To My Only Alien

The world is unified by one country, but torn apart by two beliefs - magic and technology, which are in opposition to each other, and no one is willing to give in. My name is Lin Nuo, and I am the youngest genius in the technology camp. I once firmly believed that the world was nothing more than formulas that could be parsed, codes that could be dismantled. Until I met Xingli. She is the darling of magic and can hear the "emotions" of all things, as clean and gentle as starlight. Initially, I just wanted to study her—to study that power that defies logical explanation. But gradually, I began to waver. What if magic wasn't superstition, but a flow of information from a higher dimension? What if she is not a variable, but the only constant in my life? When I set up a secret laboratory, trying to translate runes into data and create a "magic operating system", I stood on the powder keg of two camps. The Science and Technology Alliance became vigilant, and the magic elders angrily denounced the blasphemy. My best friend Lei Zhe couldn't understand my obsession, but Xingli always held my hand. She said that my logical thinking was the most amazing magic she had ever seen. In the gap between reason and faith, on the verge of the collapse of the old order, our love is the exception and the starting point of revolution.