A Thousand Eras

This book opens with zombies, but it isn’t really a story about zombies. Instead, it’s made up of a series of little stories that come together to form a single main plot. What it wants to tell is also a very simple story: No matter how many times you go around in circles or how many times you fail, don’t give up. There will always be one time when you find the one and only path to survival. But that simple message is told in such a roundabout way that it became a novel of nearly 500,000 words. I don’t know how to introduce it. It’s very different from my previous novels, not just in the plot but also in the romance. I spent a lot of time describing the protagonist’s inner struggles, emotional outbursts, and relationship with the second male lead.

First instance: The Garden, theme: Struggle

Second instance: The Maiden’s Prayer, theme: Child abuse

Third instance: Spring, theme: Excessive obsession

Fourth instance: The Death Knell, theme: Authority

Fifth instance: Arrested Without Cause, theme: Emotional dumping ground

Sixth instance: Diamond, theme: A test of human nature

Seventh instance: The Study of Blood, theme: Exploitation and resistance

Eighth instance: Metabolism, theme: The longing to live

Ninth instance: Platform One and a Half, theme: People are the sum of all their social relations

Tenth point one instance: Rhapsody: Kaleidoscope, theme: Life simulation

Tenth point two instance: Rhapsody: Cat Door, theme: Mirror world

Tenth instance: Rhapsody, theme: Helplessness in the face of the apocalypse and a slaughtering spree

Final instance: The Book of Humanity, theme: Humanity’s limitless potential

Theme: None