Before she turns eighteen, Shen Xi will go completely blind.
She kept the secret well hidden, until she met Lu Qingye in an abandoned observatory. He was a boy who wrapped all his tenderness in coldness. He repaired the telescope and knew every star in Orion, yet did not dare admit that he had kept the hair tie she dropped in his pocket for an entire autumn.
She began bringing him lunch every day, and he began to remember the rhythm of her footsteps. They drew closer little by little as the countdown ticked away, until fate arrived first.
Years later, he became an ophthalmologist. On the letter she left him, there was only one line of pencil writing, erased with an eraser.
And Betelgeuse, the star on the verge of exploding, still shines.
This is a story about waiting, protecting someone, and "being seen while there is still time."
Theme: Pure love, poetic beauty.
