Before Weightlessness

Xu Zhiwei is the youngest crisis strategy partner in the industry. She has helped celebrities, conglomerates, and high-risk companies prepare for countless "worst-case scenarios."

She believes every accident can be rehearsed, and every relationship should have an escape route planned in advance.

That is, until she is invited to stage a missing-founder drill for commercial aerospace company Lingyue Space.

At the mock funeral, a video from the late test pilot Han Zheng suddenly appears:

"If I don't make it back, don't let them end up saying I broke it myself."

The final page of the accident statement from a year ago, which concluded that Han Zheng's death was caused by "pilot error," bears Xu Zhiwei's signature.

Overnight, she goes from handling the crisis to becoming the crisis herself.

To recover the truth that was altered, and reclaim the right to define her own name, she has no choice but to investigate alongside Zhou Jibai, her most difficult client.

He is calm and restrained, accustomed to shouldering every risk himself. She is clear-eyed and strong-willed, and cannot stand anyone making decisions for her in the name of protecting her.

The boundaries between client and contractor, professional credibility, and a growing, uncontrollable attraction pull them in different directions. As the truth buried for a year gradually comes to light, they must answer more than just what caused the accident:

Is a company worth saving at the cost of a dead man's good name?

And when you love someone, do you shield them from every storm, or give them back the right to choose and face it all together?