Although Xiahou Lian and Shen Jue have reunited, danger casts a shadow over their lives together. Xiahou Lian hasn't managed to stamp out Qiye Garden, and under a new leader, that sinister enclave of assassins has become more bold. Xiahou Lian and Shen Jue's allies have already begun to vanish, die, or turn against them. And making matters worse, the mysterious, debilitating "Paradise Fruit" has grown more and more entrenched in Great Qi.Staving off Qiye Garden and eliminating the Paradise...

Xiahou Lian, the youngest assassin of the infamous Qiye Garden enclave, has infiltrated the prestigious Xie household on a vague but deadly mission. Posing as a servant under Xie Jinglan, the youngest son of the family, he bides his time, awaiting orders. But as the days pass, an unexpected bond forms between them--mark and assassin alike--throwing a wrench in Xiahou Lian's plans. The decision he makes will land him in dire straits with the Qiye Garden, while Xie Jinglan walks free.Two yea...

After converging in the capital, Xiahou Lian and Shen Jue soon learn that the imperial court is no safer than the roads that brought them there. Power is shifting perilously, secrets are tightening around them, and Xiahou Lian's attempts to protect himself through deception place him in unexpected danger.Shaken by the fallout, the two dare to rebuild the bond they once lost. As Xiahou Lian gains a foothold in the Eastern Depot, he and Shen Jue are swept into a storm of treachery and enemie...

Reeling from the devastating loss of someone close to him, young assassin Xiahou Lian sets off on a perilous journey to find his long-lost brother, who's hidden away on a remote and forbidding mountain. But what Xiahou Lian encounters at the summit isn't the reunion he imagined. Instead, he's thrust into a web of secrets and betrayals more harrowing than anything he's faced in Qiye Garden.Within the palace walls, Shen Jue moves like a shadow. Though he wears a mask of obedience while servi...

Three decades after 1989, historical materials are now available for understanding the Tiananmen protests in a new light. In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, Yang Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure against a revolutionary mobilization. Beneath the political drama, Deadly Decision in Beijing expl...

The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the form of public execution. Victims included women, children, and the elderly. This book is the first to systematically document and analyze these atrocities, drawing data from local archives, government documents, and interviews with survivors in two southern provinces. This book extracts from the Chinese case les...

"Embrace a culinary adventure right in your kitchen with Su Yang's new eBook, '60 Healthy Salad Dressings Recipes'. Discover the joy of creating and tasting homemade salad dressings that are not just delightful but also beneficial for your health.As Su turned 60, she noticed a dip in her appetite and became increasingly aware of the undesired ingredients in store-bought dressings. This inspired her to research and compile a collection of unique, palate-pleasing, and health-boosting...

This book offers new insights and critical perspectives on the integration of computational thinking, engineering design process, and AI literacy into early childhood education.The authors draw on research from around the world in early childhood education and computer science education (CSE) to explore the possibilities, benefits and challenges of incorporating emerging technologies into the formal and informal learning settings for young children aged 3-8 years. ...

S960 Ultra-High Strength Steel Welded I-Section Structural Members focuses on the structural behaviour and design of S960 ultra-high strength welded I-section components under different loading cases, with detailed introduction on experimental and numerical programme presented. The actual use of S960 ultra-high strength welded I-section components is restricted, to some extent, by the lack of appropriate design rules, since the current international design standards can only be applicable ...

This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari’a criminal law alongside English common law in northern Nigeria has created a hybridised criminal legal system through a pluralist dynamic of mutual accommodation. It studies how this system may potentially be accommodated by the International Criminal Court.The work examines how this could be accommodated through the current understanding and operation of complementarity, and that it could ultimately prove t...

The two-volume set LNAI 13495 and LNAI 13496, constitute the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022, held as a virtual event, during May 14-15, 2022.In total the two-volume set includes 39 full papers and 19 short papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 214 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics; corpus linguistics; general linguistics, lexical resources; computational...

This book comprises selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2024, Chongqing, China) and the 19th International Conference on Future Information Technology (Future Tech 2024, Chongqing, China). And this book presents the latest developments in the field of ubiquitous computing technologies. It also discusses the state of the art in the development of computational methods, involving theory, algori...