Return from Another World

Return from Another World is an urban supernatural novel by the web author Yu Wan, serialized on 17K Novel Network from July 26, 2013, and completed there. The protagonist, Landu, is a traveler of other planes who, after many years in the world outside, returns to his original planet and to a city that is familiar yet already somewhat strange to him. With him comes a cat-eared girl named Ruoruo: childish in appearance, terrifyingly strong, with a huge appetite, and sprinkling another world's language into her speech, she quickly becomes the most conspicuous "trouble" around Landu. Because he brings Ruoruo along, Landu is turned away everywhere he applies for work. He simply makes a living reselling otherworldly collectibles online—buying low and picking out the valuable pieces to sell high—and under this cover secretly searches for something called "Divine Grace," a product of mutated magical elements that was carried into this world when he crossed space. As "Divine Grace" spreads through the city, more and more ordinary people begin to gain strange abilities, each with its own corresponding price; various factions also move in to gather, manage and even exploit these ability users. Landu, meanwhile, protects himself with martial techniques and mental power from the other world while investigating the source of Divine Grace and the familiar figure he glimpsed vaguely on his return, trying to stop this power from running out of control and to keep the ordinary life he has regained. Set on an urban stage and blending magic, supernatural organizations and paranormal investigation, the work has the author declaring at the outset that the countries, geography, technology and superpower settings in the book are all fictional.