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The dreary week of exams finally passed. When the bell rang at the end of the last paper, the entire sophomore building erupted in cheers of relief. As my taut nerves relaxed, exhaustion came flooding...

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 ...

The teacher carried in a large stack of test papers, distributing the results of the final mock exam before the college entrance exam. Each student had several thick college application guides stacked...

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...

The news of Tianchen losing the WZ ‑ 16 contract exploded in the industry. A precision manufacturing company with annual revenue over two billion — its core project gone, just like that. Old Liu sent ...

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...

After they returned that night, Yin Xigui, for once, did not cling to Sheng Linyou and ask to sleep together. “Brother, I want to be by myself tonight.” His voice was light. Without waiting for an ans...

Xu Xingye simply stared at Lu Siting without saying a word. The guy was asking whether he wanted a beating, while inside his head he was thinking about eyelashes, beauty marks, and whether he could co...

Outside the cockpit door, Daisy was interrogating Keane like a she-wolf on a mission, and Keane — my mate's Beta, my ex-husband's best friend, a man physically incapable of keeping a secret when a pre...

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 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...

When Jiang Yuejian opened her eyes, her ears were filled with the piercing, rhythmic knocking of a wooden temple drum. Tok. Tok. Tok... She moved her neck and found herself slumped over a cold stone t...

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...

Sheng Linyou woke to a violent pounding on the front door. Beside him, Yin Xigui opened his eyes almost at once. There was no trace of sleepiness in his gaze. The pounding came again, louder than befo...

Ling Yu truly did not care much about the accusations. Still, in her present state she was unsuited to drawing another comic. She believed she needed more training before attempting a second one. What...

Great Qi's spring examinations had always been the battle through which scholars across the realm hoped to leap the dragon gate. Outside the Ministry of Rites, candidates from every region formed seve...

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, ...

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, ASG Quality Department. Gu Ping was in his early forties, wearing gold ‑ rimmed glasses, and spoke with the unhurried cadence typical of state ‑ owned ente...

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...

It rained through the entire night. By the time they returned to the house, both of them were more than half soaked. The pink ends of Yin Xigui's hair that his hood had failed to cover clung wetly to ...

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...

Night had just fallen when Sheng Linyou reached the teahouse. The proprietor glanced at him, eyes pausing on his collar before looking away. Sheng Linyou ignored him and went upstairs. Warm light spil...

The basement of the Zhao residence. The darkness was almost absolute. Blood and rust tainted the stale air; chains clattered against one another. Anyone stumbling upon the room might have mistaken it ...

“A bargain?” Xue Miao leaned against his wheelchair beneath the moon, narrow eyes studying an unexpectedly interesting intruder. “What do you possess that could serve as a bargaining chip?” Cen Sheng ...

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 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...

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 moment Clerk Song's fingers touched the loose board, Wang Guizhi pounced like a lioness provoked, flinging herself forward. "Don't you dare touch that! Those are my Xue family's ancestral tablets!...

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...

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 ...

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 ...