**"Every bloom is a suicide note of countdown"**
In the autumn of 2019, the century-old cherry trees at Lantau Middle School bloomed abnormally on the first day of school.
Jiang Jintang from the physical education class wore his school badge backwards and walked among the early cherry blossoms. The scar under the medical tape undulated with his breathing, like a dormant centipede.
Pei Heng of the student union holds the duty board to record abnormalities. Color synesthesia makes his world full of dangerous metaphors - the boy who always feeds cherry blossoms and lemon candies, and his heartbeat is an indigo alarm.
A typhoon revealed the mezzanine of the piano room floor:
The Russian delivery room recording from twenty years ago, the blood-stained fragments of the school history, the space-time formula written with fluorescent paint...
All clues point to the snowy night in the winter of 1999——
Two pregnant women, a medical accident, a switched baby and a bronze weather vane that never rusts.
Jiang Jintang buried a bottle of chelating agent in the roots of cherry blossoms in an attempt to delay his own rust cycle;
Pei Heng used synesthesia to crack the code of the air-raid shelter graffiti, only to discover that the radium element was eating away at the telomeres of the opponent's chromosomes.
The genetically modified cherry blossoms they fed together had a countdown engraved on each petal:
When the concentration of iron ions exceeds the threshold, the stolen time of the teenagers will collapse into rusty red dust.
Concept: - **Cherry Blossoms**: Gene-edited early cherry blossoms swallow iron ions to extend their lives, and each petal is a countdown clock - **Heartbeat**: The heartbeats of a boy with a ventricular septal defect and a person with color vision synesthesia resonate, inducing ripples in time and space - **Rust Spots**: The fluorescent graffiti in the air raid shelter contains radium, etching the secrets of youth into blood-colored metal patterns - **Lies**: The swapped baby files and forged medical records have been fermenting in the reed organ of the piano room for twenty years - **Ending**: The scalpel and the stethoscope are intertwined, a spring day sinking into rust, and a snowy night in 1999 forever trapped