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Chapter 16: Lord Lu, you are an utterly hopeless romantic!... In the middle of the night, the study in the Su residence was still lit bright with lamps and candles. Su Tingyan kept turning over the original work *Wan Shi Quanchen*, which had been transmitted into his mind by the system, reading it again and again, but the more he read, the tighter his brows drew together. He had wanted to find some trace of Zhao Shuyan’s incident in it, but he soon discovered that this fan-game and the original novel…-
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The carriage was dimly lit. He sat stiffly, and with only the corner of his eye, he could barely make out the figure that had somehow appeared in the corner. That man seemed to have condensed straight out of the carriage’s shadows, silent and soundless, like a ghost. He could not see him clearly, but he could feel a deliberately hollowed-out stillness, darker and heavier than the surrounding night. At such close range, Su Tingyan could not even hear the slightest breath from the other man. All he heard…
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After Su Tingyan finished lecturing Qingmian, he had intended to go see whether Li Xun was still alive, only for Qinghai to report that the other man had already slipped away without a trace. He thought that was for the best. It would save them both from setting the place on fire. He sat down gracefully, glanced at the empty table, and could not help frowning. “Where are my eggs?” Qinghai coughed once. “That lord ate them all, and Qingbao is making more for you right now.” Su Tingyan: “...Both…
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After leaving the Imperial Academy, Su Tingyan did not rush to look for Zhao Shuyan. Yujing had a refined establishment called Yunshan Luan, praised as Kyoto’s Peach Blossom Spring and a fairyland of water and clouds. Talents gathered here, the powerful came and went, and countless scholars and men of letters loved to come here to drink, make friends, and speak freely. This Yunshan Luan was precisely Lu Xuan’s turf. He often came here as well to drink and sing heartily with his faction, a true den of…
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That night, a colossal fire suddenly broke out in the western part of Yujing City. Fueled by the wind, the blaze painted half the night sky red, and thick black smoke billowed upward, visible for miles. Beneath that scorched ruin lay Zhao Shuyan's already poor and shabby home. The news reached the Su residence in the middle of the night. Qinghai knocked on Su Tingyan's door in frantic haste. "My lord! My lord! There's a fire in the west of the city, and a huge area has gone up in flames! I heard that the…
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Su Tingyan had spent the entire night thinking about having to go to the Audit Office the next day, and as soon as he woke up, he kept urging Qinghai to get the carriage ready. But the moment he got out of bed, his limbs went weak and he nearly toppled over and joined the immortals. Qinghai came running at the sound, hurriedly catching his family’s old ancestor, and when he touched his forehead, it was so hot it could have baked pancakes. "My lord, you must have caught a chill last night. Your head’s…
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The Wenbilu has survived to this day, and over the long river of time, many branches have sprung up from it. The He Yu family belongs to the branch that still sticks to old-fashioned customs. The old-school Wenbilu people still think very much like jianghu folk, and they do not allow direct descendants to take civil service exams or work in upper-level clerical positions. As a direct descendant in the great-grandson generation, He Yu naturally could not do that kind of work either. Since he was little, he…-
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By the time they’d reinforced the simple pulley directly above the pit, everything was finally in place, and the two professors went into a large tent at the back, one after the other. We followed close behind. At first, I was listening to their arrangements with complete seriousness, but after a while I realized that listening to the professors talk was just like sitting through math class. I hadn’t heard many sentences before I started getting sleepy, so I simply moved over and sat shoulder to…
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Lu Ayao came back over to my side and handed me a bottle of water. He told me that just now, halfway through lowering the rope, the pulley had jammed. A few people had loosened their grip and were getting ready to fix it, but then the pulley suddenly started turning again. Several people above had tripped over themselves and fallen flat on their faces, the rope slipped from their hands, and I just kept falling all the way down. It was lucky the rope connected to the buckle on my back was long enough. When…
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Seeing Tian Yuqing’s reaction, I finally realized that I was far too insensitive to danger. I had even been wondering whether this tomb robber had suffered some severe injury before he died here, but a little common sense was enough to tell me that was impossible. There wasn’t a single fatal wound on his body. I tightened the strap of my backpack and stood up with Tian Yuqing. He obviously had no more interest in the dried corpse on the ground. "Back when workers built the burial pits, they had to move…
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