Lin Xu was fed up with the disorderly noise in the world - the endless running, jumping and dragging upstairs, and the noisy neighbors with nowhere to escape. He had been hiding on the top floor of the hotel all year round, relying on white noise to force himself to sleep. Until one day, he reached out and touched a light at the window at the end of the corridor, and fell into a different world ordered by sound: the land of silence.
There is no dead silence here, only proportion. Bronze listening charms are hung in every house to detect sounds, record punishments, and smooth out all malicious sounds. The sound of sweeping the floor in the morning, the sound of chopping vegetables, the gentle footsteps of children - all sounds are where they should be. Lin Xu passed the dual naturalization exams and finally found the place where the heart bird that had been wandering for half his life fell.
But there are cracks beneath the perfect order. On the seventh night, the sound of rolling steel balls that could not be captured by the copper talisman came from the vacant roof - solid conduction, bypassing the law and going straight through the heart. Suspicion pierces the trust of neighbors like a fine needle, and Lin Xu, a stranger, becomes a natural target of suspicion.
At the same time, a young man named Song Shiwen was also suspected of being involved in the Kingdom of Sound (the Kingdom of Noise calls itself). His pet rat, who was being held hostage, had a brass buckle around its neck. As long as he disobeyed orders, the distant rattle would twist its mechanism and make the little thing tremble in pain. He was ordered to throw steel balls in the empty building, sow seeds of noise and stir up people's hearts. But every time he takes action, he will leave an infrasound flaw in the dark that only a wise man can identify.
The two people trapped by the sound, one from the outside and the other from the inside, slowly saw each other at both ends of the crack where the steel ball rolled.
Concept: True silence is not the absence of sound, but that each sound recognizes its own boundaries.