[Technology + Rise of a Great Nation + Conquering the Universe + High-Octane Action]
Gu Haoxuan, a high school senior, is wrongly imprisoned for excessive self-defense and accidentally injuring someone. Hoping to reduce his sentence, he takes the college entrance exam, only to end up developing controlled nuclear fusion.
From then on, he follows the familiar path of China's rise: the Nantianmen Project, artificial ecosystems, lunar bases, star destroyers, Dyson spheres, quantum communications, and two-dimensional foils.
Looking back, people on Earth are astonished to discover that in the universe's dark forest, we are the ones at the top of the food chain.