Time often only reveals its ruthless passage when we look back.
"...Ten years, has it been?"
Lu Ping'an, slumped in a lounge chair, reached toward the warming sun above... After experiencing many an Exotic Realm, he grew increasingly certain that only Earth was truly the most suitable home for mankind.
Three years after the great retreat from Sakura Island, it's now the middle of 2008, in another timeline, this was also a very important year.
For Lu Ping'an, it also marked his tenth year in this world and the tenth year since he became a professional and inherited God's Keystone.
In these ten years, he went from a 16-year-old college entrance examination student to where he is today... From a child about to graduate high school to a man in his twenties.
He didn't even know what to consider himself anymore. He had resigned from all official and military positions and was now a retired major shareholder in the Rebirth Commerce, without any formal duties.
