When the Stars Are White, the Wind Is Just Right

In September at Southern University, Lin Wanxing, a freshman in the Department of Fine Arts, got into trouble while carrying his painting supplies - his navigation failed and he accidentally broke into the laboratory building of the Department of Physics, knocking over the experimental data book of top student Jiang Yubai. In a panic, he drew a crooked little sun on the compensation note for leaving the wrong dormitory number. This first encounter was like a seed in the summer night wind, quietly sprouting in the stick of sunscreen handed to me during military training, the silhouette sketch quietly sketched in the library, and the "Starry Sky and Gears" co-created at the cultural festival. She is a vitality illustrator who never leaves her sketchbook, always drawing the corners of his white shirt and slightly raised eyelashes into her paintings; he is an academic master who never leaves his mouth with formulas that are cold on the outside and hot on the inside. He will remember her little habit of not eating coriander, hand her hot porridge when she stays up late to finish her manuscript, and hide the cherry blossom pink paintbrush she left behind in the drawer. There are no bloody misunderstandings, only long-lasting heartbeats: the wrists held unconsciously under the fireworks on New Year's Eve, the custom-made paintbrush with initials on the birthday, the saplings planted in the campus flower bed together after the success of the graduate school, and from the "first encounter in the laboratory building" to the "Cherry Blossom Road confession", from campus lovers to the workplace and study side by side. This is a story about the two-way growth of youth and love. Lin Wanxing recorded every tenderness of Jiang Yubai with a brush, and Jiang Yubai used formulas to unravel her exclusive romance. When the summer night wind blows through the cherry blossom path of Southern University again, they have already changed from the protagonists in each other's paintings to "forever" for the rest of their lives.