A LITTLE ESCAPE. A DIFFERENT WORLD.
Unexpected encounters. Lives intertwined.
A collection of stories, ready to be discovered.
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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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Zhou Zhi takes Chen Xu to view the evening park renovation, but Chen Xu remains fixated on a phone handling remote project work; an argument reveals that the two have entirely different understandings of resting together
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Gu He treats the early morning bakery as a fixed meeting place with Wen Qing, until Wen Qing confesses that the daily detour has begun affecting work, finally revealing the commuting distance Gu He had overlooked. She st
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Chen He invites Mo Qing to the post-rain bookstore to share past stories of the old street, but Mo Qing brings a page filled with question marks, as much of the memory once held with certainty can no longer be verified.
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Jiang Ning invites Cheng Yuan to ride the last bus to survey the neighborhood, intending to prove that nighttime business is declining, but Cheng Yuan suggests simultaneously recording the shops that remain open and the
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A temporary maintenance closure at the school allows Li Jian to return home a few hours earlier than usual. Believing Long Qi Yue is still at the company, he instead sees newly purchased shoes, two cups, and an untidy ro
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In a subsequent chapter of this fictional political and business story, Gu Linyuan meets Zou Jiadong at a hot spring club, delivers a letter from an acquaintance, and makes a request to be introduced to Yang Xinghua. Zou
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Upon waking, Lu Xiao inherits the identity of the imperial consort of Daqian and learns that he originally hailed from the Prince of Zhenbei's household. Empress Xiao Zhao keeps him in the palace with the intent of using
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In the archived excerpt, Su Yu, Lin Zhe, and Lin Jianguo belong to the same family relationship network. Su Yu's reliance on Lin Jianguo has exceeded typical interactions among relatives, and within her thoughts, she lin
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Zheng Yuheng makes choices that harm his marriage in pursuit of a promotion, but before reaping any rewards, his patron Zhao Xin is placed under investigation for bribery and corruption. Disappointed, he returns home and
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Ye Shu invites Gu Xing to attend her early morning trial bake, expecting a professional evaluation, but he first asks whether she wishes to turn baking into a job or keep it as an interest in life. Only then does she adm
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An Qing and Mo Zhou agreed to proofread the old maps in the post-rain bookstore page by page, but upon reaching a vanished alley, two interviewees gave contradictory locations. She originally wanted to choose the more mo
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Shen Rui and Jiang Yuan agreed to take the last bus once a week to ride the entire route, but after an announcement of the route's discontinuation appeared, both were unable to take leave to retrace it on its final night
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Lin Chu agreed to host a manuscript reading session once a month at the café, but after her workload surged, she began repeating old topics, making Yu Yan worry that the events were consuming her remaining rest time. Loo
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Wen Ning and Song Yue agreed that they would no longer work together once the weekend exhibition ended, but as the last visitor left, an installation got stuck in the doorframe, forcing them to collaborate for one more n
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He Qing agreed to keep a difficult-to-grow old orchid for Xu Lin, but months later the plant had not bloomed, making her worry she had failed his trust and tempted to quietly replace it with a healthier one of the same v
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Gu Yi and Cheng Yuan agreed to have one screen-free living room evening each week, initially preparing games and topics with great care, but after a few sessions, both began feeling anxious about how to spend it well. A
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Qi Wei and Ye Xu had agreed to return to the seaside bench every year to take a photo together, but having decided to separate this year, whether to still honor the rendezvous became the last unclarified matter between t
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Lin He promised Gu Yan that she would screen a co-edited neighborhood documentary on the cinema's final day of operation, only to discover that one featured subject had not consented to the public release of the footage.
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Song Qing agreed to set aside an after-work meal each week for Xu Yan, but Xu Yan gradually took this care for granted, often not mentioning until late at night that they had already eaten elsewhere. An inventory audit a
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Ye Xia and Mo Chuan agreed to complete one hundred evening jogs in the park, but on the ninety-ninth time, his injury required a long period of rest, leaving her hesitant about whether to run the final lap alone. Discuss
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Chen He and Gu Ning agreed that Gu Ning would independently complete a batch of basic bread early in the morning, but on his first shift, Gu Ning encountered an abnormal dough condition and worried that asking for help w
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Mo Ning recorded the sounds along the last bus route, and upon hearing a spoken reminder in the old recording, Gu Xu recalled that the vehicles back then did not have the clear stop displays they have today. Comparing pa
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From Yin Xuan's reactions, Yu Fei senses that she may already be aware of his suspicions. Worried that a hasty confrontation would fail to uncover the truth while throwing his family and career into an unmanageable state
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