This chapter engages in a critical reading of Shuang Chimu’s short story “My Family and Other Evolving Animals” from two interrelated ecological perspectives. One is the coevolution of social and environmental systems; another is a metabolic analysis rooted in Karl Marx’s ideas about a universal metabolism of nature and a social metabolism. In the narrative, Shuang Chimu constructs an ecological utopia where various dipteral insects, and other animals, evolve and mutate under the caring labor of humans in a space station called Shangri-La. It is in this ecotopian world that the author envisions an alternative model to solve the environmental problems we are facing on Earth: establishing a reciprocal relationship between a social metabolism and a universal metabolism of nature so that social and environmental systems can coevolve.