Infinite Growth After Breakup

On the day of the breakup, Lu Ci heard three wrong notes in his ex-girlfriend's Chopin nocturne. He used to not even recognize staff notation. That hyper-acute hearing tore open reality—the business call of a stranger on the subway, the hiss of a coffee burning a finger twenty meters away, the faint friction of a professional pianist's wrist tendons against the strings. He began to inherit his exes' talents, and also their costs. The Chopin nocturne in his head loops endlessly. Every ended relationship leaves behind a switch that won't turn off. Jiang Chi was his college ex-girlfriend, a painter. After Su Nian, he started seeing blue that shouldn't exist within the white light. Breaking up is not the end. Each departure leaves him something, and takes something away. He needs to figure out: why do these abilities come? Where is the end of the cost? And the note slipped under his door at 4 a.m. reads—"What you hear is not just the piano."