The Balance Gap

Name: The Balance Gap
Author: Tongling

衡差

by Tongling (桐陵)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 256k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 20d ago
Source: Fanqie

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[Urban Superpowers] [Rules-Based Mystery] [Power Plays] [Mind Games] [Ensemble Cast] [No System] People always say that whoever does something should take responsibility for it. Lin Shenchuan used to believe that too, until one stormy night, when he was hit head-on by a runaway car while saving a little girl chasing a balloon. But when he opened his eyes again, the serious injuries that should have been on his chest and left leg had appeared on the driver instead. At first, he thought all he had gained was the power to "reflect damage." But as one accident after another occurred, he gradually realized that what truly changed was never the injury itself, but who was held responsible for the outcome. The person who acted could bear the blame, the person who gave the order could bear it, and so could the one who truly orchestrated everything. But if everyone had something to do with the outcome, who should pay the bill? Even more frightening, the scales would not judge right and wrong for him. The choice was always Lin Shenchuan's. Only after he settled an account incorrectly for the first time did he understand the most dangerous thing about having this power: not that he could make someone pay a price, but that one day, he might truly start believing he had the right to settle everyone's accounts. An old debt deliberately buried twenty-five years ago is now rising to the surface, and reality never allows anyone to change an outcome for free. Every discrepancy the world has failed to absorb shares the same name: Equilibrium Variance.

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