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  1. Public Bookmark 50

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    “Well what else am I supposed to do?!” Jin Ling explodes, pointing a dumpling accusingly at Lan Jingyi’s face.

    “Oh I don’t know, actually try to train your spoiled dog?” he replies, snagging the dumpling from Jin Ling’s chopsticks and stuffing it in his mouth.

    “Fairy isn’t spoiled!”

    “Well you haven’t actively tried to take it from her, right?" Ouyang Zizhen steps in to mediate. "And you’ve still got a week before the conference! That’s plenty of time to get the hat back and throw it out,” he reasons, reasonably, because he’s a reasonable person who also has no idea how smart and stubborn Fairy can be!!

    The pros and cons of teaching your dog to “drop it”.

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    14 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    “Guess I’m warm. Cats like warmth.”

    Carl had learned to read smiles on Akram’s face. They weren’t usually on his lips, resembling more a dancing light in his pupils, a twitch in the crow’s feet that only accentuated his eyes, his brows relaxing for a second. This time however, the corners of his mouth fluttered, but he didn't comment.

    When Carl and Akram look for clues and find a cat... cuteness ensues.

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    29 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 16

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    Carl would literally rather die than admit he needs anything. Akram gives it to him anyway.

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    29 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 38

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    Akram huffs a laugh as he tilts his head to the side. “Your penchant for sarcasm is truly admirable.”

    Carl grins at him. “I do try.”

    “Seems it comes easily.”

    “Sometimes.” Carl winks playfully, unable to help himself. “Always pays to have a captive audience.”

    Akram’s smile seems to catch him unawares and he shakes his head. His ankle presses back against Carl’s, a very deliberate touch, and Carl tries not to choke on his chip as he pops it in his mouth.

    Or, a thunderstorm keeps Carl and Akram from returning home... and there's only one bed.

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    29 Sep 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    He swallowed dryly past the cloth in his mouth — cotton, maybe a handkerchief, by the taste and feel of it, and God, he hoped it wasn’t used — and acknowledged to himself that perhaps it was a good thing that the ruffians had gagged him. Tiezui had a long list of pointers to give this particular group, and he had the nagging idea that kidnappers were rarely open to constructive criticism.

    A character flaw among the criminal underworld as a whole, he felt.

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    10 Sep 2025