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 "Did you really think you could run away?"
 The man's voice was smooth and deep. It sounded like he was holding a casual conversation rather than confronting an enemy hostage. As her eyes adjusted to the bright light, Kel noticed the man's gaze fixated on her as she sat frozen in place.
 His fair skin stood out starkly against midnight-black hair while scarlet eyes glinted like the silver armor covering his torso. The symbol of the Serin Empire, a black dragon, decorated his chest, and a dark red cape flowed out behind him.
 "Things would have been so much better for you if you had just stayed put," he continued in a low tone.
 A couple of panting soldiers came up behind him as he spoke.
 "Sir! We've brought some aconitum powder!" one of the men called. The two men approached Kel, one holding a small brown pouch and the other carrying a set of heavy shackles. She winced at the thought of the rough metal rubbing against her already sore wrists..
 Shuffling backward, Kel tried unsuccessfully to get to her feet. She did her best to bat away their attempts to restrain her, but the two men quickly overpowered her. With one hand tightly gripping Kel's arm, one of the men brought the small pouch close to her face.
 An unmistakable scent entered her nose. Aconitum powder must be the strong-smelling stuff they'd been using to keep her unconscious.
 She thrashed around, struggling to break free, and landed a square kick to one of the soldier's unprotected inner thighs. He made a few grunts resembling various curse words, and reached for the shackles that had fallen to the ground during their scuffle.
 "That's enough." The emperor put up a hand to stop them. The two soldiers withdrew dutifully, shooting Kel sharp looks as they stepped back. She used her elbows to prop herself up from the ground and face the emperor.
 He stood silently looking down on her, the corners of his mouth twitching into a smirk. A feeling of dread settled over her at the malicious look, and she wondered if he was right about her being better off not trying to escape in the first place.
 Kel's palms moistened as he slowly stepped toward her. Any closer would put her within arm's reach. She shuddered, trying not to imagine what horrible punishment awaited her as she inched back unproductively.
 After closing the distance between them, the emperor crouched down in front of Kel. He raised one hand, and she scrunched her eyes shut, bracing herself for a blow.
 While anticipating the stinging of a strike, Kel suddenly felt warm fingers lightly graze her cheek. Her eyes shot open in surprise as the emperor moved a piece of hair behind her ear and then traced her jawline toward the center of her face. With his unexpectedly soft touch, he tipped her chin up and leaned his face closer to hers.
 "This hair color is already quite unusual," he mumbled, "but to have these eyes as well." Using his other hand, he gently brushed his thumb below one of Kel's eyes.
 These eyes?
 She suddenly felt exposed and defenseless with the emperor examining her bare face. Under normal circumstances, massive amounts of makeup and serum would have been applied to make Kel's muddled blue-green eyes appear as close Adriell's brilliant azure blue tones as possible. Without the cosmetics, her eyes were more green than blue with a noticeable vivid orange burst around her pupil.
 Kel felt the urge to jerk her head away before the emperor could scrutinize her eyes any closer, but she found herself unable to move. Something about his blood red irises held her captive. She'd never seen anything like it in her life. It was almost unhuman.
 "Dragon," she breathed, unknowingly voicing her thoughts aloud.
 At her remark, the emperor gripped her chin more tightly and grinned devilishly.
 "Would you like to know why you aren't in chains right now?"
 Coming back to her senses, Kel whipped her head free of the man's grasp. He chuckled as he stood up.
 "Bring her," he commanded, waving the soldiers over.
 Following their leader's orders, the soldiers dragged Kel to a small tent resembling the one she'd just escaped from but located on one of the far sides of camp. A man holding a coiled leather strap exited the tent as they arrived. It looked like another place to keep hostages.
 Kel toppled into the tent after an aggressive shove from the two soldiers, nearly falling on top of the mound already inside. It was difficult to see now that the sun had nearly sunk below the horizon, but the burly figure and dark hair were unmistakable. It was Barclay.
 Kel knelt at the man's side and gently ran her fingers along his back to check the condition of his arrow injury. He groaned in pain as she found the wound. The arrow had been removed, but the torn flesh was left untreated.
 A shadow passed through the doorway. "I hope that man will be able to survive your antics," the emperor said, shaking his head in feigned concern.
 "What are you trying to say?" Kel's chest tightened.
 Recalling the man with the strap she saw earlier, Kel turned to examine Barclay's back once again. It wasn't long before she discovered fresh lashing wounds.
