The Martian Legend of the Mechanical Empire

Liu Yuan, a software engineer and one of the many people who drifted to Beijing in search of work, was nearing thirty when he met a beautiful young woman named Bai Hui. They soon became a couple. But not long after they moved in together, Bai Hui mysteriously disappeared. In search of answers, he traveled thousands of miles to her distant hometown in Xinjiang. There, he encountered another mysterious woman named Dilibei. In the end, he found Bai Hui, only to discover that she was no longer the woman she had once been. On the journey back to Beijing with Dilibei, he fell for her. With Dilibei's help, he returned to the capital and built a multinational high-tech empire, Science Corporation, specializing in artificial intelligence, space exploration, and bioengineering. He bought an island in the South Pacific, Science Island, to serve as the company's headquarters, and made a fortune through interstellar trade. But his wife, Li Zhi, mysteriously vanished during a trip through time, leaving him devastated. Even so, he drew a series of inspirations from her predictions about the future, and boldly began his quest to develop Mars...