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The Water Margin
Enter the world of *The Water Margin*, also known as *Outlaws of the Marsh*. In this 120-chapter Chinese classic, soldiers, officials, monks, and ordinary people are drawn together by injustice and fate. As their paths lead toward the stronghold at Liangshan, they face corrupt authorities, dangerous enemies, and difficult choices about loyalty, friendship, and honor. Follow the story chapter by chapter, from the first unlikely encounters to the rise and fall of a band of heroes whose names have…
Episodes

The Water MarginChapter 40 Liu Laolao Knows Her Role and Plays the Jester Well
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The Water MarginChapter 39 Liu Laolao Comes to Visit Again
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The Water MarginChapter 38 The Crab Feast and Chrysanthemum Poetry Contest
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The Water MarginChapter 37 Baochai Knows How Poetry Should Enrich Life
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The Water MarginChapter 36 Baoyu's Grand Realization
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The Water MarginChapter 35 Baoyu's Mother Expects Xiren as Her Son's Moral Gate-Keeper
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The Water MarginChapter 34 Baoyu's Suffering Stirred up the Hearts of the Three Closest Young Women
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The Water MarginChapter 33 Accumulated Retribution:Baoyu Was Beaten up By His Father very very Badly
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The Water MarginChapter 32 Madame Wang's Maid Jinchuan, Banished and Shamed, Killed Herself
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The Water MarginChapter 31 Toxic Affection: A Spoiled Baoyu Spoils His Maids
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The Water MarginChapter 30 Our Golden Boy, as a Trouble-Maker and Self-Saboteur, Has a Field Day
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The Water MarginChapter 29 Grandma's Comment "Not Foes Never Meet" Tells the Truth Behind
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The Water MarginChapter 28 With All the Sentimental, Familial and Social Attractions and Pressures Baoyu Is Like Wondwering in a “Mine Field” Daily
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The Water MarginChapter 27 Lin Hongyu Shines With Upward Mobility Whilw Lin Daiyu Crys Out With Deep Existential Loneliness
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The Water MarginChapter 26 An Servant Girl's Mishap Sends Lin Daiyu into Deep Self-Pity and Sorrow
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The Water MarginChapter 25 A Desperate Bitter Concubine Resorts to Black Spells to Kill But Divine Intervention Saves the Victims
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The Water MarginChapter 24 A Young Distant Relative Is Struggling To Get a Job in the Mansions
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The Water MarginChapter 23 Baoyu and His Sisters and Cousins Move to the Grand View Garden Which Seems a Blessed Paradise, Or Is It?
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The Water MarginChapter 22 Baoyu's Belaved Girls Subdued His Rare Enlightment Then the Sisters Omneous Subconscious Upset the Father's Mind
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The Water MarginChapter 21 The Daily Indulgence, Jealousy, Competition, Lust and Betrayal
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The Water MarginChapter 20 The Micro-Politics Inside the Grand View Garden
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The Water MarginChapter 19 The Two Young Women in Baoyu's Heart
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The Water MarginChapter 18 The Imperial Consort, Jia Yuanchun's Bitter-Sweet Home-Coming
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The Water MarginChapter 17 Though Still Mourning, Baoyu Shows His Poetic Talent Touring Daguanyuan With His Father and Guests
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The Water MarginChapter 16 Jia Family Rose to Imperial Relative Status But Qin Zhong Died Young
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The Water MarginChapter 15 How The Mourning Youthful and Powerful Conduct Themselves in a Sacred Place
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The Water MarginChapter 14 Wang Xifeng as the Iron Lady Commander Juggles the Two Huge Mansions' Management
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The Water MarginChapter 13 Qin Keqing Died and the Funeral Is a Spectacle Out of Proportion
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The Water MarginChapter 12 Although Fengjie's Cold-Blood Punishments Were Vicious, Jia Rui Died of Self-Destruction
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The Water MarginChapter 11 Jia Rui Doesn't Know He Is Having His Crush on the Wrong Lady
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The Water MarginChapter 10 Grudge and Complaint Are Sidelined by an Ominous Medical Crisis
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The Water MarginChapter 9 The Young Master's Deviation From Tradition Causes Conflicts in School
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The Water MarginChapter 8 Baochai vs Daiyu,Destiny vs Sentamentality
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The Water MarginChapter 7 Baoyu and Qin Zhong Found Soulmate in Each Other
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The Water MarginChapter 6 Liu Laolao, a Distand Relative, Comes to Visit the Rong Mansions
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The Water MarginChapter 5 With All the Heaven's Hints and Warnings in His Dream Bao Yu Has No Clue
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The Water MarginChapter 2 A Kick-Ball Player's Meteoric Rise to the Top
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The Water MarginChapter 4 The Treacherous Officialdom
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The Water MarginChapter 3 The Teacher and Pupil Each Heads for a New Life
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The Water MarginChapter 2 Gossip About the Rich and Poweful
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The Water MarginChapter 1 A Celestial Stone's Longing
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The Water MarginChapter 1 An Imperial Marshal's Blunder
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