 "What's the meaning of this?" she demanded. She kept her face down to prevent the callous man from taking any satisfaction in her horrified expression.
 "Just know that it will be better for him if you don't act out any more," the emperor replied nonchalantly.
 "So you're using him to threaten me?"
 "It wouldn't be necessary if ropes were enough to keep you restrained."
 "Why not just punish me?" Kel challenged, clenching her hands into tight fists.
 "You're more valuable unharmed, Princess," the emperor remarked. He turned to leave, but looked back over his shoulder, adding, "for now at least."
 "And when we reach Serin, what happens to him then?" Kel queried as the man bent to step out of the tent.
 "Well, if he can keep you under control then he's useful to me." The emperor paused, glancing back again. "And as long as you can keep that miserable old man in Mevani under control, you're useful as well."
 With those final unsettling words, he ducked out the door. Kel noted the forms of a couple soldiers taking their place guarding the door as the flaps swung closed.
 The rest of the night passed slowly. Using strips of the single coarse blanket and the tiny water rations afforded by the guards outside, Kel did her best to clean and bind Barclay's injuries. For the fleeting moments the man did regain consciousness, he was in too much pain to do more than take a few sips of water before planting his face back into the ground. As strong as he was, Kel knew even a man like Barclay wouldn't last much longer without proper treatment.
 Before dawn the following morning, soldiers came to drag them out of the tent. Camp was broken down quickly, and the Serin soldiers were trotting along in neat lines by the time the sun rose. With the threat of Barclay's wellbeing hanging over her, Kel had no choice but to quietly comply with every order.
 As they traveled, she tried to glean useful information from the soldier's small talk.
 "I tell you," one of the men nearby huffed in a gravelly voice, "I'd do just about anything for some fresh meat."
 "There should be fish in the stream," a younger-sounding fellow responded.
 "Fish? Disgusting," another soldier chimed in. "You must be from the South if you consider that slimy trash as meat."
 "At least we're more civilized than tearing into that bloody gunk on a stick you call a meal," the youngster retorted.
 As the men continued to argue about fish, Kel examined the greenery around them. If there was a stream hidden somewhere around, that must mean useful herbs were nearby as well. It was too late in the year to use nettle leaf, the best option for stopping Barclay's bleeding, but she may be able to find jewelweed or bugleweed.
 The soldiers trekked all day without a single break. It wasn't until late afternoon that Kel had a chance to check on Barclay and investigate the stream.
 The hours of constant jolting had reopened nearly all of his wounds, and the makeshift bandages wrapped around his torso were completely soaked through with blood. At this point, if infection didn't take Barclay's life, the loss of blood surely would.
 "D-don't worry so much about me," the man coughed as Kel settled him carefully onto the blanket in their tent.
 Using what little the small blanket could spare, Kel tore fresh bandagings.
 "There's a stream close by," she said softly, gently peeling the bloody cloth off Barclay's back. "I'm going to find some medicine for you."
 The man started to protest, but it quickly dissolved into a coughing fit. He finally nodded slowly, too weak to argue.
 After securing the fresh bandages, Kel scooted to the door.
 "Hey!" she called. "I need to go take care of my business!"
 The soldiers on guard muttered back and forth to each other before one pushed open the door flap.
 "Come on, let's make this quick," he growled. He led Kel to the edge of the forest closest to their side of camp.
 "Is there a stream near here?" Kel asked.
 "The stream is on the north side of camp." The soldier rolled his eyes. "Now hurry up!"
 Kel sighed in disappointment as she trudged off into the trees. She scanned the ground carefully as she walked, hoping to find some kind of useful herb. As expected, there was nothing.
 She was ready to give up and go back when she spied a tangled cluster of light green jagged leaves.
 Nettle leaf.
 In the spring, before growing tiny stinging hairs, nettle leaf was safe to use, but now that it was nearly fall, the plant was covered entirely by the vicious hairs.
 Kel bent closer. Perhaps if she found a way to cut the prickly exterior away, she could make the flesh into a poultice. She reached out her finger to probe the nearest leaf.
 Crack!
 Kel flinched at the sound of a branch snapping behind her, her finger plunging into the poisonous plant.
 "Ouch!" she yelled, jerking her hand back. The movement sent her tumbling backward, but something caught her before she hit the ground.
 She gasped as her eyes focused on the familiar face gazing down at her.
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 The Dragon's Kiss novel is a popular light novel covering Comedy, Fantasy and Romance genres. Written by the Author Currer.
