Title: never a foot wrong
Fandom: A Frozen Flower
(Mods: you can put this in a general fandom tag; I don't expect to do more here)
Rating: G
Length: 100 words
Content notes: Won’t make a lick of sense if you don’t know the main concept of the movie, period-typical misogyny, also this movie doesn’t even give the Queen a name as far as I can tell

Summary: The King doesn’t love her.



In Yuan, she learned the graces; she learned to be a knife at the throat of a vassal king, binding his children to Yuan. And so she came to Goryeo, to a crown and a palace and a boy she should have beguiled with a smile.

But his smiles belonged to another, and his eyes never turned her way. This was her humiliation, then, to be Queen while her husband haunted another bed and everyone knew. Everyone knew.

When he said, gravely, “We are not without options,” she could barely hold back her laugh. What choice has she ever had?