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Chapter 26: Warmth The news that Yin Xigui had taken over the Yin family spread through the entire business world within three days. First, the personnel changes at the old residence leaked out. The s...

The Trial Assembly lasted three days. Qingchen had meant to take Ling Wu back to Mount Kunlun first and return the next day. But a heap of Immortal Lords had invited him around; he truly could not sli...

Valdieri House, the Small Sitting Room At Celestina's words, Rain's arms tightened around the cat without her meaning to. Her plan, coming here, had been to get it over with quickly. And now she sat o...

On Saturday evening, the publishing company's team outing brought the entire staff to an upscale restaurant for dinner. Shen Miaomiao wore a pale blue dress, her hair loose over her shoulders, with a ...

Ever since Lu Chen had pronounced her first three chapters “a huge improvement,” Shen Miaomiao had let the success go straight to her head. “Sweet contemporary romance? Is that all there is to it?” On...

For the next two days, Shen Miaomiao might as well have unlocked a cheat code. By day, she sat at her desk at the company, writing like mad. At midnight, she took her place in front of her phone, punc...

"Someone drugged her wine." His voice was flat, calm, and somehow the calmest thing in the room. "The men responsible are being held as we speak." It should not have worked. A stranger in an expensive...

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...

At five-thirty I walked into the Crescent Room precisely on time. I'd changed out of the red dress and back into my work uniform first. Whatever else Hugo had taken from me, my professionalism was min...

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...

"You think I'm playing hard to get ?" I laughed. I actually laughed, leaning forward over his desk, close enough to watch the shock flicker in Hugo's eyes when he found nothing there but ice. "I don't...

Victor made his exit with the sunrise and the professionalism of a man who has smuggled himself out of hostile airspace before — folded blanket, empty water bottle carried out under his coat, a squeez...

By the time the banquet wound down, I still hadn't found Blaire anywhere. Some best friend. She'd promised to drag me here to court investors, and then vanished like smoke. My phone chimed. Blaire. Th...

Before leaving the City God Temple, Ding Peichen tucked Immortal Wang's soul-suppressing talisman securely into the inner pocket over his chest, then wandered out of Nancheng. It was only palm-sized, ...

My mother looked from me, to Victor, to my bag in Victor's hand, and back to me. For a long moment her mouth worked without sound. Then she cleared her throat, and the smile she'd been restraining esc...

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...

On the first morning after the "little prince" made his landing, the mist over Chang'an had not yet lifted, and the air carried a piercing cool. In the side hall of Shangqing Temple, the smell of medi...

Yu Xinglan shook his head noncommittally. "Boss! Boss, I got the cloak too!" [GonnaGetRich]'s excited voice rang by his ear. He'd already put on the same cloak, blue curls spilling out from under the ...

By ten-fifty the restaurant had thinned out. Joey and the others drifted off with waves and goodbyes, and our table was down to five people and too many empty glasses, all of us pleasantly loose aroun...

"How could you see my room? Is there a projection or something?" "No—there's a pane of glass between our two rooms. I could see yours through it." "Glass?" Yu Xinglan frowned. He couldn't sense any gl...

He lowered the phone, even more excited than the girl had been. Ning Cheng pressed her lips together, knowing there was no escaping now. She glanced back at Leo, sitting calmly in the car, one brow ra...

Ning Cheng pressed her lips together and closed her eyes. After a deep breath, she turned to look at Leo, held his gaze in silence for a few seconds, and finally spoke. "I—I have other plans." "Other ...

From the main courtyard, Wang Guizhi's wailing rose louder and louder, as though her heart had been gouged out. When Cen Sheng stepped through the gate, several rough-work matrons were clumsily helpin...

The man from the corner table had been working up his courage through two rounds of drinks, and he finally spent it on me. "Lovely lady — would you care to dance?" Every head turned toward me, includi...

The theme park was Charlotte's victory lap, and she ran it like a generals' daughter. Merry-go-round first — "the talking horses, Mommy, the TALKING ones" — where she selected the fattest white horse ...

The moment He Yuanqiu finished speaking, her eyes closed again, as if every scrap of strength had been drained from her. Her breathing was so shallow that Fang Runing had to press a fingertip under he...

Fang Runing didn't move. She stayed half-kneeling, one arm around He Yuanqiu, the other hand sliding slowly toward the hemostatic forceps at her waist. Slowly—so slowly it made almost no sound. Her ey...

Inside, it was all wine and music and easy pleasure—a different world from outside. The exhibition had not yet begun, yet the moment she entered she could see others already seated in the rooms above....

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...

Qian Yu was panting hard, her lungs burning. She clutched Qian Duoduo and spun in circles through the woods, but every single time, that crooked tree materialized in front of her like a curse that wou...

The hut the Immortal Master had told her about stood at the foot of Yunliu Mountain. It looked dilapidated beyond belief—one good gust and the whole thing would come apart. "Song of my thatched hut, w...

Ding Aonan, terrified the person ahead would change his mind the next second, scrambled to keep up. The apartment blocks near the back street were old, and the stairwell lights were broken too—even da...

Ding Peichen stared at the message and thought: back when his parents died in that car crash, this aunt had been the first one to come out swinging, calling him a cursed thing reborn, and flat-out ref...

The question, asked so abruptly, made Guan Zhiyan freeze for a beat. She shook her head at once. "Of course not. We're not police—we're here strictly for the money. When someone won't come out to meet...

Guan Zhiyan asked, "So? What is it you know?" The woman felt Guan Zhiyan was pressing rather hard and eyed her with open suspicion—an attitude about as close to a real interrogation as it got. "You tw...

Mo Ruxuan watched his little maneuver, caught his hand, and said, "That sort of thing can't hurt me." Lin Zijing flushed red with anger. "What's that supposed to mean? You look down on me." To think h...

At the opening ceremony, Qin Ting stood behind Zou Songpu, silently staring at him. That silhouette looked more and more familiar, but no matter how she tried, she couldn't place it. Absorbed as she w...

The shoot this time took them to U City, a small city in the south. It was the height of summer, hot and humid; Qin Ting had never been anywhere this damp. She felt as if every pore on her body was sw...

For three full minutes after my car pulled away, I said nothing at all. Neither did he. Then I told him. I won't repeat what I said. Some of it was cruel, and I meant every word, and I'd say it again ...