My Thief

If you could hear everyone's inner voices, how would you know which one was yours? Chen Bai could suddenly hear other people's voices. It wasn't just an occasional flash of inspiration, it was on the subway, in the elevator, in the conference room - every word from everyone exploded in his mind. A colleague's insomnia, the vice president's lies, a strange old man's concern for his grandson... There was real information hidden in those "voices", so clear that he could not pretend to be his own fantasy. He thought it was mental illness until Tianshu Bureau found him. They told him: the consciousness field is real, awakened people are not uncommon among the crowd, and a force called the "Nihilism" is secretly operating, trying to integrate the consciousness of all people into one - at the cost of annihilating every "I". This is not a superpower. This is a curse. Only then did Chen Bai realize that he was not an ordinary awakened person. His ability map is surprisingly consistent with the founder of Tianshu Bureau a hundred years ago - "I have the same origin as all things". What that means, he's still figuring out. But one thing he was sure of: before the thoughts of others overwhelmed him, he had to find himself first. Otherwise, he becomes an empty house - the door is open and everyone can come in, but the owner is no longer there.