He crossed half the universe just to go home and smell the osmanthus blossoms.
But he didn’t know that the door to his home had long since closed to him.
The moment astronaut Luo Yuheng crashed onto Yubian Star, he knew he would never make it home.
The planet’s atmosphere was poisonous, and its gravity was twice that of Earth. Its creatures evolved physically, but not intellectually: when survival was at stake, a brain was a luxury. The closer you got to the planet’s core, the stronger the radiation and the more terrifying the creatures. In the central region lurked the Gatekeeper, reduced to nothing but a mouth and living for one thing: slaughter.
But he had to survive. There was an osmanthus tree at home, planted by his mother, whose scent filled the courtyard every Mid-Autumn Festival. On the back of a photograph, his wife had written, “The osmanthus is blooming. Come home and smell it.”
He couldn’t die.
It's pretty good. The main plot is very sharp, but sometimes the content is repetitive and boring.