Shi Lei, a young man from Earth, picked up a "little fur ball" covered in injuries under an old osmanthus tree - it was Xiao Ruan, an alien girl from the home planet. The tip of her tail was stained with blood, but she looked at him with wet eyes and said softly: "Don't be afraid, my name is Xiaoruan."
From then on, there were two more figures on the bluestone road in Jiangnan Water Town: one always stood on tiptoes to tie bows for the other, one squatted in front of the stove to cook star bud porridge, and the other held up a stardust pen to draw crooked laurel trees on the letter paper. Shi Lei taught Xiao Ruan how to identify the wormwood on the earth, and Xiao Ruan showed Shi Lei the starlight of the mother planet; they picked wormwood and made grass rings on Guyu nights to save "star gifts" for the unborn baby; when Xiao Ruan was pregnant, Shi Lei secretly learned to knit a baby sweater, and the thread ball was still stained with unopened star dust.
After marriage, Xiao Ruan became a "little mother" twice. The cries of Tuan Bao and her younger brother mixed with the soft sound of the star screen became the most beautiful music in the family. The star core of the mother star hangs in the night sky like a sapphire, and the star network connects the two places like the Milky Way. The most precious "star network" is hidden in the heat when they make porridge, between their fingertips when weaving grass rings, and in the eyes of their children when they laugh.
This is not a grand interstellar legend, but a "playing house" between two souls across dimensions——
Someone asked: "How vigorous does love need to be?"
They replied: "It's just that I picked you up, you warmed me up, and then together we turned ordinary days into the sweetest stardust in the universe."
