2026 is the year xianxia came roaring back: Renegade Immortal, A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality and Sword of Coming keep topping the donghua charts. The hotter the shows, the more readers go back to the original novels.

Thirty-five chapters, six days, and a whole city of Rome in the shadow of a device that could level three square kilometers. A rare modern mystery with a Vietnamese physicist at its heart, who wins with nothing but her own mind.

Unlike our short stories, our long stories are split into named chapters with a table of contents. Here are three to start with: a mystery, an occult thriller and a palace-intrigue epic.