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Threads Patron preview Chapter 395(Red+)

"Moving on from that, has Miss Hanyi mentioned the plan to expand the talent pool yet?" Bao Qian asked. 

The garden was close now.

"I haven't," Hanyi interjected. "Look, getting me minions is fine, but we don't need any other 'talents'!"

"Hanyi, minions is not what you should call your subordinates," Ling Qi chided. "This is the first I am hearing of you having any."

"Oh, it is nothing so concrete. The young miss has merely attracted or subdu...

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Threads Patron preview Chapter 394 (Red+)

"I think the watercourse style would be the best way to start," Ling Qi said thoughtfully. "Using the cliff as a near absolute defense from the southern direction expansion would take us into the way of the waterfall eventually. Best to start as we will continue and build up and in later."

"Given how I’ve been fetching resins and lacquers and paints made in the west, I believe Lady Cai is thinking the same," Bao Qian remarked. "I'm sure I need not tell you that the Meng's fens the...

Commission: Tales of Sun and Steel 7

“The reports from the eighth patrol, Senior Sister!”

Gu Yanmei accepted the hide scroll case with a faint smile. Which she maintained despite the subtle… she did not wish to call it a squirm, but it was what it was, of the younger woman when their fingers brushed. She couldn’t truly fault the inner disciples' discipline as the reaction was only barely noticeable, even to her eyes.

Inner Disciple Song Chunhua was an unassuming woman with dark hair bound up in two...

Threads Patron preview Chapter 393(Red+)

"I see. And would you say that your experience overseeing infrastructure development in the outer base districts gives you some insights, despite the difference in density and geography at Snowblossom?"

It was difficult not to fall into a rote tone when conducting interviews, but it was important, Ling Qi thought, to present herself as interested and to give her questions some small personal twist. But, by all the eight moon phases was she glad that this was her last one for the ...

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"That concludes my report on the 'White Sky' affair."

Cao Chun shuffled his notes. Despite open danger being invited here, he found himself satisfied. If he did not know better, he might think himself compromised.

"It is good that the internal matter was handled with minimum instability."

The voice of the provincial minister echoed as if from the bottom of a well. The swirling vortex of darkness above his desk pulsed softly. From it, he could hear the sound...

Threads Patron preview Chapter 392 (Red+)

Winter consumed.

It put the world to rest, ended the year, and ended lives. The killing cold was merciless. It cut as sure as any blade ever has.

At the same time, winter was only ever a part of life. It birthed the wild floods of spring, which gave life to the warm fields of summer, which, in turn, gave way to the abundance of the harvest, and which finally returned to the chill.

Ling Qi ended something here. She has slain a sort of isolation, so deep that th...

Threads Patron preview Chapter 391 (Red+)

"I would like to raise one final motion before we begin drafting the final treaty," Ling Qi said. "A great many people, many of them quite distinguished, shall be stationed and living here in the long term. They will bring with them their retinues and staff, who will bring their own hangers-on. I believe it would be irresponsible to not see this place granted the charter of a proper town under Her Grace's direct rule rather than trying to run such an extensive settlement as a mere military ou...

Commission: Tales of Sun and Steel 6

To my Honorable Mother,

I have no doubts that you have heard rumors of what has transpired here in the Wall. I am aware of how far your eyes and ears spread, so I suspect you will have a less distorted image than most by the time this reaches you. Firstly, I will confirm one thing. Elder Guan Zhou of the Argent Peak Sect has been slain. He fell to a Cloud Tribe Khan working in tandem with another enemy. 

His death has shaken the south and the Argent Peak Sect greatly....

Serpent's Eyes 4

The rest of her first day in Zhenjian had passed dreamlike, sailing upon lake Hei’s calm surface, fishing with her new family, she spoke more with her Aunt than she had in the last five years combined. She childishly accepted her new Father’s efforts to let her win their contest, she luxuriated in the solid humid heat of her home, instead of the dry and icy air she had grown acclimated too.

And the return to the citadel was no less dreamlike in its way. The good cheer of the ...

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Journey to the East 30

“I will find the Way for us to burn gloriously as we once did, without consuming our whole selves. Let Yanmei lead the clan. Let the Grave sit surrounded by our armies. I only know I feel most alive with the wind in my hair, speeding across the dunes on horseback, seeing our people cheer at my approach. That is what I want, to be glorious, to be celebrated, to see our lands safe and our enemies crushed. I cannot do that without climbing the peak, and I refuse to lose that, to become a mere ...

