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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    The man who stands in the front entryway is nothing like Zhuo Yichen once imagined.

    He’s wearing a soft gray turtleneck; a long white scarf drapes down his front on each side, not wrapped around his neck for warmth. His hair falls to the back of his neck, bangs parted in the middle to just touch his cheeks. Thin-rimmed glasses rest on his nose, giving him the look of a respectable, relaxed professor. He has a single earring in one ear that glints as he smiles, warm and disarming; practiced.

    He doesn’t look at all like someone that burned their offices down and forced Zhuo Yichen’s brother to leave the profession eight years ago.

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    30 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 27

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    dean loves his team, he really does. but lately, no matter how much he gives, how hard he tries, it never feels like enough. disappointment weighs heavy, frustration simmers beneath his skin, and all he wants is to do something reckless — just a brief escape from it all.

    winner, stripped of his crown and no longer the king of the hollows, is desperate for something to take the edge off. the burn of defeat and humiliation cuts deeper than he’s willing to admit, and he’s searching for anything to dull the ache that won’t let him go.

     

    they meet in the middle.

     

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    what starts as a collision of frustration and need quickly turns into something neither of them wants to escape.

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    25 Apr 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 22

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    Xiao Xingchen has been a hostage to the Jin Empire for as long as he can remember. When a dark matter cultivator forces the surrender of Baixue Station, he is chosen as the imperial representative to tie them to the empire in marriage. He is prepared to be a friend to his new husband; but Song Zichen, furious and grieving the massacre that led to his people’s conquest, wants nothing at all to do with him.

    Alone in his new home, shut out of the governing council and estranged from his husband, Xingchen befriends Xue Yang, a Jin agent who has been assigned to Baixue Station. Their relationship soon grows dangerously close; and meanwhile the political situation on Baixue is getting worse. Resistance groups are fighting Jin control, Xue Yang and Zichen are both keeping secrets, and not all is as it seems. It will take everything Xingchen has to save his home, hold his relationships together—and uncover the secret, concealed where he least expects it, that might just break an empire.

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    07 Mar 2025