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Chapter 112 - If You Want to Do It, Just Do It
The moon hung bright with few stars visible. Under the night sky, the bells had already struck the hour of the Rat. Throughout Jiangning City, myriad lights glowed like the city's skeleton and framework. Speeding carriages and lantern-beari
Chapter 106 - Uninvited Guest
Ma En ate with full attention, one large mouthful after another, and listened to the customers beside him talk. These were not politicians, not scientists, not public intellectuals — they were simply people with time on their hands, venting
Chapter 105 - Walking Among Humans
Kamishima Kousuke. Gone. Matsuzaemon. Gone. Professor Mitarai. Gone. Room 3 neighbor friend. Gone. They were different in every way — in status, in standing, in capability, in knowledge. Every difference imaginable separated them. And yet
Chapter 111 - Adding to the Chaos
"Who exactly is this person..." "I've never seen her before..." "A newcomer?" After the song Water Melody Prelude ended, whispered conversations filled the air. If anyone else had sung this song, the evaluation would likely have been eit
Chapter 110 - Lingering Sound (Part 2)
After parting ways with Yuan Jin'er and returning to the second floor, the Su family was still discussing how they could get Lü Xia to choose their side. Although they understood the Xue family probably had their own bargaining chips, Su We
Chapter 104 - Good Luck, Ma En
Ma En switched off the television, moved to the desk, and reviewed the day's lesson plans. He'd resumed teaching at the Academy of Peaceful Learning the day after the earthquake. Despite the shared concern between him and Katsura-sensei th
Chapter 109 - Lingering Sound (Part 1)
Sneaking, sneaking. Yuan Jin'er crept along the building's long corridor¹, her eyes searching the opposite doorway for her target. When she spotted the figure heading downstairs, she broke into a short run. After a few passing girls gave h
Chapter 103 - Recent Situation
Ma En left his bed, stripped off his pajamas and tossed them on the sofa, then walked into the bathroom and let the shower run hard. July in Japan was stifling — the past few days had pushed to a high of thirty-five degrees by the weather
Chapter 102 - The Cogwheel Turns
Classes, study, breaks, study. Alongside the problem-solving came memorization — no path forward except to fill his mind with what he could understand and what he couldn't. This was painful. Ma En knew exactly how painful it was. Before h
Chapter 108 - Smile
Nie Yunzhu and Yuan Jin'er had indeed come to sell preserved eggs. Only a few days had passed since Yuan Jin'er jumped into the water and left Golden Wind Tower, but rumors about her mysterious disappearance were still spreading wildly out
Chapter 101 - Ma En's Cogwheel
This was a dream. Most of the time, dreams are fragments of memory and sensation rewoven — spreading from one point to another, points that may have seemed unrelated in waking life, but when consciousness descends into the deep sea, these
Chapter 107 - Chance Encounter at Smoke and Emerald Tower
As daylight faded, Jiangning City came alive. Painted boats and pleasure vessels lit up one after another, brothels glowing with lantern light along the riverbank. The nightlife here naturally offered more than just visiting pleasure quarte
Chapter 100 - Warm Hues
Ma En could sense clear differences between his present self and his past self — one of them lay in how he approached things. His past self would probably have moved to obtain information on Professor Mitarai through his own means. His pres
Chapter 105 - Petty
The water in a mere bathtub could hardly drown anyone. Even in a moment of panic, only a limited amount would be swallowed. After the initial fluster passed, Su Tan'er finally came to her senses, embarrassment and the desire to create dista
Chapter 104 - The Bathroom
In the courtyard, Su Tan'er's expression appeared somewhat dazed. She had always addressed Ning Yi as "Husband,"¹ but this time when she called him "My Lord Husband,"² her voice was soft, carrying a warmth that seemed to seep into one's hea
Chapter 99 - Spider's Web
Ma En had grown a little sensitive to knocking — though he couldn't have said exactly when that had started, or where it came from. The feeling was complicated, a particular kind of tension: as if opening the door would let something inhuma
Chapter 103 - Su Tan'er's Day (Part 2)
