Futile Devices Scans

Elio’s Notes: We’re moving updates to around 2pm UTC daily. 😁 Nalan Xuan had been rigid as a stone statue from the moment Mo Yan began reading the decree. Now his hands and feet turned even colder. He had racked his brains trying to bury this secret as deeply as possible, only for Feng Xuanyi…

News of the terrorist attack on the Earthcore Research Institute finally broke, sweeping across social media. Major television networks quickly produced special reports tracing the history of the mysterious institution. Yet when it came to the identities of the attackers, every report without exception could ultimately offer only the same sentence: “As of this time,…

Because Nemesis of the Shameless had such high ratings, even though it did not air during prime time, its ratings consistently stayed above twenty points—higher than those of some dramas that did air in prime time. Xiao Bai’s performance on the show was like a pot finally finding its matching lid. He was like a…

Fang Nianqing still had two classes left. There was no way he was going to change the rhythm of his life for Wen Lan. As he walked toward the teaching building, he said to Lan Xi, “Follow me if you want.” Lan Xi said nothing and followed him straight into the classroom, then unceremoniously sat…

Yan Xiaodao had taken the dealer’s seat. The third hand that followed was already Mr. You’s last stand. Elio’s Notes: The title 釜底抽薪 literally means “pulling the firewood from under the cauldron”: instead of fighting the flames directly, you remove what is feeding them—in other words, solve a problem by cutting it off at the…

Long Jian Feng was completely bewildered by Ning Yan’s yelling. “All right, all right! Don’t get worked up. What did you see?” “The ancestral house in the rear courtyard is fucking full of corpses! How many people has your Long family killed? You seriously had no idea? Not even a clue?” Ning Yan was furious.…

Qi Mu dragged Jiang Shao away without once looking back. Only when they reached a deserted spot did he release Jiang Shao’s wrist as though he had been burned. His heart was still racing from the fright. If Long Aotian had resisted him even slightly just now, Qi Mu’s entire performance would have fallen apart.…

The Chan River pleasure boats had only come into fashion within the past year, and their owners were all famous brothels and courtesan houses in Haojing. Before what happened to Lou Wu Zai, whenever night fell, the pleasure boats would line up along the river, adorning the Chan River like a stream of stars fallen…

Liang Ming Yue was the star host of Jiangcheng Youth TV. She had once been a child star so beloved that she was practically the nation’s daughter, but while attending university, she gave up acting and chose a different career path—one in which she became equally successful. She was thirty-one this year, unmarried and single.…

Gu Xiaojia finally lost control and burst out laughing. Tao Mo stared at him blankly. There was no movement whatsoever from inside the carriage. “You’ve missed my young master so badly you’ve gone mad,” Gu Xiaojia said. Tao Mo’s face reddened. Gu Xiaojia pulled open the curtain. “Look. Where is my young master?” At first…

On the day of the sports meet, Ke Bu was woken early in the morning by music. With one hand shoved under his shirt scratching his belly, he walked out of Zhi Li’s dorm room. The music was even more energetic than yesterday. Looking down from the dorm building, Ke Bu had to admit that…

“Guipin Liu, you are overstepping. Is this the proper etiquette for speaking to Noble Lord? You ought to think carefully before you speak. Everyone knows the old saying that trouble comes from the mouth; there is no need for Guipin Liu to prove it for us again.” Sipping rose wine from a jade cup while…

Feng Xuanyi stood tall before the imperial throne. On his left was Empress He Yilan, dignified and magnificently composed; on his right stood the breathtaking Virtuous Noble Lord Nalan Xuan, their fingers still intertwined. Although Feng Xuanyi remained expressionless, the oppressive solemnity that usually surrounded him had noticeably receded, leaving him somehow gentler. He seemed…

The elevator rose and stopped at 4F. The moment Shang Lu stepped out, the entire Investigation Center was brightly lit and bustling. The Center had twenty-one investigation groups in total. Six were stationed outside Fog Harbor, while the remaining fifteen were permanently based here. The office covered more than three hundred square meters and was…

When Gao Qin relayed Ma Rui’s words to Jia Zhi Qing, he immediately met with enormous resistance. Jia Zhi Qing pounded the table bang, bang, bang! “Such a great opportunity! Such a popular show! We worked so hard to get it! How can we just give it up because someone says so?!” Gao Qin idly…

“What about him?” “He looks different from the last time I saw him.” After murmuring that, Cheng Yiran realized he had said something completely useless and hurriedly added, “Uh… his hair looks like a dog chewed it. I thought he’d stopped coming to school. I haven’t seen him for almost half a month…” Fu Hui…

By this point, the tiny territory of the mahjong table had become a battlefield with blades drawn and bows strung. Directly in front of Yan Xiaodao lay Young Master Ling, a city-toppling beauty reduced to an utterly miserable state, his jade-like body sprawled across the table as though waiting to be hacked into pieces. Whether…

After his friendly talk with Yin Chen, Song Zang stopped hiding things quite so much. He did not reveal the mechanism of the secret room, but he shared the miserable Director’s notebook with Yin Chen, and the two studied it together over dinner. After all, there was still some time before Lunar New Year. Until…

If Jiang Shao really knew Lu Jin Wen, given the relationship between the two of them… Even taking the most extreme possibility— Couldn’t Jiang Shao simply go live off Lu Jin Wen and coast through life? That was the part Li Xin simply could not understand. Was Qi Mu lying to him? But Qi Mu’s…

Compared with the chaos and commotion of the Fu family, Shicui Hall was so deserted that it hardly seemed inhabited. Rong Rong, who normally holed up inside the palace and refused to go out, made the rare decision to have a palace maid hold a parasol for her as she stepped outside. Scissors in hand,…