Frontier's Breath
It might not be as simple as everyone thinks.
2025-09-18 04:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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MA Book 2; Prologue: Red Dawn
The world was woven from gentle shades of grey and the soft, percussive whisper of falling rain.
Dawn was still a hesitant promise on the eastern horizon, a faint, milky blush that had yet to muster the courage to bleed into the deep indigo of the receding night. Here, high in the remote spine of the Whispering Peaks, the air was thin and clean, rich with spiritual energy, and carrying th...
2025-09-16 08:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostStatus Update
Outlines for Book 2 of the Method Acting series are finally complete. I'm very excited about the plot! New chapters should begin arriving this week.
New chapter for Devil's Advocate will arrive this week as well. I'll be shooting for one to two chapters of Method Acting and one Devil's Advocate chapter per week.
2025-09-15 07:07:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Witcher 3 -- Hunt Or Be Hunted (The Constantine Cover)
Did this one awhile ago; might as well post it, right? Any Witcher fans in the audience?
Don't worry, I'm going to work on Book 2 of Method Acting this weekend. On both of the series, actually. Story updates are coming!
2025-09-12 17:36:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Devil's Advocate: Specific Performance (DA:SP) 1: A Special Snowflake
The first thing he was aware of was the cold. Not the biting, aggressive cold of the blizzard that raged against the windows of his empty apartment, but a deeper, more profound cold that seemed to emanate from the hollow space in his own chest. It was a cold of absolute emptiness, a vacuum where a life used to be. Cornelius Vance lay on a solitary mattress on the floor, the last piece of furnit...
2025-09-10 01:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhat’s Next
Thank you, everyone, for your support!
Going forward, for the next 6 months or so, I will be focusing on two books that will be posted on Patreon exclusively for the first 20 chapters. Book 2 of the Method Acting series will need a lot of outlining work before I can start actually writing the chapters, so… I don’t expect I’ll have anything new out for at least two weeks.
The ...
2025-09-06 16:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post36: Method Acting
AN: I want to congratulate you on making it to the end of the journey. Thank you very much for your support -- I couldn't have done it without you guys! (Well, OK, I probably could have, but I wouldn't have been anywhere near as motivated.) YOU are the true heroes of the story! Give yourselves a hand!
As far as Book 2: the updates will be Patreon-exclusive until I've built up at ...
2025-09-06 02:40:16 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue: Dead Man's Hand
AN: A little preview of what the Plot Bunnies have cooked up.
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The air in the suite was a thick, stagnant soup of scent and silence. It smelled of things that were old and expensive: the peat-bog musk of single-malt scotch, the buttery perfume of worn leather from the Chesterfield sofas, the sweet, spicy ghost of a recently extingui...
2025-08-30 02:26:27 +0000 UTC View PostRebirth (Su Lian's Theme)
Because of course Su Lian gets her own theme music.
2025-08-27 04:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post35: Pride and Fall
AN: I haven't done Su Lian's fight justice before. But now I have -- check out the re-written scene!
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The first sensation was not the gentle, insistent caress of the morning sun filtering through the worn silk screens of my window, but a violence within. A potent, almost furious thrumming in my meridians, a riv...
2025-08-25 12:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Artwork for Chapter 1 (The Gilded Cage)
In this post:
1) Leo awakens in a new body.
2) Leo integrates Jiang Li's memories.
3) Jiang Li examines the protective Jade talisman left by his Mother.
4) Jiang Li resolves to survive.
2025-08-19 05:36:58 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Artwork for "The Final Bow"
In this post:
1) "Frankie's" a-bit-too-realistic death in the mock alleyway on stage.
2) Leo bites his tongue during the fall.
3) Leo reflects on his life as an actor.
4) The Final Curtain falls.
2025-08-19 04:08:15 +0000 UTC View PostAgainst All Odds
I'm working hard on the next chapter (I estimate that we have two chapters left in Book 1, plus the Epilogue) -- in the meantime, please enjoy this song, which goes with the Earth's Stone Cold Embrace (well, this and Ruolan's Theme).
2025-08-18 23:59:32 +0000 UTC View Post34: The Earth's Stone Cold Embrace
[Warning: Golden Core-level Toxin 'Eternal Abyss Entombing Earth' Detected. Immediate Treatment Is Strongly Recommended.]
Oh. Joy.
Of-fucking-course someone would try to assassinate the Princess at her own welcome banquet! Why would I think any differently? This is a world of ambitious, backstabbing cultivators, not a polite tea party. And I, l...
2025-08-13 08:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostYes, it’s exactly what it looks like
Learning coding is a little challenging…. still, I hope to get at least an Early Access version out this year.
