(Part One)A torrential downpour, mixed with lightning and thunder, ravaged the world as if treating all of creation like mere prey.Bean-sized raindrops, driven by...

It was the depth of winter, just after a heavy snowfall.Jin Chao sat on the large kang bed by the window, gazing through the...

The north wind blew flurries of snow spinning through the air, and frost had formed on the blue bricks. In the courtyard, two elderly...

Dark clouds hung low, banners swaying in the wind.Yan City, standing defiantly amid the icy wasteland, had become like an isolated island cut off...

Mom and Dad came to the capital. Tonight we're having dinner at Uncle Yan's house. You and Tingli come back together later.]During the break...

Snow was falling in the twelfth lunar month as a large cauldron of boiling water sat in the courtyard. The snowflakes melted before they...