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You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.
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Zoë Marriott (Shadows on the Moon (The Moonlit Lands, #1))
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She remembered no one who beat her; the ones who had saved her once, she remembered for a lifetime.
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Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù (Heaven Official's Blessing)
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Li Xian held Lin Wanyue’s hand tightly. Her gaze was as soft as water. She looked tenderly into Lin Wanyue’s eyes as she said softly: “Ah-Yue, you and I are both women. Do you wish, to go against the law of nature? Do you wish, to hold my hand? Do you wish, to grow old with me?
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请君莫笑 (女将军和长公主 [Nǚ Jiāngjūn Hé Zhǎng Gōngzhǔ])
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I hate this city.
Thankfully, I wasn’t able to meet you earlier – if I had met you earlier, I would have fallen in love with every single person in this city.
And that would have killed me.
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Jiu Yue Xi (The Youthful You Who Was So Beautiful)
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In one of your letters, you had asked me whether, despite all that I’ve been through, I continued to believe – in truth, in beauty, in kindness, in goodness, and in trust and belief itself.
Officer Zheng,
I am now able to tell you, that because of Bei Ye, and solely because of Bei Ye, my answer is “Yes”.
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Jiu Yue Xi (少年的你,如此美丽)
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Since you can’t fall asleep yet, let’s do a few advanced math problems?”
“Okay,” Yue Wuhuan smile happily, “I like doing this kind of thing in bed with Master the most.
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凤羽涅 [Feng Yu Nie] (论救错反派的下场 Mistakenly Saving the Villain)
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Don’t be afraid, I’m here,” Song Qingshi pulled the trembling Yue Wuhuan into his arms, gently stroking his long hair, telling him the answer over and over again, “Don’t be afraid, I will never give up…
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凤羽涅 (论救错反派的下场 Mistakenly Saving the Villain)
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Song Qingshi raised his head. “Does it hurt every day?”
Yue Wuhuan looked at him for a long time, and finally nodded. “It hurts.”
Song Qingshi took him into his arms, patted him, and comforted him softly, “Don’t be afraid, I’ll hurt with you.
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凤羽涅 (论救错反派的下场 Mistakenly Saving the Villain)
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Bei Ye didn’t respond. All this while, he only let Chen Nian gaze at his side profile, stubbornly refusing to let her look into his eyes.
But Chen Nian knew.
Last night, he hugged her the entire time, his tears falling onto her eyes as his body was wracked with silent sobs. He had stopped at several intervals, but it wasn’t long before his tears would begin to flow once more.
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Jiu Yue Xi (少年的你,如此美丽)
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Rather than act like a coward and live, it would be better to live in satisfaction and die."
~ Qu Qing Ju
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Yue Xia Die Ying (何为贤妻 To Be a Virtuous Wife)
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Sleeping in spring and summer, tired in autumn, and lazy in winter -there aren't many days in a year when I want to move.
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Yue Xia Die Ying (八宝妆 Eight Treasures Trousseau)
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Yue Wuhuan asked hesitantly, “Do you want a white mouse as an engagement gift?”
Song Qingshi was extremely happy, “En!
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凤羽涅 (论救错反派的下场 Mistakenly Saving the Villain)
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The biggest difference between men and women was that men were always best at forgetting the good of women and women was best at remembering the good of men. So when a woman interacted with a man, it couldn’t always be good. If she was too good to him, he would take it for granted and forget the effort that the woman put in. To let a man remember you all the time, the first thing to do is to put yourself first all the time. If you forgot yourself, how could somebody else remember you?
