Chasing the Stardust

[Original translated from Chinese] 【Superpowers • Amnesia • Altered Destinies】 At seven, a severe illness stole Luo Xue's childhood memories. Twenty years later, a car crash stole the love of her life. Despair plunged her into the abyss and hurled her into the relentless cycle of time travel—until the appearance of Xing Xuan swept her into the whirlpool of fate. Drawn into the enigmatic time agency "Stardust," Luo Xue finds herself unwillingly entangled in the intricate power struggles among its stellar factions. There, she uncovers the shocking truth: her lost memories are inextricably linked to Stardust itself. Fragments of her past seem to pull at scattered stardust, revealing that her encounter with Xing Xuan was destiny's prewritten footnote. This fated collision sets her on a path to restart frozen gears of time. She chases fate—while fate chases her. [Where Forgetfulness and Encounters Intertwine, Echoes of Destiny Follow] To undo an irreversible tragedy, she falls through time loops—only to find the key to unraveling secrets within a chance meeting. Yet this reunion is anything but coincidence. With newfound allies, she fights to restart the stalled gears of fate for them all. Author's Notes: I've always loved writing romantic fantasy, but before my "brainchild" could even be polished and published, this impromptu time-travel draft—written for a contest—got picked up instead. The framework for this story has lived in my mind for years, but lacking experience in the genre, I'd only dared to sketch settings. LangLang Originals' contest became the catalyst, and on impulse, I poured out this foundation. In essence, this is the story of a heroine thrust into endless world-hopping after a devastating loss. Genre-wise, I'd classify it as Urban Fantasy meets Soft Sci-Fi. I wonder what glimpses of humanity and emotion you'll find within Chasing Stardust, but my hope is that every character breathes with vivid, tangible life under my pen. [LangLang Originals Signed Work] Original URL: http://reading.udn.com/story/products/250408/