You’re Hurting My Eyes

[Updates are revisions, so you can ignore them~] How foolish can a teenager's wish be? With billions of people in the world, there are countless possible answers. When Chen Xi was seventeen, he made a wish to the gods: I want to hear Ji Mingyang's thoughts. From that day on, he could see what everyone was thinking. His nightmare began. “What's up with Chen Xi?” “Is there something wrong with him?” “Why does he keep looking for Ji Mingyang?” His youthful, unrequited crush quietly faded away. He became even more withdrawn, earning a reputation as the grade's most notorious oddball. When Chen Xi was eighteen, he did exceptionally well on the college entrance exam. On the form listing their university destinations: Chen Xi was last on the list for A University. Ji Mingyang was first. - A University Confessions, submission no. 17351: I'm done liking JMY. He's so loud he's hurting my eyes. A University Confessions, submission no. 17352: He'll keep it down. Trending on social media: [If you're going to date, get out of here and go date already!!!] University campus Mutual secret crushes Shy, introverted, bashful guy X human, walking barrage of comments Preview: “Fleeting” Humanity's ability to surpass history depends on deliberate choices and the hard work of rowing against the current., Epigraph The world's ocean currents ground to a halt. Drought, hailstorms, and famine followed one after another, sparking a prolonged war. In that war, Zhou Wuyin was undoubtedly the sharpest blade. Young and ruthless, he had gone years without a defeat. He was a living legend of the Alliance. The apocalypse was brutal. No one knew what tomorrow would bring. When Chen Yang was sixteen, every member of his team was killed. By chance, he got hold of Zhou Wuyin's training footage. In it, Zhou Wuyin was covered in mud, and the microphone was damaged. It captured just one sentence. “Kid, if you fail a few more times, I'm really going to die.” As if by fate, Chen Yang and Zhou Wuyin looked straight into each other's eyes. It was a fateful encounter. Chen Yang fought for three years, rising to the rank of field-grade officer at an incredible pace. On the day he received his commission, the news that Zhou Wuyin had died was waiting for him. - After the war between humans and machines broke out, Zhou Wuyin, a mechanical being, was among the first to be targeted for execution. On the day Zhou Wuyin was declared dead, his enemies scattered ten thousand leaflets, celebrating the Alliance's destruction of its own Great Wall. That day, Chen Yang stood amid the swirling snow and refused every order to carry out an execution. His superior called him stupid and said he just didn't get it, then finally tried to reason with him: “You've got a bright future ahead of you. Why make trouble for yourself?” Chen Yang gave a cold laugh. “Can you really feel at ease accepting the merit for killing one of your own?” Chen Yang didn't believe Zhou Wuyin was dead. If they hadn't found a body, how could he be dead? He searched for Zhou Wuyin for seven years, getting through thousands of days and nights with the help of that battered footage, until the man onscreen gripped a knife. His icy breath brushed Chen Yang's ear as he said, “I haven't forgiven you for betraying me yet, little crow.” An Oscar-worthy, natural-born actor on the receiving end X a cunning, fiercely loyal top From enemies to lovers Apocalyptic road-trip story Theme: Keep a positive outlook