### **"Peppermint and Soda" - Introduction to the Two-way Redemption Novel on Youth Campus**
**"You are a variable outside my plan, but you have become the only necessity in life."**
Jiang Che is a well-known genius boy in the school. He is unruly and unruly, but he always ranks first in his grade. He was used to walking alone, until the transfer student Ji Yu'an appeared - the young man who always worked quietly on questions and even his breathing seemed to be calculated, clinging to him with a three-point difference.
Ji Yuan's world consists of precise schedules, perfect test papers and parents' expectations, until Jiang Che bursts in with the sweet taste of orange soda, inserts game guides in his textbooks, tilts the umbrella over his head on rainy days, and writes "accidents" in his life.
**"I can solve the competition questions by myself, but I can't figure out the answer to your temperature."**
When Jiang Che discovered the scar on Ji Yu'an's arm, when Ji Yu'an answered Jiang Che's call late at night, when two proud hearts kept getting closer in the grade list, the library and the rain -
**This equation about youth, competition and redemption is finally understood. **
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### **Core highlights**
1. **The ultimate tension between top academics**
- Number one in grade VS transfer student genius, rival on the competition field, accomplice in the library
- "I will win next time" and "I'm waiting" duel with a sense of fate
2. **Undercurrent of redemption**
- Family trauma under Ji Yuan's perfect appearance
- Jiang Che's delicate protection under the sloppy disguise
3. **Youthful details**
- Hold a tilted umbrella together
- Mint candy and orange soda flavors intertwined
- Doodles in the corners of textbooks and unfinished love letters
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**"Between us, the difference of three points is ranking, and the difference of one step is youth."**
(Tag: campus, two-way redemption, top students doting on each other, slow-warm ambiguity)
Intent: Cognitive errors, philosophical propositions