“If life were a blueprint, I would spend my whole life drawing a future with you in it.”
The summer she turned eighteen, Lin Qi left an ancient town in Jiangnan, carrying a stack of old photographs her grandfather had pressed into her hands and a wooden lotus flower. She walked through the gates of a university in the provincial capital.
She did not know that, deep within the campus, stood Jing Garden, a Republican-era estate abandoned for half a century.
She did not know that her grandfather had spent three years there as a young man, or that her great-grandmaster had devoted an entire lifetime to it.
Most of all, she did not know that the young man who kept appearing in Jing Garden would become the gentlest answer to all the years ahead of her.
Lu Sichen, the legendary “god of programming” in the computer science department, and the son of a rising technology magnate in the capital.
He thought the world was made of zeros and ones, until he met the girl who held an umbrella over him in the rain.
What she wants to protect is an old house on the verge of disappearing.
What he wants to create is a new world connected to the future.
When meticulous blueprints meet free-flowing code, and traditional craftsmanship meets rational algorithms,
they spend four years writing a story about ideals, protection, and two people choosing each other.
The moonlight over Jing Garden, the festive bustle of the old city, torrential rain in a mountain village, the dawn of a startup…
From strangers to partners, from misunderstanding to understanding, from campus to the wider world.
It turns out the best kind of love is not me shielding you from every storm, but wanting to join you in making the world a more beautiful place.
Time stretches on, and everything is a mystery.
You alone are the answer to everything for me.
