01 A Semester on Earth
Earth feels heavy. Far from her Moon home, Xiaoxing begins a semester in Shanghai—and finds herself missing a roof over the sky.
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Life on the Moon
Meet Xiaoxing, a young cyborg growing up in a city on the Moon. Between wandering robots, family calls, and dreams of Earth's rain, ordinary life has a little more wonder.
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46 episodes
01 02 One Last Day Under the Dome
Before leaving for Earth, Xiaoxing visits familiar people and places. Her friends have one request: remember what the sea is like.
Open episode → 03 The Missing Robot
It is Xiaoxing's first shift, and Rabbit has already gone missing. A new corridor turns a simple delivery into a small adventure.
Open episode → 04 Not Quite Brave
Her machine parts make some things easier. Stepping outside the city is another matter.
Open episode → 05 Trees Beneath a Roof
Walking the indoor garden with her mother, asking why the trees are never taller than the roof.
Open episode → 06 A Forest Without Walls
Listening to 小雨’s voice note from Earth and trying to imagine a forest that has no wall.
Open episode → 07 Dust at the Door
A dust scare at the airlock that makes the whole school late, and how quiet everyone gets.
Open episode → 08 Waiting for a Voice
A delayed call from 晓航; she talks too fast, then sits with the silence the signal still has to cross.
Open episode → 09 An Old Robot's Hand
Repairing 王奶奶’s watering robot 绿绿 and learning it is older than the new dome.
Open episode → 10 The Long Lunar Night
The long lunar night, when garden lamps hum and she looks for a sunset that will not come.
Open episode → 11 A Lesson in Jumping
Teaching a newly arrived Earth kid how to jump without hitting the ceiling.
Open episode → 12 Rain on My Skin
After 留学, telling 小美 the sea was loud, and that rain on her own skin was the part she still cannot explain.
Open episode → 13 A Ship That Never Leaves
Why a small indoor job might still help her understand ships: a city is already a ship that never leaves.
Open episode → 14 A Robot in the Crowd
Tourists photographing the garden while she is trying to get a robot through their legs.
Open episode → 15 Life Among the Rocks
What mining is like: slow, dusty, and strangely domestic — meals, jokes, a rock that will become someone’s wall.
Open episode → 16 Rocks Travel Cheaper
Why throwing metal to Earth is cheap (the city just flings it) and why he still cannot visit 小雨 on a whim.
Open episode → 17 The Spinning Rock
A close call with a spinning rock, told as a work story, then a promise to call his sister.
Open episode → 18 Is the Moon Too Small?
小雨 is on Earth now; he likes her laugh in the messages and fears the quiet moon will feel too small when she returns.
Open episode → 19 The Whole Earth
Seeing Earth whole from the belt and remembering 晓星 saying good morning to it from a window.
Open episode → 20 I Chose the Outside
Jealous, for one hour, of his sister’s safe indoor job, then ashamed, because he chose the outside.
Open episode → 21 Rain on a Tuesday
Rain on a Tuesday on Earth, recorded for 晓星, including the embarrassing fact that she used to hate getting wet.
Open episode → 22 One Bag, Two Gravities
Packing one bag that must work in two gravities, and which shoes she cannot bring.
Open episode → 23 The Noise I Missed
Missing 晓航 in a noisy Earth street, then admitting she also missed this noise.
Open episode → 24 What Does the Sea Smell Like?
She still wants the sea, but now she can ask 晓星 what it smelled like, and she is afraid the answer will be ordinary.
Open episode → 25 News from the Herb Stall
Herb-stall gossip: 晓航 sounded strange, 小雨 sent fruit pictures, 晓星’s left hand was warm all afternoon.
Open episode → 26 Skipping Stones into Space
His uncle shows him the mass driver, and skipping-stones finally makes sense.
Open episode → 27 One New World Is Enough
He wanted Mars mountains; after 晓星’s term on Earth he wonders if one new world is already a lot.
Open episode → 28 Our Only Weather
The gardens are not decoration; they are air, food, and the only weather the city has.
Open episode → 29 A City Grows, Dome by Dome
How the gardens grew dome by dome since 晓星 was a baby, including the year the first fruit was shared in thin slices.
Open episode → 30 A Name on a Crate
Loading a crate that 晓星’s robots brought, with 晓航’s name on the side.
Open episode → 31 Only a Drill
A hiss at the docks that was only a drill this time, and why he still walked home holding 林园’s hand.
Open episode → 32 The Forest I Remember
A forest she walked in as a child, told slowly, because it is the closest 晓星 has to one.
Open episode → 33 Room to Breathe
The day they opened the second dome, and people cried because there was so much extra air.
Open episode → 34 Keeping Robots Alive
He would rather keep robots alive than throw rocks, argued at a family-style dinner with 晓航.
Open episode → 35 Still on Duty
The retired delivery robot he adopted, which 晓星 now has to pretend is still “on duty.”
Open episode → 36 Someone Who Listens to Robots
Why robots outnumber people here, and why he still hired a sixteen-year-old who listens to them.
Open episode → 37 Remember to Call Home
A joke about leaving a finger in the belt, then a quiet instruction: call home before you get used to the quiet.
Open episode → 38 No Umbrella Days
A short talk: the moon has no umbrella days, only inside weather.
Open episode → 39 This Garden Is Not a Park
One day of being a visitor who thinks the garden is a park, until an airlock drill.
Open episode → 40 A Watering Robot's Day
A robot’s “day,” kept extremely simple: water, wait, thank 晓星, sleep in the sun-lamp.
Open episode → 41 Packing for Earth
Packing one bag for a term of heavy air: which shoes, which spare parts, and the garden smell she hides in a pocket.
Open episode → 42 My First Rain
First rain on Earth, standing still in it like a fool, then calling home with wet hair.
Open episode → 43 The Wrong Moon Time
A video call at the wrong moon-time; 林园 is in the long night and 晓星 is eating lunch under a blue sky.
Open episode → 44 Tea, Far from Home
Tea with 小雨 on Earth, and not knowing how much of 晓航 to report.
Open episode → 45 Coming Home
Coming home: the 圆顶 feels small for three days, then it feels like the right size again.
Open episode → 46 A Quieter House
The term the house is too quiet, told through the garden, not through a speech.
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