Lin Wan could hear Gu Yanchen’s “double inner voice”:
One layer was the emotionless sound of System commands; the other was a genuine yet fragile stir buried beneath a sea of code.
This wasn’t a golden finger. It was a curse.
Because she soon discovered that the price of mind-reading was “empathic overload”: every time she eavesdropped on a secret, she had to swallow someone else’s despair. Gu Yanchen’s inner voice was the most contradictory spectrum she had ever heard: 90% mechanical coldness wrapped around 10% of a warmth that could burn her.
Their story began with a cold transaction:
She would use her ability to purge corporate traitors for him, and he would give her a path to power.
But the rules shattered with their first kiss. His System voice suddenly blared an alert: [Emotional link at 92.7%. Warning: risk of personality fusion.]
From then on, the battle escalated:
· Career: From listening in on her opponents to “a battle fought as an ordinary person,” she had to seal away her ability and reach the top through sheer professional skill. She was up against not only her enemies, but the decaying rules of the entire industry.
· Romance: He had to break free of the System shackles implanted in his mind, while she had to learn to recognize the shape of love in the silence. Trust wasn’t a sudden surrender, but a process marked by five blood-soaked moments of “entrusting each other with their backs.”
· Abilities: From “static across the spectrum” to “the depths of the subconscious,” from being forced to listen to learning to block others out, she eventually discovers that the ultimate form of mind-reading is daring to open her channel completely to the person she loves, in an utterly unreserved
