The Soul’s Redemption

One day in the year 2120, nine-year-old Chen Zhisheng was walking home from school as usual. “I wonder what Mom will make me to eat when I get home today?”

At the Chen family home, just as Chen Zhisheng took out his key, he suddenly saw a beam of red light shining down from the sky onto the house. Then a voice came from behind him: “Watch out!” What had just happened? In a daze, it felt like an earthquake. It seemed he had been asleep for a long time. Chen Zhisheng thought this as he looked up, and the scene before his eyes became one he would never forget: his home, the warm home he had once known, had become a sea of hellish flames.

“Zhisheng, are you okay?” It was Liu Qinhong, the older brother of the girl next door, Liu Qinxin. He had saved him.

“Good thing no one was home at my place, or we’d really be in trouble.” Liu Qinhong’s words seemed to strike a nerve in Chen Zhisheng. He rushed frantically toward the “house,” crying out, “Dad! Mom!” Then everything went black, and he collapsed in front of the ruins.

At twenty-four, Chen Zhisheng set out to uncover the truth behind his parents’ deaths, a truth he had been unable to get near for years. But the answer turned out to be...