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Old Pi, born Pi Rui, was a respected university professor of chemical engineering before his dissociative disorder diagnosis. Erratic as...

In early summer, even near night, the southern sky glowed bright. At seven p.m., a four-door Jeep pulled up to Yingtian City Mental...

Yi Qing, bent over the trunk sorting, heard a yelp. A filthy figure tumbled across the ground, and she knew instantly. Ye Shisan’s swift...

In the eleventh century, hunters in Woolpit, Suffolk, Britain, found two children huddled outside a cave—a boy and a girl. Their skin was...

The rest of the night passed without ambush. Ye Shisan’s insomnia faded, and he slept soundly until the sun neared the horizon. Starving...

That night, Ye Shisan couldn’t sleep. Not from the all-night din of A-Qiang’s Game Parlor next door, nor the daytime scorn from his...

Ye Shisan, head swathed in bandages, stepped from the car just as He Qiang strutted out of A-Qiang’s Game Parlor. In a suit, hair slicked...

Yi Qing, You Long’er, and Vanilla listened, stunned, as Ye Shisan recounted his dream. “Void Deity” and “Pseudo-Spirit”—terms foreign to...

Xiedi City. Hanfeng Design Studio, on the surface, offers residential interior design. In truth, its wealth flows from elite Feng Shui...

Tomb, mist, rain. Ye Shisan jolted awake. His grandfather knelt beside him, before a gray, solitary tomb. “Grandpa… Grandpa!” Grandfather...

“Brothers! Tear ‘em apart!” Yellow Hair bellows, swinging a steel pipe as he charges. The others surge forward, frenzied, like wild...

Roughly three hundred kilometers from Yingtian City lies a vast metropolis, known since ancient times as Xiedi. Its neon glow pulses,...

Yellow Hair and Fatso slunk out of the restaurant, fleeing down the street without a glance back. Fatso, half-sobered, legs trembling,...

Lin Changrong stepped out of Shisan Bakery, facing a swelling crowd. He Dali, standing on a stool, was shouting. “Line up! A hundred...

Sweet Potato Street, Shisan Bakery Second. Some big shot arrived on this rundown street today, drawing crowds and even tabloid reporters....