There Is Night Between Us

When he was seventeen years old, Lin Zhiyi saw a strange beast for the first time. At the back window of the classroom where he studied in the evening, a dark, faceless silhouette looked inside against the glass. She was the only one in the class who turned her head sharply. At the same second, Shen Rui at the next table also turned around. They just looked at each other and said nothing. From that day on, they walked side by side through the gaps in the city every night. Alien beasts gather in the middle of the night, devouring people's fear and despair, and must be driven away before dawn. Shen Rui is always half a step ahead of her. She said she didn't need to protect her, and he said "I'm happy to". One hundred days before the college entrance examination, they confirmed their relationship on the rooftop. Lin Zhiyi felt that with him around, there was nothing scary in the dark night. Three months later, Shen Rui called her to the same rooftop. He said that he had found out that strange beasts would gather after the aura of the same kind. When they were together, they would be more ferocious. He returned her school uniform jacket to her and said goodbye. Turning around and going downstairs, Lin Zhiyi was left alone on the rooftop, and he never looked back. After that, he never appeared again at night. Lin Zhiyi stayed alone for four summers. One person identifies the traces of strange beasts, one draws the knife, and the other goes home before dawn... After graduation, she took the Computer Science Department and joined a technology company as a night shift algorithm engineer. Those unusual data spikes on city security systems—no one knows what that means. Until Shen Rui parachuted in and became CTO. On his first day here, he changed her schedule and canceled all night shifts. She rushed into his office. He raised his head and said, "The reason we broke up was not because we were afraid of strange beasts. What I found was another possibility - the resonance of two people's powers, which would eventually devour one of them. I'm afraid that person is you." Lin Zhiyi froze in place after hearing this. That night, the system issued the highest warning. Large alien beasts that have never appeared in the city are gathering at the bottom of the office building where they are located, and all the lights are turned off. In the darkness, Shen Rui held her hand with cold knuckles and said, "I won't hide this time." Outside the window, the giant beast opened its eyes, and a war began again. Concept: The real dark night is not the midnight when strange beasts appear, but the time when the person you love most makes a choice for you "for your own good" and leaves you alone in the dark.