An apartment hunt gives the demonic inheritor stronger armor and control over his companions, until a stranger offers a bottle his weapons could not produce.
A stranger with Peter’s face can date the Marvel universe from Tony Stark’s headlines. Guessing what Aunt May remembers about him turns out to be harder.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
A leaked recording gives an overlooked employee an anonymous audience, then leaves his manager knowing less about her correspondent than he knows about her.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
A child's devotion survives a punishing apprenticeship and reaches a city arena, where his teachers' expectations prove harder to measure than his strength.
A wealthy food streamer can pay for promotion and learn a recipe instantly, but an argument over one bowl turns independence into a public performance.
Gu Qing’s new labels make games, meals, and friendship unexpectedly profitable, while the person leaving him knows about a danger he has not yet understood.
A delivery worker’s humiliating errand turns profitable, and Chen Mo begins testing whether the sound of impending trouble can also announce a way out.
A second chance brings Xu An back to a hungry household, a university dilemma, and a market where knowing what to cook may be his first useful capital.