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    The fourth or fifth sleepless night, he got up, wandered into Ruan Lanzhu's bedroom and crawled under the duvet.

    The bedding was pristine - not a single wrinkle, perfectly straight, and everything smelled new. No trace of the person who used to sit there and look up at Ling Jiushi with those eyes of his that asked questions Ling Jiushi couldn't answer.

    He pulled the bedside table open, saw the kaleidoscope lying there, and barely stopped himself from throwing it at the wall.

    By the time he finally stumbled into sleep, he'd forgotten all about dropping it on the bed.

    Ling Jiushi finds his way home. (A rewrite of the final episode.)

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    His heart is a deep lake that barely ever ripples beneath the surface, no matter the size of the disturbance. The last one had been the loss of his wife, a calamity that also brought the blessing of his son. And then little else after that, until he saw Song Yuzhang for the first time in that hospital, a single glance that brought his world to a standstill.

    Until now, he'd thought that a blessing too.

    Song Yuzhang comes clean. Nie Xueping deals with the fallout.

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    It's been a long time since she's been served by someone so determinedly proper, almost chaste. She finds an unseemingly thrill in flustering him, in his helpless physical response to her provocation. And why not? She has so few that don't involve potential mortal peril. Nothing blameworthy in a harmless flirtation.

    Or so she thinks, until he betrays her.

    For the daughter of an Empress, granddaughter of a general, the one who holds the entire realm in her hand, to be bitten by her own guard dog - preposterous.

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    Everyone knew about the designer and mechanic who'd bicker and flirt endlessly whether they were eating in the mess hall or covered in machine oil, their hands buried in Jaeger parts, yelling at each other across a mechanic bay.

    Wang Yibo vowed he'd never set foot in a Jaeger. Xiao Zhan thought he'd never have the chance.

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    242
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    45
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    1,634
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    It's almost as gloomy here as it was back where he'd been. Almost, but for the man sitting on the steps, a blaze of light in the dark, the tails of his white shirt fluttering in the breeze, so still that he could be an apparition or a statue. Most of his face is covered by an opera mask, white paint and pink rouge and sharp brows, red lining around the eye holes.

    The man's generous mouth curves under the mask. "You're not who I was expecting."

    That's so far from the reaction Yibo might have imagined that he's not sure what to do with himself. He's misty, almost entirely see-through. There should at least be some screaming, surely.

    Or, some things are so inevitable not even death can stop them.

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    A singular melody, two conversations, and the mortifying ordeal of being known.

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    7
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    589
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    In the usual telling, the story goes like this:

    A young boy does a favour for a white snake spirit. Sometimes he's a cowherd, sometimes a child buying sweets, sometimes he's even a snake hunter. Either way, the white snake resolves to repay him. She gains powers and human form.

    She saves a green snake spirit from death and gains her allegiance.

    She finds the kind boy. Or maybe she finds his soul, in a new body. Thanks to the machinations of a monk, the boy finds out what she is and they are separated - in some tellings for a very long time - but finally reunited.

    The green snake betrays the white snake. Or she saves her. Sometimes she saves them all, out of her love for the white snake.

    That, at least, is almost always true.

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    26
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    1,280
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    There's a world in which they never see each other again, where they're just chapters in each other's tell-alls. If it was all up to Destiny, that would probably be it. She's never been good at connecting with people, even when she wants to. Maybe especially when she wants to.

    People flutter out in and out of her life all the time with barely a pause for thought or memory, and she's never minded it. That's just how it is. She's not the type to look back. But no matter how she tries she can never stamp out the part of her that belongs to Ramona. It'd be like cutting off a limb.

    All the same, she almost throws her phone clean across the room when she sees Ramona's name come up.

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    117
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    This whole thing with Nick's family left her feeling distinctly clumsy, wishing that her Mandarin was better, less stilted, and that she had the instinctive understanding of their world that felt like her birthright.

    To the Chinese, 'who are you' meant 'who are your people?'

    For years, Rachel's only root was her mom, and through her, she learned words and phrases and meaning, and took them for herself like she was covering some classic song. And somehow her cover got through to Eleanor.

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    Philipp was a very small not-quite-eleven year old, the kind adults awwed at. They cooed even more at his toothy grin and his precocious cleverness.

    The Sorting Hat barely had to touch his head before it screamed out SLYTHERIN, which, in retrospect, was a little unfortunate.

    Philipp Lahm, Head Boy and pride of Slytherin House, decides to take an unpopular elective taught by mysterious new professor Josep Guardiola.

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    65
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    14
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    In retrospect, Angelica should have known something was wrong.

    At the time, though, it was just a routine rescue, Peggy's voice in her ear, alight with her usual playful efficiency.

    The first time Angelica meets Alexander Hamilton, she's wearing a mask and he's tied to a chair.

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    38
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    230
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    15
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    2,693
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    As long as he lives, Cristiano will never forget that horrible screech. It tears through him in the seconds before the landing ships take over the horizon and echoes between his ears for the entire week after that, getting louder every time he closes his eyes.

    Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi have to team up to save the planet.

    Language:
    English
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    Chapters:
    5/5
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    49
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    202
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    42
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    4,146
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    Zhuge Liang gets some clarity.

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    8
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    46
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    11
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    The life and times of Mara Jade, the Emperor's Hand.

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    6
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    42
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    6
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    792
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    Victor's no good with words. When Andres wraps an arm around his waist, fitting himself against Victor's side, he knows he doesn't need any. It's enough for him to drape his arm around Andres' shoulder and twine their fingers together.

    Victor and Andres being each other's strength through the years.

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    39
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    8
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    1,159
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    They found Dan having a pint with a source in one of his more respectable regular haunts. When he waved them into a booth, his smile was just a little hectic.

    "Well, hello. What new and exciting job have you got for me?"

    Della couldn't help smiling back. "How do you know we're here about a story?"

    Dan tilted his head, alcoholic haze gone in an instant, his gaze going sharp and thoughtful. "The two of you, looking like the cat that just ate the canary? Are you kidding me?"

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    16
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    40
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    Leo's world is simple. He has his friends, school, Father, Mother, Rodrigo and Matias. Then Marisol came, and that was good too.

    And, above everything else, there's the game.

    Even geniuses have growing pains. They're just better at hiding it.

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    76
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    2,322
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    Even taking the human capacity for masochism into account, he doesn't expect Idol contestants to watch video recaps that exist to make fun of their personality slash singing voice slash outfits.

    If he's really honest, Jim especially didn't expect it from Cute Country Mouse With Guitar.

    Kris Allen, Jim Cantiello and the humble beginnings of a beautiful friendship.

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    English
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    2,675
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    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    16
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    44
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    10
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    1,598

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