The Urban Starry Sky

City Under the Stars is a long urban realist novel.

A broken marriage and several sudden calamities shatter Xu Wenyan’s once-peaceful life.

After leaving his old family behind, he shoulders the responsibility of raising his daughter alone. Having weathered many storms, he returns to the business world, starts industrial ventures, and seizes opportunities in the city’s development boom, rebuilding his career step by step.

Through life’s ups and downs and the warmth and coldness of human nature, family bonds, friendships, and ambiguous feelings intertwine. Opportunities, conflicts, and reunions with old acquaintances unfold one after another. Everyone is a grain of sand in the wind, drifting and rising and falling. Even when life refuses to go as one hopes, they remain true to themselves and keep striving forward.