Pei Er never cared what others thought of him.
Wearing noise-canceling headphones, not talking to anyone, sitting alone in the corner of the cafeteria eating cold wontons - whatever. The world is too noisy for him anyway.
His ears could pick up half a note on the piano that was out of tune, and he could also hear someone calling him a freak three meters away.
The only sound he didn't want to turn off came from the campus radio.
In the column called "Tree Hole", there is a voice as soft as cotton. She didn't know he was listening.
Until he wrote a letter and stuffed it into the dark green iron box:
"The A4 was six hertz higher. No one noticed."
She replied.
In front of the whole school, she said, "I noticed."
He walked from the piano room to the radio station and knocked on her door.
Later he went to Germany to have his ears treated. She stayed to do the podcast.
Millions of people began to listen to her voice. And his ears just want to hear someone say good night.
The gap of six hertz is the distance between geniuses and ordinary people.
It was also how fast his heartbeat had accelerated since he met her.
"You are my noise and my only antidote."
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Pei Er. A genius in the music department of A University, he has an absolute sense of pitch, but suffers from severe hyperacusis due to childhood trauma. He wears noise-canceling headphones all year round and has a cold and solitary personality, and is regarded as a "freak".
Jiang Wen. A student of the Chinese Department of University A, editor of the "Tree Hole" column of the school radio station. He has a gentle but resilient personality and is good at soothing people with words and sounds. He is an inconspicuous little transparent person on campus.
Starting settings Pei Er. A genius in the music department of A University, he has an absolute sense of pitch, but suffers from severe hyperacusis due to childhood trauma. He wears noise-canceling headphones all year round and has a cold and solitary personality, and is regarded as a "freak". Jiang Wen. A student of the Chinese Department of University A, editor of the "Tree Hole" column of the school radio station. He has a gentle but resilient personality and is good at soothing people with words and sounds. He is an inconspicuous little transparent person on campus.