Big Orange and Tangtang

2027, Tianjin. The world's invisible richest man, Daju, is the owner of a 24-hour convenience store. He smokes constantly, always adds Laobaigan when cooking instant noodles, and guards the lit shop, like an extremely ordinary middle-aged man. No one knows that he controls nearly one-third of the world's actual resources through more than 3,000 shell companies and untraceable equity nests. He is launching the craziest self-transformation plan in human history - digitizing his consciousness, gradually replacing his carbon-based body, and eventually evolving into silicon-based life. Musk's starships, Huang Jen-Hsun's chips, and Bezos' rockets are all chess pieces on his chessboard. But there is one person he can't let go of. Tang Nian, the woman he has called "Tangtang" for twelve years. She is an associate professor of oil painting at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and is his only anchor in the world. She never asked about his secrets, but accepted all his absences and mysteries with silence. What Daju is most afraid of is not the failure of transformation, not death - what he fears is that after he becomes a god, he will no longer be able to taste the taste of Lao Baigan, and will no longer be able to feel the warm weight of Tangtang leaning on his shoulder. This is a journey about evolution and a story about farewell. When he finally stood at the end of the universe, he realized that the place he wanted to go back to the most was the convenience store with the lights on, and the person waiting for him to go home.