There is one superb benefit if a person is listening to fantasies i.e he will always get a chance to listen to something new. Usually, fantasies bring to the audience such thoughts which they have never heard of. The authors of these fantasy tales knit a world beyond the imagination of the listeners and then the listeners are allured into that domain. Once the listener enters that domain of imagination then he does not want to get out of it because it provides an escape from the real world.
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor is also another fine tale by Xiran Jay Zhao so you can buy that book along with this one. These two books will make your imagination come true within no time. Huaxia is the land where the book takes us and the place is being invaded by aliens constantly.
Every now and then heroes are selected in Huaxia who fight with these aliens with the help of specially designed robots. The robots need one male and one female pilot to drive them. Usually, at the end of the combat, the girls taking part in the fight die because their energy is consumed by the robot. Zetian happens to be an eighteen years old girl and she is ready to go to the fight zone because she wants to avenge the death of her sister.
Not only Zetian takes revenge for the death of her sister but she also returns home alive because she had the power to consume the energy of the boy who was with her. The people start calling her the Iron Widow and she thinks that she has another task in hand i.e to find out why the robots consume the energy of girls instead of the boys.