After Seeing the Colors of Emotions, They All Turned Pink

Sunday morning, Xu Chuan had just started high school when he awakened a superpower.

He could see the colors of other people’s emotions.

Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression.

At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors.

Pale cyan: relaxation.

Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others.

Then came his final female customer of the day—

a girl whose emotional color was pure black...

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A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it.

That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color:

Purple, the color of fear.

So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again...

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Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities,

one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream.

There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint.

And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars,

spreading across the depths of the night sky...