The Keeper of Flame and the Master of Ice (Sub-Zero x Reader)

The Proposition

Important notice:

This story is on hiatus. I apologize for adding this so late. I thought I had explained it already but now I realize that I only did it on AO3. I'm really sorry to everyone that had been waiting for an update all this time. I will be honest: I'm not sure when I'll be posting another chapter because I have a lot on my plate at the moment and writing has become a source of stress rather than enjoyment for me. So I hope you can forgive me for doing this. I'll be keeping this story on this site in case you still want to read it and I'm in the process of revising older chapters as well. I still want to finish this story someday but how long it'll take me, who knows.

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Wow, I cannot believe we're already on October! So sorry for the delay again, but at least I didn't take like six months to update xD thank goodness for that haha.

I would like to express my gratitude to everyone for the lovely comments and the encouragement that I've received so far. I really appreciate every word of my readers, and I would have never come this far without you ;u;

Thanks to Lala for the beautiful comic about Liang and Tengu-chan, which inspired me to write this chapter!

Thanks to Lucía for putting up with me and always supporting me to keep writing, no matter what. I hope this new chapter is to your liking :)

Without further ado, enjoy!

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Warnings: Cheesiness. Sexual references. OoC. English is not my native language. Unbetaed work.

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Part XV: "The Proposition"

Would anything of what Shyama had told you about Liang make you see him in a bad light?

Whenever you looked at your husband, it was hard to picture him as the very dangerous man he most certainly used to be in the past- a Lin Kuei assassin ready to do the bidding of his masters, no matter what. A man who, without a doubt, had done questionable deeds that he wanted to forget and redeem. This was a fact of which you were aware; something that you always tried to keep in mind, after becoming more knowledgeable on the history of your people.

There was no question about it. The Lin Kuei was responsible for the extermination of an entire clan, that was the sad truth. However, it had been the decisions and ambitions of unscrupulous minds that had led to this tragedy. It wasn't your intention to put distance between you and that event, of course. As part of the Lin Kuei- wife of the grandmaster, no less- you needed to accept your responsibility, even if you'd never taken any part in it. The same way Liang did, after finding the truth that been kept from him.

Did he resent Hanzo Hasashi for killing his brother?

According to Shyama's account, at the time, Liang had no idea of the Lin Kuei's participation in the genocide of the Shirai Ryu. Back then, he was still a young and inexperienced member of the clan who was of little consequence in its affairs. A young man who no one imagined would one day become the grandmaster.

For years, your husband believed that Master Hasashi had accused the Lin Kuei unjustly- without any proof to back up his insane claims. However, after killing Sektor, he made an appalling discovery that finally convinced him the Lin Kuei had lost its honor and made him see Hanzo Hasashi had been right all along. It opened his eyes to the lie he'd been living for so long, to the terrible deeds they'd done.