Ji Li’s Billion Years

Have you ever had a moment when you couldn't tell dreams from reality?

Ji Li is forty million yuan in debt. He dreams of becoming the world's greatest forestry magnate, but the bank has blacklisted him and forest farmers are pounding on his door.

Then, in the one second the world stands still, two shadows offer him a ten-billion-year immortality contract: bring barren mountains back to life in exchange for limitless wealth.

The bank president laughs that a man in eight-yuan cloth shoes doesn't belong in his office. Three months later, he kneels and begs Ji Li to sign a green finance deal. A timber magnate vows to make sure Ji Li can't plant a single tree. Six months later, he personally sells Ji Li his factory for a bargain price.

But this is only the beginning.

When his footsteps carry him from western Yunnan to Southeast Asia, and from putting down roots on Earth to the sea of stars, Ji Li discovers that the so-called international ecological project from twenty years ago was actually a seed planted by an advanced civilization to reap a harvest. And he himself is destined to become the World Tree, its branches blotting out the sky.

Money lies. Trees don't. If you were him, would you sign this ten-billion-year contract?

This novel is inspired by the author's real experiences, blending the real world with imagination...