemy she was taught to hate.
Shan-Yu does not come to finish the job.
He comes because a warrior who buries an army beneath a mountain does not get discarded like broken armor.
What happens when two people decide to become the monsters their world already believes them to be?
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The men of her own group turned their backs on her, men whose lives were saved by her and who spent months training alongside her...
But one man saw her as an equal, the one who should be her greatest enemy, the one who would have every reason to break her apart, was the one who saw her potential the most and did not underestimate her for being a woman for even a second.
Shang spared her out of a debt... Shan Yu helped her because she was a warrior worthy of his respect.