In 2025, the internet café was thick with cigarette smoke and the smell of instant noodles. Su Mingyang had just cleared the Simulated Universe in Honkai: Star Rail when everything suddenly went black. When he opened his eyes again, the old computer screen was still stuck on a loading screen, and a countdown clock for the 2008 Olympics hung on the wall. He had transmigrated fifteen years into the past, into the body of a poor student who owed the internet café money and got called a “little punk” by the owner.
Bai Lu came looking for an employee who had gone missing, only to be dazzled by the light in the boy’s eyes. This drenched young man was actually spouting crazy talk about “5G speeds blowing current apps out of the water.”
Su Mingyang moves into Bai Lu’s spacious apartment. “Big sis, I’ll help you make a fortune.” Bai Lu’s ears turn red, but she lets him predict the November financial crisis and even invests her spare 500,000 yuan in the stock market on his advice. While they stay up late optimizing an app, he rests his head on the desk and pretends to sleep. When Bai Lu tiptoes over to cover him with a blanket, he suddenly catches her wrist. “Big sis, your hand is hotter than a Stellaron.”
“Stellar Beauty” becomes an instant hit upon launch, with over 100,000 downloads on its first day. At an industry summit, her ex, Zhang Hao, shows up with a female companion claiming to be pregnant, looking to cause trouble. Su Mingyang uses 5G internet to verify her identity and expose the lie in seconds, then shields Bai Lu behind him. “As long as I’m here, no one can hurt you.”
On the night a typhoon knocks out the power and Bitcoin skyrockets, the two of them stare at the 10 million on the screen. He suddenly kisses her. “Now that we’ve made money, is it enough for me to marry you?” Bai Lu, flushed and breathless, says, “You… you’re too impulsive.”
The Honkai: Star Rail System suddenly flashes, “Temporal Repair: 20%.” Meanwhile, in the shadows, a rival company’s hidden camera is pointed straight at them. This romance between an older woman and a younger man, spanning time and space, has only just begun.
Open your mind, the dream of a middle-aged man: