Bai Fangyu and Fang Baiyu were not the same person. Bai Fangyu was from China while Fang Baiyu was from Japan. The Thousand Gates series is a contemporary Chinese story set in a fictional time and space. It tells the story of a group of people with special abilities in order to achieve their goals. There was no clear conclusion about the origin and author of the Thousand Gates series, but it was generally believed that it was written by Bai Fangyu.