Hui Li was jolted awake. The tremor surged from deep within the Earth’s crust,...
It was the weekend again. Wei Ling lay sprawled on the sofa, scrolling through his...
Inside the abandoned factory stood a small meeting room, perfect for gatherings. Its floor was...
Wei Ling’s thought was: Instead of arguing online about whether amateur scientists have any...
The constant rush of travel left Wei Ling exhausted yet fulfilled. He had no desire to...
The chaos of romantic entanglements had left Wei Ling weary. Love and marriage should have been a...
It was rush hour on Subway Line 10. Wei Ling gripped the overhead handrail, his body swaying back...
Wei Ling set a small bunch of white chrysanthemums against the rail of Hongqiao Bridge. The river...
The First Love --- Some social news left Wei Ling with a tangled mess of feelings. He couldn't...
The wheels spun wildly! From Haicheng to Lincheng, westbound, day and night. Wind...
Somehow, Wei Ling had been staying home a lot lately. That night, he lay on the couch and...
Wei Ling sat cross-legged on the sofa, a bowl of instant noodles balanced on his knee. The cold...
Feminism had flourished for two hundred years. Women had fought for and won countless rights,...
The day Liu Ezi went to the school to see Teacher Zhang, she had discussed it with Yan...
Yan Gaoshan got hired by the factory in town. It was an agricultural machinery repair...
--- It was the kind of afternoon that made you feel sorry for yourself. The sun was brutal—hot...
Liu E’zi always went to the town market only on the fifth and tenth days of each lunar month. On...
Once the dog days of summer began, rain came often to the village. It would pour noisily during...
The early summer sun wasn't yet high in the sky, but it had already baked the village dirt roads...
Liu Ezi struck it rich. “Struck it rich” might be an exaggeration, but for a rural woman who...
Soon, Yan Xiaofan turned three and was old enough to visit relatives with his parents for the New...
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...
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...