The clatter of carts and horses echoed from the streets beyond. In the alley behind the warehouse, dappled tree shadows fell across two figures sitting there, each cradling a bowl of cold jelly¹ and eating slowly. "I have to visit and mana
Chapter 98 - The Program
Ma En slid the VHS tape into the player and adjusted the TV to the right input channel. He expected the program to start immediately. Instead, the screen filled with static snow for several seconds, then stuttered through a few seconds of v
Chapter 102 - Su Tan'er's Day (Part 1)
The noon heat made the Qinhuai River dock streets even noisier than usual. In this wharf district packed with shops, cargo moved constantly between boats and warehouses. Behind the modest Su Cloth Merchants storefront sat their massive ware
Chapter 97 - Raise the Gun, Take Aim
The original Ma En — more precisely, the self that had first arrived in Japan, before any nightmare had struck — possessed a fatal weakness. The warning on the slip of paper confirmed what he'd suspected. Without that confirmation, Ma En t
Chapter 101 - Confucianism
Li Pin was still in the room, probably digesting those ideas, maybe even taking notes. That was fine. Once he'd said certain things, he didn't care if Li Pin pondered them later—those would become Li Pin's own thoughts and path. Some ideas
Chapter 96 - Ma En's Analysis
Ma En stopped at the first intersection and adjusted the deep red hat. He'd been conscious of it throughout — whether this meeting with Asuka would attract the enemy's attention. The monsters' surveillance capacity was formidable. His analy
Chapter 100 - The Current Situation (Part 3)
"If we really let go—*bang*—the Wu Dynasty, this whole country... would all be gone." In the room, Ning Yi made a "bang" gesture with his hand. Li Pin frowned: "How could it come to that?" Ning Yi was silent for a moment: "Brother Li, hav
Chapter 95 - Duty Calls
The last time Ma En had seen Asuka, she'd still been helping out at her family's ramen shop. He'd heard she wanted to become a manga artist and was working continuously on her submissions — he didn't know how far she'd gotten. Japan's manga
Chapter 94 - Burning Candlelight
Seeing past-self's hidden message had shaken something loose in him — a slight tremor. He sat quietly for a while, then re-read all the pages that had contained hidden content, committed their messages to memory, tore the pages away, and he
Chapter 99 - The Current Situation (Part 2)
Time had actually been gradually transitioning out of the dog days of summer, but the weather still hadn't shed its scorching heat. In this study at Yushan Academy, Li Pin poured two cups of tea and handed one to Ning Yi. "When it comes to
Chapter 93 - Secret Message
More and more situations were converging in one place. Viewed individually, none of them was particularly strange — they were the kind of ordinary occurrences that happen every moment in the world, natural phenomena, social behaviors; even
Chapter 98 - The Current Situation (Part 1)
Nie Yunzhu's recent meetings with Old Qin by the river weren't actually accidental. Though Ning Yi had suggested she accept Old Qin as her adoptive father and she wasn't opposed to it, Nie Yunzhu was, by nature, an independent woman with he
Chapter 97 - History and Libertine
The rain was falling as the carriage left the nearby streets. Xi Junyu lifted the curtain to look back at the Su family's grand estate in the rainy night. All he could see were probably just the two lanterns still glowing beneath the side g
Chapter 92 - Fangs Beginning to Show
The news insert had run for under thirty seconds. In that brief window, Matsuzaemon demonstrated an unusual intensity — but to Ma En's ear, what he said was, exactly as Katsura had described, thoroughly conventional. The content amounted to
Chapter 91 - Matsuzaemon
He was careful not to rush to conclusions. Among all the possibilities he could account for, the likelihood that the mysterious person was Kamishima Kousuke was highest — and that led easily to more questions in sequence. Red Party Interna
Chapter 96 - Warning (Part 2)
Ever since the Tanyuan Alliance¹, becoming an Imperial Merchant in the weaving industry had been a complicated affair, largely because the annual tribute to the Liao Dynasty included cloth and silk. The yearly demand of three hundred thous
Chapter 90 - Eavesdropping
Ma En straightened up and looked toward where the guns had fallen. None had slid far, but one had come to rest near the feet of the fat man and the thin man — both of whom reached toward it on instinct, then made the mistake of glancing at
Chapter 95 - Warning (Part 1)
