As the New Year approached, the city grew livelier than ever. Because monsters lived differently from humans, many ancient customs still remained in their society—customs long since vanished from human civilization. In winter, there typically shouldn’t be flowers. But the Li family was different. Their courtyard was filled with blooming flowers of all kinds. Walking…

Two cups of tea sat on the table. Yuan Yuanyuan sat on the left, Si Qun on the right. On the surface, Yuan Yuanyuan looked calm and collected—but inside, her mind was already spinning at a hundred miles an hour. What the hell…? Little match boy Si Qun, what are you doing here? She stared…

“Life is so boring… can we get something exciting going?” “How exciting do you want it to be?” Gao Ling looked at her best friend beside her. “You work overtime every day—how is that not exciting?” “…Can you not bring up overtime? You seriously have no sense of the situation. Acting like this, someone’s gonna…

In the dark alley, everyone stood silently, facing each other. A boy in a black down jacket and a woman in a thin white outfit were quietly locked in a stare. Neither of them spoke. They just looked at each other. The group that had been pulling at the woman earlier had all stopped. They…

Yuan Yuanyuan looked down at the people below and felt like her brain had completely stopped working. She wanted to go down and check on the man lying on the ground. Even though she knew the man was probably beyond saving, she still held onto a sliver of hope. She leaned in closer, staring at…

“Boss… what are you doing?” Tang Shi looked at Yuan Yuanyuan standing there in silence and finally asked. “Mm… pretending to be cool,” Yuan Yuanyuan replied, holding a long tobacco pipe that was slowly releasing wisps of white smoke. The smoke came in broken puffs, looking like it hadn’t been properly lit at all. “Where’d…

Yuan Yuanyuan stared at the little ceramic plate on the table. Sitting in the middle of it was a round, brown object. She picked up the brand-new mortar she’d just bought—a special one for crushing garlic—and dropped the demon pearl into it. Then she began pounding the thing like mad. The room filled with the…

This newly introduced setting, in Yuan Yuanyuan’s eyes, felt a bit like a refuge for Faning. For the main character of a comic, no matter how unlucky he got, the artist wouldn’t just kill him off in one blow. This place was kind of like where Ichigo trained in seclusion in the past. Yuan Yuanyuan…

Yuan Yuanyuan wasn’t really a fan of gloomy or dark things, but somehow, everything she had seen so far about Yi Qi had put her in a bad mood. She stared at her phone for a while, then suddenly tossed it aside. “What the heck? What’s with the store owner? Why so pissed?” Tang Shi…

In the small courtyard, Yuan Yuanyuan stood in the middle, looking at Liu An across from her, telling him to casually cast an illusion. Liu An hesitated for a long time before finally casting a small illusion. Yuan Yuanyuan saw the surrounding snowflakes suddenly increase a little. Even though this illusion didn’t seem particularly powerful,…