Genius Playground

Name: Genius Playground
Author: Chengcheng and the Cicada

天才游乐场

by Chengcheng and the Cicada (城城与蝉)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 1.4M Words
Genre: Sci-Fi
Subgenre: Time Travel
Updated: 3mo ago
Source: Qidian

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A text message sent by accident to three days earlier gave Jiang Ran and his two companions the key to a Pandora's box that could alter history and change the flow of time. Winning the lottery, getting top grades, bringing a dead upperclassman back to life, making up for life's regrets... The trio used a time machine to fulfill all kinds of wishes, like gods who could do anything. Until one day, a text message from the future warned them! At that moment, secrets hidden in the fog of history began to emerge, and the gates to the river of time swung open. A game of scheming and competing for the future among geniuses... had begun! [The author also wrote the hit novel Genius Club, with 120,000 average paid subscriptions and two consecutive Galaxy Awards for Science Fiction. Read with confidence!]

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