Time Traveler

Time Traveler is the debut novel of web novelist Shangshan Ruoshui. Serialization began on Baidu Novels in 2016, later moved to Qidian, and concluded on April 30, 2017. The book runs about 2.44 million Chinese characters across 759 chapters and has drawn roughly 50,000 collections and nearly 150,000 recommendations. The protagonist is an ordinary man who accidentally comes into possession of a ring (Chapter Two is titled "The Magic Ring") that gives him the power to travel through time and space. From then on he shuttles between reality and a series of familiar yet strange worlds: he visits Mount Huaguo and becomes a sworn brother of Sun Wukong; he enters the Marvel universe, takes a post at S.H.I.E.L.D., and shares a room with Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr.–style figures; he also travels to Seoul, gets entangled in underground shooting competitions and gang disputes, and crosses paths with K-pop stars. The work blends Journey to the West, Marvel, and urban entertainment elements under the main thread of "traveling through time and changing fate." The protagonist continually adjusts the course of events in each timeline, reshaping his life through competition, human bonds, and self-redemption. The overall pace is brisk and the ideas come thick and fast—an urban supernatural power-fantasy that excels at thrills and meme-play.