Chapter One: The Bankrupt Manager's Lunar Hotel

Director Han Tuo entered through the dead revolving door and slapped a document onto the front desk. “The company owes 4.7 billion credits. Every account is frozen. You signed a joint operational-liability agreement, and the Yunjing lunar project is registered in your name. Manager Zhou, you need that salary more than they do.” The red figure on the page hurt to look at: personal liability, eighty-six million credits. Zhou Yuan's smile vanished. Two years ago, Han Tuo had asked him to sign an authorization for “preparations at an overseas property.” Zhou had assumed it meant Dubai. Only today did he discover that the address was Tranquility Zero Base, far side of the Moon. “This isn't my project.”