Chapter 52
By the time Pu Tong and the others were about to attend their chemistry laboratory class, the rain had already stopped.
The laboratory building was a little far from their classroom. If it were still raining, the journey there would have been quite troublesome.
Walking through the somewhat chilly campus after the rain, everyone arrived at the laboratory. Following the teacher’s instructions, they sat down in pairs and began their experiment.
“So beautiful!”
“Huh?”
Hearing Pu Tong’s praise, Yu Wanwan was momentarily confused.
“It’s truly gorgeous... I-I can’t take it anymore!”
Pu Tong looked at her with eyes that seemed to be glowing, making the girl somewhat dazed.
“Who are you complimenting?”
Yu Wanwan became a little embarrassed.
“Of course, I’m complimenting you... the copper sulfate solution behind you!”
Pu Tong lifted the test tube and stared at the hint of sky-blue color inside. He looked completely fascinated.
“Why can something be this beautiful?”
“……”
He must have misunderstood something, right?
Pu Tong didn’t care at all. He gently shook the test tube, completely captivated by the crystal-clear blue liquid inside.
Why would anyone try to challenge the beauty of copper sulfate solution?
The chemistry experiment itself was very simple.
They finished it in less than half a class, so during the remaining time, the students began creating their own “magic potions.”
The solutions already prepared on the table were not dangerous, and the teacher couldn’t be bothered to stop them. He simply sat at the podium and watched them fool around.
Actually, many chemical solutions were quite beautiful, each with its own unique characteristics.
Pu Tong was a pure fan of copper sulfate solution.
Yu Wanwan also liked blue, and after being influenced by Pu Tong, she finally discovered the beauty of that deep blue color.
Yi Zhi Xuenai preferred the purple-red potassium permanganate solution.
She declared that although litmus solution was also purple, she didn’t like it. She was a devoted fan of potassium permanganate solution only.
Lin Yuxi liked the pale green ferrous chloride solution. It looked somewhat like a green apple-flavored drink.
Of course, this stuff absolutely could not be drunk.
“I suddenly thought of a story. Do you want to hear it?”
Pu Tong suddenly spoke.
“A story? Sure!”
Both Yu Wanwan and Yi Zhi Xuenai wanted to hear it. As for Lin Yuxi, she could only go along with them.
“Once upon a time, there was a blue-haired man and a silver-haired girl. They loved each other, but the silver-haired girl wanted to become red-haired...”
“Finally, one day, the man sacrificed himself for the girl’s dream!”
……
“Don’t cry anymore.”
The light blue-haired man looked at the silver-haired girl who had been crying nonstop.
“Didn’t you always like red?”
“Yes, I do like red.”
The silver-haired girl wiped away her tears.
“But I don’t want it to be built upon someone else’s suffering... especially yours...”
As she spoke, the silver-haired girl began sobbing again.
“It’s okay. Even if things change, I will still remember you.”
The blue-haired man gently touched the girl’s silver-white hair.
“Whether you still love me or not in the future.”
“Impossible!”
The silver-haired girl suddenly became emotional.
“After the change, you will definitely forget everything! That is the rule of this world. It cannot be changed!”
The man leaned down and gently kissed the girl’s forehead.
“Good girl. Listen to me. Have a good sleep. When you wake up, everything will be fine.”
After being comforted again and again by the man, the silver-haired girl finally fell into a deep sleep.
The blue-haired man gently stroked her face and said:
“I will turn the world into the way you like it.”
“Don’t forget that we once loved each other.”
Soon, the silver-haired girl’s hair gradually turned blood-red.
At the same time, the man beside her slowly turned pale green.
“Consider this... the last gift I can give you.”
As the sky became dark, the girl who had turned completely red woke up.
She looked at her hands, her eyes filled with confusion.
“In my memories... why can’t I remember that blue figure anymore?”
……
After finishing the story, Pu Tong looked at the three girls with different expressions.
“Any thoughts?”
“It’s a little touching...”
Yu Wanwan clicked her tongue secretly.
Sacrificing yourself for the person you love—no matter how you think about it, it was a wonderful thing.
“But I don’t really understand the logic.”
Yi Zhi Xuenai had many questions.
“What is this world rule? And what does hair color determine?”
Lin Yuxi stood to the side with a strange expression, seemingly having guessed something.
Pu Tong shook the test tube in his hand.
“Actually, this story tells us something.”
“The blue copper sulfate solution can react with silver-white elemental iron through a displacement reaction, producing red copper and pale green ferrous sulfate solution.”
“?”
“??”
“……”
Pu Tong completely ignored the resentful looks from the three girls and continued admiring the copper sulfate solution in his hand.
“Copper sulfate solution-chan! Your elemental iron-san is living very well now...”
Although he was joking around, knowledge itself was actually very interesting.
Through the collision and combination of ideas, many fresh and interesting things could be created.
To some people, knowledge was merely the marks of ink printed in books or information heard through their ears.
But as they came into contact with more knowledge, they would gradually become attracted to it.
After chemistry class, the gloomy sky had completely cleared.
If not for the puddles on the ground, nobody would have guessed that it had rained earlier that morning.
Spring weather was unpredictable, sometimes warm and sometimes cold.
It was always impossible to judge it using ordinary logic.
“Hey, why didn’t you go study with your copper sulfate solution deskmate?”
After returning to the classroom, Yu Wanwan’s tone was slightly unhappy.
It was already bad enough that she couldn’t compete with other people.
Now she couldn’t even compete with a copper sulfate solution?
Of course, the copper sulfate solution really was beautiful...
But if even that solution had more charm in Pu Tong’s eyes than she did, that was simply too much.
“I still prefer having a human deskmate.”
“At least you know that!”
“Besides, Copper Sulfate Solution-chan already has Elemental Iron-san...”
“Get lost!”
“So that’s where the fun of learning lies.”
Yu Wanwan rolled her eyes at him.
“I really can’t imagine what you would be like if you liked someone.”
Someone as unreliable and strange as him...
What would happen if this block of wood ever fell in love?
“Is it really that hard to imagine?”
“Yes. What would you be like?” Yu Wanwan asked curiously.
Pu Tong thought for a while before answering.
“Do you know? In anime, a series that airs one episode per week usually has 52 episodes.”
“That means it takes an entire year to finish watching the whole series...”
“Someone who can wait for updates every week and watch an entire story without interruption for a year—I think that person is actually amazing.”
“If I fell in love with a long-running anime series, I would keep following it for 52 episodes until it ended.”
“If I fell in love with a person, I would also continue chasing after her for 52 episodes, until she left...”
Fifty-two episodes represented the journey from beginning to end.
What a completely illogical comparison.
But somehow, Yu Wanwan seemed to understand something.
Someone who rarely falls in love...
Once they do, they will remain devoted and never give up easily.
“But for now, I still don’t have anyone I like!”
Pu Tong stretched lazily.
“For high school students, studying is obviously the most important thing!”
“You should just spend your life with your potassium permanganate solution!”
Yu Wanwan couldn’t stand it anymore and lightly punched him.
“Don’t do that. Hitting people during a show isn’t good...”
Wait.
It seemed there hadn’t been any cameramen appearing recently.
(End of Chapter)
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