The Fox and the Monkey | 狐狸与猴子
A fox and a monkey argue about their lineage. The monkey claims the monuments in a cemetery honor...
Alfred Nobel: A Man of Contrasts | 阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔：一个充满矛盾的人
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes, was a paradoxical...
The Victory Within | 自胜为强
Zi Xia explains that his physical weight gain stems from an inner victory, where his reverence fo...
Counting on Luck | 心存侥幸
Despite a brutal law in the state of Chu that sentenced secret gold panners to be torn apart, man...
The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller | 烧炭人与漂布匠
A charcoal-burner invites a fuller to live together to save costs, but the fuller refuses, knowin...
Sweetheart Roland | 爱人罗兰
A kind step-daughter escapes her witch step-mother's murder plot with her lover Roland. Using mag...
The Star-Child 5 | 星孩 5
The Star-Child, after three years of loveless wandering, is denied entry to a city while searchin...
Donkey Cabbages | 驴甘蓝
A kind huntsman gains magical treasures but is betrayed by a witch and her daughter. Stranded by ...
The Heshibi Jade | 和氏璧
The story of Bian He, who persistently presented a raw jade stone to three successive Chu kings, ...
An Old Horse Knows the Way | 老马识途
The idiom tells how Duke Huan of Qi's army, lost in a winter snowstorm, found their way home by f...
The Trial of the Brides | 新娘的考验
A shepherd uses his mother's cheese-eating test to choose a wife among three sisters, selecting t...
Beyond a Single Best Friend | 不止一个最好的朋友
The author shares a personal story about learning that relying on a single, controlling "best fri...
Gulp! Gulp! | 咕咚！咕咚！
A young man in New York, terrified of cockroaches, buys a gecko as a natural solution. The gecko ...
The Young King (Part 2) | 少年国王（下）
The young king, obsessed with the splendor of his upcoming coronation, dreams of the luxurious it...
The Lotus Eaters | 食莲者
Odysseus's crew, upon eating the enchanted lotus on an island, fall into a forgetful lethargy, lo...
Kangaroos and the Cage | 袋鼠与笼子
Zookeepers repeatedly raise a cage's height to contain escaping kangaroos, only to realize the tr...
The Millet Dream | 一枕黄粱
A Tang Dynasty scholar's brief nap, induced by a magical pillow, encompasses a lifetime of glory,...
Saving the Birds | 拯救雏鸟
A young Abraham Lincoln, traveling with fellow lawyers, stops to rescue fallen robin chicks while...
The Tack Hammer | 图钉之锤
A teacher with a hidden back brace uses a shocking act—hammering a tack through his tie into his ...
Dong's Cats | 东氏养猫
A man in ancient Wei raises over a hundred cats until they eradicate all rats. Pampered with dail...
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