Sixteen-year-old rural girl Lin Suisui is faced with a life decision: the admission notice from a provincial key high school and the burden of her family are both weighing on her thin shoulders. The father is ill and the younger brother needs to be fed. The eyes of the whole village are like an invisible net. And this summer, strange things happened one after another in the village - a century-old well dried up overnight, and the bamboo forest behind the mountain suddenly bloomed, as if nature was hinting at something.
When Suisui discovered the star map and formulas left by Lin Wangbei, a scientist from the Republic of China, at the bottom of a dry well, two souls separated by a hundred years had a wonderful connection through a starry sky. Lin Wangbei's unfinished experiments, the lost observation manuscripts, and an "Introduction to Astrophysics" picked up from the scrapyard, all clues point to a forgotten scientific dream.
Following Lin Wangbei's instructions to "look up at the stars and keep your feet on the ground", Suisui trudged between practical dilemmas and scientific ideals. From the bottom of the well to the school, from the countryside to the city, from one person's obsession to the change of a group of people, she not only explores the mysteries of the stars, but also practices the possibility of returning knowledge to the land and rejuvenating the countryside.
This is the story of a girl who uses formulas to calculate her dreams and water the land with her sweat. When rice waves meet stars, when tradition meets science, when an old well connects the past and the future - what we see is not only the growth of individuals, but also how countless ordinary people in an era used the simplest persistence to write the vastest galaxy.
In this land, every ear of rice has looked up at the stars, and every star has remembered the temperature of the earth.
Clear thinking and rigorous logic