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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...

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 man at the door stood against the light, tall and broad-shouldered, in an indigo-dyed rough-cloth working outfit, a short knife at his waist, his boot tops caked with yellow loess - he had plainly...

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...

Guan Zhiyan, just coming down from upstairs, stopped at the sight of Hu Yan's hesitant back. She didn't take off her gloves; she only asked, "Hu Yan, why don't you take a break?" Hu Yan's expression t...

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...

It had never occurred to Xiao Wang that catching Li Tan would be so easy. He thought the man was bold, all right—pulling a knife in broad daylight, in front of a crowd. But say he wasn't bold, and tha...

After that scene, tear tracks marked both their faces—especially Qin Ting's. Zou Songpu had just tried to wipe them for her and instead smeared the tears perfectly even; now he had gone off to watch t...

Zou Songpu closed the door and swallowed one pill straight away. When he woke the next morning, his throat was indeed much looser, and speaking took no effort. The call sheet's first scene had him fac...

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...

Ling Wu frowned. "Eldest Senior Brother, how sheltered can you be? You've never seen a night-luminous pearl?" Ji Xunzhi stared fixedly at the object in her hand and asked again, "Duying came to find y...

The wind blew briskly today. Ling Wu sat beneath a tree, chin propped in her hands, gazing off into the distance. She had set a wind-blocking barrier around herself, and peach blossoms drifted down pa...

The last golden light of sunset fell across his young, resolute face, across that shimmering bouquet of a thousand paper cranes, across the crabapple tree strung with loving reminders. The breeze pass...

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...

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...

In the days after the funeral, Chen Jingming, against my protests, insisted on sneaking out of the hospital. His fever had broken, but his face was still pale, the skin around the needle mark on the b...

"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...

Day had barely broken when the black sedan Fu Jingchen sent was already blocking the gate of the side courtyard. Lawyer Chen stood by the car door in a neatly pressed gray suit, holding last night's u...

Chapter 3: The Debt and the Sale (Part 3) His voice was exactly what she had imagined the voice of someone who read five-year contracts for fun would sound like: controlled, slightly ironic, and dange...

Ling Yu thought: something about this was odd. The old man had no idea why Pei Jin was here—he had said someone told him... Who? She looked up at Chen Mo. Chen Mo's face did not exactly broadcast inte...

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...

Ling Yu took Chen Mo to a small coffee shop nearby to wait while Pei Jin dealt with his business, choosing a seat by the window, glancing out from time to time. Chen Mo kept his eyes on his phone inst...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

By the time Yin Xigui reached the Municipal Bureau, the sky had gone dark. The car hadn't fully stopped before he pushed the door open and got out; Zhou Ling moved to follow and was stopped with a rai...

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...

"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 ...

The reconciliation that night lasted until dawn. Yin Xigui fell asleep in Sheng Linyou's arms, traces of not-yet-dried tears still on his lashes, his breathing gradually evening out. Sheng Linyou kept...

Back at the apartment building, Su Die had finished the romance novel she'd been writing for the past while. Now, its final chapters complete, she was deep in planning her new work: Silentium. In that...

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...

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...

"Young man, do you have a girlfriend?" "No. Are you offering, Auntie?" "My niece is quite a catch—a teacher at the county's No. 1 high school, very pretty. Shall we exchange WeChat and have a chat?" "...

Chapter 30: A Heart of Stone The next day, Tang Yu had barely reached school when a text message came in. "Did you sleep well last night? Was the hot chocolate to your taste?" He didn't need to guess ...

Chapter 29: Fondness He Zhuokun had touched him three times tonight—chin, neck, collarbone. Lin Juefei would not wash them off. He would never wash them off, not in this lifetime. Slowly, he braced hi...

Meanwhile, Luna and Mike had returned to Dihuan Residences, where Trimble stood waiting at the main gate. The moment she got out of the car, Luna hurried over. Trimble rapid-fire gave them the whole s...

By the time Luna arrived at the hospital, Victor was still inside the emergency room, fighting for his life. She stepped out of the elevator and ran to the doors of the emergency room—only two people ...

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 ...

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...