There Is a Bug in My Algorithm

[One sentence triggers the story] "It took me seventeen years to learn to solve problems, but it took me a lifetime to accept that you are the problem that I can never write the word 'solution' on." --- [What kind of story is this? Genre: Campus crush · Double academic master · Rationality vs. Sensibility · Ultimate BE aesthetics Keywords: π on the college entrance examination mathematics paper / post-it love letter / optimal solution and unsolvable problem / mutual gaze in parallel lives Readers' tears: Although they all succeeded, they lost to the completely different way of understanding the world when they were seventeen years old This is not a "fall in love but miss" story. This is a story about "just because you love someone so deeply, you choose not to include the other person in your life." --- Who are they? Cheng Che—the top scorer in science, was recommended to the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. The world is like a huge answer sheet to him, and every question has a standard answer. He uses three-color pens to classify life, uses algorithms to plan the future, and treats emotions as "variables to be optimized." Until he met Lin Wei - the girl who wrote "This question has no solution" on his perfect math paper. Lin Wei—ranked first in the country in the CAFA exam. She believes that the most beautiful things are in the parts that get lost in the process of solving problems. She collected feathers, dead leaves, scrapped manuscripts, and half-written poems that were torn out. She put sticky notes all over Cheng Che's textbook and wrote "useless words". She wanted to teach him: Some problems will last forever if they are not solved. They attract each other like light and prism. But they are destined to be unable to say "I love you" in each other's language. --- [About their youth - sweetness is meeting, cruelty is understanding] Sweet: the first time he skipped studying late at night just to spend time with her quietly in the corner of the studio; she buried post-it notes in each of his textbooks, waiting for him to find them; he sang "Sunny Day" off-key at KTV, and she laughed and cried in the dim light; he bound her thirty scrap manuscripts into a book, with the title page reading: "Lin Wei's Wrong Aesthetics·Volume 1." Abuse: He used a twelve-page report to plan the "optimal life path" for her, and she asked: "What if 'becoming a happy waste' is not included in those options?" He developed an APP to quantify emotions, and the algorithm determined that their "long-term matching degree is less than 40%." She said: "Cheng Che, our biggest problem is not the distance. It is that you see life as a straight line that needs to reach the end as quickly as possible. I see life as a wilderness that needs to be walked slowly." --- [What happened to them afterwards? ——About BE, but beautiful] He was not with her. But he resigned as CEO and founded the "Institute for Non-Standard Issues" to fund all "useless but beautiful" research. He observed the polar night in the North Pole, adopted stray cats in a Beijing alley, and saw the "trembling lines" she once called in the graffiti of an autistic boy. He learned to write poetry in the gaps of arguments. She was not with him. But she wrote their story into "The Art of Mistakes", with an acknowledgment on the title page: "To C. C., My first mistake and last right." She got lost in Paris for four hours and found that it was the freest time in two years. After she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, she received "memory capsules" from him every day - 365, one year, containing faded sticky notes, the weather forecast for that day, and microfilms of her useless manuscripts. The day she forgot about him, she drew a π on the windowpane. At the Arctic Observatory, he recorded a video of the aurora that he never sent: "Thank you, you were my darkness and my light." --- [This is not a tragedy - this is the answer to "wholeness"] They are not married. No compounding. We did not meet again when we were gray-haired. But they make each other more complete people. It took Cheng Che half his life to understand that true rationality is not to find all the answers, but to learn to coexist peacefully with questions that never have answers. It took Lin Wei a lifetime to confirm: Some love does not need memory to prove; it is so deep that it becomes breathing itself. They all turned in their papers. All got full marks. It's just that their perfect scores are not on the same answer sheet. --- [What will readers find in this book? ✓ The ultimate setting of two academic masters - not "a scumbag saving an academic god", but two extremely smart people who understand the world in completely different ways, causing sparks and cracks ✓ The emotional rhythm of sweetness and abuse - every candy is wrapped with glass shards, and every wound is shining with starlight ✓ Mathematics The contrasting aesthetics of parallel lives - Beijing and Paris, the North Pole and Switzerland, they share the moon across continents, and see different sunrises on their respective mountain tops ✓ Extreme BE but not despair - they lose each other, but become themselves; love is not the end, it is the last lesson for each other to graduate --- The words they leave in readers' hearts "If love is a function, I hope that our domain is each other's entire life. But the value domain is allowed to be an empty set." "Cheng Che, if one day I forget you, it's not that I don't love you anymore, it's that my love is so deep that I don't need to remember you." "I once thought love was a function to be optimized, but later I realized that love is the singularity that makes all functions fail." "None of us were wrong. We just used a grand miss to prove that the path chosen by each other leads to our own sea of stars." --- Suitable for you · I once had a crush on someone who was in a completely different world from my own · I believe that "the process is more important than the result" but still calculate "what if" late at night · I like the sense of fate of time and space in "Want to See You", the youthful texture of "The Best of Us", and the regretful aesthetics of "Norwegian Wood" · I am willing to shed a happy tear for a story that does not have a happy ending. --- [Number of words in the book] About 280,000 words [Main plot time span] 17 years old → 45 years old [Emotional tone] 4 points sweet · 4 points sad · 2 points lingering [Nature of the ending] Ultimate BE · Spiritual HE · Each is complete · Never get back together but never forget --- This is a story about two extremely rational and extremely emotional people who spend their lives learning to appreciate each other's philosophy of time. In the end, they did not become each other's answers, but they became the eternal frame of reference in each other's questions that made all standard answers seem pale. And this may be the cruelest and gentlest graduation gift that love can give. Concept: Rationality and sensibility are not rivals, they are two sides of the same coin. We spend our lives not trying to turn each other over, but to confirm that this coin, no matter which side is up, is in the same hand, and has been warmed by the temperature of the same heart for forty-five years.