Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Starlit Publishing
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 199049112X
Expectation conceals the truth. Noblewoman and cultivator Li Yao is called to a small village to investigate a mysterious illness that has drained residents of their chi. Accompanying her are her suitors Xiang An and Shen Wei, both more trouble than they're worth in Li Yao's eyes. Perhaps not all is as it seems. In the village and her suitors. This is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.
Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Starlit Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1989994598
A martial artist falls from a cliff to his death. A rival stands, triumphant above. The beginning of an all too familiar story. Yet, in the time of recuperation and return, time passes and sometimes, the transformation that occurs is not the one you expect. This is a 4,500 word short story set in the A Thousand Li universe featuring as yet to be seen characters in the universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.
Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Starlit Publishing
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1990491146
“When living in peace, one must think of danger.” These were the words Protector Chan’s Master had left him. Now, the greedy eye of a king has landed on their sect once more. In the search to reach the Divine Peak, all too many will fall by the wayside, ground under the bitter dust of desire. Between craving and enlightenment, between the heavens and earth, lies a single man. Making a choice, over what, in the end; is most important in the search for immortality.
Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Starlit Publishing
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1989994822
The march to the throne is littered with the bodies of the great and small in equal measure Born an Imperial Prince, Qu Yuan always knew his options were to strive for the throne or escape. When he’s forced to put his escape plan into action too early, he’s forced out of the imperial palace into the countryside where the war for the throne rages. Walking blood-soaked fields and burnt out villages, Qu Yuan will be forced to ask a simple question. Is his search for immortality more important than the lives of his kingdom?
Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Starlit Publishing
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 36,21 MB
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1990491324
Take a step. Take a bow. Look around, how far you've come. For an immortal, the mortal world has little to offer them. Except, perhaps, perspective. Descent from the Mountain is a short story set in the A Thousand Li universe. This story can be read as a stand-alone. There are no spoilers for later works and the short story does not include individuals from the main series.
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Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1909
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Tao Wong
Publisher : Starlit Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1778551238
A blade cuts both ways Newly minted an Elder of the Verdant Green Waters sect, sword prodigy Elder Cheng Zhao Wan - the Sundering Blade - is forced to leave the sect to fulfil an old obligation. A benefactor from the past is injured and has demanded Elder Cheng locate his assailant. Forced to listen to the ramblings of a dying old man, amidst a small and unfamiliar sect, who Elder Cheng can trust is unknown. Was the injury nothing more than happenstance, or is something more dire afoot? For once, Elder Cheng finds that his skill with the sword might be the least of his gifts. A Thousand Li: the Sundering Blade is a world of A Thousand Li novel, featuring a much younger Master Cheng before he meets Wu Ying. A xianxia fantasy novel, The Sundering Blade is a standalone prequel to the bestselling A Thousand Li series and features high flying martial arts, tense battle scenes and contemplations of the Dao and karma alike.
Author : Henry Mills Alden
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 1909
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Author : Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9815066994
A multi-layered tale that explores the myriad facets of love, intimidation and reconciliation The famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer, Chan Kam Foong, passes away, leaving her secret journal to her granddaughter, Xiu Yin, an archival officer at the Singapore National Archives. Xiu Yin reads through the journal that chronicles her grandmother’s relationship with Dearest Intimate in their village in China to their respective escapes to the Nanyang before WWII and her desperate search for Dearest Intimate in Singapore. Her grandmother’s reflections and letters to Dearest Intimate forces Xiu Yin to examine her marriage to an abusive husband and she plucks up the courage to leave him. A surprise encounter with her first love, a rising Cantonese opera singer, brings a period of calm and joy. But when Meng proposes marriage, Xiu Yin backs off and he leaves for Hong Kong. It takes three years of loneliness and letter writing before they reunite again.
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Page : 844 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1889
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