„Yes.“ Hua Cheng answered the phone with a seething voice, trying to convey all the contempt he could muster. He could guess that this...

The three medics gasped in surprise. Hua Cheng himself was stunned into full alertness. He spun his head back to face forward, wondering...

Suddenly, a bubble seemed to burst with an audible pop. As soon as Hua Cheng broke the circle and pulled the eyes of the people...

Finally, after two excruciating hours of doing nothing except worrying and ignoring the lecture, the chime that rang in lunchtime sounded...

It was Monday morning. On a day on which Xie Lian would normally have to force himself to get out of bed, drag himself to the kitchen and...

As Xie Lian walked up the steps to his apartment, his cheeks carried a blush as he pondered the surreality of the last two days. Since...

The door to the basement fell shut with a metallic clang. Xie Lian looked around the space he had just entered: What he saw pleasantly...

Once upon a time, in a sad, dim little basement, in the modern world. From an evil witch, a little gnome called Hua Cheng got an...

„Hua Cheng, get up.“ Hua Cheng: „ . . . “ „If you don’t get up right now I’m feeding Yin Yu to my piranhas.“ Hua Cheng: „. . . .“ „If you...

The room was dark. Only a soft, blue shine emanated from behind the closed curtains. Xie Lian could make out the quiet beeps and humming...

And so, Xie Lian’s birthday and CALAMITY’s debut live performance ended in the most shocking and tragic way possible. Ambulance lights...

The second half of the concert started, with everything appearing a little colder, a little closer, a little more tangible. For the first...

Flashes of red and black, waves of heat and cold, hair rising with electricity, skin burning with fever. Droplets of sweat, a flurry of...

„Shi Qingxuan, how does this outfit look? Does it look good?? Or does it look too conservative, plain, boring, and completely outdated?...

Shi Qingxuan and Xie Lian sat at the living room table, with only a single overhead spotlight illuminating the space around them. Neither...

TW// Slight Transphobia „Three days of extracurricular volunteer work, the both of you!! And Xie Lian, you copy the university protocol...

Xie Lian is controlled by his parents. He is never asked for his opinion, nor has he ever been able to make a decision for himself. He‘s...

Feeling unusually nervous, Xie Lian swallowed hard as he stood in front of the run-down record store, the only one in town that still...