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Yue Xia Die Ying
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From the beginning to the present, as long as Yue Wuhuan wants it, I will give him everything. Elixirs, no matter how precious they were; expensive magical instruments and weapons. Even the cakes on the table and the beautiful gems. Even my body and feelings. Even my life and my freedom…
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凤羽涅 (论救错反派的下场 Mistakenly Saving the Villain)
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Why must you comprehend the process of change and form your mind on that basis before you can have a teacher? Even an idiot has his teacher. But to fail to abide by this mind and still insist upon your rights and wrongs—this is like saying that you set off for Yue today and got there yesterday
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Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi: Basic Writings (Translations from the Asian Classics))
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The goal of my life is to eat when I want, sleep when I want, and if I don't want to go out, that no one can call me out. It is so tiring to go out. It is tiring to be careful when I speak, and when I encounter someone of a higher rank, I have to bow and flatter them. Don't you find it bothersome?
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Yue Xia Die Ying (八宝妆 Eight Treasures Trousseau)
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If you will not let me live freely, why would I let you live in satisfaction?"
~ Qu Qing Ju
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Yue Xia Die Ying (何为贤妻 To Be a Virtuous Wife)
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It is the mystery of Kano Yue that intrigues and enchants them. You reveal nothing; they imagine everything. Real love is hard because it requires one to know and accept another person with all their faults. This kind of infatuation is easy because, as far as they are concerned, Kano Yue has no faults. They love everything about you because they know nothing about you.
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Zoë Marriott (Shadows on the Moon (The Moonlit Lands, #1))
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คนเราเกิดมา ไม่แคล้วพบเจอเรื่องที่ต้องก้มศีรษะให้ผู้อื่น ดังนั้นยามปกติอย่าได้ทะนงในฐานะของตนมองผู้อื่นว่าต่ำต้อย ที่ผู้เฒ่ามักพูดว่าสามสิบปีแม่น้ำไหลไปทางทิศตะวันออก อีกสามสิบปีแม่น้ำไหลไปทางทิศตะวันตก ก็คือเช่นนี้เอง
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月下蝶影 (ซ่อนรักวิวาห์ลวง เล่ม 1)
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awakening’ drinkers to their optimum creative moments…to be intoxicated is to be inspired.”10 It is not uncommon for ancient Chinese poets to have entire series of poems under the rubric, “Written While Drunk,” including this one from the Zhang Yue (667 to 730): Once drunk, my delight knows no limits— Even better than before I’m drunk. My movements, my expressions, all turn into dance, And every word out of my mouth turns into a poem!11
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Edward Slingerland (Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization)
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And a man accepting a kiss as ‘punishment’ has to be the most overplayed parlor trick since the time of the First Emperor. Next to accepting a drink as punishment. Oh, the torture of it!”
“I didn’t say I wouldn’t enjoy it. This is merely a chance for you to know what it is to have a kiss you were in complete control of.”
“It’s hardly the same. You’re still allowing me this liberty, as if it were a gift you were bestowing.”
“Miss Yue-ying,” he sighed. “Show some mercy.
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Jeannie Lin (The Lotus Palace (The Pingkang Li Mysteries, #1))
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50,000 workers at the Yue Yen Nike Factory in China would have to work for nineteen years to earn what Nike spends on advertising in one year. Wal-Mart's annual sales are worth 120 times more than Haiti's entire annual budget; Disney CEO Michael Eisner earns $9,783 an hour while a Haitian worker earns 28 cents an hour; it would take a Haitian worker 16.8 years to earn Eisner's hourly income; the $181 million in stock options Eisner exercised in 1996 is enough to take care of his 19,000 Haitian workers and their families for fourteen years.
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Naomi Klein (No Logo)
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In 2013, Alibaba’s money fund Yu’e Bao (“leftover treasure”) was launched and marketed to users of Alipay. They then expanded into banking in 2015, launching MyBank during the summer and, in an audacious move, opened their bank capabilities to other Chinese banks through an open marketplace of apps and APIs.
