Passenger in the Dust of Time Travel

"The Guest in the Dust" is a fantasy time-travel coming-of-age novel that tells the story of the transformation journey of Lin Xiaoyu, a ten-year-old girl who grew up in a "sterile" environment. Xiaoyu, who has been pampered since childhood, has an instinctive resistance to "dirty". A grain of rice bran or a handful of loess can make her collapse. However, she accidentally traveled to Kaihua City during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and fell into a simple world full of earthy smell. There is no exquisite life here, only mud houses, mud roads, coarse cloth and coarse food, and the daily life of chopping firewood. From the initial crying and fussing over chicken manure and mud spots, Xiaoyu gradually let go of her obsessions in the company of a kind old woman and a young girl named Achun: she learned to dig sweet potatoes and feed chickens and ducks, to experience the sense of accomplishment from work, to feel the warmth of neighbors helping each other, and to understand the truth that "soil breeds life, and imperfection hides true happiness." After returning from time travel, Xiaoyu lost her squeamishness and paranoia, no longer feared nature, learned to cherish it, and used her own experience to infect others. The novel takes the collision of ancient and modern life as the starting point, explores growth, acceptance and the essence of life in a fantasy plot, and provides a warm growth inspiration for contemporary children.