Que Zhihan was born with heterochromia, but he was a little blind boy who could not see.
According to the old servants of the Wang family, when Que Zhihan was first brought home, he cried every night. One eye was amber, the other deep blue, and his eyes stared straight ahead without moving, like two glass marbles. Bright red tears of blood streamed from them. It was terrifying.
The Wang family patriarch invited an exorcist to perform a ritual for forty-nine days before the evil spirit hidden inside him was driven out. But the ominous mark was branded on Que Zhihan forever.
His adoptive parents deliberately ignored him, the servants feared and despised him, and the Wang children bullied him. Even the only person who was ever kind to Que Zhihan was interested in him because of those unusual eyes.
"Those eyes are a bit creepy, sure, but maybe the master was right and they're actually a good thing. Maybe they let him see both worlds."
On yet another night, Que Zhihan was locked in the cramped storage room in the attic. The taunting voices outside suddenly changed. "Did you hear laughter?"
[Hee-hee, ]
"I heard it! I heard it too!"
"Whoever's playing tricks, come out!"
Before long, all those panicked cries abruptly vanished.
Que Zhihan could not see, so naturally he had no way of knowing that his surroundings had changed. A pitch-black shadow appeared in the dense darkness. It reached out and gently brushed his cheek.
Que Zhihan could not see. The shadow smiled and said to him, "A Que, welcome home."
The deep, hoarse voice became a cold breeze that brushed past Que Zhihan's ear. He shivered, opened his mismatched eyes, and murmured, "The wind's picked up..."
At first, everyone who saw Que Zhihan thought he would not survive the night. Only later did they understand that the ghosts and monsters surrounding him were welcoming another master home in their own way.
*
Before the age of three, Que Zhihan lived on an isolated island that seemed like a paradise beyond the mortal world.
Although it was frightening when his mother's eyes, nose, and ears started bleeding whenever she got excited, the hand she laid on Que Zhihan's head was gentle;
Although his father's limbs were not very coordinated, when he was happy, he would lift Que Zhihan high and let him sit on his broad shoulders;
Although Grandpa the housekeeper always forgot to put his eyeballs and dentures back in, he loved making all sorts of different meals for Que Zhihan.
His older brother was the only normal one.
But later, they all died.
His mother became a sheet of skin, his father became pieces of a corpse, and his brother bled to death while drawing talismans.
Later still, Que Zhihan forgot them, then remembered them again in his brother's embrace.
◇, Reader's Guide, ◇
① A sickly but ridiculously durable, superpowered, incredibly lucky, max-luck blind top × an evil god bottom who loves scaring the top and is delighted to act up; pseudo-brothers, younger bottom
② The top is named Que Zhihan, pronounced Que (què) Zhihan. The bottom hasn't got a name yet _(:з"∠)_
③ The title may change later.
④ His blindness will be cured later.
Blurb dated 2023/04/05
Theme: Care for people with disabilities.