Resurrection Empire

Ren Zhong still remembered in the previous timeline, when he commented on Chen Hanyu's disguise, saying that her appearance was still too ostentatious, she replied, "I've already tried my best."

At that time, he was left speechless, unable to respond for quite a while.

He had been curious, but that curiosity was merely a fleeting thought in his mind and he didn't take it seriously.

Three minutes later, Ren Zhong realized his naivety and understood the significance.

He fled in a hurry.

Throughout different stages of his life in the 21st century, Ren Zhong had faced various temptations.

But he was never swayed.

Because he was always someone with a clear purpose in whatever he did.

The root of his personality could be traced back to his childhood experiences.

In kindergarten, he showed a bit of talent and skipped the small, medium, and large classes, entering the preparatory stage and learning elementary school materials in advance.

Everyone praised him for being smart, which made the young him nearly lose himself, always showing off and often feeling complacent due to the amazed or admiring gazes of others.

At that time, he enjoyed the vanity that came with being noticed wherever he went.

Until one day, his father showed him a book containing stories of famous scientists in human history and how they utilized their intelligence and talent.

Ren Zhong was deeply attracted.

He admired those scientists.

His father also told him that even a thousand years later, though those people are long gone, their names would still appear in history books, and their contributions would continue to help human civilization move forward.

Perhaps, in the distant future, when human civilization ventures beyond the Solar System, there would be planets named Planck Star, Einstein Star, Von Neumann Star, Hua Luogeng Star, Qian Xuesen Star, Yuan Longping Star in the galaxy.

Many people would grow and live on these planets.

People from these planets, when interacting with humans from other star systems, would proudly say, "I am a Qian Xuesen Star person," "I am a Planck Star person," and so on.

That night, the eight-year-old Ren Zhong had a dream belonging solely to children.

In the dream, he saw a beautiful Blue Planet, where people lived and worked happily, traversing the sky on flying carpets, with a massive Space Elevator reaching up from the equator.

Elevators moved like cars on roads, one after another.

Ships large and small departed from space stations, traveling to neighboring planets tens of light years away for visits.

An eight-year-old child, the same age as himself, stepped out of a spaceship full of curiosity after hundreds of years of freezing, and the first thing he said to others was, "Hello, I'm a Ren Zhong Star person, I come from Ren Zhong Star."

At that moment, Ren Zhong's heart pounded, and he was startled awake from the dream.

He clasped his knees and pondered for a long time on the bed.

It was just a dream, but it left an indelible mark in Ren Zhong's heart.

He finally broke free from others' "sweet words" and secretly swore that one day, he too would become such a person, and have his own star.

This unspoken dream became the entire motivation for young Ren Zhong to continue down his path.

It may seem absurd, ridiculous, perhaps even a height unreachable in a lifetime, but Ren Zhong always took it seriously.

From then on, Ren Zhong opened a new world for himself, no longer caring about the eyes of others, no longer vain, but more immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

He found an unprecedented sense of fulfillment and had fewer worries than other children.

Whenever he felt tired, he would recall how that child in his dream proudly said, "I'm a Ren Zhong Star person."

He ignored everything that could potentially block his path and slow his steps, including some meaningless friendships, so-called love and desires.

He didn't even bother to care about anyone's feelings other than his family.

Some said he was aloof, some said he was pretentious, and others said he was foolish from too much studying.

But these people didn't understand what a difficult dream he held in his heart.

Ren Zhong just thought that these unnecessary social interactions were a waste of life; instead of spending time figuring out the preferences of these destined passersby around him, it was better to learn more useful knowledge.

As time flew by, in the blink of an eye, it was the day he completed the defense of two Ph.D. dissertations simultaneously, and upon finishing his studies, he almost saw the hope of realizing his dream.