Petronia has not been invited to the festivities at the Château de Lioncourt.

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

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.

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 are other ways to engineer a crisis in Gilead.

"Whatever you want," Nathan finds himself saying when his shirt comes off over his head and his glasses hit the nightstand — like he's talking to himself, which he might as well be. "Don't think about it like should, or shouldn't. Don't think. Don't fucking try and figure it out. Come on. You can keep your shirt on."

The first time, though of course he doesn't know it's the first time, everything went exactly according to plan. Crowley got the baby, right on time. He took it to the nunnery, and didn't stop to talk to the man waiting outside. He observed the whole thing, and made sure no funny business happened. At the end of the night, the Antichrist went home with the Dowlings.

It takes 600 more tries to get it going exactly according to the right plan.

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

In Egypt, the emperor sleeps poorly.

Don Draper has a bad habit of throwing money at his problem. His latest problem is Michael Ginsberg.