Lingxi, the rebellious second son of a medical family, and his friend Zhou Qi broke into the "Xingqi Medical Technology" field in Beijing. He is cynical and has everyone's backing, but no one can support his exhaustion.
Until that nightmarish message broke in: "I'm coming to find you. - 0"
Yuan Ling, the heir to a wealthy family, is an emotionally deficient person with extraordinary IQ. The world is a precise zero-sum game for him, and humans are calculable variables. And Lingxi was the only "warm error" in his observations.
A first encounter on Christmas Eve, an approach that began with curiosity and calculation. Lingxi regards him as a genius brother who lacks love, and Yuan Ling sets him as a long-term project worth cherishing.
When Lingxi cried bitterly for her best friend's collapse, Yuan Ling gave a cold "optimal solution". The violent conflict of values caused Yuan Ling to launch the "Correction Procedure" - a carefully planned trap that dragged Lingxi into a cage called "Asylum".
Escape exhausted all Lingxi's strength. When he thought he finally broke free, Yuan Ling moved to the next door with a smile: "Restart the game, brother Lingxi."
From then on, an ultimate cat-and-mouse game quietly unfolded under the Beijing sky. He is the system error that he cannot eliminate, and he is the fateful fetter that he cannot break away from.
In this "Variable Game" of rationality and sensibility, control and freedom, destruction and redemption, who is whose, the only solution?
Other works:
"Law of Rivals" Gu Linche x Gu Linche → Serialized (Reorganized)
"Law of Rivals" (Improved Version) Gu Linche x Zhou Qi → Currently being serialized
Purpose: 1. Tell the story of two individuals with incomplete emotional cognition, how to learn and redefine "love" with difficulty through injury, game, dependence and sacrifice - it may not be sweet giving, but violent confirmation, paranoid possession and protection at all costs, and finally lead to mutual compromise and symbiosis.
2. Salvation is not a unilateral grant. Lingxi used temperature to melt Yuan Ling's ice, and Yuan Ling used extreme "need" to fill Ling hope's deep fear of "not being needed". They found the irreplaceable meaning of their existence in each other's eyes.