"The glass dome of the planetarium is always dry, just like when I was seventeen years old, the torrential rain of the entire Milky Way was hidden in my pupils."
In the humid September of 2008, Shen Nanxing discovered that the ventilation ducts of the planetarium could transmit sound. She put her ear against the cold alloy wall and heard the sound of Lin Xubai adjusting the buttons of the planetarium, like a string of raindrops encrypted in Morse code. At this moment, her stepfather's beer bottles were exploding in the rental house three kilometers away, and she was huddled in the shadow of the steel dome structure, using the tip of a compass to carve the three stars of Orion's Belt on her arm - more secret than the bruises, was the looming jasmine fragrance on the collar of the young man's white shirt.
This planetarium, built in the 1960s, collects all the dry moments of Shen Nanxing. She breathed on the eyepiece of the brass telescope, and the word "Lin" she drew with mist always turned into the gamma star in the constellation Cassiopeia when the projector was turned on; she stole page 102 of the Astronomical Yearbook - recording the total solar eclipse data on Lin Xubai's birthday. The coffee stains on the edge of the page resembled the mole under his right eyelid. Until she was on duty on a rainy night, Lin Xubai tilted the umbrella towards her who was soaked all over. The moment the umbrella ribs rotated, an artificial meteor happened to streak across the virtual sky. Shen Nanxing saw the halo on his eyelashes in the glass reflection, and suddenly understood that some of the heartbeats were caused by the gravitational waves before the two stars met.
Ten years later, when Shen Nanxing returned to the renovated planetarium as an aerospace reporter, a man-made meteor shower light show was being staged on the dome. As a consultant, Lin Xubai adjusted the holographic projection, and the wedding ring reflected the cross-edge under the laser. As they looked at each other across the Milky Way model, the sound of an old compass rolling down suddenly came from the ventilation duct - it was the murder weapon she left behind in 2009. At this moment, under the spotlight of the new era, Orion was quietly showing off the scarred arm.
Purpose: Burial of Stars before Rain