[Urban Fantasy] [Cross-World Trading] [Business Growth] [Lighthearted Daily Life]
On the night he was laid off, Zhou Yuan received an after-sales email for his shuttered shop, Sparrow Outdoor.
The customer wrote: The lamp arrived, but the delivery was 307 years late.
Order #1016 had supposedly been lost at a Shenzhen distribution center fourteen months ago, yet it had now been signed for in an underground city without a sun.
Zhou Yuan thought someone was playing a prank until he put a camping lamp inside the old wooden cabinet in his rented apartment.
After three breaths, the lamp was gone.
In its place, the cabinet held a handful of ash-silver from another world.
From that day on, Sparrow Outdoor started receiving increasingly strange orders.
An underground city needed three hundred lamps. A world battered by torrential rain wanted houses that wouldn't leak. And people in the depths of winter wanted to know if Earth had a fire that would never go out.
Most people in cross-border trade could only sell their goods across the ocean.
Zhou Yuan's customers, however, were scattered across one world after another.
At first, he only wanted to earn enough to pay rent. Later, he realized the people on the other end of those orders needed more than just goods.
