Slide Wars: Histopath Hearts

📚 Genre: Academic Romance · Science Drama · Young Adult

Story Description:

At HistoVale Science Academy, two names dominate the academic leaderboard and the daily debate floor.

Eosina Stellaris, sharp-tongued and fiercely independent, hides a broken home behind eosin-pink hair and color-coded notes.
Hemat Lixan, the eldest of five and part-time convenience store assistant, wears his hematoxylin-blue hair like armor, guarding the burdens he carries alone.

They aren't friends.
They aren't enemies.
They're frenemies -locked in daily battles of histopathological trivia, throwing insults sharper than microtome blades. But when a national Paired Histopath Quiz Bowl requires them to work together, their rivalry is put under the microscope.

As they dive deeper into tissue slides and stain charts, they begin to uncover something far more complicated than cellular architecture: each other.

Can two people used to being alone find comfort in their shared chaos? Or will old scars and sharp edges tear their alliance apart before the final question?

Love, like tissue samples, sometimes needs fixation, staining... and a little time under the light.

Written on July 18, 2025.
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