The Outsider

There are two things that deeply move the human heart: the lofty moral law within us, and the brilliant starry sky above us. Kant

When Xu Le looked away from those words and truly saw, for the first time, the countless stars beyond the dust, he wasn't moved. On the contrary, he was furious: the stars outside the district's sky were so dazzling. Who could stand it? If he had to be blinded by those lights every day, he'd end up like the half-witted wildcats on the mining roads, dazed by the floodlights!

So Xu Le gave up his dream of becoming an aide to a noble female battleship commander. Under the force of gravity, he began to fall, and fall, and fall, until he became a poor country boy working as a doorman, a pitiful man selling his body, and a male nanny doing tedious chores... In a tumultuous age, he showed his white teeth and squinted in a foolish grin, cloaked in an inexplicable radiance, taking one step after another toward a distant place no one could foresee.

Xu Le, a citizen of the Donglin District, left a desolate, half-abandoned planet. His mind held a collection of strange and curious knowledge, and his body possessed a power no one in this world had ever encountered. Neither muddled nor reckless, he entered this most boring and most fascinating world, content with his lot.

An Interloper's life is bound to be extraordinary.