Have you ever observed the sky at six o'clock in the morning? "
——It is an unsaturated seventeenth degree blue, like our unspoken throbbing.
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Jiang Yubai's shirt is always spotless.
The president of the astronomy club has calibrated the telescope like a precision instrument, and even the footers of the club activity log are aligned neatly. No one knew his secret: every Wednesday morning, he would climb onto the locked rooftop terrace and use a hidden laser pointer to draw constellation patterns in the morning fog—until the transfer student who always held a popsicle in his mouth interrupted his ritual.
Shen Qingya** tore up the monthly exam results on the first day she transferred to another school.
The boy who grew up by the sea folded his math test paper into a paper airplane and plunged it accurately into the trash can at the end of the corridor. When Jiang Yubai pointed out the loopholes in his problem-solving steps in the physics competition tutoring class, Shen Qingya suddenly poked his sleeve with a pencil: "Hey top student, did you know that the Orion Nebula is actually pink?"
Lu Zhaoxi's tie is always tied into a standard Windsor knot.
The ace of the debate team wears an impeccable smile, but stocks twenty-eight kinds of mints in his locker. When he bumped into Shen Qingya in the equipment room using acrylic paint to modify a globe, the other party was painting Australia in the shape of a whale: "President Lu, do you think that if you input the longitude and latitude of the teaching building into an astronomical telescope, you can see the scene ten years ago?"
Ye Jingzhe's school rules manual is full of graffiti.
Jiang Yubai's childhood sweetheart was good at folding the morning jogging sign-in form into a frog, but when dissecting a crucian carp in biology class, his hands were shaking so much that he couldn't hold the tweezers steady. She squatted on the window sill of the infirmary holding the secretly raised orange cat, watching three boys tampering with each other's horoscopes on the astronomy club's activity board: "Pisces should not pretend to be cool today - Shen Qingya, the Canis Major you painted looks like a rice cooker!"
Intention: youth