The Light-Eroding Scroll

The Bronze Age to the Rebirth Era is an epic urban saga spanning 25 years. It traces the rise and fall of three generations from four great families against the backdrop of China’s economic upheaval and technological revolution from 1998 to 2033, weaving a sweeping narrative across capital, art, technology, and ethics. The story begins with the mysterious suicide of a professor by Weiming Lake. Following the lives of four alumni, Li Feng, Wang Na, Gao Rong, and Liu Dong, it exposes the era’s deepest wounds: construction scandals, financial data warfare, AI art infringement, and riots over immortality technology. Multiple storylines intertwine with mystery and deduction, while reality and virtuality advance in tandem. Against a future of prefabricated skyscrapers, metaverse auction houses, and underground migrant cities, the novel questions how humanity holds firm, or is warped, amid the frenzy of capital. Each volume is anchored to its place in history by an “artifact of the age,” culminating at the signing of the Mars Accords, where the story wrestles with the ultimate question of civilization’s survival.