After the Defense, We Got Married

This is a master's degree youth coming-of-age novel set in Nanheng University, a 985 university. The story revolves around Lin Zhixia's learning, scientific research, laboratory life and emotional changes after joining the research group. It describes her process from being confused and unadaptable when she first entered the postgraduate stage, to gradually becoming familiar with the laboratory, understanding the rules of scientific research, facing the pressure of the project, and slowly growing up in experiments, group meetings, getting along with teachers and daily life on campus. The core of the novel is not only love, but also the master's and doctoral life itself: project proposal, group meetings, failed experiments, tutor's requirements, relationships between seniors, dinners with fellow students, late night data modification, early morning rush to the campus bus, as well as the anxiety, persistence and self-doubt that are difficult for outsiders to understand. The relationship between Lin Zhixia and Zhou Yan is not a sudden romance, but slowly grows as they face the pressure of scientific research together, understand each other, and support each other. This novel is mainly aimed at readers with master's degrees, Ph. D. S, and those who have experienced scientific research life, allowing them to see familiar campuses, laboratories, and youth dilemmas in the story; at the same time, it also hopes to let people who have not studied for a master's or Ph. D. Understand the real life of a graduate student, and understand that the love between a master's and a Ph. D. Is not just sweetness, but also includes ideals, pressure, responsibility, growth, and mutual achievement. It writes about the heartbeat in the laboratory, and is also a story about young people finding themselves, getting closer to each other, and heading towards the future on the long academic road. Purpose: Based on the real scientific research life of young masters and doctoral students, write about their growth, persistence and love in experiments, papers, group meetings, teacher-student relationships and real-life pressures. The novel hopes to present not just sweet love, but two young people understanding each other, supporting each other, and becoming better selves together on the long academic road. Through the stories of Lin Zhixia and Zhou Yan, people who have experienced the life of masters and PhDs can resonate with each other, and readers who have never entered the world of scientific research can understand: life with masters and PhDs is not just a glamorous academic label, but also has anxiety, loneliness, failure, love and ideals; and true love is not a romantic fantasy to escape pressure, but a willingness to walk side by side on the road to their ideals.