Savir Nesha only meant to investigate a falling star.
Deep in the northern forest, the lamia adventurer finds no meteor—only black wreckage that carries no trace of magic, and a dying stranger dressed in a uniform unlike anything he has ever seen.
Lu Chenxiao remembers exactly who he is.
He remembers the Seventh Expeditionary Fleet of the Human Federation. He remembers giving the order to withdraw. Most of all, he remembers the people under his command being alive only days ago.
What he does not recognize is the world around him.
Magic is real. The constellations are wrong. His technology is slowly failing, his language means nothing here, and traces of the Human Federation lie buried inside ruins so ancient that no one remembers who built them.
That should be impossible.
Savir knows this land, but not the stars. Lu knows the stars, but no longer understands the ground beneath his feet. Neither has the answers the other needs.
So they travel together.
Savir follows the ruins because unanswered questions have always drawn him in.
Lu follows them because somewhere among the dead machines and buried records may be the truth about the Seventh Expeditionary Fleet—and the people he refuses to leave behind.
But every remnant they uncover points toward the same impossible conclusion:
Lu's civilization did not simply vanish.
It has been gone for far longer than it should have been.
And if a civilization has already died, how long must the living keep living for the dead?
A character-driven fantasy and soft science-fiction mystery featuring ancient ruins, lost technology, dual male leads, a non-human protagonist, first contact between magic and science, and a gradual M/M romantic subplot.
Official Chinese Version:https://quarterfull.io/share/novel/m6QnXe0R2VVbxrLj?qf_share=f4cb07c6-0f93-4c5e-9785-229fe82026f2
