After witnessing his mother being kidnapped and murdered, Huo Yan developed trauma-induced aftereffects and suffered from insomnia for years. Even medication couldn't help him sleep.
At 2:17 a.m., Huo Yan hit pause, ending another replay of the black-screen audio recording he'd played over and over. He never expected that such a rough little recording of breathing would let him sleep a full two hours without medication.
So he opened an entertainment app and casually sent a small tip.
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Wen Yining first met the buyer of her "breathing" at a damp street-corner cafe after a heavy rain.
A mixed-race man in a bespoke suit sat outside the cafe. His sculpted, flawless looks drew stares from passersby, while raindrops snuffed out the smoke curling from the cigarette between his fingers.
Wen Yining sat across from him as he handed her an agreement. His Mandarin wasn't very fluent, but his polite, distant tone was clear: "I hope we can have a pleasant working relationship, Miss Wen."
The agreement on the table was written in three languages. She didn't know what sort of collaboration he meant, but out of politeness, Wen Yining opened it and skimmed through.
Clause 2: Party B must maintain a stable breathing rate within the delta-wave induction range from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day.
Clause 4: Party A is entitled to monitor Party B's throat, nasal cavity, chest, and other respiratory organs for health purposes.
In short, the contract required her to provide customized breathing services. She would have to stay in a top-floor apartment by the river every weekend and cooperate with a medical team studying how to replicate her breathing pattern, with the aim of treating the man's incurable insomnia...
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Wen Yining thought everything that had happened lately was absurd. A black-screen clip she'd accidentally uploaded had earned her a 500,000-yuan tip. Then a strange man showed up, claiming his medical team had classified her breathing pattern as a "delta-wave induction sample," and offered her an outrageous sum to provide customized breathing services.
Help! You can customize breathing now?
Wait, you can make money just by breathing?
Is this really a thing? (Off-screen voice: Of course not! He's a bad guy, run!)
A gentleman on the surface, but gloomy and cold underneath & a resilient, bright, down-on-her-luck heiress
When pathological insomnia meets physiological hot flashes
Reading guide:
1. Wolf-and-rabbit romance / aloof and abstinent face-slapping / coercion / the powerful one yields
2. A self-indulgent story written for my own tastes.
3. Synopsis written on May 5, 2025. Still being revised and may be updated anytime. Anyone who steals my ideas or names will become ugly and poor for life (the little circle is already blessed).
Theme: Never give up
