Chen Rang, a boy from the Qian class at Tsinghua University, and Shen Qingyan, a girl from the World Literature class, got to know each other through a "Book of Songs" class, and they met again in Oxford seven years later. One is an aerospace engineer, determined to land on the moon; the other is a children's literature writer, dedicated to bringing ancient poems into the hearts of children. From Cambridge to Oxford, from Shanghai to space, they struggled between ideals and reality, poverty and persistence, and experienced separation and reunion. Two crickets chirped in different patches of grass, eventually finding the same frequency.
Purpose: The novel explores the eternal propositions of ideals and reality, persistence and compromise through the cross-class love between Chen Rang, a young man in a small town, and Shen Qingyan, a scholarly family. The image of "cricket" is used to connect the culture of "The Book of Songs" and the space dream, explaining that the real "well-matched" is spiritual side-by-side rather than material equality.