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• Fire in the Jasmine Tea by borntobeabnormal

  Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  10 Jun 2026

  Tags

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  • Zuko (Avatar)/Reader
  • Zuko (Avatar)/Original Female Character(s)
  • The Gaang (Avatar) & Original Character(s)
  • Zuko (Avatar)
  • The Gaang (Avatar)
  • Iroh (Avatar)
  • Azula (Avatar)
  • Mai (Avatar)
  • Ty Lee (Avatar)
  • Slow Burn
  • Mutual Pining
  • Zuko is an Awkward Turtleduck
  • Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
  • Iroh is a Good Uncle (Avatar)
  • Iroh Loves Tea (Avatar)
  • Blue Spirit Zuko (Avatar)
  • Tea Shop Owner Iroh (Avatar)
  • Tea
  • Eventual Smut
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Angst
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • MC has some severe self-esteem issues
  • Zuko is VERY angy
  • They're weirdly kinda enemies in the beginning but GIVE IT TIME
  • Idk how to actually write slow burn
  • Someone give me advice
  • first fanfic
  • Ok we're just here for a good time don't be mad if it's not a literary masterpiece
  • no beta reader it's just me so that's why there's so many mistakes and edits
  • Awkward First Times
  • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
  • Oblivious Zuko (Avatar)
  • I'm actually gonna age them up later
  • Action and fighting that is badly written

  Summary

  Keya is a poor girl living in Ba Sing Se in desperate need of a well-paying job to leave her home. She comes across the Jasmine Dragon, the newest tea shop on her block that no one can stop talking about. She tries her luck at securing a job there, being previously praised for her tea-making skills, and encounters a friendly, bustling old uncle Mu-shi and his cold, aloof yet devastatingly handsome nephew Lee. What begins as an opportunity to earn money and keep herself afloat ends with conflicting and intense feelings, shared secrets, adventures under the moonlight and a whole lot of fire.

  Or, a slow burn romance between Prince Zuko and an original female mc, and a loving uncle and father figure Iroh (The Gaang is mentioned)

  Language:

  English

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