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Brett King (Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank)
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16.5 Confucius said, “Finding enjoyment in three kinds of activities will be a source of personal improvement; finding enjoyment in three other kinds of activities will be a source of personal injury. One stands to be improved by the enjoyment found in attuning oneself to the rhythms of ritual propriety (li ) and music (yue ),283 by the enjoyment found in talking about what others do well (shan ), and by the enjoyment found in having a circle of many friends of superior character (xian ); one stands to be injured by finding enjoyment in being arrogant, by finding enjoyment in dissolute diversions, and by finding enjoyment in the easy life.
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Confucius (The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation)
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Successful cooperation does not equate to successful understanding. There was no question that Zhang Beihai was the most capable political commissar on the ship, and he was forthright in his work, exploring every last issue with complete precision. But his internal world was a bottomless gray to Wu Yue, who always felt like Zhang Beihai was saying: Just do it this way. This way’s best, or most correct. But it’s not what I really want. It began as an indistinct feeling that grew increasingly obvious. Of course, whatever Zhang Beihai did was always the best or most correct, but Wu Yue had no idea what he actually wanted. Wu Yue adhered to one article of faith: Command of a warship was a dangerous position, so the two commanders must understand each other’s minds. This presented Wu Yue with a knotty problem. At first, he thought that Zhang Beihai was somehow on guard, which offended Wu. In the tough post of captain of a destroyer, was anyone more forthright and guileless than he was? What do I have worth guarding against?
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Liu Cixin (The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2))
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I saw that bright purple light dancing in your eyes like I had seen it in Yue’s eyes before.
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Linda Hamonou (Demon Soul (The Demon Series #1))
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Yeah!” Hajime lifted Yue up and started twirling her around. Their smiles were completely out of place in the location that had been dubbed hell by the rest of the world. At
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Ryo Shirakome (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Volume 2)
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Dark Territory, the Yue ming, belongs to neither the living nor the dead. The living who try to stay there always end up dead, while the dead who cannot leave are never allowed to rest. They’re prodded and probed by bots and scavengers, set atop booby-traps, nested-in by spiders and vipers, tossed-and-churned into bone chips and jelly by the next barrage or the one after that.
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Kali Altsoba (Amasia: The Orion War)
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Call it whatever you want. Curse it however you like. Cross over it in pride, then come running back. It’s no one’s to control or survive. Not you, not them. Dark Territory, the Yue ming, belongs to neither the living nor the dead. The living who try to stay there always end up dead, while the dead who cannot leave are never allowed to rest. They’re prodded and probed by bots and scavengers, set atop booby-traps, nested-in by spiders and vipers, tossed-and-churned into bone chips and jelly by the next barrage or the one after that.
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Kali Altsoba (Amasia: The Orion War)
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Did fate let women time-travel so she could learn the three morals and four virtues?"
~ Qu Qing Ju
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Yue Xia Die Ying (何为贤妻 To Be a Virtuous Wife)
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the propagation of any ideology originating externally must also be subject to the world view, political orientation and interests and predilections of the propagator themselves.
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Daiyun Yue (China and the West at the Crossroads: Essays on Comparative Literature and Culture (China Academic Library))
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พวกมือถือสากปากถือศีลชอบยกตัวเป็นคนยุติธรรมใจกว้างทั้งนั้น พวกเขาแต่ละคนก็แค่ใช้ความเจ็บปวดและบาดแผลของคนอื่นเป็นเครื่องมือมาแสดงว่าตัวเองเป็นคนที่ยิ่งใหญ่และเที่ยงธรรมเท่านั้นเอง
เพราะคนที่โดนทำร้ายไม่ใช่พวกเขา คนที่เคยผ่านความเจ็บปวดเหล่านี้ไม่ใช่พวกเขา พวกเขาถึงได้ไม่รู้สึกรู้สา ยืนอยู่บนหอคอยงาช้าง อ้างเรื่องคุณธรรม ชี้หน้าคนอื่น และวิพากษ์วิจารณ์กันอย่างสนุกปาก ถึงขั้นตัดสินคนอื่นว่าดีหรือเลว แท้จริงแล้วคนประเภทนี้เป็นเพียงพวกจอมปลอมที่หากินบนความทุกข์ของคนอื่น
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Yue Xia Die Ying (การกลับมาของนางฟ้า เล่ม 1)
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ความหมายของการมีอยู่ของศิลปะและความงามก็เพื่อทำให้มนุษย์มีความสุข ไม่ใช่ทำให้มนุษย์รู้สึกเจ็บปวด
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Yue Xia Die Ying (ปักรักลายบุปผา เล่ม 2)
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Before, he had not realized what he actually wanted. Until today, when he saw how Cheng Yujin bade him farewell so easily, and how she began to talk happily about her and her future husband, Cheng Yuanjing finally understood what kind of answer he actually wanted to hear.
