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Grass Life 草命
The north wind on the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month felt like it was packed with knife blades. As it swept over the loess slopes of Liujiatun, it kicked up tiny shards of ice. Chen Alian curled up in a pile of wheat straw in the corner of the mill. The tattered quilt beneath her was soaked through with amniotic fluid and had frozen into a cold, hard lump. Each time a contraction seized her, her nails scraped white streaks into the edge of the millstone. The grains of wheat embedded
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A Copper Thimble 一个铜顶针
In the autumn of 1945, the sweet scent of ripe sorghum filled Zhao Family Village in southwestern Shandong. Eighteen-year-old Shuanzhu followed his father, Old Zhao, as they drove their donkey cart thirty li to a rundown market. In a corner, several ragged human traffickers squatted beside a few gaunt young women. "We'll take this one. Two sacks of sorghum, and not a grain more." Old Zhao prodded one of the girls on the shoulder with his rough finger. She shuddered in fright but didn't dare loo
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The Shattered Porcelain Calamity 碎瓷劫
> I am the lowliest mortal in the immortal realm. For ten years, I stood in for the fairy Yunyi. > The Immortal Lord always complained that I couldn’t imitate her well enough, yet he held me in his arms every night. > The day Yunyi came back to life, he left me coughing blood and rushed to the celebration. > As I lay dying, I bit my finger and wrote in blood on the pillow: “I would rather be a mortal’s concubine than an Immortal Lord’s wife.” > By the time the Immortal Venerable returned, my bod
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Ten Years, Before the Stars Fall 星辰未落时，十年
Ten Years Before the Stars Fell
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Reborn: Storming the West with Brother Monkey 重生之跟着猴哥闯西游
Chen Xuan, a young man from modern times, was a programmer in the 21st century. After a car accident, he transmigrated to the world five hundred years before the beginning of Journey to the West and became a menial disciple of the Qingyun Sect. He discovered that gods, immortals, and demons were real, then later learned that Journey to the West was merely a chess game laid out by the Sages. Through a twist of fate, the protagonist ventures into the Five Elements Mountain, saves Brother Monkey, a
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Claiming a Life 讨命
In the spring of 1942, in Wangjiatuan, Jiaodong, Shandong Province** The last faint flame in the stove licked at the cold bottom of the pot, casting a flickering light on Wang Zhao's sweat-damp temples and the bloodstained hands of Granny Li, the midwife. A frail, kitten-like cry rang through the earthen house, thick with the smell of blood and woodsmoke, breaking the bitter chill of Jiaodong's early spring night. “It's a girl!” Granny Li wrapped the tiny, wrinkled newborn in a piece of rag and
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