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The People of the Night
New Year's Eve dinner was already on the table, but Yue'e was still in the kitchen slicing ginger. In a small European city by the river, generations of Chinese immigrants have made a living through restaurants. The owner calculates wages and the cost of machines, the chef tends the flames, and the children speak to the voices in their headphones. Machines begin cooking, taking orders, and watching over the elderly at night. Yue'e's hands move from the cutting board to a bed in a care home, wher
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The Foundation
At the Seventh Test Well, the “Source” underground emits one beat every 86.4 seconds. Each beat measures not only time, but also age, wages, prison sentences, engagements, and death. For thirty years, the entire city has relied on it to maintain order. Then one day, the intervals between beats begin to grow longer and longer. To keep factories paying wages, prisoners getting released on schedule, and the dead receiving proper burials, people decide to use artificially generated reference beats t
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Contemplating the Dao and Longevity
Deep in Yunling, there is a charcoal-burning col. In the wild winter of that year, a woman who had lost three children carried her newly born son up to the ridge. In front of a headless stone Buddha, she lit the last stick of incense at home and asked for only one thing: to let him live forever. The incense burned all night and it was not short. The next eleven hundred years have not been short. This child's name is Yu Changsheng. His talent is mediocre, and he started three years later than oth
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The Story of Zhang Hua
On a rainy night, Zhang Hua, unemployed for fourteen months, finds a rusty knife in the ruins of a demolition site. Two hours and forty minutes later, three people are dead, and he is arrested on the spot. The evidence is conclusive, and he confesses without hesitation. The case should have been closed quickly. But Detective Chen Ming discovers that the wounds on all three victims are nearly identical, the surveillance cameras repeatedly failed when the murders took place, and the knife can disr
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Praise the Fool
The lustful witch died for love, the schemer died for loyalty, the traveler died trying to return home, and the god of death was trapped in the River Styx... A nursery rhyme banned by the Church. Seventeen lines of lyrics recount how seventeen gods met their ends. This is a world where the gods are dead. People must light the sun themselves, and prayers in church are answered only by echoes. Mortals burn the names of gods to borrow their power, at the price of retracing, step by step, the way th
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