Saiunkoku: The Age of Silver: The Color of the Phoenix's Tail - Part Five

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Fic post from my archive.

The Color of the Phoenix's Tail: Part Five

Seien is learning how to deal with the ministers. Drama, I-3

Seien sighed; some days he felt more like a nursemaid than any kind of ruler, even one in training. Keeping the ministers away from each other's throats sometimes reminded him quite a lot of trying to keep a five-year-old Shuurei from dunking herself in the fish pond.

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Imagine if Shuurei's of marriage age, I could imagine Seiran's scowl at the number of potential husbands other than his own little brother. Boy, the husbands-to-be are going through a hell of a period with the Emperor Seiran.