The high school years of Zhou Yuan and Pei Xu were a sophisticated but unfinished experiment. He is the genius captain of the biology competition team, with the cold light of the laboratory on his wrist; she is an observer who records data in the dark, and her earrings are filled with unsent love letters. The two counted their heartbeats between the scales of the pipette, but due to cowardice and misunderstanding, they allowed their ex-girlfriend's orange fragrance to spread across the galaxy. Until the age of twenty-six, fate pressed the reset button in the sterile laboratory of a biopharmaceutical company—she was a plasmid constructor, and he was the director of new drug research and development. Amidst the roar of the centrifuge, the colonies sealed in his youth quietly revived.
In the whiskey at a celebration party, the luminous gene-edited strain projected a nebula pattern in the glass. Drunkness blurred the safe distance, and they stepped into the dangerous game with the sobriety of adults. Little did they know that this unexpected entanglement that started as "partners" had been secretly marked by clues from sixteen years ago: DNA graffiti in old books in the library, mysterious blue crystals in cryogenic tubes, vascular amber that had never been opened... When the leak of company secrets swept through, the emotional variables hidden in the experimental data finally exploded - Scorpio's desire for control and the rational game of biologists. Is it going to repeat the same mistakes or correct the error?
This book is set in a biopharmaceutical laboratory, integrating hard-core scientific research details such as CRISPR gene editing and Western blotting, and intertwining campus and workplace crushes. Those unspoken confessions will eventually be as clear as the supernatant after centrifugation - as long as the rotation speed is sufficient, the love that has accumulated for sixteen years will always reach the bottom of the optimal centrifuge tube.
Intention: love