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That night, Qiu Yang lay in bed thinking over Uncle Zheng's words. She turned them over again and again. After several passes, she realized something: deep down, she was not surprised. It felt strange...

Summer vacation seemed steeped in honey. Amid the milky fragrance of the dessert shop and the warm sweetness drifting from its ovens, the days became wonderfully full and light. Chen Jingming and I bo...

Tang Yu wore a pure white satin shirt with a cool, silvery sheen. The high court collar framed his slender neck, while a strip of black ribbon at his throat lent the prince-style costume a hint of mys...

Life in the apartment building was like a dream. Su Mosheng no longer woke in the deep of night. He thought of that girl with the stubborn eyes. Their farewell had not been a grand one. Unlike Su Mosh...

After Old Liu arrived, the workshop became four people. Me, Xiao Sun, Lin Kai, and Old Liu. Old Liu couldn t do finishing, but he had spent fifteen years at Tianchen on equipment maintenance and mater...

Dr. Ge had served as the Tang family's physician for more than thirty years, ever since Grandmother first invited him. He had watched the children grow up and handled most of Tang Yu's annual examinat...

Chapter 6: The Fire He Cannot Cross “Sect Leader, it is time to announce the start.” An elder's quiet reminder pulled He Yi'an from his thoughts. “I know.” He rubbed his temples. Ever since falling as...

“No.” Tang Yu set down his chopsticks and stood. “I’m finished.” Wei Yingrong asked, “That’s all you’re eating?” “I have no appetite.” She looked at him as though she wanted to say something, but ulti...

In the end, they still failed to prevent the meeting. It was set at a private restaurant on the east side of the city. Yin Zhengsong had arranged everything himself, even reserving the private room th...

A tingling sensation shot through Tang Yu’s waist. He slapped Ji Qian’ang’s hand away at once and muttered, “Am I really that much shorter than you?” “Then why were you standing on tiptoe?” Tang Yu an...

Chapter 5: The Conflict Begins When Qiu Yang rose the next day, Zhao Jian'an had already left. Only a bowl of congee remained warm on the stove. After eating, she recited the five names—Far North, Blu...

The hairs on the back of Chi Xingran's neck stood on end. Before he could make a run for it, two six-foot-three bodyguards in black suits seized an arm apiece. “Hey, hey! Easy! This hoodie cost nine n...

The news of Xiao Die's parents' deaths spread quickly through the apartment building. Yet it was the handsome class president who lived on the first floor who broadcast her misfortune to the entire gr...

Xiao Die couldn't quite figure it out her best friend always seemed capable of conjuring up some risqu scenario in her mind. Once, when the two of them were walking past a certain adult goods shop, Lu...

It all came to a head a few days later. Sheng Linyou returned from the market that morning and opened the door to find two strangers in the living room. Dressed in dark suits, they stood silently on e...

Cloudy days were like a crumbling, besieged city, and within that city, a torrential rain had begun to fall. The endless waves were about to swallow my heart. In this profound and beautiful illusion, ...

During the afternoon break, Ji Qian’ang moved to the window in the last row without protest, silently obeying Tang Yu’s demand. Tang Yu glanced back. Ji Qian’ang read with his head lowered, sunlight m...

For the next several days, Shang Zhu’s movements were nearly restricted. Did He Yi’an, the sect leader, truly have nothing better to do than follow him? “Your Excellency,” Shang Zhu asked consideratel...

Outside the apartment building, a fierce gale raged, and sheets of torrential rain seemed to swallow the whole city. Xiao Die held back her sobs. She finished the congee, then sank into a deep, heavy ...

Fang Runing followed He Yuanxia through the entrance and back into the thick darkness. The girl ahead walked too fast. The hem of her blue dress swayed twice like a fish's tail, then melted into the c...

Servers like these loved silver most of all. Without silver to smooth things over, they would naturally tell certain things in full, scarcely caring about the eventual consequences. Murong Qing was ab...

The basketball had shattered the frame of Ji Qian ang s glasses, and the broken pieces had pierced his left eye. Ji Qian ang bent over, covering his eye with one hand. Blood seeped through his fingers...

The room was pitch-black. Strangely, merfolk possessed night vision, yet that ability had stopped working the moment they entered. In the center of the darkness, a torch flared with deep blue fire. It...

Fang Runing descended three floors before she truly understood what Fang Ru'an had meant by “there are more of them now.” The stairwell looked the same, but something stood on every landing: figures i...

Xiao Die had been feeling a vague unease lately. She didn't know whether this premonition came from reality or from her loneliness. When a person's loneliness reaches a certain point, it turns into fe...

Wen Nan stepped forward and grabbed Su Mosheng by the collar. "Su Mosheng, what gives you the right to lecture me?" "You've dirtied my collar." "Dirtied it? Can you even see what color your collar is?...

The weather stayed clear for several days after that. Yin Xigui holed up in the house and refused to go anywhere. Like a cat basking in the sun, he spent each day sprawled on the sofa with those finan...

The elderly residents of the nursing home wore childlike, innocent smiles. Their faces were lined with wrinkles, yet they seemed happier than Xiao Die. BR Group chairwoman Su Yue's car was parked in a...

The entire city was drenched in a torrential downpour. The gray, heavy clouds seemed as if they would collapse at any moment and crush Xiao Die's frail body. She walked toward the college entrance exa...

There were no lights in the stairwell. When Fang Runing stepped onto the first stair, something thick coated the sole of her foot—neither quite liquid nor solid, carrying a sharp, bloody reek. She did...

The hand on the birthing bed clenched the metal rail. Nails scraped across rust with a shriek. The white sheet slipped away, revealing a woman. She lay gray-faced and sweating, her lips cracked. Her b...

The first time Fang Runing died, she felt nothing but an infinite lightness. She lay in bed listening to the monitor flatten into one long tone, nurses' footsteps approach and fade, and her mother sti...

Qian Yu tilted her head to look at the unknown mass behind the immortal master. It was still twisting, but it had grown much smaller—from the size of an adult to the size of a child. Qian Yu took two ...

A long silence settled behind Qian Yu. She moved experimentally, only for A-Ling to press her down again. “Have you seen my senior sister?” A-Ling asked. “No.” “Then why do you look exactly like her?”...

Qian Yu was a thriving twenty-first-century college student, a helpful young citizen of the new era who practiced patriotism, dedication, honesty, friendliness, and every other core social virtue at a...

Ding Peichen had barely walked beyond the campus gates when Guan Heng sent a message: “I’m here. Where are you?” He shared his location and waited beneath a crooked locust tree. In truth, he did not p...

As soon as class ended, Ding Peichen hurried to the back street to collect his order. The new doll sat in an elegant box at the front counter. He opened it for a look. It was human-sized, with movable...

At two in the morning, Ding Peichen suddenly woke. A bone-deep cold seeped through his thin pajamas from behind, as though something were pressed tightly against his back. He froze and instinctively h...

Zhou Bin did not disagree. “Besides reviewing the footage, we should find out whether the security chief is here today.” The guard shook his head. The chief had not come to work and had not requested ...

Guan Qingyun went down to the second floor and turned left. A sign reading TECHNICAL UNIT came into view. She pushed open the door and spoke before anyone could greet her. “I need the survey report fr...