Lan Sizhui is struggling with his chemistry homework. Popo helps.
“If you died,” Huaisang started, not knowing quite where he was going with this. “I mean, you did die, da-ge, but if someone had killed you… what would you want to happen next?”
In the wake of Nie Mingjue’s death, Nie Huaisang realises how much he’s been left in ignorance. How could the artsy little brother be left to run their ancestral asteroid-mining clan? What other secrets are hidden in his san-ge’s past? And how should he get revenge?
Maybe having da-ge’s personality backed up on a server was supposed to help with all this. Maybe.
Chen Chou discovers the problem, Wang Mowen is angry about it, Lan Peizhi is sure there's a solution, and Zhang Ping finds one.
The task is clear, but Xue Yang is having trouble carrying it out.
Mourning Wei Ying and trying to find out what his place should be in a world where he is dead, alpha Lan Wangji meets Song Zichen, a beta rogue cultivator who is searching for his own lost friend. Their friendship helps both of them, but the strictures of the cultivation world threaten it.
Even the best mum and dad in the world might not believe that their daughter has met fairies at the bottom of the garden. A mum who's a cultivator suffering from a curse should probably pay a bit more attention, though.
Little Mianmian (now grown up) is not going to let her parents live that down.
Chen Chou first met Xu Dong back when he and Zhang xiong were first preparing for the Capital Examination, when they all got drawn into the series of weird cases that led up to a failed coup and everyone in the capital nearly dying from a mist of red pollen.
Their relationship has only been like this since Chen Chou and Zhang Ping moved to Yiping County, though.
Chen Chou and Xu Dong's arrangement through the years, and how everyone else arranged themselves too.
Sometimes a man's old enough to know his own mind, even if his brother worries, even if his family are living in exile in a mass grave, even if the boy he's set on is an unstable necromancer who could kill them all. Even if he has a history of making dubious choices.
A vignette.
Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui, wandering, falling in love, and coming back together with their family.
Jinzhu and Yinzhu are two halves of a single person, utterly attuned to one another's every thought or movement—except that tonight, Yinzhu can't sleep.