Under celestial dreams, Xianxia and Wuxia worlds unfold
Ye Hua~ The water, once cold, now felt lukewarm from the heat of his own mortification—doing nothing to cool him. How could he have believed his Third Uncle Lian Song? Of all people! The same uncle who once tried to convince the great Donghua Dijun that mortal flatulence could power celestial carriages, eliminating the need […]
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 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 27 Ruilin~ If I’d thought the passion would abate, I was mistaken. Our intimacy is a ritual, where we rediscover each other with fervor. Each morning, still heavy-lidded and wrapped in the remnants of dreams, we would slide into the embrace of the deep soaking tub, its dimensions just right for two if we […]
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 25 Yi Nuo~ “From here, you can see everything,” Ruilin murmured, a gentle sentimentality in his voice as he gazed across the horizon as if still in awe of it. “My mother used to come here to escape the burdens of being Empress.” From Eagles Peak, Xiongfeng Terrace, he gestured north to the Chizui […]
Chapter Two The topic of my mother stirs numerous debates. Some view her as a dangerous temptress who created discord between brothers by seducing them both, labeling her as an adulteress. Conversely, others depict her as a hero who sacrificed her life to safeguard me, my sister, and possibly even the world from a powerful […]
Ye Hua “There you are, Crown Prince. Shifu has been waiting for you,” said Wang Xiao, Mo Yuan’s fifth disciple, greeting Ye Hua with his usual smooth charm. Wang Xiao, despite his angelic looks, was notorious — a ruthless card player who favored flirtatious and morally flexible goddesses. Ye Hua nodded, a habitual gesture of […]
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”~ Helene Keller Bai Qian’s three-day wedding was a blur. Drowning in heartbreak, she heard nothing. Oblivion, she sensed only emptiness. Only the profound feeling […]
