Today was May 7. Neither in the Stantin Duchy nor across the Sains Continent was it a special day. It was not a holiday, and nothing particularly noteworthy had happened. It was no different from any ordinary day.
For Xu Yi, however, this day was somewhat special.
Because... it was the day he had crossed over into this world.
And this May 7 marked exactly twenty years since his arrival.
He remembered this day ten years ago, the tenth anniversary of his arrival in this world. Back then, he had deliberately gone somewhere quiet on his own and spent some time in solitude, calming his mind and reminiscing about his years on Earth.
Yet on this twentieth anniversary, he felt little desire to reminisce.
After spending so long in this world, when he thought of his years on Earth now, he felt only a faint longing for his family there. He no longer felt any sadness or melancholy at all.
He was now, through and through, a man of the Sains Continent, with his family, his career, and his dreams here.
In fact, whenever he thought about it, he often felt that coming to this world and working to help it build a complete industrial system and achieve full industrialization was far more meaningful and fulfilling than spending an uneventful lifetime on Earth as an ordinary researcher at a research institute.
Just look at the streets now. Smooth roads were everywhere, with Magic Locomotives speeding along them, demonstrating the tremendous transformation in how people in this world traveled.
Along both sides of those roads stood sturdy buildings ten stories tall or even higher. Together with the various kinds of Household Magic Machinery inside, they marked an equally tremendous transformation in people's homes.
The people walking along the streets were all