Under the dome of the planetarium of Mingyang No. 1 Middle School, four interlaced shadows are weaving a sweet conspiracy.
Gu Ling stuffed the Mathematical Olympiad trophy into Yan Jiahe's locker. "The championship prize is you" was written in highlighter on the inside of the metal base. Three hours later, Yan Yue stood on tiptoe and hung the ballet shoes next to Gu Qingshuang's desk, with the words "Wear these to my graduation exhibition" hidden in the ribbon. The "Twin Stars" brothers who are looked up to by the whole school, and the "Muse Twins" sisters who are circulated in the art room, are carrying out a tacit exchange plan.
While the two parents were still debating the font of the wedding invitation in the tea room, four forged "love observation notes" were secretly circulating in the school magazine editorial department: Gu Ling's physics notes contained Yan Jiahe's cufflink design, and Gu Qingshuang's dance shoe storage box contained Yan Yue's hand-drawn "Starry Sky Rotation Guide." They exchanged cover during their morning jog—the brothers discussing calculus in the front row, the sisters sharing headphones in the back row, their misaligned figures just blocking their interlocked hands from the surveillance cameras.
Until the invitation letter for the International Youth Science Summit and the special recruitment letter from the Paris Academy of Fine Arts arrived at the same time, the foursome used a 3D printer in the laboratory to copy the parents' signatures. As the night flight flew across the sky, Gu Ling drew a double-ring infinity symbol on the porthole while Yan Yue, two rows behind, was using a highlighter to trace the lotus on Gu Qingshuang's plaster bandage. This two-way journey that began with a family chess game would eventually play their quartet in the lavender fields of Provence and the banks of the Charles River in Boston.
Intent: A sweet campus story that goes both ways