"They say that the seventh step will have an extra step at midnight - that step will lead to the anniversary of the death in the coming year."
The old teaching building in the north has been soaked in mottled walls for thirty years. Transfer student Shen Ye has an absolute sense of music, but cannot hear the heartbeat of student council president Gu Shen.
He only heard a muffled sound like breaking bones and the whimpering of the piano in the key of E-flat from the seventh step, which was extremely worn.
In an "accident" three years ago, the heartbeats of seven teenagers were swallowed up by this building.
Gu Shen used the remaining seven years of his life as a pledge of hearing to exchange for Shen Ye's rebirth; but Shen Ye forgot that he had personally written the music score for transplanting a heartbeat.
When the clock strikes four-seventeen in the morning, when the keys of the piano are stained with blood, and when the souls of the dead dissipate in the ensemble——
Shen Ye finally heard the truth: it was not the ghost asking for his life, but Gu Shen borrowing the steps to return his heartbeat.
"If you forget how to sing,"
"Then I'll play until I'm deaf."
Some stairs, once you step on them, you will never come down again; some people will live for you even if they die.
Concept: Two male protagonists, campus Chinese suspense