Futile Devices Scans

Ever since the Lian family’s only son was executed, the Lian residence had closed its doors to visitors and ceased socializing with outsiders. If the Emperor had not continued remembering the family during holidays and festivals, the Lian household might long ago have faded into obscurity among the capital’s powerful families. At dawn, a carriage…

There was a faint rustling from inside the carriage. Gu Xiaojia slowly tilted his head back and leaned against the carriage, listening. After a while, he heard Gu She say, “Today, we’ll study the Analects.” “Yes.” Tao Mo obediently agreed. “…” Gu Xiaojia pulled his head back in boredom. He had assumed that even if…

Wuwei Mountain was much like Yunlin Mountain, known as “Ten Thousand Ghosts Mountain”: both were covered in graves. At the foot of the mountain, Old Tao bought incense, candles, joss paper, offerings, and a small sickle, then led the way. Tao Mo and Gu She walked in the middle, with Gu Xiaojia and Hao Guozi…

Because of the case, Shi Qianshan had remained at the inn the entire time and rarely gone out. Judging by his complexion, however, he certainly lived up to the saying that peace of mind agreed with the body; there was not the slightest sign that he was worried. “The truth of this matter has now…

The matters of the assassins and the Wu couple had, for the moment, come to a pause. Tao Mo looked out at the dark night beyond the window. Remembering everything that had happened during the day, he could not help letting out a quiet laugh. “Young Master.” “Young Master.” Hao Guozi and Gu Xiaojia spoke…

Tao Mo’s chest rose and fell. His body and his thoughts seemed to inhabit two different worlds. His body was still drifting through the aftermath of violent waves, while his thoughts remained fixed on the moment Gu She’s lips had kissed his. Fragments of memory slowly surfaced along with the sensations still lingering on his…

The wedding was held only ten days after Ke Bu was told about it—or, to put it more accurately, they had waited until they could put it off no longer before telling him. Winter had gradually bleached the sky so pale that it was difficult to tell dawn from dusk. The wind rattled the windows,…

Mo Yan had entered the palace when he was very young. At the time, he had been frail and frequently ill, so the empress had sent him to serve the Fifth Prince whom she did not favor—the man who was now the emperor. He had grown up beside his master, watching him rise step by…

Standing atop the palace wall, Nalan Xuan let the pleasant night breeze, faintly damp with moisture, brush across his face. The night was an empty darkness, with only the distant rustling of trees breaking the silence. Their faintly swaying branches cast overlapping shadows that twisted like ghosts, enough to make anyone watching feel fear creep…

Xiao Dezi had no time to care that barging in like this would certainly interrupt His Majesty’s “amorous diversion,” nor what disaster—even death—it might bring upon himself. Taking long strides, he headed straight for the sleeping chamber. “What are you doing?” Someone suddenly seized his arm, and Mo Yan growled at him in a lowered…

Defying an imperial decree was, by law, punishable by death. Of course, Feng Xuanyi would never execute Nalan Xuan. Once the decree had been issued, the former empress was consigned to the Cold Palace without a single person daring to object, while the new empress refused to move into the Central Palace. Feng Xuanyi’s solution…

Whether an investigation log should really be written by an intern on his very first day at work would have to be set aside for now, because Shang Lu had barely driven out of the alley when he received a call from Anxin Hospital. When Shang Lu had gone to the hospital the day before,…

Feng Ya Lun being released from detention and Jia Zhi Qing being discharged from the hospital actually happened on the same day, further proving Gao Qin’s theory that the two were truly fellow sufferers. Xiao Bai was an artist, so of course the company could not let him go to the detention center to pick…

When Cheng Yiran came home, he was surprised. Fu Hui was actually still there today. Fu Hui was sitting on the sofa while the family doctor crouched in front of him, sweating profusely as he treated… an injury? “Brother, you’re hurt?” Cheng Yiran asked, but received no response. Fu Hui was on the phone. First,…

In the chaos of people moving through the corridor, Yan Xiaodao fell for several moments into a sense of unreality, as though everything around him were an illusion. Corridors branched in several directions toward dressing rooms, restrooms, restaurants, and bars. Any of them could conceal one or two living people. He could not tell which…

As the ten-year catastrophe drew to a close, the country began setting things right after years of chaos. Everything was waiting to be rebuilt, and the first spring winds heralding Reform and Opening Up swept across the land, reaching even this long-suffering stretch of yellow earth. Meng Xiaobei boarded the train for Beijing. His parents…

The audience clearly had not expected Yin Chen to be so bold. Gasps sounded throughout the studio, and even the host began looking at Song Zang with something close to horror. “Mr. Song, is that true? Were you unfaithful in a past relationship?” What a brutally direct question. Song Zang remained silent… because he genuinely…

Yu Yue Ning had not yet had time to wonder why Jiang Shao’s attitude had suddenly changed when his attention was immediately diverted by that last sentence. He raised his voice. “What’s wrong with my methods?” Jiang Shao answered calmly and methodically, “Since Qi Mu normally keeps his distance from women and lives such an…

They had only just left when a jumble of hurried footsteps sounded in the corridor. Logically, the two groups should have run into each other halfway, but the Immortal Treasury Palace’s Lightning Division came and went like ghosts. Even if they met on a narrow road, they could probably pass each other without incident. Sure…

There was something absurd about the way Jin Bi died. Unsurprisingly, that strange explosion had come from his head literally bursting open. But for an animal like a porcupinefish, the distance between its head and its body was… practically negligible. Jin Bi’s true body was entirely situated above the “neck” of the human-skin coat. When…