Lin Ruotang never thought that he would meet Shen Du again in the Arctic Circle.
Ten years ago, he was her deskmate whom she had a crush on. He suddenly disappeared before the college entrance examination without even saying goodbye. Ten years later, she was the set designer at the Polar Star Camp, and he was the polar security consultant with "veto power" on security.
In the polar night when the temperature was minus 40 degrees Celsius, the starry sky dome she designed was stopped on the spot because the "thermal expansion coefficient exceeded the standard." She argued hard, but he just said coldly: "Designer Lin, some things become brittle at low temperatures - such as trust."
She didn't know that in the ten years since he disappeared, he had witnessed too many moments of life and death at the polar research station. She also didn't know that the old scar on his left middle finger was made by using a utility knife when she was in high school - he never had scar removal surgery.
Cracks in the dome, reflections in subglacial lakes, snow blindness, frostbite, blizzards... In this extreme environment of human survival, the most fragile thing is not the equipment, but the human heart; the strongest thing is not the safety regulations, but the wait that has not been spoken for ten years.
When the truth about the stage accident three years ago surfaced, and when the deepest moment of the polar night arrived, they had to make a choice at the critical point of minus 40 degrees -
Should we continue to test each other back to back, or should we admit the thought that has never been extinguished since high school: I have liked you for ten years.
