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Original Chinese title: 逆流归乡
After leaving his hometown for many years, Lin Yuan returns to Jianghai City as a corporate representative, where a university renovation project reconnects business interests, old ties, and his native place.
Original Chinese title: 与妻子的游戏
After years of marriage to Su Wan, the narrator becomes dissatisfied with how they interact, while things seen and heard during work social events continually affect his expectations of the marriage.
Original Chinese title: 清晨的面包店·距离 204
Cheng Ning and Xu Nan only meet in the morning bakery—one busy taking loaves from the oven, the other rushing to set off—until, over time, even their arguments can only be written in order notes.
Original Chinese title: 万界青楼系统
Su Chen arrives on the Cangxuan Continent, inheriting the identity and memories of a low-level rogue cultivator, and searches for a way to survive in a dog-eat-dog environment.
Original Chinese title: 妖刀残月谭
Shrines guarding seven demon blades have maintained a thousand years of peace, but fall one after another within a short time, putting the sealing duties borne by descendants to the test once more.
Original Chinese title: 直播女神番外：突破
Liu Jingyao is busy running a livestreaming company, and upon reuniting with Jiang Ruoxue, talks about e-commerce sales growth and new partners, as business expansion reshapes relationships among the characters.
Original Chinese title: 瞒着笨蛋老爹
Gu Qiao has worked at the company for twenty-four years, facing long-term stagnation after being promoted to operations manager; his family story unfolds through different perspectives.
Original Chinese title: 海边的长椅·邀请 211
Shen Wei invites Jiang Ce to sit on a seaside bench and listen to recordings of the wind she compiled, but Jiang Ce brings a log of ship noise instead; their differing understandings make the meeting slightly mismatched.
Original Chinese title: 旧城区的电影院·邀请 212
Lin Zhi invites He Yu to read the story of a silent film aloud in an old cinema, but He Yu prefers to preserve the visual blank spaces, unwilling to interpret every movement into a definite emotion.
Original Chinese title: 傍晚的公园·邀请 214
Yu Qing invites Gu Yan to join an evening sketching activity; Gu Yan declines several times because he cannot draw, until she suggests that he only needs to help describe the colors he sees.
Original Chinese title: 离别前的车站·邀请 215
Before departing, Tao Ning invites Xu Chuan to the station to see her off, but Xu Chuan happens to be leading a tour that cannot be canceled on short notice, so he can only hand over itinerary materials to her in advance.
Original Chinese title: 雨后的书店·约定 217
Lin Rui promised to finish restoring a volume of local gazetteers collected by Yu Heng before the rainy season, but continuous dampness slows the drying process; she decides to visit the bookstore in person to explain that she cannot deliver it by the original date.
Original Chinese title: 街角的花店·约定 221
Mo Zhi and Shen Xu agree to spend a season observing discarded floral materials from a corner flower shop to find a stable way to reuse them, but the first batch of experiments fails due to management errors.
Original Chinese title: 海边的长椅·约定 223
An Wei and Xu Yan agree to repaint the seaside bench every year, but this year they discover the wooden planks have rotted from the inside, and a new coat of paint can no longer fulfill the promise of continued use.
Original Chinese title: 离别前的车站·约定 227
Ye Ting and Zhou Lin agreed to meet at the station each time before she leaves the city. This time, the theater troupe unexpectedly departs early, forcing her to make a swift decision between catching the ride and explaining why they cannot meet in time.
Original Chinese title: 清晨的面包店·约定 228
Lin He and Gu Qing agreed to make a breakfast bread using only local ingredients. When a critical supply is suddenly interrupted just as promotional flyers have already been printed, the two begin to argue over whether to make a temporary substitution.
Original Chinese title: 雨后的书店·回声 229
After the rain, the bookstore plays an old reading recording. Ye Ning recognizes Gu Yan's voice, only to discover that the passage she frequently cited was actually an on-the-spot improvisation rather than the book's original text.
Original Chinese title: 欲海换日
Lin Qingya, head of a gallery, is busy delivering an artwork while also receiving a dinner invitation from Chen Mo, bringing work and personal life together on the same day.
Original Chinese title: 我和娇妻的精神恋爱
Gu Shuang and her husband talk anew about expectations in their marriage, bringing their understanding of personal choices and relationship boundaries out into the open.
Original Chinese title: 海边的长椅·回声 235
While listening to old recordings on a bench by the sea, Shen Wei hears a short horn blast that has now vanished; Cheng Yue recognizes it as coming from a small ferry decommissioned many years ago.
Original Chinese title: 旧城区的电影院·回声 236
After equipment upgrades at the old-town cinema, Wen Qing keeps feeling that a familiar sound is missing from the end of the films; an inspection by Xu Zhou reveals that it was the mechanical residue sound when the old projector shut down.
Original Chinese title: 极品家丁之昔游记续集
Lin San's years of foreign campaigns and diplomacy place pressure on the Dahua treasury, leaving him and Xiao Qingxuan to face subsequent challenges of governance.
Original Chinese title: 清晨的面包店·回声 240
While test-baking early in the morning at the bakery, Chen He hears Mo Yuan humming a tune they often sang back when they ran a street stall, and only then realizes she has not made that very first savory bread in years.
Original Chinese title: 雨后的书店·选择 241
While organizing a batch of donated books at a bookstore after the rain, Yu Ning discovers private letters tucked inside; book collection consultant Mo Yan believes the background story would add value, but she worries this exceeds the donor's original intent.
