Lan Wangji will never tell Wei Wuxian what he did after the massacre at Nightless City—what his brother would call the only mistake he ever made. Nor will he forget it himself.

Gabrielle's travels take her to a new continent, but the city she hunts in already belongs to someone else.

Chen Chou first met Xu Dong back when he and Zhang xiong were first preparing for the Capital Examination, when they all got drawn into the series of weird cases that led up to a failed coup and everyone in the capital nearly dying from a mist of red pollen.

Their relationship has only been like this since Chen Chou and Zhang Ping moved to Yiping County, though.

Chen Chou and Xu Dong's arrangement through the years, and how everyone els…

There's got to be a way to bring back Wen Ning's consciousness, Wei Wuxian knows, and if he can't do it himself, then maybe Lan Wangji can help. Unfortunately for Lan Wangji and his suffering heart, he would do nearly anything for Wei Wuxian. Wen Ning did not get a say, because that's the root of the whole problem.

There are other ways to engineer a crisis in Gilead.

The king is sick, and the prince is his cure.

Johnny goes to Mexico, and there's one more Ex-President.

There in that white-gilt bedroom like a tomb, where I believe none of Gatsby's guests had ever before set foot except by mistake — none until Daisy, and I was only her adjunct and proxy, an accessory to her presence there in the house. He had forgotten about me then. He had forgotten about me now. I was his only witness.

In Egypt, the emperor sleeps poorly.

October 14: En route to Varna, Seward must tell a fellow suitor what transpired one night at Hillingham.