Su Wanxing is a well-known "tomato farmer" in the Department of Biology. The balcony of the laboratory is filled with small tomatoes she cultivated. They are sour, sweet and juicy and are her "decompression tool". But ever since Lu Shiyan, the student from the Computer Science Department next door, moved into the office across from the lab, her tomatoes began to "disappear" frequently.
The first time she discovered it, she grabbed the empty flowerpot and looked for it. Lu Shiyan was leaning against the window, with tomato juice still on his fingertips and the tips of his ears red: "B-borrow one to try, and I'll return it to you next time."
From then on, Su Wanxing's tomatoes became Lu Shiyan's "exclusive snack". He would use codes to help her organize experimental data, exchange milk tea for her tomatoes, and silently hand her hot coffee when she stayed up late doing experiments.
Su Wanxing gradually discovered that this seemingly aloof school girl would remember that she did not eat coriander, would help her collect drying experimental samples on rainy days, and would rush over to her immediately after the basketball game to ask her if she had been squeezed. And Lu Shiyan had long been impressed by the girl who was squatting on the balcony watering tomatoes and smiling like stars. Stealing tomatoes was just a clumsy excuse for him to get closer.
From the tomato "tug of war" in the laboratory, to studying side by side in the library, from cheering each other on in the campus singing competition, to jointly planning the future during the graduation season, their love is like a ripe tomato, sour, sweet and healing, hiding the purest tenderness of their college years.
