In the midsummer of 2003, 8-year-old Xu Qingmei moved to Wutong with her father, and met Lu Chenxing, a lonely boy from the family home of the Institute of Astronomy next door. Two misfit children established a secret base under an old locust tree, collected star specimens in glass jars, and grew up in a world intertwined with bamboo weaving and aerospace. On a meteor shower night before the college entrance examination, Chen Xing used bamboo strips to weave a model of Orion to express his love, but they were separated due to family changes on the eve of studying in the United States.
Ten years later, Qingmei, who became the inheritor of bamboo weaving as an intangible cultural heritage, participated in an innovation competition to save the endangered craft. Shen Xing, an aerospace materials scientist, returned to China to direct the satellite project. When traditional bamboo weaving craftsmanship and modern aerospace technology unexpectedly intersect, the truths buried by time - the 27 unsent letters, the decision made before the father's hospital bed, and the three thousand days and nights missed by each other - gradually emerge in the collision of stars and bamboo silk.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
