In high school, he huddled in the back row, too afraid to talk to her. He secretly took the books she'd borrowed and wrote "You can do it" on a note, but didn't dare sign his name.
Ten years later, at their class reunion, he is a Best Actor and she is an aerospace scientist.
"Long time no see, Song Ci."
From the Hohmann transfer to the lunar orbit insertion, from successive versions of sweet-and-sour spare ribs to an expanded edition of orbital notes, every step the Best Actor takes to win her back is a precisely calculated acceleration into a new orbit.
And at last, she writes on a sheet of letter paper: "Capture confirmed. Orbit stable. Long-term orbital mode activated."