He was not her uncle, nor was she his niece. What he wanted was for Cheng Yujin to see him as a man. He wanted her to give him an embroidery, make him pastries, and came to see him — as a man.
Cheng Yuanjing had witnessed how Cheng Yujin very attentively cared for other men. Truly tasteless. Lin Qingyuan’s martial and literary skills weren’t as good as him. Her cousin brother was nothing more than a half-grown child. Why did Cheng Yujin so obsessed with them? Upon this inexplicable feeling, he deliberately revealed his identity. Later, Cheng Yujin’s attitude towards him indeed changed. Unfortunately, she still didn’t see him as a man.
Since she knew his identity, Cheng Yujin always regarded him as a symbol, a tool that could promote her future husband and son’s position. Sometimes Cheng Yuanjing wanted to knock Cheng Yujin’s head and pried it open to have a look. Since she wanted to marry a wealthy and powerful husband, how could she put her sight on Xu Zhixian and Lin Qingyuan? As a crown prince, he had no shortage of money, property, power, and status. Moreover, he also currently occupied the identity of the Cheng family’s ninth son, which enabled her to get closer with him easily. Such conveniences, such good conditions, yet Cheng Yujin didn’t use it and still dared to talk about her future husband in front of him.
For Cheng Yuanjing, Cheng Yujin was an oddity, truly the only one. The more he got closer to her, the more joyful and possessive Cheng Yuanjing became, and the more he couldn’t bear to hear about another man from her mouth.
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Jiu Yue Liu Huo (Greetings Ninth Uncle 九叔万福)
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The cultivation world did not care about wedding attendants, and would not have the female cultivator wear a veil. Supposedly, a thousand years ago, a male cultivator from the mortal world wanted the female cultivator he was marrying to wear a veil. The female cultivator then beat him up.
After the beating, the female cultivator said, what bad habit was this? Other men could not look at a woman’s face at the wedding banquet but a man’s face could be seen by other women?
Their path union ceremony was cancelled because of this. The male cultivator’s tragic and true experience helped speed up the equality between genders in the cultivation world. At least, not many male cultivators dared to have female cultivators do things that they themselves were not willing to do.
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Yue Xia Die Ying (Ascending, Do Not Disturb (勿扰飞升))
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After that, he never saw Spirit Master Kong Hou and her path companion again. Maybe the two had ascended, or maybe the two were still roaming the world.
But no matter where the pair was, Yan Shou thought, as long as the two were together, they were happier than the immortals.
People cultivated their minds, their bodies, and their own path.
What was the path?
Just a path to happiness.
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Yue Xia Die Ying (Ascending, Do Not Disturb (勿扰飞升))
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At first, Old Madam Cheng was not very optimistic about Cheng Yujin’s marriage. When two calm and rational people were put together, no one would take the initiative to show emotions to the other. It was better to put a charming and innocent woman next to the Crown Prince, who surely would please him more. After all, men didn’t like women who were too smart. Like Huo Changyuan and Cheng Yumo, one was a formidable man, and the other was an innocent woman who knew nothing of the world. The man was the absolute authority, and the woman was relying wholeheartedly on the man, which was doing good for their relationship.
