Fic: Deceiving the Emperor

[azdak]

A while back, I watched The Rise of Phoenixes, which has a truly excellent heroine but is severely let down in the plot department. It impelled me to write a very short fic with a suggested improvement to at least one plot strand, but I never posted it because I couldn't remember the name of the minor character who rats the heroine out to the Emperor, and I couldn't be arsed to look through 70 episodes in order to find out . Today I rediscovered the fic and realised that the minor character works perfectly well without his name, so here is the fic. You don't have to know anything at all about The Rise of Phoenixes to understand what's going on, and while technically it's spoilery, the original scene goes quite differently.

Title: Deceiving the Emperor
Fandom: The Rise of Phoenixes
Word Count: 321
Location: AO3