Starting with Crushing Stellar Jades in the Siheyuan

The moment Bang Geng slipped his hand into my pocket, I grabbed his wrist. Try stealing again. “You broke-ass renter, ” Bang Geng hadn’t finished speaking when there was a crack, and his scream rang through the entire courtyard. Qin Huairu leaned by the second gate, her eyes reddening. “Comrade, he’s just a child. You’re a grown man. Don’t hold it against him.” Yi Zhonghai came out with his hands behind his back. “Peace is what matters.” Xu Damao cracked sunflower seeds and grinned. “The new guy’s putting on a tough act. Just wait, you’ll be crying soon enough.” I smiled and pulled half a piece of something from my pocket. Blue. It didn’t look like glass or a gemstone. It looked like a tiny fragment of a starry sky, frozen solid. I crushed it in my fist. The water in the well leapt upward. The shrine in the Deaf Old Lady’s room split apart. It was as if an invisible hand had slapped Bang Geng into the air. He rolled three times and crashed into the jujube tree. The whole courtyard fell silent. I brushed the fragments from my hands. So, who still wants to talk about making peace? I thought I’d just dealt with a courtyard full of scoundrels. But the next day, the Han Dong Provincial Procuratorate kicked the courtyard gate open. On the third day, a Sword Sect grandmaster shattered the eaves. On the fourth day, a crack opened in the sky, and half a train carriage got stuck above the courtyard. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.