"The matter with Flourishing Fortune House is settled. I've reached an agreement with Manager Yu—we can deliver goods before the sixth day of the tenth month. After that, there shouldn't be any problems. I have an idea..." In the Su family
Chapter 89 - The Appetizer
He could hear it in Katsura's voice — there was far more he'd wanted to say; Matsuzaemon's move had agitated something deep, even if the move itself was only a small one. But looked at from the other direction, this only confirmed how serio
Chapter 94 - White-Eyed Wolf
At night, the wind howled. Passing through the second-floor corridor connecting Golden Wind Tower to the inner courtyard, he heard a woman's angry shouting from that direction. "Ungrateful thing! White-eyed wolf¹—" The voice was shouting
Chapter 88 - Sweeping Through
Traffic was slightly better than before. The bus service had come back online. Ma En saw Hirota as far as the stop, watching as she boarded. The bus pulled away; she turned toward the window to wave, her expression already settled — she'd p
Chapter 93 - Dongzhu
When night fell, lights dotted the mountain village, scattered here and there. A group of children ran around the threshing ground by the pond, chasing and play-fighting. An old farmer sitting by his house chatting held a tobacco pipe, occa
Chapter 87 - The Hidden Omen
Everything Hirota Masami had said and done was worth thinking carefully about. Ma En didn't believe any of it had come from a state of "complete unawareness of what was happening" — but equally, referencing what the Room 3 neighbor friend h
Chapter 92 - Xiao Chan
It was hard to say who he'd seen in the dream. The setting felt somewhat modern. Ning Yi closed his eyes. After a while, Xiao Chan climbed down from the side of the bed. The little maid was obviously anxious, but her expression wasn't co
Chapter 91 - Stars Light the Way
"Young... Young Master, could Xiao Chan... could I stay here tonight...?" Her voice was mosquito-quiet, but the room was still enough that Ning Yi heard her fine. He thought a moment while she stood clutching her hem, face burning. "Um...
Chapter 86 - Calling Them by Name
Mitarai Sanshirou — folklore professor, or possibly archaeology professor, he couldn't recall precisely — but the instant the name surfaced, the Room 3 neighbor friend's words came flooding back: there was intelligence that only certain peo
Chapter 90 - Window Paper
Funerals were supposed to be serious, but reality was full of mundane hassles. Sure, Xiao Chan was sad about her father dying, but she'd been sold to the Su family when she was four and only went home once or twice a year. She didn't really
Chapter 85 - Aftershock
Ma En sat unclothed on the sofa, watching a news bulletin about Japan's economic reform conference. He reached for the remote to change the channel — and in the next moment, a brief but sudden shuddering made his hand pause. The sofa was mo
Chapter 84 - Projection
Hirota Masami's praise for the hastily written story had been more than Ma En anticipated. But what he'd anticipated even less was her insistence on publishing it — an unfinished story, at that. What had the story's content actually produce
Chapter 89 - Seniority and Forms of Address
When he ran out the door at dawn, Xiao Chan had already returned to her room and was busily packing her things. Juan'er and Xing'er had also gotten up to help. These past few days his exercise route stopped at Nie Yunzhu's small building.
Chapter 83 - The One Who Speaks in Jest
Ma En pulled the door shut behind him without turning on the lights, slipped off his shoes in the entryway, and walked into the living room. The city's ambient glow came through the windows, and as his eyes adjusted to the room's darkness,
Chapter 88 - Calculations
"I think so too..." Kang Xian sighed. "Just this one booklet covers numerous categories—how to manage, guide, and influence, making disaster victims achieve proper efficiency rather than blind suppression. This is truly the kingly way of go
Chapter 82 - Upstream
In the dark of the forest, in the scattered organs and pooling blood and the dense, iron smell, in the pit where the thick, gnarled roots showed, Ma En and the neighbor friend stood looking at each other. A low, final declaration rang out i
Chapter 87 - Two Gifts
The entire manuscript of disaster relief and epidemic prevention guidelines was written in concise, clear language. Ning Yi explained each item one by one, pointing out what was most important and what was secondary. Old Qin and Old Kang ju