In his sophomore year of high school, Fang Zhao was so nervous that his palms sweated at the opening ceremony until a bottle of lemonade with a chemical formula on it was handed to him. Student Council President Qi Xia's glasses reflected the sun and said, "Drink something sweet, the pH value will be balanced."
Fang Zhao wrote down this sentence, and also the girl who could mix rainbow-colored sparkling water in the laboratory. She began to write "The Chemistry Department Senior Girl with Glasses" in the school magazine novel, and deliberately chose a window seat in the library - where she could see Qi Xia's silhouette doing experiments. Qi Xia's notebook was filled with newspaper clippings of Fang Zhao's articles, and the edges of each page were marked with heart rate data accurate to the decimal point.
On the night of the school festival, they sneaked into the observatory to watch the meteor shower. Fang Zhao's scarf hooked Qi Xia's button, and when their breaths were intertwined, Qi Xia suddenly said: "There are stars in your eyes." The next second, he stepped away and handed over the soda bottle with the cap unscrewed.
When Fang Zhao finally plucked up the courage to confess, Qi Xia refused softly in the light reflected by the test tube: "I am not worthy of such love now." After that, they began to keep a just right distance between them - there was always an empty seat in the library every Wednesday, and the tacit chemical formula was written on the message page of the graduation album.
Seven years later, at the publishing house's book signing, Fang Zhao spotted familiar gold-rimmed glasses in the crowd. Qi Xia held up the novel she had written. The annotation on the title page was clearly the unfinished words from that year: "When pH=7, the bubbles of lemonade are finally enough to support a confession."
Purpose: No need to own it, but always cherish it