Before All Things Return

When Linn woke up on the Graveyard Planet, he found that time was flowing backwards. Stones collect dust, utensils return to raw materials, wounds open again, people's bodies gradually become younger, and memories are peeled off layer by layer. The gods who hang high above the world preserve memories, divide souls, and believe that finding the source of everything can explain who a person is. Lynn had no power and no answers. He is just more willing than others to stop in front of an ordinary stone and see how it can retrieve the lost part. Later, people called this method of understanding time, labor and existence from the origin of all things "Guanyuan". However, seeing the origin does not mean having the origin, and remembering the past does not mean understanding the soul. When Lynn's pause was written into rules, professions and beliefs by later generations, new questions began to arise: If everything will eventually return to its source, are the people we have become along the way still real? This is a philosophical science fiction novel about time, memory, identity and choice. Everything is retreating, and people must prove that they have lived before retreating.