My Date with an Alien, Part One

An Lin Yuan, a young man from the Northern Song dynasty, is infected with a deadly virus by an alien visitor. On the verge of death, he is rescued by an expedition team. Wa Lingxi, the alien girl leading the team, takes him to a distant interstellar civilization. She personally teaches him knowledge and the rules of survival, watching him grow from an ignorant boy into a torchbearer capable of standing on his own. But no matter how hard he tries, he can never truly fit in with the alien people. In the end, they cast him out and send him alone back to an Earth that has changed beyond recognition. Heartbroken as she watches him disappear, Wa Lingxi resolutely leaves her people as well and sets off alone to find him. Over the course of a thousand years, An Lin Yuan builds a spaceship with his own hands on his unfamiliar homeland and heads for the sea of stars. Meanwhile, Wa Lingxi travels from one star system to another, never giving up her search. At last, in the vast universe, the two exiles reunite. From then on, they travel together, wandering and adventuring side by side, seeking a home for themselves amid the universe's vastness and cruelty, and searching for a future that belongs to them both.