But who would have thought that the final result would be quite different?
Facts proved that smart people could live well anywhere. Two smart people put together only ended up twice as good. The so-called excellent men did not like smart and capable wives was merely a self-comfort of stupid people.
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Jiu Yue Liu Huo (Greetings Ninth Uncle 九叔万福)
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Have you never heard of the traveler from the distant state of Yue? When he had been away from his homeland for a few days, he was glad whenever he saw an acquaintance. When he had been away for a fortnight or a month, he was delighted to see anyone he had even met with in his home country. After a year, he was delighted to see anyone who even resembled anyone he had met there. Was this not because he missed his countrymen more and more deeply the longer he was away? Now imagine someone who had fled to the empty wastelands, where tangles of goosefeet and woodbine block the paths even of the weasels and polecats who hop from spot to spot through the wastes. How delighted he would be if he were to hear the stomping of human footsteps, and how much more so if he were to catch a sound in the breeze of his brothers and relatives chatting and chuckling somewhere nearby! How long indeed it must have been since my lord has heard even the chatting and chuckling of a Genuine Human anywhere near him!
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Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings)
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He caught Yue as she fell and gently lowered her to the ground.
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Ryo Shirakome (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Volume 4)
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In this life, Nanming Dijun was a man of great valor, while Tianshu Xingjun was a delicate, refined young master. Yue Lao, the deity of marriage and love, ran a thread of fate as thick as a finger between their names and secured it with a huge, impeccably tight knot. Deeply in love since their youth, both had mutually exchanged a solemn pledge of everlasting love until the end of time.
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Da Feng Gua Guo (Peach Blossom Debt)
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Oh, Prince Rui, what is this? Why do you look so fragile?” Prince Zhong stood at the gates of the palace, and called out to Prince Rui. He bowed to Prince Rui with a smile. “When one gets old, you have to take care, and not get old ahead of your time.”
“Thank you, Prince Zhong, for your reminder. This prince is a few years younger than you, and does not have much experience.
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Yue Xia Die Ying (如珠似玉 Like Pearl and Jade)
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As the group discussed where to head next, they were suddenly interrupted by the sound of flapping wings. The sound they’d feared the most. Judging from how loud it was, it wasn’t just a few pairs of wings either. “Ah?!” The party’s expressions froze, and they hurried over to the edge of the platform and looked down. As they’d feared, the tidal wave of cockroaches was climbing their way up to them. “Fuuuuuuck!” “Mmm?! Draconic Thunder.” “Get away from meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” “Nooooooooooooooo! Disintegrate, disintegrate, disintegrate!” “Begone, foul creatures! Dragonbreath!” Everyone’s hair stood on end, and they fired off their strongest attacks in a panic. Hajime unleashed a barrage of rockets from his Orkans, Yue summoned her Draconic Thunder, Shea fired off explosive slugs one after another, Kaori sent down a wave of disintegration, and Tio unleashed her malefic breath. Kouki and the others fired off their best long-range attacks as well. Everyone except Shizuku, who looked like she was about to faint.
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Ryo Shirakome (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Volume 8)
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Slowly but surely, Yue began to believe that he was someone she could trust again. Smiling, Dienleed whispered, “Come, Aletia. Together, we can—” However, before he could finish, a loud boom interrupted him, and a flash of light streaked toward his skull. He didn’t even have time to react before Hajime’s bullet pierced through his brain and made his neck snap back.
Everyone stared in disbelief as Dienleed’s body slumped to the ground. He wasn’t even twitching. A strained silence spread through the throne room as comprehension dawned on the onlookers. The sound of a revolver cocking finally snapped everyone out of their reverie.
