Qi Siye’s world had long been filled with online abuse and the shadow of betrayal by his teammates. Once a sensation in the esports scene for his prodigious plays and captivating eyes, the boy now had nothing to say. Wearing noise-canceling headphones, he hid in a corner of Nancheng No. 1 High School, shunned socializing, and focused solely on his exams. He just wanted to escape the noise of the past by studying abroad.
Han Taili was the announcer for the school radio station. Though she herself was sensitive to sound, she always used her soft voice to bring warmth to others. She noticed Qi Siye sitting alone on the rooftop, lost in thought, and quietly adjusted her programs: fewer fast-paced songs and more special rooftop announcements. In her own way, she helped him emerge from the shadows, becoming his personal refuge from the noise beyond his headphones.
Later, he stood up for her when others mocked and questioned her, and she helped him face the darkness of his past. "Three-second countdown" became their unspoken signal. True noise cancellation, it turned out, wasn’t about shutting out the world. It was about someone entering your heart, until all the chaos became nothing more than irrelevant background noise.
