Li Qingye wants nothing after his parents’ funeral. Changes inside the family company give him a reason to survive—and to question the people offering help.
Jiang Xia and Lin Yanwan decide separately to leave their failed marriage behind. Back at school, a glance makes that apparently generous plan much harder.
Eric’s errand for the monastery runs through missing credentials, a demanding duel, and an unpaid builder’s winter in an irreverent historical fantasy.
Opening review · Complete story chapters 1–8, catalogue entries 1–13, including all parts of stories 4 and 6.
A kidnapped illusionist, a former game developer in dragon form, and a magical toy shop turn consumer desire into a wonderfully questionable enterprise.
Opening review · Complete story chapters 1–8, catalogue entries 1–8.
Wu Ting does the unglamorous work while better-connected residents collect opportunities. A strange new ability makes cooperation unexpectedly profitable.
An eighty-six-year-old woman offers a burglar tea. What follows turns familiar rooms, useful objects and ordinary requests for help into unsettling possibilities.
Opening review · Based on story chapters 1–8 (reading entries 1–13)
Yu Bao is bottom of the school rankings, but his enthusiasm is real. Su Zhi’s new talent helps him ask whether the problem is the puppy or the curriculum.
A midnight visitor, a glass of impossible milk, and a remarkably courteous hospital turn a novelist’s research into a problem of trust. The occult mystery is strongest when ordinary help acquires another meaning.
Opening review · Based on source chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 3–14
Ian has a laboratory, six Magic Stones and somebody else's disastrous reputation. The most encouraging thing in his new world is a failed potion that teaches him something.