[In 1997, the Wugang Meteorological Observatory recorded: 287mm of rainfall in the whole year, 73% of which fell when the jacarandas were withering.
Top student Zhou Zhaoyang's chemistry notebook contained poems written with a pipette. Only Xu Chenxing picked up the one that read "When I meet you, the PH test paper will turn blue."
Every page of Xu Chenxing's sketchbook on the desk is full of Zhou Zhaoyang's profile, from neat pencil to crazy charcoal, like a ten-year burning.
During the 2009 artificial rainfall season, when Zhou Zhaoyang finally developed a new painkiller in the laboratory, Xu Chenxing was drawing the sun on the fogged glass with his fingers.
None of them said that the sodium bicarbonate that disappeared that day turned into a rainbow bubble solution.
In the days that followed, Xu Chenxing exiled his soul to a border town in Tibet to atone for his debt.
A star will not fall into the darkness because someone is holding it up with love.
The night they reunited, they smoked cigarettes from their student days together on the long steps. Their fingertips touched while borrowing the fire, like the overlap of unfinished palm prints.
[2012 Graduation Yearbook Addendum: The jacaranda tree in the playground is now 287cm tall. During the rainy season, the roots of the tree will exude blue sap of unknown composition - the latest paper from the Department of Chemistry states that its acidity is always PH2.5.
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