Commission: Tales of Sun and Steel 5

Ill feeling churned through her dantian, like beads of unruptured air sliding through molten ore, unseen but so dangerous for they would ruin countless hours of concentration and work. She crushed the feeling mercilessly as her wings beat a gale through the storm wracked sky. The qi, fueled on a spark of law flared in her soul, and lit her like a banner in the sky.

Scattered men on glider wings and aerial horseback scattered and fled long before her wrath could reach them. She felt ...

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That revelation brought a new round of whispers and disbelieving sounds. It was hard not to join them. Ling Qi had seen a good number of ith up close. While they shared some features, it was very hard to think of them as humans.

"It is one thing to call the cloud tribes human, but are ith not a step too far?" a thin man in Jia colors whose name floated just beyond her reach asked. "Even if they were once, they are clearly not any longer!"

Dzintara shrugged. "That, I lea...

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Threads patron preview Chapter 389(Red+)

Ling Qi didn’t miss the slightly uncertain look on Xia Anxi's face as he glanced at her. She really was going to have to thank Meizhen. She suspected her friend had made significant work for herself in accepting just one prisoner for the Bai.

The air was no less tense through the rest of the negotiations. Every word felt measured and strained, but eventually, eventually, it ended.

The Bai were given the honor of standing first, and being seen off. She shared a shallow...

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"That went as well as could be expected," Cai Renxiang said.

"Indeed!” Gan Guangli boomed. “Let us hope the private talks with the Bai and the Meng prove just as fruitful." His smile was forced.

Cai Renxiang rubbed her forehead. "We will be relying on your connection, Ling Qi." 

"It is not just my connection," Ling Qi corrected. Bai Meizhen was Renxiang's friend, too.

Hanyi fidgeted at her side. "Like, everybody is friends, right? And we ...

Threads Patron preview Chapter 387 (Red+)

The ride was a smooth one. There was not a single jolt even going over the door frame. Only the faint whir of the turning wheels gliding over the polished floorboards broke the silence as they traveled. They came to the open door of the building's main meeting room where Cai Renxiang and Gan Guangli waited for her outside.

"Lady Ling, it is good to see you about so swiftly," Gan Guangli greeted, his voice echoing in the halls.

"Praiseworthy, given that you received t...

Tales of Sun and Steel 4

“You should have been harsher in your reprimands.”

Mother’s voice was cool and quiet, every syllable measured to express  a disappointment deep enough to drown in. Yet, Gu Yanmei was not a child anymore. While those words hurt her, that tone made her wish to lower her head and apologize, she could see the tremors in the surface of the lake, if not its depths.

She did not think she had ever seen her Mother so out of sorts.

Ai Xiaoli sat across from h...

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Threads patron preview Chapter 386(Red+)

"It's funny." Sixiang looked thoughtful after Xuan Shi had left.

"What?" 

"He still likes you, but I think he's actually better for taking a step back." 

"You shouldn't center your whole life around another person." Ling Qi had seen where that led in Elder Sima Jiao and Bai Meizhen’s father. "It is not fair to them. Or you."

Sixiang hummed noncommittally, resting their chin on their crossed arms, only to sit up straight a moment ...

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Threads Patron preview Chapter 385(Red+)

Hanyi was already trotting off for the door, and probably ignoring her on purpose. She looked at Sixiang with concern.

"At the least, Xuan Shi and Zheng Fu want to chat. Meng boy is real busy, but a big supply caravan from the Bao showed up with a couple familiar faces. Pretty sure the only reason your snake bestie isn't here already is because she's sitting on her clan’s response to this mess."

Ling Qi closed her eyes and groaned quietly. Meizhen was going to be f...

Commission: Tales of Sun and Steel 3

Rain burst into steam, wailing from the transmutation. Wings of sunfire beat and scattered steam and rain alike, ripping a pocket of clear air through the downpour.

Her wings beat with the force of the Law of Progress, and the air itself parted to not impede her path, there was no thunder, only a rippling curtain of moving wind. Her eyes remained fixed on the crumbling peak of the mountain which sat just within the bounds of the Outer Sect. The shadows of sinuous forms danced in ...

Serpent's Eyes 3

Unruffled, serene. Bai Meizhen raised her head and adjusted her bow to that of a filial daughter without a word, as if this were only expected. Xiao Fen had known of course and so reacted the same, but her other retainers did have their moment of frozen shock. But no one would have expected her to inform lower castes of such news beforehand.

“You honor me beyond any words this humble daughter could offer,” Bai Meizhen said. “My humblest thanks are given to Bai Suzhen, who w...

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