Brilliant Stars——the Biography of Wang Zhenyi

In the thirty-third year of Qianlong's reign, there was a heavy snowfall in Jinling. Modern astrophysicist Lin Wan accidentally became Wang Zhenyi during a meteor shower that only occurred once in a century. The seventy-five cabinets of books are the starting point of her new life; the calendar calculation accurate to the minute is her only weapon in this era. She publicly rehearsed the lunar eclipse despite the reputation of being a "temptress who confuses the public", and crushed the Imperial Heavenly Prison by a hair's breadth in the Qianqing Palace, making the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty raise their heads for the first time and take a serious look at the sky calculated by a woman. But the real crisis is not in the court. When she discovered that every reef and waterway in the Qing Dynasty had been quietly marked on the Western navigation charts, she knew that what she wanted to calculate was far more than just the waxing and waning of the moon. She weaved a huge network of more than a hundred civilian observers in the south of the Yangtze River, and the strongest fulcrum of this network was her husband Zhan Mei, the poor scholar who was frightened by her when he borrowed books. Later, he sold his property, broke into the prison, and tore up the divorce papers for her. When everyone said she was "crazy," he said to her: "They are afraid that you are different from ordinary people, but I am afraid that you will be lonely and no one will understand." She failed to prevent the war sixty years later. But the coastal defense star map she left behind saved the blood of 100,000 people on that coast. Later, there was a crater named after her on Venus. And some people looked up at the starry sky from the Qianlong period until today.