When Lin Ji first arrives at Namtso, the wind on the roof of the world cuts like a blade, carrying the breath of the sacred lake and the loneliness of countless millennia.
Lin Ji's job is to protect the people exploring traces of ancient life beneath ice that has remained frozen for tens of thousands of years, amid this breathtaking landscape.
As the setting sun turns to molten gold, it gilds a handsome young man, surrounded by admirers, with deep-set eyes that cannot hide his weariness. Its light also illuminates a tender corner of Lin Ji's heart.
Chen Huan has made his home at Namtso for many years.
To everyone, he is an approachable, dependable glaciologist, the research institute's bedrock.
He is a glacier's buried monument, a spark trapped on a snowy peak, having shut himself away. Carved away by his past beneath a gentle exterior, he has long grown used to facing the eternal glaciers in silence.
Then Lin Ji appears: professional and composed, yet capable of delivering the most outlandish deadpan jokes in the calmest voice. Like a clear spring, Lin Ji flows unexpectedly into Chen Huan's barren, silent world, bringing both life and disorientation.
Above 4,718 meters, the air is thin and the stars are within reach.
One is a gentle candle flame moving through wind and snow; the other, an ember buried deep in frozen earth.
Air bubbles in ice cores preserve the sky from 110,000 years ago, while five-colored prayer flags gather each fleeting moment into eternity.
When the candle flame knocks on the ice field, the ember becomes an auroral sky screen illuminating the universe.
And their story is about understanding, companionship, and love.
Like the snowmelt of Nyenchen Tanglha, it will finally flow into the embrace of Namtso, enduring through the ages.
Warm on the outside, cold within, self-exiled glaciologist Chen Huan x cool on the outside, warm within, clear-eyed and courageous long-haired beauty and station doctor Lin Ji
A gentle, heartwarming, slow-burn little story.
The writing is average, and the technical details may contain errors.
Set in 2010. Chen Huan has had two male exes.
Theme: Two brilliant souls find their way toward each other, pursuing science and a life together in the place closest to the sky
It feels strange that Xiao Li calls each of the scientific researchers by name every time he greets them. Usually when two groups of people meet each other, they don't address each other or just call the person in the middle and start talking directly.
"My eyes glanced at a person passing by the roadside..." This gave the author a big bug~ It should be "Looking past the clumps of Gesang flowers on the roadside", there is an additional "passing"