Stained Glass
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Cheng Xiaoshi, Qiao Ling, and Lu Guang share milk tea together for the very first time.
Qiao Ling recalls this memory like it’s not her own, and is left uncomfortably wondering how and why she could become a stranger to her own body, her own consciousness.
This is not the only time this will happen.
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The first time.
Five times Qiao Ling saw Lu Guang’s memories, and one time she dared to ask.
Can be read individually or as part one of a series, Stained Glass.)Series
- Part 1 of Stained Glass
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The first birthday to pass after their release from the hospital is Lu Guang’s.
Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling are adamant that they should celebrate, but the concept seems lost on Lu Guang.
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Memories rush through Qiao Ling like a film reel: one time that she was there for Lu Guang’s birthday, and one time that she wasn’t.
She’s left wondering how to show someone they’ll always be loved when maybe they don’t know how.
Sometimes, even the purest acts of love and goodwill can be hard to accept.
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The second time.
Five times Qiao Ling saw Lu Guang’s memories, and one time she dared to ask.
Can be read individually or as part two of a series, Stained Glass.)Series
- Part 2 of Stained Glass
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A winter storm has some people under the weather. Under the pressure, secrets begin to finally rise to the surface…
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The third time.
Five times Qiao Ling saw Lu Guang’s memories, and one time she dared to ask.
Can be read individually or as part three of a series, Stained Glass.)Series
- Part 3 of Stained Glass
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Secrets, memories, and truth collide—and the aftermath is violent.
Lu Guang lie unconscious on Qiao Ling’s floor, and neither she nor Cheng Xiaoshi can understand how it happened. Why Qiao Ling is on the verge of tears. Why Lu Guang looks as if he were just peacefully sleeping.
None of it is okay, none of it makes sense.
But the past always catches up to the present, no matter how expertly you run.
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The fourth time.
Five times Qiao Ling saw Lu Guang’s memories, and one time she dared to ask.
Can be read individually or as part four of a series, Stained Glass.)Series
- Part 4 of Stained Glass
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Even the worst memories can be familiar.
Cheng Xiaoshi knows this because—yet again—he’s stuck in a hospital waiting room, tied to Qiao Ling like a tether. No one has answers for him. There’s barely any hints. All he has is the bone-deep need to see Lu Guang’s eyes open again, and enough raw determination to uncover the truth buried deep underground, even if it lay six feet under.
Maybe a clue lies in that day back in Bridon, one that Cheng Xiaoshi wishes he could forget.
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The fifth time.
Five times Qiao Ling saw Lu Guang’s memories, and one time she dared to ask.
Can be read individually or as part five of a series, Stained Glass.)Series
- Part 5 of Stained Glass
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Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling hold tight to one another as everything around them threatens to fade away. They can only cling to the hope that the answers they seek will come faster than their demise—that Lu Guang will wake up and hold them tightly, too.
Secrets are coming to light, and they will learn that some things cannot be buried twice. One thing Lu Guang knows for sure: no one is free from consequence.
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The sixth time.
Five times Qiao Ling saw Lu Guang’s memories, and one time she dared to ask.
Can be read individually or as part six of a series, Stained Glass.)Series
- Part 6 of Stained Glass
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Reality has been dismantled. Lu Guang has been tying and retying its very fabric in the shadows, suffering in silence through his attempts to save the people he holds dear. When they finally confront him with his own secret, he’s left utterly defenseless.
He’s fought all this time to save everyone else. At the end of his rope and faced with the truth of his actions, is there anything left of him worth saving?
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Lu Guang’s world folds in on itself while Cheng Xiaoshi and Qiao Ling refuse to let him be swallowed. Meanwhile, Captain Xiao Li is discovering bricks laid by another party, and it’s anything but welcoming…
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The seventh time. Five times Qiao Ling saw Lu Guang’s memories, and one time she dared to ask… and the aftermath that followed.
Can be read individually or as part seven of a series, Stained Glass.)Series
- Part 7 of Stained Glass