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Ryo Shirakome (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Volume 11)
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No, this devil’s way worse. The devil of hell’s nothing compared to this guy. You’ve all seen this devil before... The black devil that dwells in kitchen corners, I mean...” Hajime’s description only made Kouki and the others more confused. In response, Hajime pulled out a single Cross Bit and sent it down below. He then pulled up a small crystal display to show everyone what its sensors picked up on. Yue and the others crowded around, and as soon as the blurry image came into focus— “Aaah?!” There were dozens of them. And for each one that was visible, there were likely dozens more. The terrifying devils whose name started with C. They scuttled around the ground, spreading chaos in their wake. From shadow to shadow they crawled, these devils who were sturdier than any other living creature. Whether in Tortus or on Earth, these devils possessed the unique magic capable of striking fear into the hearts of all. The bane of mothers and restaurant owners everywhere. Cockroaches.
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Ryo Shirakome (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Volume 8)
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Bingo Octubre- Noviembre- Diciembre"
Albus Dumbledore: Memorias del subsuelo. Pone en cuestionamiento la personalidad de las personas y cuestiona al formalismo ruso.
Minerva Mcgonagall: Monologos de la vagina. Diferentes discurso de mujeres sobre sus experiencias con la vagina.
Alastor Moody: El manifiesto Comunista. Marx critica al capitalismo y da sus pensamientos comunistas.
Potter & Longbottom: Almendra. Yunjae, pierde a su abuela en un raro accidente y su madre cae en coma; asi èl tiene que enfrentarse solo a las dificultades de la vida.
Sirius Black: Tres espejo; espada. Jin es un campesino que por las vueltas de la vida se convierte en un desertor y en consecuencia en el mejor pirata de la historia.
Bemys & Nymphadora: Tres espejos: luna. Yue, es una jovencita de un pueblo de la antigua china, que se enamora de u granjero llamado Jian. Ella siendo de una clase mas alta.
Familia Weasley: Mansfield Park. Fanny es una niña cuando sus tios con mejor posiciòn economica se la llevan a Mansfield park para darle una mejor educacion.
Kingsley Shacklebolt: Sombra y Hueso. Alina Starkow no espera mucho de la vida hasta que un dia descubre que es una grisha y tiene que luchar contra el señor oscuro.
Severus Snape: Quien sabe si mañana seguiremos aqui: Un asesino en serie, que sufre de alzheimer, esta seguro de que su hija esta de novia con otro asesino en serie y hace todo lo posible para salvarla.
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Jane Austen
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Furthermore, I’ve heard quite a few stories about Kaori-sama from ardent believers of Kaorism. According to one adherent, after watching Yue prank Kaori-sama, he approached Kaori-sama and asked, “Should we sneak into her room at night and get back at her for you?” Supposedly, Kaori-sama flew into a rage upon hearing that and said, “Yue’s one of my best friends! If you harm even a hair on her head, I’ll disintegrate the lot of you!
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Ryo Shirakome (Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, Volume 8)
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Whether traditional or modern, one cannot ignore the historical development of Japanese art forms when exploring the aesthetic, performing, and ideological frameworks of Japanese animation.
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Tze-yue G. Hu (Frames of Anime: Culture and Image-Building)
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Ritual is obviously different from law and even from what we normally call morality. Law restrains people by setting external limits to action. The penalty for breaking a law is imposed on the individual by a designated power. People may break the law but escape being detected, and they may even feel proud of themselves or complacent if they succeed. Morality is sustained by public opinion. If you do something immoral or scandalous, people will ostracize you, and you will be shamed. Ritual is even more exacting than morality. If you act in violation of rituals, your action is not only immoral but incorrect, and it will not bring about a desired result. Rituals are sustained by personal habits. It is as if there were ten eyes watching you and ten fingers pointing at you all the time. You cannot help but follow the ritual, even if you are all by yourself. Following rituals is the right way to act. Actually, it is a habit formed in the process of cultivating oneself. One learns to conform to tradition on one’s own initiative. On the surface, “a rule of rituals” seems like a self-generated form of social order in which people’s actions are unrestrained by laws. Actually, “self-generated” is the wrong word here, because a rule of rituals implies that one uses one’s own initiative to follow conventional rules. Confucius often used the words restrain (ke) and bind (yue) to describe the process of ritual cultivation. These words suggest that “a rule of rituals” does not occur in the absence of society, does not stem from natural human instincts, and does not depend on directions from heaven.
