Just after Children's Day, six children from different years opened their eyes and found themselves inside their own thirty-something-year-old bodies in 2026.
Yesterday, Zhou Zheng was still an elementary school student. Today, people were calling him “Mr. Zhou,” and he was so frightened that he hid under the conference table.
Zhao Ran hadn't even had time to celebrate never having to do homework again when he discovered that his future self owed hundreds of thousands.
Even more absurdly, some of them were married, some had children, and one discovered that the person he most wanted to see was already gone.
They weren't suffering from amnesia, and they weren't pretending to be kids.
Bank cards, work chat groups, contracts, creditors, parent chat groups... This was the life their adult selves had built, but they hadn't lived through those twenty-odd years at all.
The six children had no choice but to learn how to act like adults while getting into trouble, lying, bragging, sticking together, and arguing. Their adult identities wouldn't get them out of trouble for the mistakes they made as children.
And where had the six adults who had lived all the way to 2026 gone?
There was no going back.
But tomorrow, someone would still be urging them to go to work, someone would still be demanding repayment, and children would still be waiting to call them Mom and Dad.
