The City's All-Round Master

These are the worst of times, and the best of times.

Lin Ming, a high school senior who could barely dream of getting into a no-name college, began his legendary journey as an ordinary nobody.

A bowl of wontons set food forums ablaze, a poem stunned the entire literary world, a novel climbed to the top of sales charts on major websites, and a song swept the Chinese-language music charts...

A pioneer of quantum chromodynamics, chief designer of a space station, the youngest recipient of the Fields Medal, the crown jewel of mathematics, and a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Physics, the pinnacle of science...

Time magazine described him this way: Lin Ming, a genius standing at the pinnacle of human civilization.

The broad consensus of public opinion: Lin Ming, a man blessed with every talent under the sun.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.