The Redemption of Time (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 4)

by Baoshu

He had once given her a star. But now, because of the sudden expansion of the death line, she would never be able to land on this world. She had become his star.

There’s no difference at the level of neural activity. They injected those nightmares into my brain and made them real by taking advantage of biological mechanisms to which I had no defense. I wasn’t fighting illusions with reality; instead, I was making illusions to fight reality—a battle that I couldn’t win. “What use was it for me to conjure Cheng Xin? In response to my pleas, my tormentors could make her show up in my mind, giving me hope that a miracle had occurred, that salvation was at hand. But then they would turn the visitation into an even worse hell, one a thousand times worse than the one I had just suffered.

I see my love; I fly next to her; I present her with my gift, A small piece of solidified time. Lovely markings are carved into time As soft to the touch as the mud in shallow sea.