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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...

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...

"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?" "...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It was the only piece of evidence she had left behind. When all this was done she lowered her head again and pressed forward quickly, not daring to look up once more at her surroundings. Following the...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Chapter 2: The Debt and the Sale (Part 2) That night, the family home was filled with a heavy silence. Her mother cried in the bathroom with the faucet running. Her brother pretended to study, but Emm...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

"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...

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...

"Aria? She's nothing but a bit of fun." The words stopped me cold in the hallway, two chilled bottles of champagne in my arms and a bag of ice pressed against my ribs. Three years. Three years of comi...

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...

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...

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...

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 café was called Grão Verso. Fábio discovered it on his second day as an intern, when he got off the subway ten minutes early and decided to walk around the block instead of heading straight to the...

Yu Chong stared at him, cold as frost. "Say that again." Ding Peichen was already laughing too hard to breathe, though he fought to keep his volume down. "Godzilla! Or one of those three-headed, six-a...

"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 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...

In Room 404 of Huaqing University. Jiang Muyao lay sprawled in her chair, staring at the freshly refreshed [Satisfaction: 99.8] on her phone's backend, on the verge of a cardiac event. "Damn it!" The ...

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...

Chapter 4: The Debt and the Sale (Part 4) Emma adjusted her posture, squared her shoulders, and took her first real step down the ground-floor corridor. The black-and-white marble beneath her sneakers...