1984 Dana Liu is born in semi rural Long Island, NY.
1986 Lee (Muyang) Mao is born in Beijing, China.
1986 Xiaoyun Sun is born in Shanghai, China.
1987 Ruby Si is born in rural Long Island, NY.

1998 Dana befriends Ruby.
2000 Xiaoyun Sun moves to rural Long Island, NY and befriends Dana and Ruby.
2001 Lee Mao moves to rural Long Island, NY and befriends Dana, Ryan, and Xiaoyun. I hope this time lasts forever.
September 11th 2001 (Tuesday, raining) - 17:20 Ryan fights with his parents.
- 18:00 Ryan runs out, heads towards the cliff ledge over the beach.
- 18:54 Ryan reaches the beach and climbs up to the ledge's top.
- 19:00 Ryan finds a break in the fence to jump, but the break in the fence just shows him a shack on the shore that he's never seen before.
- 19:24 Ryan goes down the hill slope and walks up to the shack.
- 19:30 Ryan meets Time.
2003 Ryan temporarily moves in with Lee.

2005 Ryan moves out to the Bronx, NY and starts the process of getting a job as a police detective.
November 19th 2010 - Dakota Liu is born to Dana Cheng (Liu) and ___ Cheng.
Early 2009 - Lee and Yun move to Chinatown, NYC.
April 21rst 2009 - Taoyi is born to ___ Si and ___ Si (Dai) in rural Long Island, NY.
July 7th 2009 - Lucky (older) and Huan (younger) are twins born to Lee Mao and Xiaoyun Mao.

Early 2013 - Ryan is notified about Taoyi's existence and begins the process of adopting him.
Late 2013 - Ryan adopts Taoyi. They both retain the surname Si.

Early 2014 - Dakota meets Lucky and Huan at a playground while Dana is looking for a place to move into in NYC.
Late 2014 - Dana and Dakota move to the East Village, NYC.

Late 2015 - Ryan and Taoyi move to the Lower East Side, NYC.

May 30th 2021 - end of Lucky and Huan's 2nd year of middleschool, Huan gets his eye knicked.
- Lucky shuts himself in his room and stops going out