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My Heart Can Be Seen
In the tenth year after I was abducted and forced to take part in ability experiments, I finally escaped.
Only to discover that the apocalypse had descended outside, and zombies had broken out everywhere.
My former best friend was being forced by her newly awakened husband to hand over her food.
“Everyone else turned theirs in. Why are you so selfish? You’re even hiding a few pieces of chocolate?”
My best friend defended herself in a small voice. “I wanted to save them for Tongtong.”
But the young woman beside her cut her off with a scornful laugh. “Sis, every time you get greedy, you use the kid as an excuse. Honestly…”
Under the contemptuous stares of everyone around them, I threw a backpack full of chocolate over.
It hit her squarely on the head.
“Is that enough?”
Expressionless, I said, “Say one more word, and I’ll kill every last one of you.”
Soul-Whip 15: Cellar-Buried Wine
The owner of an antique shop came to me with a job: help him transport a batch of aged wine.
The wine had been hidden away in a deserted village for sixty years, sealed in massive jars, each one half as tall as a man.
On the day the cellar was opened, the fragrance carried for miles. Even the workers moving the jars felt light-headed from it.
But the young man selling the wine looked deathly pale. The moment he took the owner’s money, he refused to stay even one minute longer and hurried off.
That night, one of the workers secretly opened a jar.
When he was found the next day, his head was stuffed inside the wine jar. By the time they dragged him out, he was already dead.
Cold Palace Maid Becomes Imperial Consort
The transmigrated woman and the Seventh Prince were thrown into the Cold Palace together.
Her mission was to win over the Seventh Prince and get rid of me, the main villain.
But she couldn’t bring herself to do it.
So I picked up a brick and smashed it down hard on the unconscious Seventh Prince.
Once he stopped making a sound, I raised the brick with an icy expression. “Now I’m the Seventh Prince. You can win me over instead.”
Yin-Yang Dog
I am blind, and I make my living reading feng shui.
That day, a seductive woman came to my fortune-telling stall and said she dreamed every night of a man coming to see her.
After I went to her home, the dog she kept caught my attention.
It was clearly a Yin-Yang Dog!
Earth Master Girl 24: The Yin Guest Beneath the Lake
My dad was a “Yin Guest”-or, in plain terms, a grave tester.
When rich people picked out a burial plot, they would hire someone to spend a night there and see whether the gravesite was clean.
My dad had been in that line of work for years.
Until his last job. When he came home, his body was covered in livor mortis.
Illumination Bright as Day
The moment I received my fiancé’s letter breaking off our engagement, I headed straight for Cangzhou.
I was planning to demand a few dozen taels of silver as compensation for my wasted youth.
What I hadn’t expected was that he had fallen from being a prince’s estate adviser to a criminal slave.
He knelt on the ground, covered in blood and filth, looking so pitiful that anyone could do whatever they wanted with him.
“Are you buying or not? If you’re not, move to the back!”
The people there to buy slaves shoved me behind them.
I thought to myself in secret,
This isn’t me refusing to save him, okay? Other people pushed me out!
At once, I felt perfectly justified in turning to leave.
The seller was still urging the crowd, “Hurry it up! This is the last day! Anyone who doesn’t sell today gets dragged to the market and beheaded tomorrow!”
My steps paused slightly, and I tightened my grip on the purse hidden in my sleeve.
Just then, I heard a hoarse voice shout,
“My fiancée is here to buy me! The one with the shabby bamboo hat!”
Soul-Whip 14: Are You Wearing Shoes?
A buddy of mine who drove a big rig had been tricked onto the dead-end road at the foot of Huai Mountain.
By the time I got the news, he had already gone missing.
His relatives were crying so hard they were on the verge of fainting.
I tried to comfort them. “That road had a Mount Tai Stone placed there to suppress it. Nothing too serious should happen.”
But one of the family members handed me a phone. On the screen was a photo of the Mount Tai Stone, split clean in two.
“Wang Cheng sent this back before he disappeared.”
Send Me a Flower in the Spring Breeze
I followed an underworld Big Brother for six years.
But on my birthday, he brought home a girl.
He was covered in blood, and the pretty, delicate girl was hiding in his arms.
From then on, the man who had indulged my every whim never looked at me again.
Everyone thought I loved Xu Chang but could never have him, and that I was heartbroken beyond words.
I only smiled and toyed with the watch on my wrist.
I was an undercover police officer planted inside Huaxi’s largest criminal gang.
I’d stayed by his side all these years for one reason: to treat him to a taste of prison food. So how could I possibly… fall in love with him?
Earth Master Girl 23: Shanxi Buddha Caves
Bootleg Black Wukong was all the rage among my classmates.
One of its scenic areas was called the Land of Mahayana.
Everyone who played it became obsessed and went there to check in.
But not a single one of them came back.
I received that pirated disc too.
What they didn’t know was that I was the only Earth Master successor.
Soul-Whip 13: Fish Food
Young Master Li loved eating fish.
Every month, he went through more than a dozen enormous fish, each longer than a grown man was tall.
Delivering fish for the Li Family should have been an easy, well-paying job, but in just three short months, seven or eight drivers had collapsed one after another.
When Peng You, the owner of the logistics company, came to me, his face looked downright sickly.
“Brother Long, this whole thing is just too damn strange. What we loaded onto the truck was definitely fish.”