soapa
Stories
6
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201
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619.5 K
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Reading
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Light Pink Everything around me was hazy, like a blurry filter had been applied, and the city sounds were muted. It all felt surreal. I couldn’t immediately grasp what I had just heard. If basic politeness hadn’t pushed me to respond, I might have stood frozen like a statue. In my dazed state, I managed to utter a single word that encapsulated my feelings. “Why?” As soon as I asked, I snapped back to reality. My “why” was just a meaningless expression of my surprise, but it was the…-
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Yu Duqiu calmly pressed the bedside bell while maintaining his grip on the man's neck. Within ten seconds, a commotion arose at the suite's door. The facial recognition lock had recorded his entourage’s faces. Lou Baoguo's face was the largest and the first to be recognized. He burst into the bedroom ahead of the others, shouting, "Young Master! Are you—" Two disheveled figures on the bed looked up in response. One was pinned down with his neck being held, and the other, shirtless, was…-
187.9 K • Ongoing
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Early in the morning, sunlight streamed into the bedroom, filling the room with brightness. It was as if the shadow of death that had loomed over everyone last night had never existed. Yu Duqiu had forgotten to close the curtains the night before. The sunlight shining in irritated him, and he blindly reached out for the automatic curtain control button on the bedside table with his eyes closed. "A bit to the left." "!" He opened his eyes abruptly, then quickly lowered his head to ease the sudden…
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Midnight At midnight, all was silent. While the police officers of the Xinjinqu Public Security Bureau were still busy collecting evidence in the banquet hall, most of the frightened guests in the hotel rooms had already gone to bed. In the prestigious city-view suite on the twenty-fifth floor, the silk curtains hung on both sides. The pitch-black night scene outside the window offered nothing to see. Inside the room, only a bedside lamp with a stained glass shade provided light, casting a warm…
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Lu Qing remarked, "Hmm?" Peng Deyu, who dyed his newly graying hair black every month at the barbershop, twitched at the sight of that head of silver hair. "I wanted to ask yesterday... Is this the trend among young people nowadays?" A group of young police officers strongly denied, "We young people don’t do that! Please don’t generalize!" "Sorry, I haven’t shaken off some habits from abroad." Yu Duqiu quickly searched his mind and picked a phrase he thought was appropriate to greet the…
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21 years old It was probably some day in July. It must have been around 3 a.m. I was walking home after finishing my shift at my part-time job. It was about four stops away, but there were no buses, and it felt too wasteful to take a taxi. After working part-time for a few weeks and walking home at dawn, I started to quite enjoy it. I found myself surprisingly fond of the tranquility of the empty streets. Still, it was quite boring, and I wished I could listen to music, but I couldn’t wear…
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Why does he keep asking? But then he continued to ask detailed questions: what time I go to the library, how I handle meals, if anyone packs a lunch for me. I gradually showed signs of discomfort and suddenly flinched. Wait a minute, he’s a cop. Does he suspect me of being the culprit? “Do you live alone? Your younger sister… does your family live somewhere else?” “My sister is married, and my parents have moved back to our hometown.” Huh? How does he know I have a sister? Could he…
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26 years old The factory where I worked was on the outskirts of Gyeonggi Province. In the few years I’ve been there, I could count the times I came out to Seoul’s bustling districts on one hand. My friends and I mostly met in the neighborhood when they went home on weekends. Places like the popular University Street or the multiplex shopping malls they frequented felt unfamiliar to me. On a hot July summer day, sweating profusely in a suit, I got off at City Hall Station. Inside my suit was a…
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I quickly denied it, laughing awkwardly before pausing to ask, “You really did quit being a police officer, right?” “Yes,” he nodded with a smile. Feeling unnecessarily guilty, I added, “It’s not because I did anything bad.” “I know, hyung.” “…Ah, okay.” And that’s how I started speaking informally to him. Trying to hide my discomfort, I took another sip of my drink. Suddenly, I remembered him looking at my waist earlier. There wasn’t anything unusual about my…
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11 PM. Even at a lively place like the Grand Hyatt Hotel, it's about the time for the public festivities to end, though what kind of revelry might continue behind closed doors is anyone's guess. However, tonight, not a single luxury car had left the premises, and several police cars with flashing red and blue lights had instead gathered at the entrance. The hotel area was cordoned off, and after the police and security personnel calmed the guests, they were all sent back to their rooms. Those who…
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