[Two male protagonists / sadistic novel / BE / first person]
My name is Song Xian, and I am a piano tuner.
My dad, who was also a sound engineer, jumped off a balcony after he went deaf. There was only one sentence in his suicide note: Don't learn this business.
But I still learned. Because I inherited his disease, otosclerosis, which eventually left me completely deaf. So I want to listen to it for a while while I can still hear it.
A man moved upstairs and broke things every day. I went up to discuss the matter and found out that he was a pianist. His right hand was injured and he could no longer play the piano. The grand piano at home was completely out of tune.
I tuned his piano once.
Later he asked me to come every day. I thought he needed a tuner, but later I learned that what he needed was someone who could also play the piano.
His hand was actually healed a long time ago, but he didn't tell me. He was afraid that I would stop coming if he found out.
I didn't tell him that my ears were dying. I'm afraid he won't let me transfer if he finds out.
Two of us, one is losing his hearing, the other is losing his hands, both are lying to each other, and each thinks it is for the other's good.
I tuned him eighty-two times.
On the eighty-second day, I put down the tuning hammer and said to him, "Gu Zheng, I can't hear him anymore."
——Later I realized that I had no time to listen to every note he played.