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 Rebirth as the world's number one sect should have been a perfect start. 
 But Chu Xinghe found that his path of cultivation was a little different. 
 Can you be invincible in the world as long as you destroy your own sect? 
 It's not easy to build a world's number one sect, and it's not easy to destroy it? 
 Chu Xinghe found that it's really not easy. 
 He tried his best to destroy his own sect, but every time he made the sect stronger, what does it mean? 
 Countless years later, at the peak of martial arts, Chu Xinghe looked at the sect that was invincible in the world under his "efforts" and was speechless. 
 Someone asked him, what made you invincible all the way to today. 
 Chu Xinghe: "If I say I just want to destroy my own sect, do you believe it?" 
 Everyone bowed down, and there was no construction without destruction. It turned out that the thoughts of Emperor Haotian were not something that we mortals could understand.
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 “Gege, what does cultivating feelings mean?? Is kissing when you eat someone’s mouth?? How are children born??” The 3-year-old Xiao Tu likes to chase after her ChangZhi gege and ask questions…
 Ten years old Cheng Zhiyan had always seemed been studious and hardworking. However, when he heard these three questions, he was stunned and fled in an instant… until one day, a certain thirteen-year-old Xiao Tu pressed Cheng Zhiyan to the wall and kissed him. Then she smacked her lips to savor the taste and said: “It turns out that when you kiss orange juice, it really taste like orange juice ah…” the always calm and indifferent Cheng ZhiYan, once again fled in defeat.
 **TN: ChengZhi Yan’s name sounds like orange juice
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 Once, I really wanted to hang out at Hogwarts, living a life of eating and dying, picking up girls, provoking professors, and violating school rules to find excitement.
 If you’re in a bad mood, beat Voldemort; if you’re in a good mood, beat Voldemort; if you’re in a bad mood, sorry, Voldemort, I’ll beat you anyway!
 Dumbledore, do you need me to twist your nose back for you, although it will hurt a bit.
 Professor Snape, you are a good person, um, I said this very seriously.
 Others, don’t mind me summarizing you with an ellipsis?
 ………………
 Later, I grew up…
 Then, I can’t find a way back anymore…
 I would like to write this article to commemorate me or our lost youth. I think of running under the sunset that day…
 Produced by melon seeds, it is absolutely finished!
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 Adventures, chances, cut cause and effect,
 The first person to luck since ancient times!
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 Because of his love for cooking, he had thrown away his career as a teacher and had become a chef.
 But despite his desires, his lack of cooking skills was the harsh truth he had to face.
 But when he reached the age of 30, he had been sent back 7 years back into the past.
 Another chance.
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 Transmigrating from the Apocalypse to a technologically developed, peaceful world, Qiu Yu’s killing skills cultivated through hundreds of life-and-death situations suddenly lost their use, and even his body turned into a weak, squeamish…
 Qiu Yu’s world views shattered into pieces: What the heck is an Omega?!
 Qiu Yu, who knows nothing but fighting, eventually decided to become an anchor for a full-dive game—not only could he use his battle techniques to make a living, but he also didn’t have to brave leaving the house and meeting people—it was the perfect job.
 However, in his first-ever broadcast, he shot an arrow straight through the heart of the e-sport circle’s verified no.1 god of war.
 Mu Feibai touched the place above his heart, the corner of his mouth hooking up: Interesting… Come play professionally.
 Qiu Yu rejected him: social anxiety, not going, see ya.
 …And then he was sold off by his live-streaming platform to play for a professional team.
 Qiu Yu: This was different from my plan!
 Mu Feibai: You shot an arrow straight into my heart… baby, you still want to run?
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 Zheng Tan somehow returns to the year 2003, turning into a black cat. Picked up from a rubbish heap by the Jiao family, he is given the name “Charcoal”, and so begins the life inside Professor Jiao’s family. Zheng Tan remembers that he was once a person, but currently his body is that of a cat. He has no way of speaking the human language, but can understand it, and even retains the thinking and IQ of a young 20 year old youth. Read along as he adapts to this new world, and somehow tumbles from a group brawl to catching a thief.
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 My dear grandpa is actually a werewolf, the truth behind the Philosopher's Stone, and the back-up man behind the four founders. 
 None of this prevents Loren from being a bastard, having fun with Seamus, exchanging experiences with the twins, and explaining the weirdness of Quidditch... 
 This is a story about hanging out at Hogwarts. 
