On the first day of school at a prestigious high school in S City, Yu Jinghe crashes his secondhand bicycle into Qi Lin’s arrogance.
The son of a supermarket owner and the heir to a wealthy family should have been parallel lines that never meet, until they tie for first place on the physics competition roster, until a luxury car following him through a rainstorm witnesses the boy’s back tense as he unloads cargo, until Qi Lin tears apart the pretense of his birthday banquet and asks beneath the stars, “Yu Jinghe, dare to make a bet with me?”
He bets that the hands that solve Maxwell’s equations can also hold on to love. He bets that the heartbeat caged in a gilded cage will one day shatter the barriers of convention. Using a faded neon sign as his guide, Yu Jinghe navigates the way, while Qi Lin offers up a shattered antique vase as his token of allegiance. In the cracks between their social classes, the two boys rebuild the laws of the universe:
When a secret crush becomes the gravity of a binary star system, when rebellion turns to the ashes of a supernova, they make a promise:
If society wants them to fall, they will make each other their destination and fall toward the stars.
