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By the time Yin Xigui woke the next day, sunlight covered most of the bed. For a moment, he remained dazed. Above him were the familiar ceiling and chandelier. A familiar thin blanket covered him. Thr...

After the call ended, Yin Xigui stood in the living room for about ten seconds. His breathing gradually slowed from ragged to steady. The grip of his fingers on the edge of his phone loosened, then ti...

“No.” The manager pushed up her glasses, entirely unmoved by Zou Songpu's fixed stare. She calmly finished tidying her artist's home, tied the garbage bag, and placed it beside the door so she could t...

After Su Mian publicly “force-fed” Xie Wei a life of luxury, the entire capital saw how dazedly the young scholar departed. Some said the little demon king had sucked the backbone out of Scholar Xie. ...

After retracing her route for some distance, Ling Yu could no longer see where the old guide had gone. Night was deepening. As she approached the boundary between desert and village, she saw the off-r...

When Yin Xigui was dragged into the basement of the Yin family's old residence, his knee struck the steps. Pain made his whole body curl inward. The man behind him showed no mercy. He hauled Yin Xigui...

The aroma of breakfast woke Yin Xigui. He opened his eyes groggily. Sunlight already streamed through a gap in the curtains, spilling a patch of radiance across the sheets. The pillow beside him was e...

The smell of smoke clung everywhere, invading Sheng Linyou's nose and making him frown. He pulled Yin Xigui's slight body closer and inspected him from every angle—front, sides, then back. Yin Xigui h...

At two in the morning, Ding Peichen suddenly woke. A bone-deep cold seeped through his thin pajamas from behind, as though something were pressed tightly against his back. He froze and instinctively h...

The ducal residence's imposing vermilion gates slowly opened. Outside, curious commoners and aristocratic sons eager for a spectacle stood packed several rings deep. In the middle of the long street, ...

Once their hands joined, neither seemed willing to let go. “Brother…I'm a little hot.” Sheng Linyou paused and instinctively tightened his grip. They had held hands for so long that their palms had gr...

Wrapped in each other's arms, they slept peacefully through the night. In the two years since Sheng Linyou had been passed from hand to hand, warmth and comfort had become rare luxuries. He woke becau...

Chapter 2: Contact Details Ning sighed, switched off her phone, and turned to Leo. “I planned to chase the aurora tonight. I thought I could make do sleeping in the car, so I didn’t book anywhere.” Le...

It was six in the morning, and dawn had yet to fully break. The phone on the bedside table suddenly vibrated. Yin Xigui's eyes snapped open. He grabbed it and pressed it to his ear. “Speak.” Lin Zhi's...

Yin Xigui lowered his lashes, fingers twisting the corner of his shirt. “I am a young master, but no one wants to come here.” He paused, his throat moving faintly. “Father says I don't deserve servant...

In an instant, Qin Ting's face felt as though it were on fire. She sat down without a word, turning the pages of her script with a furious rustle. The man who had coldly refused her a second earlier s...

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 t...

Xiao Die missed the summers after the turn of the millennium with a particular ache. In childhood, the summer wind had been dyed sky blue. She would sit in front of the television, waiting for differe...

Chapter 4: The House Behind the House Valdieri House — 1:17 a.m. At 1:17 in the morning, lights were still burning in the Valdieri family's true Manhattan residence. It was not, of course, the detache...

The hand on the birthing bed clenched the metal rail. Nails scraped across rust with a shriek. The white sheet slipped away, revealing a woman. She lay gray-faced and sweating, her lips cracked. Her b...

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 g...

Lady Li’s every word carried the same regret: if she had spoken sooner, perhaps none of this would have happened. Murong Qing did not know how to comfort her. Everyone interpreted guilt differently. W...

It was the third month of spring in the twenty-fourth year of the Jianping reign, in the Great Qi dynasty. On the top floor of Taibai Tower, the capital's most prestigious and extravagant establishmen...

The doors of the apartment building were all tightly shut. The voices of gossip rose and fell like waves crashing against rock—even sealed in, they still possessed the fire-drawn force of moths hurtli...

The smell of mildew seeped from every crack in the basement walls. Sheng Linyou knew it well—just as he knew the thing fastened around his neck. He gave a derisive snort and ran his fingers over the b...

The news of Xiao Die's parents' deaths spread quickly through the apartment building. Yet it was the handsome class president who lived on the first floor who broadcast her misfortune to the entire gr...

“I want to make money! I want a fat savings account!” With his daily mantra complete, Xi Yan threw himself into work as though someone had given him a shot of adrenaline. His colleague across the way ...

Outside the apartment building, a fierce gale raged, and sheets of torrential rain seemed to swallow the whole city. Xiao Die held back her sobs. She finished the congee, then sank into a deep, heavy ...

Xiao Die wasn't afraid of hardship. For her mom and dad, she was willing to do anything. How many days were left until the college entrance exam? In those fleeting days, every single one felt like an ...

The next morning, Xu Xingye arrived at school with two unmistakable dark circles beneath his eyes. He had barely slept. Now, on the way to his classroom, he radiated the exhaustion of someone repeated...

Friday afternoon brought Moxiang Literature's quarterly project-selection meeting. It was the most important meeting of the quarter. Senior management, editorial-team leads, heads of marketing, and th...

The weather stayed clear for several days after that. Yin Xigui holed up in the house and refused to go anywhere. Like a cat basking in the sun, he spent each day sprawled on the sofa with those finan...

Xiao Die couldn't quite figure it out—her best friend always seemed capable of conjuring up some risqué scenario in her mind. Once, when the two of them were walking past a certain adult goods shop, L...

The ocean stretched endlessly before her, a profound and boundless deep blue. That was all she could see in her eyes—nothing but deep blue. As she turned the key in the lock, she overheard Auntie Li a...

I thought our next meeting might come on some distant day—at a crowded turn in a stairwell, perhaps, or before a noisy cafeteria window. We would nod politely, two strangers who vaguely recognized eac...

“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 hesitatio...

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 han...

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 lo...

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...