Star-Embracing Swordmaster - Chapter 15 - 38 - Give and Take (1)

After being torn from the only life she knew, 16-year-old Margo is forced into a new home with strangers who call themselves her parents. Haunted by memories of her past and consumed by feelings of isolation, she struggles to adapt to her unfamiliar surroundings. School offers little relief—until she meets Lucien, a mysterious boy who appears just when she needs a friend the most.Gabriel is everything Margo needs: kind, attentive, and always ready to whisk her away from her troubles. Each night, he invites her to secret places—an abandoned playground, a fog-choked garden, a crumbling train station at the edge of town—each more unsettling than the last. Yet with every chilling rendezvous, Margo feels more alive... more seen.But something isn’t right. Gabriel never comes to school during the day. Her adoptive parents never see him. And when they catch her talking to thin air, their concern deepens into fear. They say Gabriel isn't real—that he’s a figment of her imagination. Margo wants to believe them, but Gabriel feels real. More real than anything else in her life.As the nights grow colder and more twisted, Gabriel’s true nature begins to surface. Shadows move where they shouldn’t. Time warps in his presence. And the places they visit seem to echo with whispers from another world. Margo is forced to ask herself: Who—or what—is Gabriel? Why does he only want her? And what will happen on the final night he asks her to come with him?As the line between reality and delusion begins to crumble, Margo must make an impossible choice: stay in a world where she feels loved, or return to one that barely feels real.But one thing is certain—some friendships never let go.

As the youngest in the sect, Xie Chi, who has the best talent but only physical superhumanity, went down the mountain with a heavy responsibility.
The second week after going down the mountain, the brothers and sisters at home received urgent help from the younger sister: Brother and sister, the female ghost I raised has eaten several evil ghosts today. Will she have a stomach upset?
Brothers: ? ? ? Junior Sister! Say it again, what are you raising?
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Author’s Note:
①: Xie Chi x Lin Xia, Natural Black x Natural Stay
②: Spiritual direction, including live broadcast, sweet text, not scary, really
③: Welcome to catch insects but refuse to be strong, the pits are guaranteed, welcome to collect ducks
Also known as “Ji you are too beautiful” (not really)

Content tags: Spiritual Gods and monsters Sweet text Live broadcast Metaphysics
Search keywords: Protagonists: Xie Chi, Lin Xia ┃ Supporting roles: Pre-received text “The Queen is a Cat” ┃ Others:

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A strange accident occurred in Heavenly Spire City, triggering the odd awakening of certain individuals.There was an Higher Being behind it, causing some victims to awaken.While most people barely saw it.Cohen spoke with it.Before vanishing, the being gave him the large remainder of its power.As a result, Cohen awakened a Mythic Class, [Priest of Primordial], along with an SSS Talent, [Baptism].His power allows him to transform creatures into Primordial Beings, beasts that have affinity with different cosmic elements, evolving them into terrifying new forms that follow him with absolute loyalty.[Elax the Frost Dragon has been converted into a Mythic Gray Lunar Dragon.][Slime has been converted into a Mythic Living Dimension Slime.][Dire Hawk has been converted into a Unique Star-Cutting Hawk.]Creatures under his command already wield abilities like [Blink], [Gate Opening], [Gravity Manipulation], [Stellar Blasts] and [Entropy Fangs].But the world is still collapsing.The guilds have grown interest and fear for his abilities. Gates are appearing faster, bringing stronger monsters. And something connected to that mysterious being is beginning to move again.As chaos spreads, Cohen calmly builds his primordial army.The question people ask is no longer whether Cohen will survive the apocalypse.It is whether the world can survive him.

When I became a rich young master, I had to enjoy it.