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Chapter 1: The Debt and the Sale (Part 1) Emma Craven discovered that her life was over at exactly 2:37 p.m. on a rainy Tuesday, while trying to untie an impossible knot in her shoelace. The kitchen p...

Sunday, 11:40 p.m. Shen Miaomiao stood before her full-length mirror, having rumpled her outfit past counting with all the adjusting. In the past two hours her room had looked like the aftermath of a ...

Yan Yu's pale eyes flew wide open in shock. He couldn't understand why Gu Huaizhi would say that. Before he could ask, the man closed in and closed a hand around his throat. “I don't need your explana...

Back at his high-rise apartment, Lu Chen stripped off the suit he'd worn all day at the signing event and changed into loose loungewear. He stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, a freshly brewed u...

After hanging up, Xiao Wang sent over all the files at once. On the personal file, Zhou Xun lingered longer than once: Li Tan had served three years in prison, and not for anything dignified—petty the...

In the end, that round of "purification" ended with Jiang Chen fleeing in disarray. Xi Yan lounged back against the sofa, legs crossed, while Bubble bounced up and down before him. [95627, good perfor...

He Yuanxia didn't move. She crouched on the edge of the ledge, the wind snapping her blue dress like a small flag. She looked at Fang Runing, and in those black eyes something was shaking violently. N...

Chapter 28: Acting on His Own The moment his teeth closed on Tang Yu’s arm, the pain in Ji Qian’ang’s body truly did ease—and he no longer had to guess whether the concern was real or feigned. Just as...

"Sister, it's almost eleven. It's pitch black out there. Can we not go?" Zhou Dao hugged the equipment to her chest, refusing to let it go. "Absolutely not. We promised the fans a stream today, and th...

Out of the wall directly in front of Cheng Du stepped an unseen figure, face equally grave—though the hand gripping the report was trembling. "Elder Cheng, this is no trick of the light. Those three p...

Since Yunshu had only meant to help the scholar, and no real harm had come of it, Ling Wu was prepared to let her go. But Yunshu refused to leave. She wanted to tag along to the Li residence and see t...

Remembering Gu Huaizhi's words from last night, the smile faded bit by bit from Yan Yu's mouth. One voice message ended and the next auto-played, Zhou Peng's booming voice conspicuous in the quiet war...

The first day of the fifth month, outside the Hanlin Academy of Great Qi. The new second-place scholar Xie Wei reported for his first day of morning roll call. He had risen at cockcrow, dressed with m...

Elara's Pov The night everything changed started like any other Tuesday in hell. I was standing in my kitchen—my father’s kitchen, really, though he’d been dead six months and the ghost of him still l...

Gu Huaizhi looked down. The contact's saved name was unmistakably a man's, and the message asked what Yan Yu had been up to last night. Judging by the draft being typed out below, the little guy was b...

Qingchen's words were like a thunderclap, setting Ling Wu's ears ringing. Over and over, one line repeated in her head. —"When you ascend, I will take you as my bonded companion." Her jaw hung open, h...

A week passed in the blink of an eye, and nothing happened. Things were so peaceful that even Shen Li's separation anxiety was improving. The ship cruised along smoothly, and through the viewport a bl...

Watching Qingchen sleep, Ling Wu knelt beside the couch, chin propped on one hand, a wistful look on her face. Who knew when her master would wake. Those brawny male immortals clearly had no notion of...

The days after going public looked calm on the surface, but the things hiding in the dark hadn't disappeared. When Sheng Linyou went out to buy things, people still stole glances at him now and then. ...

Xue Wenbin had not gone far down the path toward the back courtyard when he stopped. Autumn darkened early. Just past the you hour, the sky had already deepened to dark indigo. No lamps were lit in th...

The Old Apartment, Night Emily tapped the tip of her chopsticks against the table. "The Valdieri family has deep mafia roots. There are plenty of stories online about their early business: harbor smug...

She'd braced for a long wait before catching Qin Zheng. Instead, the moment Li Funing went to bed, the ghost delivered himself. Ling Wu went on high alert, yellow talisman clutched in her hand. What w...

Triumph Day was one of the Federation's great holidays. The war between humanity and the swarm had dragged on for generations. Early on, humanity held the losing side—more defeats than victories—and t...

Chapter 7: First Day on the Job (Part 1) Emma Craven’s imaginary alarm clock went off at six-thirty in the morning in the form of a persistent bird that had decided to sing right outside her bedroom w...

"I'm begging you. Give me something to eat. At least—at least let the child eat her fill." A-Lan knelt on the ground, pleading with the man. The man sat on a bench smoking opium, the white smoke of ch...

Victor had barely stepped through his own front door when his mother’s call came in. He stared at the caller ID, brow knitting, and only answered after a few seconds. Mida’s voice came through. “Victo...

The watch didn't have to run long. Around three or four in the afternoon, a taxi pulled up sharp at the plaza's entrance and a man got out carrying a heavy bag—something weighty inside, by the look of...

The anonymous message sat in the middle of my screen like a medical examiner's scalpel, peeling the Fu family's festered sore skin and bone into the open in front of me. Around eleven, I changed into ...

The alarm went off at 6:12 a.m. Not 6:15, as Fábio had intended, because he’d set it incorrectly the night before—too nervous to get anything right, including his own fingers. He sat up in bed and sta...

Fu Jingchen seized my wrist with crushing force, as if he meant to snap the bones. His knuckles had gone a cold white, and the killing intent in his eyes nearly overpowered the sandalwood in the room....

As the drowsiness drained away, Lu Nan took in his surroundings and slowly came back to himself. So they were all café cats—fellow workers, brothers and sisters in fur. He stretched, then tilted his h...

By the time Liang Zhecheng and Lu Nan were both cleaned up and ready, it was already late in the morning. Liang Zhecheng picked up his phone and called Yan Anqing. "Well, well, my young master. So you...

"A kiss? And here I thought you had grander ambitions... That first time we met, you were threatening all sorts of..." "I said a kiss, so a kiss. Nothing more." Gong Si said it word by word, watching ...

Gong Si left, and only Gong Shiwen and Gong Zheng remained in the office. Gong Shiwen walked over slowly and reached out, stroking the sharp line of Gong Zheng's cheek with unexpected tenderness. "The...

The Heaven-class private room of Taibai Tower was the most extravagant gold-burning den in the whole capital. By now the table was laden with delicacies beyond counting: minced fish dressed in golden ...

As his fingertip roughed across the yellowed edge of the photograph, the whole slapdash, glib, don't-give-a-damn act on Chi Xingran's face wiped itself clean. On the front of the photo was a mud-cover...

A chill shot up Chi Xingran's spine, but the moment his eyes landed on that handsome face inches away, he froze all over again. The heavy bruise-dark circles under Zong Wen's eyes had faded by more th...

Gu Qingbai's furious questioning left her with nothing to answer back. "I've told you — your big brother is not a good person. Staying with him will ruin you!" "That's not how I see it." What Gu Qingb...

When it came to Gu Zai'an and Gu Qingbai, Qin Shaofen was two entirely different people. With Gu Qingbai she was gentle and attentive, patting his head and comforting him: "Qingbai, keep your distance...