After transmigrating into a fantasy realm, Chu Ge awakens the absurdly named Villain Diary Check-In Sign-In System. Each diary entry grants him escalating power—from Spirit Body to Saint Body—while the world subtly reshapes around him. As chosen heroes rise and immortal beauties flock to his side, Chu Ge finds himself cast as the ultimate villain. Standing atop the cultivation world, he cries out in frustration: “System, you’ve misunderstood me! I’m not a Cao thief!”
1905. An idealistic painter flees London for rural Dorset, convinced genius will one day be recognised. But it is his overlooked wife, Henrietta, who discovers inspiration in an enigmatic ex-soldier while a reckless weekend of absinthe, artists and shattered conventions exposes the gulf between lofty ideals and human desire. In the end, art—not scandal—delivers the greatest surprise.
The lives of two fugitive brothers of successive Phoenician kings become entwined in the villa of the Greek philosopher exile Phaedo, where one fugitive is Phaedo's fourteen-year-old catamite, Hiero, and the other, Prince Xander, brother of the current Phoenician king, is a hidden guest. Hiero and Xander's lives as sometimes lovers continue to intersect over the years of trying to gain the throne.
Some memories, experiences, attitudes, and fantasies from my early teens, with some present day wishful thinking and regrets about those years, tagged on.. You figure out what's what. LOL.
Set in 1926 Los Angeles, this is yet another of my peeks into sex in the days gone by. After a night at the movies, Ginny and Trudy get taken for a ride that neither of them expected.
Dorset, 1926. Young, wealthy and afflicted by a profound boredom, a recently orphaned gentleman drifts through life with little enthusiasm for anything. Only his conversations with his loyal butler, Wilson, offer a spark of interest. When an unexpected discussion about human desire leads to a startling discovery, master and servant find themselves bound by an unusual understanding that will quietly reshape both their lives.