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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...

The two stopped at first contact and fought to no decision, to the deep disappointment of everyone watching. Military academy students, young and hot-blooded—competitive to the bone was only natural. ...

To say Xu Yan was devastated at seeing Shen Li walk out of Shi Wei's room would be an understatement. What was this? Yesterday they were "just childhood friends," and now they're sleeping together? Th...

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...

Qin Zheng glanced at the rabbit lantern, then at Shen Ci's fleeing back, and shook his head, laughing. He'd likely provoked some young miss again. Setting the lantern aside, he took up his brush and w...

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...

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...

"Let's just see how big your appetite really is." When Fu Jingchen said this, I expected him to throw his chair over and storm out, the way the novel wrote it. Instead he tossed his lighter onto the c...

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...

The next day, Liang Zhecheng was woken by Lu Nan. It was Saturday; he didn't have much on, and he'd slept clear to noon. Lu Nan had already tried waking him several times in the morning, but the man's...

Lu Nan had arrived in such a rush and so unexpectedly that there was no cat bed or nest anywhere in the house. Liang Zhecheng, naturally, was more than happy to have Lu Nan sleep with him—he'd been dy...

Back on Mount Kunlun, Ling Wu slept for three days and three nights straight. Perhaps she had truly worn herself out; she did not dream at all. When she woke, she felt refreshed and clear-headed. As i...

Ling Wu had meant to reform this Qin Zheng. As it turned out, the man took neither the carrot nor the stick. Looked the picture of a well-read gentleman, yet petty to the bone. No wonder he died young...

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...

Never had Ling Wu imagined that one day she'd get to see those storybook illustrations performed live, right before her eyes. It all started at noon, right after the two of them had finished enjoying ...

Chapter 5: The Debt and the Sale (Part 5) The corridor curved gently to the left and suddenly opened into a wider area: the entrance to the kitchen, judging by the distant scent of dried herbs and the...

At dusk, Qingchen led Ling Wu back and reached out to tear the notice from the board. A swarm of servants materialized on the spot, hoisted up a sedan chair, and bore the two of them off to the Shen r...

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...

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 rain started at 6:42 p.m. Fábio knew the exact time because he had been looking at his phone when the first raindrop struck the window on the twelfth floor, and in less than a minute, the sky over...

The maid finished the palace tour and took her leave, leaving the fairies to their own devices. The fairies huddled up again—some to chat, some to wander off. Ling Wu was firmly in the second camp. Sh...

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...

They had played too long and nearly forgotten the actual business at hand. With the Shen-Li wedding drawing near, Yunshu asked Ling Wu when they would go to the Li residence. She wanted to see the sch...

"To my mind, no one compares to Kunlun's Divine Sovereign. I caught one distant glimpse of him at the banquet and was struck speechless—that figure, that face, a feast for the eyes!" The fairy who spo...

We went through the list together and came up empty. "Could it be Vale?" Hugo said at last, not quite able to keep the name steady. Vivian frowned. "I had the same thought. So I had him checked. Last ...

Gong Zheng grabbed the back of a chair to steady himself, head spinning, and glared at Gong Shiwen with murder in his eyes, forcing the words through his teeth. “Use pheromones to pin me down again, a...

The thumping started at eight a.m. on the last morning of my leave. Furniture legs on hallway marble. The elevator chiming over and over. A voice — Trask's, unmistakably, in full evangelical flow — sa...

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...

Valdieri House, Early Afternoon Rain had barely put her phone down when Rongrong trotted up to her feet with the little fish toy in her mouth. The cat dropped the fish onto Rain's shoe and looked up a...

Love breeds worry; love breeds fear; and love that cannot be had breeds a darkness all its own. Qin Zheng had become a ghost—so his love could never be. Shen Ci had fallen one step short—so his love c...

His mother took to her bed and never rose again. Gong Zheng cared for her for half a month, watching her weep day after day; the moment her eyes opened she would clutch his hand and ask where his fath...

The new second-place scholar Xie Wei now lived in Wutong Lane, at the far west end of the capital—a lane so narrow even a horse cart could not enter. Mostly it was where impoverished scholars huddled ...

To grow up, to become a calm person, requires shedding many tears. "Chairwoman Su arranged for me to pick you up and take you home." "Why do you call Mom 'Chairwoman Su'?" "Because I don't want to be ...

The spring examinations of the twenty-fourth year of the Jianping reign finally drew to a close, amid the hair-pulling and suffering of half the scholars in the realm. Half a month later, the apricot ...

Iron-hard arms swept around his waist without a word of permission and hauled him in. Zong Wen's tall frame sank down with him, using Chi Xingran as a life-sized pillow, his entire face buried in the ...

The bodyguards hauled Butler Xu out the door like a sack of dead weight, and the suffocating tension in the living room finally began to loosen. The sliding door to the side room burst open with a ban...

Just as Ling Wu was racking her brains for how to fob Qingchen off, his words took an unexpected turn: "Today is the Dragon King of the Western Sea's birthday banquet. This morning he sent a spirit cr...

Dawn was barely breaking when Ling Wu yawned at the yellow talismans blanketing her table. Cultivation really was an excellent way to kill time. She'd tossed and turned all night after getting back—pa...

Ling Wu glared at his retreating back and let fly: "Who are you cursing, huh?! What do you mean, no next life for me! When I ascend, I'll make you regret it! Just you wait!" Cruel words wound the hear...

"You'd spare me too?" Yunshu shot back. Guyuan shook his head. "This lord is famous through the three realms for cherishing delicate creatures. Otherwise, why do you think you'd still be standing here...