I traded three days of blindness for a moment of false love. Su Yu alone was an audience I couldn't buy. My name is Lin Shen. I'm twenty-eight, and my life is a mess. After a car accident, I gained a cursed ability: stare at someone for ten seconds, and they'll fall in love with me. The price is going blind for three days every time I use it, with pain that feels like my bones are being carved out.
From then on, fake affection became the air that kept me alive, and I became a "magician" everyone loved. Then I met Su Yu. He was gentle, wealthy, and talented, and he had a perfect girlfriend. More importantly, my ability had absolutely no effect on him. He was the first person to smile at me without being hypnotized, and the only one I longed to love as my true self.
I wagered everything and began weaving a web of lies: hypnotizing everyone around him so the whole world would push me toward him. Every use of my ability brought three days of darkness and unbearable pain, but I welcomed it all. Su Yu gradually drew closer to me, but I knew it was all built on an illusion. His heart still belonged to his girlfriend.
"Lin Shen, why are your eyes red again?" "It's nothing. I've just been staying up late." I never dared tell him that the bloodshot veins were the price of loving him. Just as my kingdom of lies had completely surrounded him, and he began looking at me with tender eyes, disaster quietly approached: the hypnotized were starting to lose their memories, and my eyesight might never return. More dangerously, Su Yu had grown suspicious of my "perfectly timed" appearances and was investigating me in secret.
The day the truth is torn open, everything I bought with darkness and pain will vanish into thin air. And will the real embrace I've risked everything to long for still be offered to me?
Theme: If loving you is an exam I have to cheat on just to qualify, I'll trade all my light for a ticket in. Even if, in the end, I can only listen to you say you love someone else in the dark.
