A Thousand Sails, Ten Thousand Blessings

When America's Starlink satellites came close to our space station several times, forcing us to carry out emergency collision-avoidance maneuvers, accelerating the construction of our own low-Earth-orbit satellite internet constellation became an urgent priority... After failing the gaokao, 90s-born youth Zhu Qianfan buckles down and becomes a satellite engineer. After gaining experience on one model after another, he finally begins taking part in Shanghai's "Ten Thousand Satellites" plan. Influenced by Zheng An, the woman he has long admired, who works in the national security System, he comes to understand just how vital this space infrastructure is to national and space security, beyond its enormous social and economic value. Their mutual childhood friend Xiao Jiran, who has a love-hate relationship with Zheng An, has drifted through the internet boom since graduating from university. Gradually, as his career prospers and international capital makes inroads, he sets off down a very different path in life...