Please Don't Take Off the Headphones of a Superpowered Socially Anxious Person

[The blurb for the upcoming story The Dragon Can't Be a Hypothesis is below.] An ancient heavenly fire fell to earth. Later, after people were exposed to an unknown radiation, some began to develop superpowers. Yu Xialing has a superpower too: "Body Control." She can control the bodies of her fraternal twin brother and unconscious people in vegetative states. However, the side effects of her power are severe. She is extremely sensitive to ambient noise, and was eventually forced to wear headphones. Other people see her as a super antisocial loner, and she has always pretended to be ordinary, hiding outside the world of superpowered people. A young, underage girl with no one to rely on, and a delinquent younger brother who gets into fights and causes trouble. Faced with the family's enormous debt, Yu Xialing has gone to school only four days a week, Monday through Thursday, since she was fourteen. The rest of the time, she hides out in the suburbs to care for someone who is half in a vegetative state. By "half in a vegetative state," I mean they are unconscious and unresponsive several days a week, but normal the rest of the time. When Yu Xialing controls them with her power, they have no idea who she is while awake. Her daily routine is to lie down, read, study, and eat apples, while following workout videos and making the person in a vegetative state exercise on their own. They have to eat nutritious food, chewing each mouthful slowly and carefully, without getting their mouth dirty. They have to gulp down three big servings of milk a day, morning, noon, and night, to grow up healthy and reach their goal: six foot three. Three years later, the person in a vegetative state has grown taller, built an eight-pack and defined abs, and become a long-legged, slim-waisted young man. * * * Top school heartthrob Tang Xunhe is renowned far and wide, a young gentleman well-known throughout the wealthy circles of Shengbei City. He's noble and handsome, 189 centimeters tall, loves sports, and has the highest grade of superpower. He's practically flawless. Except that his powerful Ability takes a toll on his body, so he often has to take sick leave. He only goes to school four days a week, Monday through Thursday. Fortunately, his genius intellect makes him a perfect student regardless. He's so dazzling that Yu Xialing naturally wants to avoid him at all costs. But when yet another birthday comes around and she's all alone, on the night before her birthday she finds herself inexplicably going to see the person who sleeps so peacefully in a vegetative state. "Tomorrow's my birthday..." "Could you pretend to be my friend and go out with me?" Unexpectedly, from that day on, both the person in a vegetative state and the school heartthrob start acting strange. One day, Yu Xialing is shoved around by someone, and her headphones fall off. Her lips quiver, her eyes redden, and her gaze is about to turn murderous when two large hands suddenly cover her ears. School heartthrob: "Don't listen." Yu Xialing: "..." Do we know each other???!!! * * * Tang Xunhe has known since childhood that his pain would only get worse. In the end, his body would be torn apart in a bloody mess while he was unconscious. He wouldn't live to see seventeen. But strangely enough, he's been doing just fine. He knows someone is saving him, someone even stronger than he is is taking care of him. That person seems not to want to meet him, so she has ordered him not to remember her. He's tried again and again to open his eyes during his long stretches of sleep, but all he can dream of is her blurry silhouette in the sunlight. She is always lost in thought, always refusing to turn around and look at him. Whether in their "home" or somewhere else, whenever he looks at her, all he can see is the same view of her back. How long is she going to keep ignoring me? Tang Xunhe carefully hides his dangerous, impulsive thoughts, until one day he dreams of her voice: "You're my friend. Please wish me a happy birthday." "Happy birthday, my friend." For the first time, Tang Xunhe speaks to her in a dream. At that instant, the sleeping spell is broken. * * * Yu Xialing once thought her power was useless, because she could only control two kinds of people: 1. People in vegetative states; 2. Her fraternal twin brother. But gradually, she discovers that many people are trapped on the brink of death, and only she can order them back. An accident turns her into someone in a vegetative state too, and her soul steps across the border into dark matter. The madness powerful enough to shatter and overturn the real world is completely exposed. But in the next moment, the storm bows down before her. * * * PS: The female lead's real superpower: going all out. The real purpose of her headphones: suppressing her temper. Set in a modern alternate universe. An upcoming fantasy romance of the same type, The Dragon Can't Be a Hypothesis. Blurb: One day, a new kind of extremely dangerous criminal appears in the world. They haven't actually committed any crimes, but they can warp the world just by thinking about it, or turn passersby into drooling monsters with a single thought. People used to be unable to become murderers just by imagining it. Now, any evil thought can come true in an instant. They're victims too. Just thinking of a loved one getting hurt turns everything before their eyes into a blood-red hell. If they imagine losing their most precious possession, it immediately turns into rotting foam. If they imagine a skyscraper collapsing, the ground caving in, a volcano erupting, or a gas explosion... Jin Ying: Get it under control, now. In an instant, the wind sweeps up fallen leaves, and the distortion stops. The world: "..." The sticky black spores should have blanketed every inch of the accident site. With a single word from her, a hundred miles in every direction becomes sparkling clean. Jin Ying: Okay, all done. She's one of the newly emerged "Altered" and "Enchanters" too, but she's so lazy that she got herself arrested early and offered her services to the country. She's a rare Altered who can keep her thoughts under control at all times. But she's no ascetic. She lives however she likes, because she knows that even if she accidentally thinks of something terrible, it won't come true. That's all thanks to a special method that doesn't work for other Altered: She adds something truly impossible to her worst imaginings: something fantastical, absurd, or straight out of a fairy tale. Then the world refuses to accept her imagination, so it can't come true. So she imagines her family getting hit by a car, but... no, they weren't hit. The car hit a wicked dragon munching on corn instead. She imagines a building collapsing, but... no, it doesn't collapse. A sleeping dragon slaps it back into place with one wing. She imagines explosions, people falling from buildings, floods swamping the city, and scorching lava. They're all easily stopped by the dragon's wall-hard black scales and invincible magic, before it turns around and slaps the distorted world in the face. Jin Ying: Hahahaha, you can't beat me. There's nothing you can do. I'm just that powerful. Smart as she is, all she wants is a steady government job and to suppress magic across the world. Until one day, she meets a police officer. He's young but looks middle-aged, greasy and exhausted, with huge dark circles under his eyes every day. She also hears that he's been in car accidents, jumped off buildings, fallen into the sea, survived explosions, been scalded by boiling water, and broken both arms and legs saving people. He's covered in metal pins, so he goes beep beep beep at security checkpoints. Looking at him, she does have a bad feeling. Then one day, right in front of her, pain turns him into a beast. His whole body is covered in gleaming black scales, his wings spread wide enough to blot out the sky, and when he wraps them around her, they're as close-fitting as a black cocoon. So he, too, is the product of a distortion. He asks, "Are you afraid?" Jin Ying stays silent for a long, long time, trembling with fear, then finally asks, "You... Mister, do you like corn?" Weibo: @Chou Gu Mo Dao Theme: Face life bravely.