Frequency-Tuned Romance

Shen Tingyi fell in love at first sight with a man who worked at a research institute.

He was handsome, emotionally steady, and had a secure career.

The only catch was that he had no interest in anything besides work.

But that wasn't a problem for Shen Tingyi.

The pampered young lady, whose life had always gone her way, was determined to find out what love's bitter side tasted like.

After two failed confessions, she resolved to win him over on her third try, no matter what.

As she waited in his office, she suddenly spotted a folder on his computer bearing her name.

Only then did she realize that every gift she'd given him and every word she'd said had been recorded and sorted into cold data, tagged as "unnecessary interaction," and eventually dumped in the recycle bin.

Shen Tingyi finally understood: he had never taken her feelings seriously. He'd only treated them as an observational experiment.

She thought she'd done something incredibly foolish.

She didn't want to like him anymore.

-

Pei Sheng was a top scientist and ranked among the personnel under special protection.

He wore monitoring devices, and his readings had remained stable for years.

At first, he thought Shen Tingyi was no different from the other people with ulterior motives. There was nothing special about her.

He didn't expose her clumsy act, choosing instead to watch everything she did with cold detachment.

But as they grew closer, his monitoring reports began to show marked emotional fluctuations. And each time, the cause secretly pointed back to Shen Tingyi.

Pei Sheng hated this unfamiliar feeling of losing control.

More laughable still, even when he chose to avoid Shen Tingyi, his emotions were still affected by her every move.

His rational mind told him he had to find the cause, so he began a secret observational experiment.

Until one day, the monitoring device suddenly sounded an alarm.

The medical staff hurried over to check on him, only to find Pei Sheng looking perfectly normal, repeatedly dialing the same number.

Silence filled the room. Only the receiver's cold, mechanical voice rang out again and again.

"The number you have dialed is switched off..."

With his back to everyone, Pei Sheng pressed a hand to his chest.

At that moment, an ache more intense than anything he'd ever felt spread through him.

At last, the man who had always been in control of every situation experienced what it was like to lose control.

-

"And then?"

"Why bring up something that made her sad when she was at her happiest?"

Shen Tingyi walked out holding her wedding dress and asked her friend how she looked.

After receiving an enthusiastic approval, she happily twirled in front of the mirror.

"And then, I stopped liking him."

Across the street, Pei Sheng watched Shen Tingyi get into a car with his own eyes.

Seeing her in that wedding dress, he'd never imagined that shade of white could be so piercing.

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"It's hard for love and being loved to happen at the same time."

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