 —— 
 First Transfiguration Lesson 
 Loren: Look at that cat above, it looks so easy to touch. 
 Hermione: Heartbeat, in short, it is heartbeat. 
 five minutes later 
 Hermione: Loren! ! ! 
 (PS: The three little ones are the same age, they don’t follow the main line of the original work, they don’t have a system, and they try their best not to be OOC.)
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 Zhu Yang knew that tomorrow she would be killed by a female ghost, so before her death, she drank a lot*.
 The next day, because he was so drunk, the house was a mess. The TV had a half-drilled**-out female ghost stuck in it.
 The female ghost was already dead!
 All of her disloyal friends*** accused her of being cruel and killing the female ghost.
 Zhu Yang: I’m not! I didn’t! Don’t talk nonsense! I am a delicate and flower()-like lady that can only scream when encountering scary things!
 About that, the female ghost that thought she killed this guy, but got killed back, would like to speak.
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 The leader of the alliance, Song Zhaolan brought a group of martial artists to besiege the demonic sect. Suddenly the whole alliance and the demonic sect had crossed over to be the students of Class A and Class F.
 So this group of people climbed the wall and went to the Internet cafe, stayed up late to read novels, and participated in the sports meeting with 18 kinds of martial arts…
 The students at Wulin No. 1 Middle school were going crazy. Every day, they trembled under the authority of these two big bosses. They were caught in the middle of these two classes that were sanctioned with iron fists. There were no longer mandarin ducks in the grove, only the two bosses shouting at each other.
 Finally one day, Song Zhaolan received the demon’s “letter of surrender”:
 “Who says that good and evil do not mix? I insist to exist in your heart!”
 Class A student: The alliance leader is mighty, he actually captured the right palm of the devil with one hand!
 Class F student: The leader has a good heart, he actually used his mouth to save this scumbag!
 BCDE student: Are you blind or mentally disabled? ? ?
 The martial arts master who only wants to cook shou X The master who only wants to learn gong
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 17 year old Lu Yi Bai, who was a straight A student that was extremely thorough and never made any mistakes, was tablemates with the newly transferred adorkable Lin Xing Chen.
 Logically speaking, the gifted Lu Yi Bai should keep a distance from the unlucky, ordinary Lin Xing Chen, to keep his aloof personality consistent.
 However, when he heard Lin Xing Chen introducing herself, his cold and calm composure collapsed.
 It turned out that his younger sister had donated her cornea to a little girl whom she was fortunate enough to meet a few times just before she died, and that little girl is Lin Xing Chen!
 From then on, the indifferent Lu Yi Bai could not help but pay attention to the useless Lin Xing Chen and offer her help, causing Lin Xing Chen to receive his numerous dissatisfactions when unable to meet his high expectations.
 Because the foolish Lin Xing Chen and the unsociable Lu Yi Bai were forced into the world of the bottom tier students with Chen Yi Mu and Luo Qin Ge, one wrong move and it will result in a life of regrets, turning them into strangers.
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 Jiang Mian was involved in a car accident on the way home from a celebration banquet and ended up in a novel.
 When she opened her eyes, she became the stand-in for the paranoid male protagonist’s Bai Yueguang[White Moonlight]. After the White Moonlight came back, she was kicked away by the male protagonist.
 Knowing the tragic end of the substitute, Jiang Mian refused to be his White Moonlight substitute! ! I want to break up! At the mention of breaking up, she passed out in pain!
 Only then did she know that she also had a punishment mechanism that was designed to collapse if she broke up with the ML.
 Jiang Mian (smiling): I can’t mention breaking up, can’t I let the male lead dump me! In order to get rid of the paranoid male protagonist, all kinds of demon. J 
 Jiang Mian: I want that diamond ring. If you don’t buy it, you don’t love me! 
 Jiang Mian: You don’t love me anymore, I want to break up with you! 
 Jiang Mian: So I’m just her stand-in, it’s not me that you love at all! 
 Shen Shiyan: Don’t make trouble!
 After finally breaking up, Jiang Mian sent a circle of friends to say that he would never love again, while dressed up and flirting with his good sisters. As a result, as soon as he arrived at the bar, he ran into the paranoid male protagonist. Jiang Mian was petrified on the spot!
 Jiang Mian: What should I do if my substitute accidentally rolls over? Wait online, very urgent! Ah, the hero is here! ! ! 
 Shen Shiyan caught someone who was about to run, and smiled overcastly: Where to go?
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