My Goddess

My Goddess is a long urban novel by the web author Zhou Xingwen, running to roughly three million-plus Chinese characters. It was serialized and completed on Zongheng Chinese Network around 2014; after the platform was restructured, it was taken down and now circulates mainly as proofread TXT files on various ebook sites. The story begins with an ordinary high school boy in the coastal city of Binhai: in what was otherwise a bleak adolescence, he meets a girl named Su Xiaoqing who claims to come from the future. Su Xiaoqing has long been dead; she was the child the protagonist adopted and raised single-handedly in a future timeline. Because the protagonist died of overwork, she could not accept that ending, so she physically traveled back to his high school years to stay by his side and use her knowledge and abilities to help him grow stronger step by step. Driven by her, the protagonist begins to reexamine his relationships with those around him: his classmate and school beauty Cheng Shuixin; Yang Bingbing, from a wealthy family but guarded with people; the quiet junior schoolmate Zhang Yao, who has great musical talent; the transfer student Nell, whose identity is a mystery; and old acquaintances from middle school such as Chu Ruo, the journalist Han Yun, and the Cai sisters, who enter his life one after another. Starting from everyday school life, the novel gradually expands into business rivalries, family feuds, and international conspiracies, portraying an ordinary boy's slow growth between "being changed" and "changing himself," and how he learns to bear the weight of being relied on by many people. The book has a leisurely, slice-of-life pace, delicate romantic threads, and a vivid ensemble cast; it is a work often recalled by veteran readers of the urban harem web novel genre.