A LITTLE ESCAPE. A DIFFERENT WORLD.
Unexpected encounters. Lives intertwined.
A collection of stories, ready to be discovered.
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After work, Qi Yin receives an invitation letter sent to the restaurant by Liang Xu, who hopes to interview her about the guest messages she has documented, but she worries these daily remarks will lose their original co
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The status Wen Yao worked for years to achieve is destroyed by a sudden fire. After her death, an appearing system proposes an exchange: she must enter different worlds and alter the positions and fortunes of predetermin
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Just before boarding the train, Song Lan receives a letter from her former partner Zhao Yu containing steps omitted years ago during their joint restoration of an artifact, along with a belated suggestion regarding credi
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Lin Heng takes the last bus as planned to view the old street illuminations with Fang Xu, but temporary roadwork forces the vehicle to detour, prompting their first argument in years during a date over things outside the
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Yao Qing goes to a café to meet Tao Xing with a list to conclude their collaboration, but Tao Xing mistakenly assumes she has agreed to get back together, forcing the two to restate the purpose of the meeting. She return
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Shen Chu agrees to take photos for An Yu at the opening of a weekend exhibition, only to discover that her photographs will be used for commercial promotion, whereas they had previously agreed on private keepsakes. She p
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Yu Ning arrives for dinner in Jiang Zhou's living room, only to discover that the other guests canceled at the last minute; ingredients meant for six leave the two old friends, neither skilled at being alone together, fe
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Cheng Wei heads to an old-district cinema to watch a rare cut tracked down by Ye Heng, but the film cannot be screened due to equipment compatibility issues, leaving him anxious to swap machines overnight. She suggests p
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Returning home for an internship at twenty, Lin Yu sees a promotional video for his mother Xu Qinghe's classes on a residential community screen. As photography, social gatherings, and professional interactions gradually
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He Shuo meets Su Yao for a date in a park at dusk, only to find that she brought not a gift, but a broken ceramic planter that requires a joint decision on whether to repair it. The planter once held a plant they bought
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Gu Yi agrees to meet Wen Xu at the station before leaving; Wen Xu originally intended to persuade her to delay the overseas assignment, but after receiving the complete itinerary, brings instead an explanation of transfe
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This version of "Mud" features Jiang Chen and Lin Yang as characters and must be distinguished from works of the same name. Surviving fragments recall earlier ways of relating from the perspective of an early morning, in
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In the surviving continuation chapters, Chen Rou has been with Lu Jinyuan for two years and has received financial support through this relationship. She hopes to be earnestly chosen by him, but Lu Jinyuan continues to m
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Tang Ming intends to mix Han Ce's voice into a weekend exhibition as a discreet confession, but realizes during the sound check that Han Ce never agreed to private recordings being used publicly. She deletes the unauthor
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Inside a barbecue restaurant on a rainy night, Xiao Lin's mind remains on Xue'er, leaving him with no heart to keep listening to Li Qiang reminisce about the past. He gets up to leave, but Li Qiang catches up to ask abou
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Jingying's interactions with Huizi gradually deepen as she distances herself from A-Le and others. On his birthday, Huizi proposes marriage, promising to change his lifestyle in the future. Jingying, however, recalls tha
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The surviving fragment picks up after Liu Da's departure. Hanhan's emotions initially ease before experiencing further fluctuations; her husband observes these changes while attempting to restore communication and their
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The narrator enters a secret realm together with his wife, Luo Yunxian, hoping to obtain the breakthrough opportunities needed for tribulation transcendence. Conflict and shifts within the realm plunge the two into peril
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A year after Duan Ning and Ye Zhi first met in the park, he finally admits, while they pack away sketching supplies at dusk, that he keeps signing up for walks mainly to spend more time with her. Ye Zhi feels the same wa
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Before Shen Yi departs, Luo Yuan confesses romantic feelings at the station. Having just ended a relationship, Shen Yi cannot give the hoped-for response and chooses to explain her situation honestly. Luo Yuan withdraws
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This entry covers Chapter Seventeen of "Mask: Home Party, Collapse Night". Watching the video sent to her, Li Xue'er recognizes Bai Fengjun speaking off camera and also sees Xia Yuqing, who is connected to her profession
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This fan-fiction rewrite is set in Shan'ao Village during a typhoon. As patrol leader, Li Xiuxiu arranges for villagers to take turns checking conditions around the village. Wu Dengke finds a way to join her team, but hi
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Song Cheng apologizes to Ning Chuan on the last bus for mistakenly turning in his luggage as lost property, which caused him to miss an important work handover. Instead of excusing the consequences with good intentions,
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As the boat approaches Qingyuan Island, Long Qingyao introduces the location of the Taiyi True Sect to her companions and reunites with the elders of the sect. While the group holds varied expectations regarding their re
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Forty-year-old Su Qing serves as the director of an administrative department at a municipal hospital, handling matters efficiently at work while taking care of daily meals at home. Her husband is accustomed to validatin
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Xu Wei accuses Lu Yao of moving a seaside bench for photography, only to learn later that maintenance workers had moved it first, and that the photo she shared caused him to be misunderstood. She publicly clarifies the v
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Chen An withdraws from a collaboration after a film guide recording was edited into a promotional video by the cinema, and Zhou Ning realizes during a rights check that verbal consent did not include this commercial use.
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Qin Shang and others arrange to meet Ye Sheng, but what they truly care about is not having a meal or going swimming, but rather Ye Sheng's relationship with Ding Qing. Several friends have known Ye Sheng since college a
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The narrator wants to ask Yanluo about the origin of the jade hairpin, but seeing her dazed while clutching the brocade box, he ultimately refrains from speaking. Every procedure of the wedding has been arranged in an or
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Su Yue returns Ye Xu's camera at the station, admitting that she had delayed explaining after damaging the borrowed equipment out of fear that a monetary compensation would end their years-long friendship. What Ye Xu car
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Yu He mistakenly believes that neighboring stallholder Jiang Qing copied her new product recipe, but when she confronts her in the early morning with the finished baked goods, she discovers the similar appearance comes f
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Chen He and Lin Chuan become acquaintances through riding the last bus, but after Chen He changes jobs and attempts to sustain their bond through frequent texting, she realizes that outside the bus carriage, they share a
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At her flower shop, He Ting receives a complete set of shop-operating suggestions sent by Gu Yue; the more she reads, the more she feels Gu Yue does not understand the regular customers she faces every day, leaving her r
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Sitting on a seaside bench, Ning Wei and Song Xing discuss where they will live in the future: one cannot leave a coastal job, while the other has just established a career in an inland city, and neither is willing to ma
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Tao Qing and Jiang Yuan always meet under the guise of work screenings, but a regular movie date ends in discord over differing tastes, leading both to realize that understanding film does not equate to understanding eac
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Sitting in an after-hours restaurant and reviewing a month's worth of accumulated chat logs, Ye Yin and Xu Shuo discover that their seemingly frequent conversations consist almost entirely of schedules and to-do lists. S
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