2025-08-03 01:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post33: Bouquet With Earthy Undertones
The grand banquet hall of the Governor's Palace was an arena of breathtaking, almost oppressive opulence. Soaring ceilings, held aloft by massive, luminous jade pillars that pulsed with a soft, internal light, were lost in a high, vaulted darkness where glowing night-pearls were suspended like a captive constellation. They cast a gentle, moon-like radiance down upon the assembled elite of the A...
2025-08-01 11:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post32.3: A Tale Of Bonds And Blood
Later, as the moon began its slow descent towards the horizon, I was in my bedroom, contemplating the strange, exhausting turns the day had taken, when there was a soft, hesitant knock on my door.
I opened it to find Ruolan standing there, and for a moment, the breath caught in my throat. The woman who now stood before me was far from the composed, perfectly-attired aide I was accustomed ...
2025-07-29 23:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post32.2: A Tale Of Bonds And Blood
After the elders finally departed, their minds buzzing with new prospects and their bodies thrumming with new power, I retired for the night.
But sleep did not come easily.
My mind was too active, the events of the day replaying themselves. The air in my opulent suite felt stale, confining. I needed a walk.
I needed space.
I stepped out onto the private balcony....
2025-07-28 20:09:01 +0000 UTC View Post32.1: A Tale Of Bonds And Blood
AN: Trivia: A shī lǐ ( 失礼 ) is a social misstep -- conceptually similar to a faux pas, although it is something you do rather than say. If you, instead, put your foot in your mouth, the Chinese term for that would probably be shī yán ( 失言 ) instead.
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2025-07-28 02:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post31: Oaths and Dimensions
I stood in the center of the room, the lingering, oppressive pressure of my dual auras now withdrawn, coiled back within me like a sleeping dragon whose lingering presence could still be felt in the sudden chill of the air.
The psychological atmosphere that followed was of a different quality than before. Just a few minutes earlier, the air had been heavy with judgment and the sour tang o...
2025-07-21 10:32:55 +0000 UTC View PostMusic Streaming Links
Ladies and Gentlemen: The music streaming links are out! Please use the below to enjoy outside of Patreon! The soundtrack for the story "Immortality Starts With Face" is the Album "Immortality," but I have a few other Albums you might like as well. There are even a couple of piano Albums (with sheet music available on Amazon if you happen to play).
Defying Heaven (Lin Ruolan’s Theme)
Best steward needs the sickest theme music.
2025-07-10 05:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post30.2 The Greatest Sin Of All
The long, opulent corridors of the main manor were just as I remembered them from the original Jiang Li's youth, all polished dark spirit woods and silent, gliding servants. As we walked, a procession of servants having swarmed us at the entrance hall, bowing deeply and murmuring respectful greetings, Yue moved closer to me. She had watched the entire exchange with my brother with an amu...
2025-07-09 07:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post30.1: The Greatest Sin Of All
“Well, well, look at what the provincial dust has dragged in. Jiang Li. Our clan’s newest…. celebrity….”
The voice, sharp and laced with a sarcasm so thick it was almost a physical poison, practically dripped from the branches of a nearby spirit-peach tree -- whose blossoms (a delicate, glowing pink) seemed to wilt in its mere presence.
From behind...
2025-07-09 05:17:34 +0000 UTC View PostFrost Serpent Guardians
A little something for everyone while we wait for the next chapter to finish.
2025-07-03 03:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s note regarding writing schedule
Hi guys! Thank you for supporting the story. The new official writing schedule will be “whenever I am able to post an update.” I’ll shoot for twice a week, but it could be faster or slower than that. I write every night, so I’m hoping it will be faster — but I can’t commit to releasing on any particular day.
2025-06-29 19:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post29: The Golden Mandate
The flying boat cut a near-silent, arrow-straight path through the heavens, leaving the pastoral tranquility of the Lin estate far behind. A couple thousand feet below us, the patchwork of farms and rugged hills gave way to the view featuring the great artery of commerce that was the Imperial Highway: a broad, checkered ribbon of packed earth and heavy stone blocks (the surfaces of the l...
2025-06-29 04:25:41 +0000 UTC View PostAncient Spirit Cavern (Qingshan Industrial Theme)
I promise I'm working on Chapter 29 (it's pretty hard to write, and I want to get it right). In the meantime -- please enjoy this Qingshan Cavern theme!
2025-06-25 01:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post28: Interlude, A Game of Shadows… and Savory Pies
The Jiang Compound was a statement of audacious wealth: a bold declaration, etched in stone and spirit wood, that occupied an entire city block within Yuhang City’s prestigious Golden Mandate Quarter. Here, at the very political and economic heart of Azure Province, nestled between the imposing fortress-like structures of the Provincial Governor's administrative complex and th...
2025-06-17 20:59:52 +0000 UTC View Post