"If you can even calculate your heartbeat, what's out of control?"
Cheng Qiyang and Li Xubai are each other's reflections in the mirror.
A perfect top student in person, a perfect pretender. They are all good at replacing emotions with precise calculations and concealing reality with social programs. The ping-pong table is their laboratory, collecting each other's data with every hit; the library is their battlefield, and every conversation is testing each other's defenses.
They all think that the other person is another self, a safe variable that can interact according to established procedures.
And an even bigger shadow is approaching:
This is a precise chess game that takes place in a key middle school.
"Surface": Top students are preparing for exams, training for competitions, and preparing for school celebrations.
"Inside": Pretenders are testing the bottom line, exchanging secrets, and calculating risks.
They were all using absolute rationality to build their own world, until they discovered——
Some attractions cannot be derived from formulas.
Some heartbeats cannot be simulated by the program.
Some errors, once made, can no longer be corrected.
"We are the same kind." Li Xubai said, his voice as calm as stating a theorem.
"So it's more dangerous." Cheng Qiyang replied, spinning the racket in a circle on his fingertips.
It's so dangerous that they may become each other's only vulnerability. "
"Reading Alert"
- Double male protagonists: Cheng Qiyang (ESTJ/pseudo-perfect top student) × Li Xubai (INTJ/former killer and now top student)
- Deputy CP: Chen Hao (ESTP/straight male sports student) × Lei Jia (ISFP/double-sided art student)
- Group portrait suspense + emotional pull, everyone is pretending, everyone is looking for the truth
When everyone wears a mask and meets each other, will the first one to take off the mask win the heart, or lose everything?
Purpose: To explore in a world full of calculations and disguises, embracing the truth and accepting imperfection are the most precious "loopholes" of human nature and the beginning of growth.