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Fractured Herald: Reign of Broken Classes

In the year 2000 the sky broke open. The world was never the same. Big cracks called Violet fractures opened up over the world making holes in reality that people started calling Gates. Monsters came out of those Gates. The world fell apart because of those monsters.. After that something strange happened that no government or army could have planned. The System showed up. It appeared to every person on earth without warning, offering classes and abilities that seemed to be just for them. Thirty years went by. The world got rebuilt around the System. New countries formed. Special schools called Academies were made to teach the group of people who used the System called Players. Groups of people watched the Gates. Mapped out all the connections between worlds. People did what they always do. They made rules to deal with something they did not fully understand. People never really understood the Gates. They just learned to control them a little. Fractured Herald: Reign of Broken Classes is about Owen Walker. He is a sixteen year boy from the city of Varen in the country of Atheios. Owen Walker has not been given any class or abilities by the System and he is running out of time. Owen Walker exists on the outside of a world that's all about the System, which has never given Owen Walker any answers. As the time for Owen Walker to get his class and abilities gets closer strange things start to happen around Owen Walker. Gates are acting weird and the connections between worlds are doing things that thirty years of information say are not possible. Something is changing the way the worlds are connected on purpose.. For some reason Owen Walker is right, in the middle of it.
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In 2000, I illegally crossed the border from Vietnam into China.

"2000, I Smuggled My Way from Vietnam to China" is based on the personal experience of Nguyen Ah Cuong, written in the first-person memoir style, realistically and realistically portraying a life full of twists and turns and struggles. In 2000, Nguyen Ah Cuong, living in rural Vietnam, faced dire straits due to his family's gambling debts and his mother's serious illness. Desperate, he illegally crossed the border into China's Guangxi province. Upon arriving in China, unable to speak the language, he was cheated by shady brokers and forced to work as a laborer at the bottom of society, living in a basement and enduring immense hardship. However, Ah Cuong seized many opportunities presented by China's development between 2000 and 2025, such as the trade opportunities brought by WTO accession, the business opportunities created by the rise of e-commerce, and various opportunities arising from the infrastructure boom, gradually transforming himself from a lowly laborer into a shrewd businessman. Throughout the book, the characters vividly depict the customs and culture of China in the 2000s: from the aroma of street food to unique local traditions; from the transformation of cities from mud-brick houses to skyscrapers; to the technological revolution from pagers to smartphones. At the same time, the book portrays the complexities of human relationships, including the exploitation by Chinese bosses, the scheming of fellow villagers, and the help from kind coworkers and benevolent landlords. Through Ruan Aqiang's perspective, the book vividly presents the story of an ordinary person's struggle and transformation amidst the tides of Chinese history, filled with positive energy, allowing readers to feel the unique charm of that era and the resilience of its fighters.
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