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Fei Xiaotong (From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society)
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Gen’s eyes slowly moved from Yue to Ash, and then to Jia. “I see. Building a harem, are we?
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William D. Arand (Cultivating Chaos (Cultivating Chaos, #1))
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What a beautifully whorish name I have—Feng Yue—Phoenix Moon. Can’t say my mother lacked foresight when she named me. Unfortunately, Xiao Feng Xian was the last celebrity prostitute. This is the 1970s, the modern world. They even made polygamy illegal a few years ago, after so many thousand of years. Can you believe that? What man would be happy with just one wife if they could afford more? Some girls thought it might bring us more business, but we have seen no evidence of that so far. The law has simply driven junior wives underground. They’ve become secret mistresses—less accepted, less recognized, less protected, children relegated to the shadows. The senior wives are now more suspicious of their men than ever, wondering what their mistresses are like, feeling more insecure. Nobody gains. Stupid. In any case, we don’t have the same good karma as our sisters from the dynasties. Phoenix is now a euphemism for chicken, which means hookers in Cantonese slang. Poets are extinct. We have become just chickens.
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Jason Y. Ng (Hong Kong Noir)
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If we follow whatever has so far taken shape, fully formed,7 in our minds, making that our teacher, who could ever be without a teacher? The mind (2:12) comes to be what it is by taking possession of whatever it selects out of the process of alternation—but does that mean it has to truly understand that process? The fool takes something up from it too. But to claim that there are (2:13) any such things as “right” and “wrong” before they come to be fully formed in someone’s mind in this way—that is like saying you left for Yue today and arrived there yesterday.8 This is to regard the nonexistent as existent. The existence of the nonexistent is beyond the understanding of even the divine sage-king Yu—so what possible sense could it make to someone like me?
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Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Hackett Classics))
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Luo Ji: Astrónomo y sociólogo. Ye Wenjie: Astrofísica. Mike Evans: Soporte financiero de la Organización Terrícola-trisolariana y líder principal. Wu Yue: Capitán de la marina. Zhang Beihai: Comisario político de la marina, oficial de la fuerza espacial. Chang Weisi: General del ejército, comandante de la fuerza espacial. George Fitzroy: General de Estados Unidos, coordinador del Consejo de Defensa Planetaria, enlace militar con el proyecto Hubble II. Albert Ringier: Astrónomo del Hubble II. Zhang Yuancho: Operario de una planta química de Pekín recientemente jubilado. Yang Jinwen: Profesor de escuela de Pekín recientemente jubilado. Miao Fuquan: Empresario del carbón en Shanxi, vecino de Zhang y Yang. Shi Qiang: Agente del Departamento de Seguridad del Consejo de Defensa Planetaria, también apodado «Da Shi». Shi Xiaoming: Hijo de Shi Qiang. Kent: Enlace con el Consejo de Defensa Planetaria. Secretaria General Say: Secretaria general de Naciones Unidas. Frederick Tyler: Antiguo secretario de defensa de Estados Unidos. Bill Hines: Neurocientífico inglés, antiguo presidente de la Unión Europea. Keiko Yamasuki: Neurocientífica, esposa de Hines. Garanin: Presidente de turno del Consejo de Defensa Planetaria. Zhuang Yan: Licenciada en la Academia de Bellas Artes Central. Ben Jonathan: Comisionado especial de la Asamblea Conjunta de la Flota. Dongfang Yanxu: Capitana de Selección natural. Mayor Xizi: Oficial científica de Cuántica.
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Cixin Liu (El bosque oscuro (Trilogía de los tres cuerpos, #2))