Chen Sheng foresees enough to avoid a false promise, then discovers that advancement means reading hidden tests and administering other men’s opportunities.
Opening review · Complete story chapters 1–8, catalogue entries 1–8.
Li Ziyu needs bones, stone and enough speed to leave the wasteland. His loyal skeletons can become walls, but their master still has to make the decisions.
Opening review · Based on story chapters 1–8 (reading entries 2–9; author’s note excluded)
Du Youqian can begin again after a natural death. The people who love him have no such promise, making his patient search for immortality less simple than it sounds.
Opening review · Based on story chapters 1–8 (reading entries 1–9)
Li Wen has worked hard enough to know effort alone is insufficient. A new profession gives him a way forward, but cannot pay for everything his body needs.
Opening review · Based on story chapters 1–8 (reading entries 1–16)
Shire needs food and a route to human markets; a desperate novice adventurer needs earnings. Their bargain offers an unusual beginning for a forest enterprise.
Opening review · Complete story chapters 1–8, catalogue entries 1–9; story chapter 7 has two fragments.
Su Xing teaches sword classes for a living. His younger brother is secretly preparing for a much more dangerous examination, and neither has given the other the full story.
Li Qingxian wakes to a captain promising breakfast. Before the day is over, he needs a way to negotiate with people who put evil gods on the government payroll.
Isaac Solomon approaches forbidden magic with an unusual advantage and a very ordinary problem: research costs money, and his little manor cannot afford many mistakes.
Hee Lingchuan has inherited a splendid life, a terrible nightmare and a family that notices when he becomes too sensible. The leopard from that nightmare is not finished causing trouble.
Zhou Yan knows how to criticise a restaurant. Running one in 1984 will require a smaller menu, a very good bowl of noodles and the family he never expected to have.