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Autumn rain pitter-pattered against the grey-tiled roof, droplets shattering in mid-air before Li Yuan’s eyes. He raised a broad hairy palm, which was wide as a prayer mat, and let the rain pool in it. When the hollow filled, he tipped it to his lips and drank.
Cool sweetness slid down his throat, and he exhaled in quiet delight.
When a man lacked money, he chased wealth; when he lacked strength, he chased power; when he lacked a wife, he pursued beauty.
Li Yuan had tasted all three and still possessed them. He was not a man of hunger but of surplus. True, this land bristled with hidden wonders, yet he had no wish to stay wound tight forever, nor to fling himself into bigger, nastier whirlpools just to prove he had leveled up.
The world, refreshingly...
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