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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
βDesire is the cause of all suffering. All Zhu had ever desired was to live. Now she felt the pure strength of that desire inside her, as inseparable as her breath or qi, and knew she would suffer from it. She couldnβt even begin to imagine the awful magnitude of the suffering that would be…
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