Gears and Starlight

Amidst the fireworks in the old city of Yuzhou, transfer student Lin Xiaoyan and Zhou Yu'an, the perfect scorer in essay writing, unexpectedly locked the gears of fate due to a "textual confrontation". One firmly believes that composition should have a heartbeat and warmth, while the other is obsessed with refinement but has lost his soul. From classroom debates to "taking writing as a bet", the two use pen and ink to trace the code of time in the rice roll stalls, car repair shops, and composition cafes in the old streets. The diary left by her mother, the gears and account books of Lao Zheng's car repair shop, and the tender guardianship of the night market stall owners connect each other's deep-seated pain and redemption; from the candidness of "Light in the Rain" to the fiery "Confession of the Sea", from double perfect scores in the joint entrance examination to standing side by side at the national summit, they use words as a bridge to transcend the haze of the past, and make true love the most moving core of literature. This is a youth narrative that hides the thousand-year history of Yuzhou and the fireworks of the city. It records the love between young people from tit-for-tat to each other's achievements. It also interprets the agreement of "the gears mesh and the stars last forever" - the most touching love is mutual support, and the most powerful words are true to the heart. When you open the pages of the book, you will fall into the long river of time full of the fragrance of ink, warmth and determination.