The Moon holds crucial strategic significance for Earth and serves as humanity's gateway to the deeper reaches of the universe. As a regular soldier stationed at China's Guanghan Station on the Moon, Cauchy is fully aware of the weight of his responsibility. Witnessing the warm lives of lunar residents and the continuous breakthroughs made by scientific research, Cauchy's vision for humanity's future grows ever more profound. The successful development of helium-3 has completely solved humanity's electricity needs, but it has also stirred the wrath of those with ulterior motives. He is forced to ponder whether technological advancement is designed to perpetuate war or to forge a brighter future for humanity...
In a daze, Su Ruojin was reborn as the eldest daughter of a doctor at the Imperial Academy, an eighth-rank official, in Bianjing, the capital of the Great Yin Dynasty. She watched as her mother gave birth to her younger brother and then her younger brother, and the family of a small civil servant went from struggling to make ends meet to having to borrow money to survive.
A six-year-old boy stands on a small stool to reach the stove, but he worries about where his next meal will come from. How is he going to survive?
Don't be afraid... Don't be afraid...
Living in the mega-city of Bianjing, a prosperous and thriving commercial city, and bringing with me delicacies from a thousand years in the future, how could I possibly starve to death?
Impossible... Absolutely impossible...
The Imperial College, the Three Provinces, the Five Academyes, and the Nine Temples—places where civil servants gather—everyone needs breakfast, so let's start with breakfast stalls. Fried dough sticks and sesame cakes with soy milk, sesame dumplings, eight-treasure porridge—still think we don't have enough variety? Pancakes, scallion pancakes, steamed buns, pan-fried tofu pudding, pocket bread, mutton soup with assortment—let's get started… Searching for cotton quilts and Songjiang cloth… oil mills, taverns, general stores… suppressing rebellions and capturing bandits…
You can't earn enough... you simply can't earn enough...
With a pot in my left hand and a spatula in my right, I've captured the essence of everyday life in the bustling metropolis of Kyoto. Here I come!
Thick fog hangs over the airport, international flights are delayed, and an ace agent from the Space Survey Agency navigates a polar vortex. Enduring severe turbulence, his passport expires, and his luggage is lost, he finds his own body on the baggage carousel, clutching the pendant of his ex-girlfriend, whom he had just met thousands of miles away in New York City. On the tarmac, at the airport control tower, in the cockpit, in the first-class cabin, even on communications satellites... Mysteries unfold in every corner of the sky and on the ground. Who is behind this? Under the vast sky, when will the mystery lift?