In the years when the fog locked Ivy Lane, Lin Wanxing was just a butterfly wrapped in a hard shell of "sensible" - her father's alcohol permeated the long night, her mother's lies woven into a cage, her grandmother's partiality tempered the cold light, and her twelve years of dark life made her carve tenderness into her bones, but hide scars in her soul. The haze of depression followed her like a shadow, and she thought she would eventually drown in the quagmire of her original family, until the dim light of the chemistry laboratory hit her eyes.
Shen Zhiheng was twelve years older than her, a chemistry teacher as gentle as spring water, hiding the dull pain left by the experimental accident, and quietly ironing out her desolation with the clear reaction in the test tube and the gentle temperature of the fingertips. Jiang Chen, the unruly young man in Aquarius, with the brokenness of his original family, split thorns for her with his ruthless guardianship; Su Xiaoran, the fiery girl in Scorpio, wrapped up the scars of being dependent on others and built an armor for her with thorny tenderness.
Four souls who were owed by fate met in the folds of youth. It is the tenderness of youth that cannot be written in chemical equations, it is the noisy but unswerving bond of close friends, it is the two-way redemption of you pulling me out of the abyss and me accompanying you through the long night. When the butterfly wings break away from the haze, and when the fluorescence pierces the darkness, they will finally understand in each other's eyes: the most touching youth is never fought alone, but someone accompanies you to turn the bitterness in the alcohol into sugar, put the broken dreams together, and go together in the years for a grand rush of "armoring each other and never being separated".
Purpose: redemption