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“In that moment Esen seemed breathtakingly handsome: so much so that Ouyang felt a sharper ache of incomprehension. That someone this perfect, so i’ve and so full of pleasure of the
moment, could be. It hurt like grief”

gender nonconforming when AFAB defined so perfectly

“Ouyang recoiled from the image: as if he were…not a man but a thing…yet—esen was staring at him with a bold intensity that was uncouth in its raw interest, and ouyang didn’t turn away…the closeness of esen’s body disturbed a willingness within him that he found deeply unsettling… ‘you really are as beautiful as a woman’…It was the feeling of a blade slid gently into his heart.”

this chapter was rlly good

“Now, as she looked at the person standing before her in a body like her own, she saw someone who seemed neither male nor female, but another substance entirely: something wholly and powerfully of its own kind. The promise of difference, made real.”


他，她， 都一样的