Dad Zhou Xinyu's heavy-handed approach had paid off after all. Xiaohang aced his middle school...
Luoyi, nestled between mountains and rivers, a land blessed with remarkable natural beauty and...
Time and sand have buried all that once was. Ordinary people, fifty years after death,...
The sky above Proxima Centauri b was a melancholy, dim gray. A thin layer of volcanic ash covered...
After piloting the Proxima around Earth and returning, Wei Ling withdrew into quiet solitude to...
Wei Ling slowly crouched down and held one hand beneath the craft’s base. He felt nothing solid....
Wei Ling developed a mini-program named A World Apart, Yet Nearest Heart based on their messages...
When Wei Ling received the distress signal from Proxima b, the alien script looked...
4.22 light-years from Earth, deep in the cosmos, hangs a planet named Proxima...
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...