The Equation of Lost Time

“In the world of microscopic particles, when two systems become entangled, observation collapses every chaotic wave function into a single reality.” The story follows Lu Chenjue, a talented yet solitary theoretical physicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is forever seeking the universe’s absolute laws through mathematical equations. His life, seemingly an emotionless line running parallel to the world, takes an unexpected turn when he enters the Ancient Texts Library and meets Shen Shuhe, a gentle literary scholar who finds life in every page of ancient texts and poems from a thousand years ago. From sharp debates over quantum mechanics and classical poetry to moments standing shoulder to shoulder in the midst of raging storms, they gradually realize that between reason and emotion, between science and literature, there has always existed a breathtaking in-phase intersection.