Fang Xiang

This is both a work of science fiction and an exploration of the meaning of life, love, literature and art. Brainpower is no longer the main ingredient for being human in this far distant future world.  Spirituality, physical balance, and diligence all come together as integrity for Chen Mu, the Card Apprentice.  The cards which Chen Mu masters in his own scrappy way, distill all the powers of the cosmos –  human and nonhuman –  into something that is not a book, not technology, and neither art nor magic, but is these and more.  Learn about these strange cards, which can embody everything you might imagine for the future of technology, but also a future beyond technology which promotes the best, and sometimes the worst, from mankind’s past.

The Card Apprentice

Cheng Ying was a professional card artisan with rich battle experience. She wasn't from a wealthy household like Bo Wen, who had received the most excellent education from the time he was small. From whatever aspect, she was rather like Chen Mu, struggling from the bottom reaches of society. But she had more ambition than Chen Mu, and higher aspirations. Still, as compared with Chen Mu, her luck had fallen quite short.

She had always persisted in her arduous training, which differed from those card artisans who represented some academy's school. Her skills came mostly from actual combat, so it would be very difficult to notice any flourish in her skills. For a girl to struggle alone so bitterly and then to show such courage wasn't found in just anyone.

As compared with both Bo Wen and Chen Mu, she had experienced far more battles.

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