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The story of the peach garden trio is universally known in China and is often alluded to as a symbol of fraternal loyalty. This story tells how three legendary figures from the period, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, met and became sworn brothers. This story is adapted from a part of the novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, one of the four great classic novels in Chinese literature, and is based on a vocabulary of 600 characters.

I am a stray cat. My task each day is to find something to eat and somewhere to sleep. But it’s not easy … This is an original story based on a vocabulary of 150 characters.

A man with no family. A dog with no family. Two lonely souls come together. The man takes the tram to work every morning. The dog goes to the tram station to see the man off to work in the morning and is waiting for him at the tram station when he gets home in the evening. The man and the dog live happily together. However, one day, the dog waits anxiously at the tram station, but the man does not return. This story is adapted from the story of "Hachiko: The Faithful Dog" and is based on a vocabulary of 300 characters.

Many years ago, Xiang’er and her two children walked all the way to the capital city to look for her husband, Chen Shimei. Xiang’er’s husband had left their home three years previously to take the national examination and had not been heard from since. Is her husband still alive? Will she be able to find her husband? Chen Shimei’s is a household name in China, and often appears in Chinese operas. This story is adapted from the Ming Dynasty novel “Cases of Judge Bao” and is based on a vocabulary of 1,000 characters.

What happens when an immortal god falls in love with a mortal and they have a child? This story tells the tale of a forbidden love that violates the rules of heaven. In order to rescue his family from the angry gods, the child must pursue a dangerous path. The story is adapted from a famous ancient Chinese folktale and is based on a vocabulary of 1,500 characters.

Following a string of bizarre disappearances, the house at number thirty-three in the mysterious Silk Garden housing development became famous as the “house that eats people”. Sun Lin’s investigation uncovered many clues, but many mysteries remain unsolved. Have the missing people really disappeared? What is the connection between fourteen playing cards and the rare exhibits? Can Sun Lin and the famous detective Ji Ping find the truth? This adaptation of Sun Liaohong’s “The House at Number Thirty-Three” is based on a vocabulary of 2,500 characters.