The Unnoticeable One

(The new book’s rating isn’t out yet.) Qi Yan has always believed that you can tell people apart from one another.

Not by their looks or their voices.

But by their little habits.

Some people always turn their cup before drinking.

Some always step off with their left foot.

Some pause for half a second on a certain word when they speak.

These things are hard to imitate.

But lately, Qi Yan has noticed that some people have started acting a little strange.

When the neighbor next door sees him, they always stare at his face for a while, as if checking something.

The woman who runs the breakfast stall downstairs has mixed up the same sentence for several days in a row.

And once, his colleague stood in the break room for a long time, as if trying to remember how to use the water dispenser.

These changes are all very small.

So small that someone who wasn’t as used to watching the details as Qi Yan probably wouldn’t notice at all.

Until one late night, he heard someone speaking in a low voice in the hallway.

The voice was hushed.

As if they were discussing something they didn’t want anyone to hear.

One of them said:

“He hasn’t noticed yet.”

The other was silent for a while, then replied:

“Then we’ll wait a little longer.”

Qi Yan stood in the darkness without making a sound.

Suddenly, he realized something.

If someone was talking about “noticing,”

then there must be things that weren’t meant to be noticed. It was only later that Qi Yan gradually learned the truth.

There is something in this world that looks exactly like a human being.

They live, speak, and imitate everything about a person.

The only difference is

Once someone realizes it, that person will disappear.

They are called