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During the first semester of my sophomore year, April at Sunan No.1 High School was the gentlest version of early summer. The young leaves of the camphor trees stretched lazily in the breeze. Sunlight...

Get in there! The moment Qiu Yang opened her eyes, a kick landed on her body. Stay put. Don t even think about escaping. The prison guard slammed the cell door shut without the slightest hesitation. A...

When the TV station crew arrived at the university to film an interview, Qin Ting and her assistant Xiao Zhou were already making a desperate escape from the restroom. The Insta360 camera was still ha...

Ji Qian ang stopped walking. The corridor stayed silent for so long that Tang Yu almost began to regret speaking. Then the person across from him answered, I can. The tightness in Tang Yu s chest loos...

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 humid heat of August rose like steam, and the sea breeze from Victoria Harbour swept through Central, carrying the briny scent of the water. Tang Yu had just stepped out of the taxi when a wave of...

The first batch of twenty Tianxuan blades delivery in forty days. I did the finishing. Xiao Sun did rough grinding and semi ‑ finishing. Sixteen hours of work every day. The first ten went smoothly al...

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...

The day the Tianxuan blades arrived, I held one in my hands for a long time. It looked similar to the WZ ‑ 16 blade, but the moment I touched it, I could tell it was different lighter, with a pale gol...

Three days after Zhang Mingzhe left his card, another person showed up. Qian Zhiyuan. General Manager of Tianchen Precision. He drove a black Audi A6 and parked at the workshop entrance. I saw him get...

The news of Tianchen losing the WZ ‑ 16 contract exploded in the industry. A precision manufacturing company with annual revenue over two billion its core project gone, just like that. Old Liu sent a ...

News of Tianchen s troubles spread quickly. The industry is small. In the aero ‑ engine precision processing field, there are only a few hundred people nationwide. When something happens at one compan...

With Xiao Sun on board, the workshop s capacity barely caught up. I did the finishing. He did rough grinding and semi ‑ finishing. The final surface correction was still done by me. ASG s orders stabi...

In the second month of the workshop s operation, ASG added three more orders. Forty ‑ two blades in total. I worked alone, fourteen hours a day, non ‑ stop. Master Zhao came by once. Seeing me grind d...

Day twenty ‑ three. Old Liu sent me a WeChat late at night. ASG sent people. Followed by a frightened emoji. How many? Three people from the Quality Department. The one leading them seemed pretty seni...

The day my supplier approval came through, Mr. Lu called again. Mr. Song, we re raising our offer to three hundred fifty thousand a year, plus a relocation allowance and housing subsidy Mr. Lu, thank ...

That fifteen hundred came from Old Liu. Yuan Ge, it s just fifteen hundred. Don t be polite. Old Liu sent me a screenshot of the WeChat transfer. Use it. No need to pay back. I have to pay back. I fou...

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, ASG Quality Department. Gu Ping was in his early forties, wearing gold ‑ rimmed glasses, and spoke with the unhurried cadence typical of state ‑ owned ente...

I went back to the city early, on the seventh day of the New Year. On the train, I got a call from Old Liu at Tianchen. Yuan Ge, something happened after you left. What? The batch of blades that was r...

Back in my rented room, there was a slip of paper on the table that the landlord had left in the morning rent going up three hundred next month. Adding that eight ‑ hundred ‑ eighty bonus, I had a tot...