Spacecraft designer Lin Wei ran into a materials problem and turned to her alma mater’s laboratory for help. To her surprise, the person in charge was the coldest boy in her high school class, a “nobody” whose name she could barely remember. Shen Yizhou was quiet, aloof, and strictly professional, yet he silently presented her with a plan for an alloy that exceeded every performance target. As their collaboration deepened, she discovered that his notebook held every article about her high school awards, and that a drawer in the lab was locked around a love letter he had never dared to give her eleven years ago. Even his choice to study materials science had been made just so he could be “a little closer to her world.” She had always thought she was the one shining brightest. Only in the end did she learn that someone had waited for her through an entire youth, in the quietest way possible. From a cup of soy milk with extra sugar to a ring fashioned from leftover aerospace alloy, this long-delayed love, mutual and wholehearted, finally soared toward the stars and the sea.]
A probe has its orbit, and he has his way home. Her world is the only gravitational field he has orbited for eleven years.
Purely writing for love, with my own personal preferences. If it’s not for you, feel free to move on.
