My Parents Are Still in College, and My Doctoral Dissertation Just Won an Award

“This is terrible! Your son has been kidnapped!”

Mom: “Three bamboo, kong, mahjong!”

Mom spread her little hands. “Why are you in such a hurry? Pay up. Who knows who’s kidnapping whom?”

What?!

Aliens are invading Earth?

Aliens: “According to our big data analysis, human children have virtually zero combat power. Begin capture and research immediately.”

Yu Yang narrowed his eyes and calmly stood his ground. A satellite missile in space locked onto the aliens.

Boom!

“You call that zero combat power?!”

“Mission failed...”

The world’s number-one assassin: “There’s only one person I’ve ever admired in my life. He was a child... No, he was a demon!”

The world’s number-one soprano: “I’m grateful he saved the day.”

The world’s number-one mathematical genius: “Anything in this world can be expressed with a formula. But him? He... He’s beyond the scope of mathematics.”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.