Why Does the Earth Rotate? After physics class in high school, I asked my teacher, “Why does the Earth rotate?” My teacher said, “Newton didn’t know either, so he simply said God gave the Earth a kick, and that’s why it spins.” But t...
When I was in high school, my physics teacher taught that the Moon has no magnetic field, while the Earth does. Thanks to the magnetic field, humans can use a compass to find direction when lost in the desert. For navigation at sea, the compass i...
Jack was a striking high school student—sunny, handsome, and tall. He had no shortage of girls admiring him from afar, yet his heart belonged entirely to Alice, his foreign language teacher. Alice came from a wealthy family; her father was a mine ...
Yan Xiaofan could crawl when he was only six months old. Liu E’zi thought to herself: this...
Yan Xiaofan’s name was given to him by his father, Yan Gaoshan. According to village...
As the faint glow of the ionosphere washed over Yan Shifan’s soul, he still clung to the rage and...
The forty-fourth year of the Jiajing reign, late autumn. The glazed tiles of the Forbidden...
The 34th Year of the Jiajing Reign, December. By the time Yan Shifan’s sedan chair stopped in...
The Mender Who Mended the Sky Chen Xiu was an appliance repairman. They called him “One-Touch Wonder,” because anything he laid his hands on would work again. But most of the appliances he fixed were old and worn-out, and his wife often compla...
Day thirty of the interstellar blockade. Ling, the youngest surgeon aboard the medical vessel, had just finished an operation. Before she could even take off her hazmat suit, she was swept out of the ship by a violent air current from an out-o...
Xiaoke was dragged to the end of the hallway by his buddies during the study break. The phone screen blazed brightly. The words in the chat pierced him like needles: Xiaoyun had checked into a cheap hotel near the school with another guy. ...
Beneath the setting sun, the walls of the Women’s Kingdom glowed with a soft pink hue. Xuanzang reined in his white horse, his Adam’s apple bobbing unconsciously. The air was thick with a cloying, sweet fragrance, strangely familiar. Sun Wukon...
The Starzhou let out a deathly metallic shriek as it plowed through dark matter turbulence, and tension gripped everyone on board.The fleet’s destination was a floating starfield deep in space known as Starzhou.It drifted with genesis particles le...
Humankind first noticed the Moon when they still lived in caves. They had no writing, no...
Earth was finally calm. The Moon’s tides continued to slow its rotation. A day stretched...
After its birth, the Moon pulled gently at Earth with its gravity, like a newborn creature...
The Sun and the Earth would never claim this child as their own. Not for lack of love, but out of...
At some moment in cosmic time, a breathtaking sight unfolded. Earth tore itself open...
God sat motionless before the crystal ball for a long time, his fingers brushing the smooth...
After Mars was written off, God staked all his hopes on Earth. But even after he tweaked...
God buried his face in his arms, breathing evenly. Then he dreamed.The scene in the dream was...
One day, God called for his servant. He had never intended to do so. In four and a half...
It was another five hundred million years before God truly remembered Mars. “Remembered”...
God first noticed the problem thirty-five billion years after Creation. Or rather, not...
Deep in the void, nebulae drift like silk ribbons torn apart by time, flowing slowly through...
The plane touched down in the small border town as the sunset dyed the sky red. Ning Xiaoshuai...
Filled with doubt, Ning Xiaoshuai returned to the duty room. The moment he pushed open the door,...
The rain came again, fine threads drifting through the night, thick with the damp smell of wet...
That night, Chen Guo lay on an Italian leather sofa—cream-white, top-grain calfskin. When he...
Chen Guo stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows of his 28th-floor office in Jinding...