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Secrets and Strange Tales of the Mountains and Seas 山海秘闻异事录
Drawing on the Classic of Mountains and Seas and combining ancient mythology with mystery-solving, this story creates a “Secret Realm of Mountains and Seas” hidden behind the ordinary world. By deciphering fragments of ancient texts, divine-beast totems, and mechanisms within the secret realm, the main cast gradually uncovers a shocking secret left behind by the ancient gods: a crisis of “imbalance in the Heavenly Order” spanning a thousand years. The forces involved include both surviving ancie
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Under Currents in the Mountain City 山城暗涌
In the 1980s and 1990s, the southwestern mountain city of Yuzhou was enduring the growing pains of reform and opening up. Among the stilt houses where the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers met, state-owned factory chimneys belched black smoke, while the neon lights of dance halls mingled with the flashlights of black-market traders. This was a vortex of power and desire, where officials and businessmen colluded beneath a protective umbrella, and criminal forces wove a suffocating web.
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