Spread Your Wings

On April 1, 2001, over the South China Sea, 81192 never returned. In a high school classroom, eighteen-year-old Shu Yang crossed out every school on her application form and left just one. Twenty-three years later, ginkgo leaves blanketed Rongdu as an unnamed fighter jet streaked across the sky, sending the entire internet into a frenzy.

This book focuses on China's technological breakthroughs in national defense and aviation as part of its modernization: from drafting technician to deputy chief designer, from "I want revenge" to "I'll escort her." She spent half her life writing on blueprints and drew an era into the sky. This book is dedicated to everyone who hid their name in the blue skies of their homeland.