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...
Chen Guo was born into a working-class family on an old street. His father, Chen Guang, was quiet...
It was just past midnight on the duty room’s digital clock. The lights were pale and dim....
The rain pattered softly, rustling against the pine trees in the cemetery. Ning Xiaoshuai pulled...
It was cool on the late summer night. Ning Xiaoshuai straightened the collar of his uniform,...
Ning Xiaoshuai started his new job at Nanshan Cemetery. He treasured the position as a cemetery...
Another unfamiliar city. Xiaoshuai dragged his heavy feet out of the station, and a wave of...
After leaving the factory, Xiaoshuai searched everywhere for a job, but found nothing for more...
Ning Xiaoshuai had come to work at an electronics factory in Shenzhen, a city in southern China....
Silent and reserved, Ning Xiaoshuai endured the strange looks from others and the teasing...
On Saturday afternoon, after school, Xiao Shuai pushed open the front door. The house did...