Episode 00 Prologue - My dream reaction formula is still incomplete

My dream reaction formula is still incomplete

The university I managed to gain admission to, after straining my parents' finances, was nothing more than a nameless university in the countryside. There, I boldly entered the chemistry department, determined to become an alchemist. Still, I'm a 22-year-old third-year student, still awaiting the end of my studies, a life that still forces my parents to open their wallets.

"I'm graduating and starting my own clothing business, which I love. But what about you? I'm more worried about your future, Yeoju, than my own as a graduate."

The senior I relied on and liked the most is graduating.

I'm so grateful that you love me so much and are giving me advice on my dreams. However, my ultimate dream is to become a writer, where I don't have to have a social life and go to work whenever I want, so those words didn't really resonate with me.

"You know what the rumor is about our department? They say that after graduation, all your knowledge will be useless. You'll either learn how to use a machine, become a factory manager, or just suck rocks."

"You should try being an undergraduate researcher. As an undergraduate, you get to participate in professors' experiments and even get paid. Think of it as a preview of what it's like to be a graduate student."

I felt sorry for my parents. In my elementary, middle, and high school dreams, I always had a writer in my writing. Children's book author, essayist, essayist. For me, being a writer was my greatest dream, but to my parents, it was nothing more than a tree, growing in a poor household, bearing neither flowers nor fruit.

My brain wasn't that great, so I couldn't use it to get a scholarship even once during my two years of college life, and all I could do was look at my parents' old wallet, which was telling me to just graduate from college.

"I'll do it. I want to try that undergraduate researcher thing."

In the end, he threw a stone at me that I should have sucked up later.

I wanted to be a writer with the protagonist as the main character, but after starting my undergraduate research, my life unfolded into a witch who constantly torments the protagonist's life.

Kim Seok-jin (25), 4th grade (lab leader)

“Because of you, I’m the only one getting scolded by the professor.”

“It’s not something you should be comforted by because I broke up with you.”

“Is this you again, Yeoju?”

Lee Yeo-ju (23), third-year undergraduate research student

“I’m more scared of my senior than my professor.”

"No. What scares me more than the professor or the senior is money."

“Can I get you some bungeoppang?”

Lee Su-ji (22), third-year undergraduate research student

“Hey, are you close to me?”

"My brother and I have been dating for two years. I am the main character in the novel."

“Know your location”

Our shining youth was quickly fading out,

When someone's love was fading away, my love blossomed.

My dream reaction formula is still incomplete.