In 2026, Wen Shuhe's startup had failed, leaving her buried in debt. Alone, she kept watch over a deserted, quiet steamed bun factory, surrounded by mountains of unsold stock and endless demands for payment. Her life had reached its darkest point.
A sudden, deafening crash shattered the factory's silence. A skinny, ragged young man came crashing down beside her cold-storage room.
His name was Chen Yanqiao, and he came from Henan in 1942, where famine had ravaged the land.
A severe drought had left the earth barren and the people dying of hunger. To stay alive, they had no choice but to eat clay. As the eldest son in his family, he risked everything to dig for clay and survive. But when the earth collapsed around him, he transmigrated eighty-four years into the future.
On the brink of death, he was saved by Wen Shuhe, who gave him hot noodles and steamed buns. In her scorching kindness, he caught a glimpse of a prosperous age.
Desperate to return to the family whose lives depended on him, Chen Yanqiao stumbled upon the secret of the temporal vortex. With precious life-saving food in hand, he returned to the desperate chaos of his own time. A bowl of hot soup revived his dying ancestors; a mouthful of white flour kept his entire family from perishing.
A mysterious passageway through time linked two lives trapped in utterly different kinds of despair.
Traveling back and forth in time and space, taking food to save the people in distress, the plot is very realistic and heart-wrenching to watch, and I read many chapters in one go.
A novel I like very much
Drones, walkie-talkies, solar lanterns and the like are all sent to 1942 so that the protagonist's family can live a smoother life.
Well written and humane