I almost touched the moon

After the start of the Winter Olympics, Cheng Che was busy with training every day. Perhaps the pressure of preparing for the competition made him a little uneasy, and he became more clingy. After training every day, he would ask Wen Song to come to the Olympic Village to have dinner with him.

The hotel where Wen Song stayed was located in Dingzankei, more than 20 kilometers away from the city center where the Olympic Village is located, and it takes 30 minutes to drive there.

And because of the time difference, she has to stay up late at night to write papers and calculation reports, or to attend meetings with her supervisor and ESA's R&D department. Seven o'clock in the afternoon Japan time every day is exactly the time when she is most sleepy when she "gets up early".

She had wanted to tell Cheng Che that she was really tired and just wanted to sleep in the hotel during the day and didn't want to leave. However, every time she saw Cheng Che's expectant eyes with a little reluctance, she swallowed the words that came to her lips. She comforted herself again and again, forget it, just bear it, wait until the Winter Olympics are over and her project is completed, then she can sleep as long as she wants.

On February 2, Li Yunjia also came to Sapporo to watch the figure skating competition. Not long after arriving at the hotel room, Wen Song also came back. As soon as he stepped into the room, he didn't even take off his coat, and fell on the tatami, without even the strength to move.

"Wife, what's wrong with you, my wife!" Li Yunjia hurried forward and helped her take off her coat and hang it up. She also saw that she had lost a lot of weight. Although she put on makeup, she still couldn't hide her haggardness.

"Honey, I'm dying."

Wen Song collapsed on the tatami, hugged Li Yunjia's legs and cried, "My mentor is responsible for the astrophysics-related design of the Venus probe jointly undertaken by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, so I need to assist him in orbit calculations. As a result, I finally finished the calculations, and the damn Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said that our plan was too expensive and did not take into account the economic significance.

You're crazy. If we have to consider economic benefits when developing planetary probes, then why develop probes? We can just mine near-Earth asteroids. ESA also thought what they said made sense, and asked my mentor if we could modify the plan. Then he drafted a new orbit, and I had to recalculate. I'm dying, husband, I won't live anymore!!!"

Li Yunjia patted her on the back and coaxed her softly, "Japanese people are like this, they are always fussy and like to pick on meaningless details. Honey, you have worked hard. I brought you some red bean buns from the bakery near my house. Come and have some."

"I won't eat my husband anymore." Wen Song sighed again and continued to cry, "Moreover, the comet that my classmate and I chose as a reference for the project we were working on was deviating from its orbit more and more. I was going crazy, and then I calculated that it would break through Jupiter's Roche limit and disintegrate within 72 days.

Originally I was supposed to finish this project before ICNS in June this year, but now because it is about to fall apart, I have to finish it within two months. Husband!!! I can’t live anymore!!!”

Li Yunjia was also troubled after hearing her words, and gently advised: "Hey, wife, you have to go to bed. But you are so busy, why do you still come to watch the Winter Olympics? How can your body bear it?"

"There's nothing I can do." Wen Song actually felt a little aggrieved because of excessive fatigue. He even took off his disguise in front of his friends, and his voice was filled with tears.

"It's Cheng Che's first Winter Olympics, so how could I not come? But I feel like I'm more tired than him during his Winter Olympics. I have to calculate and verify data, write reports, papers, check literature, and attend meetings at night. I can't sleep for a few hours during the day, and I have to accompany him to dinner in the evening..."

Li Yunjia also frowned after hearing this, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Cheng Che is too inconsiderate for you, doesn't he know you are so busy?"

"Alas." Wen Song stood up from the tatami, sat by the window, lit a cigarette, and said helplessly,

"I mentioned it briefly, and he said that if I didn't have time to accompany him, he would come to the hotel to accompany me after training in the evening. You don't know how perverted their deputy director is. He was particularly targeting him. How could I let him leave the team without permission during the Olympics because of me?

Then I said, we don’t have to see each other every day, we will definitely see each other during the competition. He looked at me with a pitiful look and said something like, ‘But I will miss my sister so much. We haven’t seen each other for so long. I can’t sleep well without sleeping with my sister at night. If we can’t see each other, I won’t be able to concentrate on training.’ What can I do…”

Li Yunjia was embarrassed after hearing this and said speechlessly: "How old is he? Why is he so clingy? I really can't stand it. If he was my boyfriend, I would really go crazy, no matter how handsome he is, I can't stand it."

"23, he's two years younger than me." Wen Song took another puff of his cigarette and said silently, "Forget it, it's only two weeks, it will be over if we just endure it. By the way, husband, I asked Cheng Che for two tickets for figure skating tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, both in the first row of the inner court."

When Li Yunjia saw the ticket she handed over, she immediately expressed her gratitude to Cheng Che. It was not easy to say anything bad about him, so she tried to smooth things over by saying, "He definitely cares about you, but he's young and a little immature. So, when looking for a boyfriend, you can't look for someone younger than you. Men are immature to begin with. If you find someone younger than you, you'd really be his mother."

"It's not like I have to be a mother..." Wen Song sighed and shook his head, "I'm just a sparring partner for the young master."

Two years later in Kyoto, Wen Song recalled this incident again and turned to ask Li Yunjia: "Tell me, if I had told him directly at that time that I was really tired and couldn't accompany him every day, would he have understood me? Then I wouldn't have been so angry about him ignoring me after winning the championship, and I wouldn't have returned to England without saying a word. Maybe we wouldn't have broken up."

At that moment, her eyes were filled with tears and her expression was filled with regret. It took her two full years to realize that sometimes blindly giving in would only backfire.