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Winner of the 16th Golden Comic Awards – Comic of the Year (2025)
The Sci-Fi romance story created by DING Pao-Yen, the winner of the Golden Comic Award and a rising star at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. The protagonist's long-time crush dies in an accident, and years later, they are reunited, but she has turned into a virtual projection. The story unfolds in the underground shopping district of Silver Valley City, known for its mysterious products and urban legends, including alien artifacts, realistic virtual projections, and secret tunnels leading to the unknown depths. According to legend, there is also a pond that allows one to meet their fated person.
The former president of his high school’s archaeology club. He met Li-zhi during club recruitment and gradually fell in love with her. On graduation day, she gave him a salmon roe fossil as a parting gift before boarding a spacecraft to university. Ming-chi witnessed the ship explode, leaving no survivors. Ten years later, he unexpectedly encounters Li-zhi again—as a virtual projection.
A former member of the archaeology club. She passed away the day after graduation when her spacecraft exploded en route to Planet E. Ten years later, she reappears in the underground street as a virtual projection. Having lost all her memories, she begins a journey with Ming-chi to find the missing fragments of her past.
