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"Fenglu pursues a man. Even for the first time, she forced him to put him in bed She thought it would take three hundred years to melt Junmohan's heart, but no matter how hard she tried, he scorned it Until after her death, Jun Mohan finally felt heartbroken"
The story took place in Snowy Mountain in the coldest part of Manchuria, one Winter's morning in 1781. The Dragon Lodge party ran into the Horse Spring Banditry who were there to unearth a buried casket. They were waylaid yet by the Peking Overland Convoy. All three parties had designs on the metal casket, supposedly housing a poniard, which was an heirloom of the Martial Brotherhood. A monk arrived on the scene and the invited the parties to the eyrie on the summit. The lord of the eyrie happened to be away summoning help to fight Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, who was scheduled to arrive on the summit at noon. While waiting, each one in the parties began recounting incidents which took place some twenty years before. The excitement, intrigue and action in these incidents are well dramatized, with one event firmly intertwining with others in the past, developing into a vendetta involving the offspring of several families. The story ends with a fight between Fox, the hero of the story, and his sworn enemy, but the result of the fight is untold, left to the imagination and creative power of individual readers.
Tom must face off against Falra, a phoenix that spews smoke from its beak and lava from its talons, in order to locate one of the potion ingredients necessary to save a cursed dragon.
Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in positions of social authority to criminals and ambitious young men recently arrived from the country. Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese fiction, The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is now available for the first time in English. Neither sentimental nor sensationalistic in its portrayal of courtesa...
Make Mother Proud, the second Adam Graham adventure, takes us into the mind of a cunning, diabolical serial killer. Adam, a local school superintendent, is drawn into police efforts to stop this killer. His background in education, intelligence and anger over the death of several young female teachers drives him in his efforts to find the psychopath responsible. A stunning tale of murder and romance, rich with the local color of the American Southwest, this is a story as mysterious, varied and opulent as the desert in which it is set.
Does the other side of the starry sky really exist? Split souls, strange memories, a strange and bizarre world of immortals, it was a scene from a legend. That year, he had revealed his true strength at the age of the weak crown. He had achieved his goals at a young age, and had smiled as he looked at the world. That year, he returned and looked around. His aura was like a mountain, and no one could compare to him.
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