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Prologue | p. 1 |
The Appropriate Door Fits the Frame of the Correct House | p. 5 |
Converting Iron into Gold | p. 13 |
Inseparable as Each Other's Shadows | p. 18 |
Surpassing Loveliness Good Enough to Feast Upon | p. 25 |
An Episode of a Spring Dream | p. 34 |
Family Ugliness Should Never be Aired in Public | p. 42 |
Climbing a Tree to Seek for Fish | p. 75 |
Extend the Same Treatment to All | p. 91 |
Inspired Scholar in an Enchanting Land | p. 99 |
Each Day Passes Like a Year | p. 107 |
Original Ideas in Literary Composition | p. 112 |
Same Bed, Different Dreams | p. 118 |
Is Anything Impossible? | p. 122 |
One Lute, One Crane | p. 135 |
Fish Swimming in a Cauldron | p. 141 |
One Horse, Single Spear | p. 151 |
Marry a Chicken, Follow a Chicken | p. 157 |
You Plant Melons, You Reap Melons | p. 167 |
Hearts Reduced to Ashes | p. 178 |
Scales and Shells in the Belly | p. 193 |
Heavenmade Union | p. 206 |
Besieged by Hostile Forces on All Sides | p. 212 |
Coarse Tea and Plain Rice | p. 218 |
While Drinking Water, Remember the Source | p. 227 |
Sever This Kinship with One Whack of the Knife | p. 235 |
Creating Waves Without Wind | p. 240 |
Near Vermilion, One Gets Stained Red; Near Ink, One Gets Stained Black | p. 244 |
Wine and Meat Friends | p. 252 |
Headless and Clueless Case | p. 261 |
Opened the Door to Salute the Thief | p. 264 |
Steal the Bell While Covering Your Ears | p. 268 |
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots | p. 271 |
Index | p. 275 |
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