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"A stone on the wéi qí board couldn't be moved unless it was captured. The boy who had shared an apricot with him in the stable, who had made a pot of pu'er tea and taught him how to savor it, who hadn't hesitated to wipe his bleeding nose with his own sleeve...he had captured Zhen's heart."
AWWW ALSO I'M 100% SURE FAHAI SAW ZHEN TURN INTO A SNAKE

"I had no time to dwell on the terrible past when I had such a terrible present to deal with."
Relatable

PRINCE XIAN THE MAN YOU ARE
NOBODY HURTS ZHEN AND GETS AWAY WITH IT
Also the whole "don't lie to me anymore" thing...it's gonna be so bad when the prince finds out Zhen is actually the white snake he's hunting😭
BUT THEY'RE SO GOOD FOR EACH OTHER. XIAN GIVES ZHEN A PLACE TO BELONG AND ZHEN TEACHES XIAN TRUE EMPATHY. AGHHHHH.

Omg I love Coach Hedge🤣

"I'm sorry," Zhen whispered. "I've made such a mess." He could only hope that the prince would never find out what he was truly apologizing for.
I'M CRYING POOR BABY FEELS SO BAD FOR EATING THE SPIRIT PEARL
IT'S OKAY LOVE YOU DIDN'T KNOW😭😭😭

At this point, this is the book I'm just reading to pass the time while I wait for the library😅

OMG. IT'S. SO. GOOD. I picked this up as something to read while I waited for my other books to come in the library, but WOW. I'm obsessed already! NO WAY PRINCE XIAN JUST CHOSE ZHEN TO BE HIS COURTESAN. I'm screaming and kicking my feet!!!

This suddenly got a lot more emotional and relatable than I thought it was going to be...

Calypso is hiding something and I have a guess but it's wild

The ostriches make me sad, I love ostriches. Don't modify them and drive them crazy and make them kill people😭

"Music and healing, after all, were not so different."
I've never heard anything truer

AHHH THE GRIFFINS ARE SO CUTE

Welp...there goes Marcus.

I HATE THAT A MAIN CHARACTER IS NAMED EMMIE. But. I love Agamethus. Who doesn't love a cheese colored headless ghost who communicates using a Magic 8 Ball? I also love Marcus, he was only mentioned briefly but he seems emo as hell.

Okay, that was actually way more touching than I thought. Maybe this book deserves a higher rating than I was originally going to give it. It's actually REALLY good.

FINALLY UMBER IS THINKING FOR HIMSELF
Obviously I knew that character development was gonna have to happen at some point in the story, but it's still really nice to see

A sister and brother duo named Aurora and Borealis is hilarious🤣 Also the Memory Room is literally copy and paste of the Pensieve in Harry Potter.

WAIT why was that so much more emotional than I thought it would be?! Huh?! MXTX strikes again with her ability to traumatize the readers using her own characters...

Okay, we're finally getting some answers to the secrets. Also I LOVE Platypus, I think she's supposed to be an annoying character but I fell in love with her instead.

YESSS we've got some cool creatures and monsters in here now! This is finally starting to sound a bit more like MXTX's writing. Still not 100% sounding as good as her other 2 series, but we might be getting there. I think it's just taking her a little longer to set up characters and basic plot with this one.

Wow so many things make sense now...I can't wait to uncover all of the other secrets!

OKAY WHEW we're really time skipping now. 2 years and our boy is 17, about to enter the Endless Abyss. By the time he reemerges, he should AT LEAST be 18 and then I can have peace with the fact that this is a romance story.

I KNEW IT. I KNEW ONCE YOU ENTERED THE COURT OF REFUGE YOU COULDN'T LEAVE. AND I BET THE FORCE FIELD WORKS ON UMBER AND SORA BECAUSE OF WHATEVER QUOKKA FED TO THEM.

"The ways of demons are extremely unpredictable and impossible to guard against. However, if you don't want to run into similar trouble in the future, you must become stronger...Actually, you need not worry too much. If you cannot become strong, I will stay by your side and protect you."
OKAY I SEE THE APPEAL NOW😍

Well that was weird. I wonder how the tiny metal dragons fit into the plot.

I bet once they enter the Court of Refuge they can never leave again, and that's what Mulberry was trying to warn them about.

First point: Yay we time skipped a little, Luo Binghe is now 15, so hopefully he'll be an adult by the time there's any smut and I don't have to feel weird about it.
Second point: Sha Hualing my baddie demonness😘
Third point: I'm hooked enough now to at least finish reading it. I was worried it might be a DNF for a second.

Okay, the story is getting a little better now. It's definitely funny. I'm just not getting that attachment to the characters that I want.