Infinite Growth After Breakup

On the day of the breakup, Lu Ci heard three wrong notes in his ex-girlfriend's Chopin Nocturne. He couldn't even read sheet music before. Superhuman hearing tore open reality at that moment—a stranger's business call on the subway, the hiss of a coffee burning someone's finger twenty meters away, the faint sound of a professional pianist's wrist tendons rubbing against the strings. He began to inherit his exes' talents, along with their costs. The Chopin Nocturne looped endlessly in his mind. Every ended relationship left behind a switch that wouldn't turn off. Jiang Chi was his college ex-girlfriend, a painter. After Su Nian, he started seeing blue that shouldn't exist layered within white light. Breaking up wasn't the end. Each departure left him something and took something away. He needed to figure out: why did those abilities come? Where was the limit of the cost? And the note slipped under his door at 4 a.m. read—"What you hear is not just the piano."