The Photoelectric Effect

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Blurb:

What is the photoelectric effect?

On the microscopic level, when light shines on metal, electrons absorb energy and jump to a higher energy level. They escape in an instant, creating an electric current.

On the macroscopic level, it's the cloud hanging over classical physics, and the shared starting point of the two theories of the twentieth century that could never be unified.

But to me, it's when light falls on you, and the reflected photons flood into my eyes. The electrons in the atoms that make up my retina absorb energy, jump to a higher energy level, and escape in an instant, creating a bioelectric current.

Once my brain has finished decoding it, I can see you.

It's wave-particle duality, impossible to unify, yet somehow unified.

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Never feel sorry about your great ambition

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Qi Guang: Do you believe in coincidence?

Si Yue: Aren't all our meetings coincidences?

Qi Guang: Not really. Fate is always too thin between us. Maybe it's because I kept at it until even stone was worn through.

Si Yue: What do you mean?

Qi Guang: What looks like a chance encounter to you has always been inevitable. If the odds of us meeting again are one in a million, then even if I fail ten million times while looking for you, the odds of our reunion will approach one hundred percent.

Si Yue: You've looked for me a lot?

Qi Guang: I've lost count.

Si Yue: I thought people's encounters were like clouds meeting over the sea, like shooting stars scattering. Coincidental, fleeting.

Qi Guang: There are no coincidences.

Si Yue: Of course. According to the Copernican principle, no observer is special.

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A decade-long journey to win her back

Female high-energy physicist x male mathematician

Genius girl with a disorder (Asperger's) x top student with his head in the clouds when it comes to love

Rekindled love, school first, then city life. Both are each other's first.

Author's preference: indifferent female lead + lovesick male lead

As the blurb says, the female lead truly has Asperger's. The happy ending depends entirely on the male lead fighting tooth and nail for her.

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Blurb:

The first time Li Mingju met him was on a damp, rainy day. The teacher said they were changing seats. As she hurried to move, she bumped into the new student behind her.

In the dim light, the fresh-faced boy was gentle and polite. The shell buttons on his chest gleamed, and he belonged to a completely different world from her, a poor student on a special admission who had worn the same old uniform for three years.

Later, she heard someone call his name.

Qi Zaiyang.

Back then, he was a young nobleman born with a silver spoon, the most famous student in the school. A black van picked him up every evening. At a high school filled with luxury cars, his was always at the front of the line.

Everyone could tell that his future was destined to be smooth sailing.

Mingju thought so too.

He was a young master of the royal family, while she was a poor student who kept her head down and studied. Aside from competing academically, they had no connection at all.

But amid a heavy snowfall, Mingju's mother had a manic episode and shoved her into the snow. The people nearby covered their noses, pointing and laughing. As the falling snow blurred her vision, someone opened an umbrella over her, shielding her from the gossip.

He gave her courage, beat up the rich kid who bullied her, bought her the best laboratory, and helped her make it onto the national team for the competition.

The boy's gaze was gentle as he gathered her, battered and disheveled, into his arms and promised he would always lift her up, so she could make her own legend.

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Qi Zaiyang was born into an esteemed family and carried the weight of his family's expectations from childhood. Every move he made was strictly guided. His life was absurdly dull, and he had never looked forward to another day.

Until the day he sat in a tree, wanting to jump down.

A girl wedged half her body between the branches, stretched out her arm, and grabbed him as she teetered on the verge of falling herself. She promised him, "You won't fall. I'm holding on to you."

From that moment on, his empty gaze had somewhere to land. He wanted her to soar higher, like an eagle.

"You are the most precious bird of my life."

"As you fly higher, please look down at me too."

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The night before Mingju left for training camp, her mother heard she wanted to leave and locked her inside the house, cutting off all contact with the outside world.

It was a frigid winter night. She was going mad from being cooped up, and made a wish at the only window, wishing to be free as a bird.

Knock, knock, knock

Someone tapped on the window.

Qi Zaiyang stood below, snow and wind at his back, his gentle eyes red-rimmed. "Li Mingju, let me help you escape."

Coming soon: Queen Diana of Laurel. Blurb:

Far across the sea, in Atlantis, a rumor spread through the royal court that the gods had abandoned their king.

So the altar became a fountain plaza, and the temple was turned into a garden. The statue of the god became the king himself.

The one who spread the rumor bowed to the ground and said: It is the gods who have been abandoned by our king. Long live Queen Diana, for thousands upon thousands of years.

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