Under celestial dreams, Xianxia and Wuxia worlds unfold
Bai Qian~ The teahouse bustled with afternoon patrons—perfect for my purposes. After that Jade pool incident where Ye Hua had stood before me in nothing but a semblance of dignity, I needed witnesses. Many witnesses. “Perhaps the Jade Willow Teahouse for wine and tales?” I tapped my lower lip thoughtfully. “The one perched over West […]
Chapter 40 Rulin I know it’s you. When I rushed back from Nine Heavens, you were gone, but I found a single drop of your blood — Yi Nuo’s blood — had settled on the dark lacquered bedframe when you birthed our child alone. It glistened there like a ruby tear against the midnight wood, […]
Chapter 37 Bai Qian~ It wasn’t a light I followed out of the darkness. It was my daughter, Ying’er. When I opened my eyes in Qingqiu, I did not rise from my bed. I was not needed there. No — an unseen tether, a soundless voice pulled me elsewhere, to a place where the past […]
Chapter 36 Yi Nuo~ Two months. Sixty-one days. One thousand, four hundred and sixty-four hours. Eighty-seven thousand, eight hundred and forty minutes. It isn’t a clock that keeps the time for me. It’s my hair—strands I coil around my finger until they snap from the root. Each break is a quiet thunder in my fingertips. […]
Chapter 35 Yi Nuo~ The days after Ruilin left stretched into an eternity, each one a frayed silk thread, thin enough to snap with a sigh. Idleness, a silent enemy, threatened to suffocate me. I tried my best to ignore the slow passage of time, keeping myself occupied to avoid the emptiness left in the […]
Chapter 34 Feng Ming~ The air reeked of plums and lotuses in bloom, but all I could taste was the acrid bite of jealousy. They danced like lovers lost in a world of their own creation, careless and bright and maddeningly near. I had stood in the shadows of that east corridor, my palm feeling […]
Chapter 28 Yi Nuo~ The cloying sweetness of cinnamon and lilies, a heavy, recently sickening perfume in the still air of Liang Yu Palace, made each breath a labored gasp, bringing on another wave of nausea. The cool ivory of my vanity felt smooth beneath my fingertips as I sat, feigning composure, but the dark […]
Chapter 26 Yi Nuo~ With a casual sweep of his slender fingers through my hair, he says, “While you were sleeping, Leyang and I had a conversation. It turns out a guest has taken ill, and there’s a rampant mysterious epidemic at the palace, one that wreaks catastrophe on men’s genitalia. My godfather is there […]
Chapter 24 Phoenix Emperor Feng Yi~ “Emperor, Gugu is here.” At first, the Phoenix Emperor appeared as if he hadn’t heard, sitting motionless on the dais, one hand resting on the carved wood of his throne’s arm and in his other a book with his previous chess games with Yi Nuo who was impossible to […]
Chapter 23 Yi Nuo~ When Lue Lue returned with the tonic, I bolted through the open doors with such force that I knocked her against the doorframe. The sharp sound of the tonic bowl shattering echoed in the air behind me. A pang of worry shot through me, fearing I had hurt her, but my […]
He wouldn’t be her father if it didn’t sting a tad, which it did. Ying’er’s cold reception of sorts was far from the enthusiastic greeting he’d hoped for, but he tried not to take it personally. He understood her. They were quite alike in personality. So this grievously vast, palpable, and painfully apparent distance between […]
La Sangre Llama– Blood Beckons Changying~ Everyone has their place in total solace. Our mother’s side is where my twin Changchang finds her. Deep within, securely wrapped in our mother’s softly fragranced embrace with her face pressed upon mother’s chest, while listening to her heartbeats is my sister’s safety. Though identical twins, mine is the opposite. My […]
Ugly Beauty… Bai Qian~ While following this complicated and winding pathway that is my immortal life, I’ve come to realize a thing or two. I’ve observed regardless of age, gender, station, or cultivation, all as in everyone has points of moral deficiency. And more often than naught, those moments result in certain shameful aspects of […]
The First Show… Bai Qian~ “What can I do for you to ease your pain? Qian Qian, is there anything I can do…” Ye Hua’s faint voice, his gentle gaze came off warmly, as he stared at me with what was obviously tenderness and caring. But my nervously fluttering heart plummets into my stomach, when […]
Ye Hua~ The speed of her transformation as Qian Qian went from being a glowing ember before turning to chilling stone left him reeling as much as her kiss. Just milliseconds before, Qian Qian had been burning up with pure desire and heat in his arms. Bubbling over with fiery passion, devouring his mouth breathlessly […]
