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Ever since the great victory of the "kidney puncture and drainage," Shangqing Temple's threshold had nearly been worn flat. Not only did the old fossils of the Imperial Medical Bureau show up daily wi...

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...

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...

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...

"My fault. I called it badly. None of you need to feel guilty." Ji Yunzhou summoned his captain's authority, cleared his throat with a fist pressed to his lips, and set the matter straight. And with t...

The car reached the town of Bodo a little after nine in the morning. Ning Cheng had booked the cabin in advance. While he settled the luggage, Leo Jiang headed into the kitchen. When Ning Cheng came o...

Word of how Jiang Yuejian had saved the old garrison commander's son beneath the city wall, in front of everyone, spread fast—and the old fossils at the Imperial Medical Bureau could no longer sit sti...

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...

A beetle as tall as two men fully revealed itself before the team, its shell glossy and translucent, its twin wings shimmering with flowing light. Its legs bristled with spines, its twin claws like sp...

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...

Ning Cheng looked through the windshield. The world outside had gone almost entirely white—the sky, the road, the guardrails on both sides, all of it had vanished. "Are we... at the rest area?" she as...

Chapter 10: First Day on the Job (Part 4) Emma Craven sat at the large kitchen table, pen in hand, a sheet of cream-colored paper in front of her, and her second cup of coffee already half-empty. Mrs....

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 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...

If it was a false entrance... then where was the real one? He was nearly without a clue. Shangguan Jin knew which way Murong Qing had gone when she left, but the particulars were beyond him. He rubbed...

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...

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...

The Old Apartment, Night Emily had heard Rain's muttering and glanced over. "That's exactly the problem." Emily lowered her voice. "Hey, think carefully - have you broken off any strange willow branch...

Chapter 15: The Kitchen and the Blood (Part 3) “Right. Okay. I… I can deal with this. I think. As long as you keep not eating me. Metaphorically and literally.” This time, the corner of Nicco’s mouth ...

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...

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...

Fang Runing went down on one knee and lowered He Yuanqiu from her back. He Yuanqiu's feet touched the mud. She swayed but didn't fall, steadying herself on Fang Runing's shoulder for a moment, then sl...

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 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...

"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...

Though Li Ce had returned to the prince's residence, he had by no means truly "let go" of Jiang Yuejian. Overnight, he had a hidden window cut into the residence's back-garden wall—the wall that stood...

Crying drifted in faintly from outside—"Wuwuwu..."—enough to unsettle anyone's heart. Qian Duoduo mouthed silently: "Someone's crying." "I'm not deaf," Xu Changhuan replied. Well, fine then. The cryin...

I shut myself inside the house with the curtains drawn tight, sealing out every trace of light and sound. Grandma's presence still lingered in the rooms—the half-eaten bag of crackers on the table, he...

Chapter 13: The Kitchen and the Blood (Part 1) Emma Craven’s second official day at Ross Manor began with fewer broken vases and more determination. Mrs. Whitmore had woken her with a gentle knock on ...

At the sea lion pool, Charlotte pressed against the glass, watching the sea lions tumble through the water, Luna and Victor standing on either side of her. When a sea lion sent up a spray, Luna instin...

Xu Xingye nearly bolted upright off the cot at the word “family.” He forced himself to stay still, pulling the blanket up a little and keeping his eyes shut, playing dead. The school doctor stood wher...

New York City, a clear summer day. In a café by the street, Luna and Daisy sat by the window with their coffees, chatting back and forth. “Luna, did you hear? Today we’re flying with Captain Victor’s ...

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...

When she reached Qingchen's room, he was sitting on the couch fully robed, eyes clear—looking for all the world like he'd been awake for quite a while. Ling Wu carried in a plate piled with almond cri...

Guan Heng froze, as if something had just occurred to him. Brimming with apology, he raised a hand and smacked his own mouth. "Pah—Peichen. I said it wrong. Peichen." "Don't be mad. Just now I was… I ...

Marina Lopes had known Alexander Monteiro for nine years. Nine years of meetings, crises, launches, late nights, terrible machine coffee, and excellent coffee from actual cafés. Nine years of watching...

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...

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...

For three days after that, Yin Xigui never mentioned the alley. He came home later and later each night, went straight to the study when he entered the old house, and the light burned there until late...

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...