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Chapter 30 – Petition to the Golden-Lotus Buddha
Chapter 30 – Petition to the Golden-Lotus BuddhaThe command from Shu Rui had been delivered with the kind of finality one might expect from a queen sentencing a traitor to exile: If anyone so much as whispers the name Leo Xu in my presence again, I will personally ensure they regret it.The edict still hung in the air when the scene in the dorm unfolded.Amber Lin sat cross-legged at the foot of her bed, the faint scent of lavender oil from her diffuser curling through the air in soft ribbons, and she cracked open sunflower seeds with military precision, her gaze sliding toward Shu Rui’s glowing tablet screen. The light from the live stream painted shifting blue and rose highlights across her cheeks as if she were a spectator in some neon-lit cyber-theater.“Hey,” Amber said, voice curling with curiosity, “what on earth did Leo Xu do to make you want to scorch his name from history?”Guo Ran looked up from her phone immediately, sha
Chapter 29: Prosper or Perish
Chapter 29: Prosper or PerishThe dormitory door creaked open just as the dim ceiling light hummed to life, spilling its weak glow across the cramped room. Ai Qian’s steps were slow and deliberate, as if every movement carried the weight of something unsaid. Wei Chuyin, perched cross-legged on the lower bunk with her phone in hand, looked up immediately. Her eyes sharpened with concern, though the way she tilted her head suggested she had already braced herself for bad news.“How’s it going?” she asked, her voice carefully even, as though tiptoeing along the edge of someone’s temper.Ai Qian didn’t speak right away. Instead, she shook her head once, the movement quick and clipped, like she was cutting off the possibility of hope before it could form.Wei Chuyin’s eyebrows drew together. “Li Shuru didn’t agree? Don’t tell me…” She hesitated, lips parting as if the thought itself tasted bitter. “She couldn’t… actually be interested in Leo
Chapter 28: Claiming What’s Lost
Chapter 28: Claiming What’s Lost The air in the campus café smelled of roasted beans, cinnamon, and faintly of damp paper from the rain that had passed earlier in the morning. Large windows framed a sky the color of slate, the kind that seemed to promise another downpour at any moment. Inside, the hum of quiet conversations blended with the occasional hiss of the espresso machine, forming an insulated cocoon away from the open quadrangle beyond. Li Shuru sat by the far wall, one hand lightly curled around a porcelain cup whose thin gold rim caught the pale light. Steam still rose in lazy spirals from the coffee, but she hadn’t touched it yet. Across from her sat Ai Qian, her posture straight but her eyes shadowed, like a painting whose varnish had dulled over time. The remnants of the storm from that fateful weekend still seemed to cling to her. Her hair, though combed, lacked its usual gloss, and her makeup could not entirely
Chapter 27 — Gossip Like Fire
Chapter 27 — Gossip Like FireAt East Sea University, there were certain combinations that could ignite the student body’s imagination as quickly as dry tinder meeting a torch. One such combination was the school’s renowned art department beauty, and a luxury sports car so polished it looked as though it had rolled straight out of a high-end commercial. Alone, each was enough to stir up campus conversation, but together, the effect was explosive, a spectacle that could not be ignored and would inevitably spill into every whispered corridor conversation and every scrolling finger on the student forum boards.The revelation that Li Shuru had purchased a gleaming Panamera was like a psychic detonation across the campus’ invisible social web, the kind of news that bypassed any logical filter and simply embedded itself in every mind with a force all its own. Within hours, speculation metastasized into rumor, and rumor hardened into the sort of narrative that d
Chapter 26: Steering the Fate of Your Own Ride
Chapter 26: Steering the Fate of Your Own RideThe rain outside was a restless sea of silver, each drop ricocheting off the Panamera’s polished shell like impatient drummers demanding attention. The luxury car idled at the curb, purring with the low growl of an apex predator biding its time.Leo Xu finally stepped inside, water trailing from his hair in rivulets that glimmered under the cabin’s ambient glow. The moment he sank into the passenger seat, a subtle tension curled through him, though it was unclear whether it came from the vehicle’s intimidating elegance or the presence of the women inside. The leather upholstery beneath him was buttery soft but already dampening under the intrusion of rainwater.From the back seat, Amber Lin extended a sleek white packet toward him, the faint aroma of lavender clinging to its paper wrapping."Here. Wipe yourself before you ruin Shu Rui’s investment," she said with a half-smirk."Thanks."The tissues, soft but absurdly inadequate against th
Chapter 25: Rainbound Fates
Chapter 25: Rainbound FatesThe storm did not arrive politely.It tore across the city as though the heavens themselves had thrown open some ancient floodgate, spilling a relentless wall of water that hammered asphalt, glass, and flesh alike.Water surged in dark rivulets along the curbs, swirling with oily rainbows from leaking engines, while streetlamps cast molten halos into the mist, their light refracted into a thousand trembling shards. In that blurred silver haze, cars hissed and roared, tires slicing through puddles with a sound like tearing silk.From the covered entrance of the V Club, Ai Qian stood unmoving, her figure haloed in that false warmth of golden doorway light. Only moments earlier, she had watched Liang Zhenlun’s crimson Maserati disappear, its taillights twin drops of blood vanishing into the vaporous night. He had not looked back, not even once, his passenger seat occupied by Zhao Ning’er, the woman who had been l
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