The Cold-Faced CEO's Sweet, Mute Darling

[Two male leads, both pure, older man/younger man, angsty drama]

Su Mo grew up with his grandmother in a poor mountain village. The villagers called him “Little Mute,” and the children ran after him, shouting, “Little Beggar.” He hated the place, but for his grandmother’s sake, he gritted his teeth and endured it.

Then one day, a group of city people kicked in his door. A man in a suit got out of a car and looked him over coldly. “You’re my son.”

Overnight, Su Mo was moved into the mansion of his “biological father,” but life there was even harder to bear than in the village.

His younger brother would pinch his nose and complain about the “chicken-poop smell” whenever their father wasn’t around. His stepmother would pretend to wipe away tears and accuse him of bullying his brother, while his father could only impatiently scold him for being childish. Su Mo felt like a dog thrown into a den of wolves, and gradually learned to stay silent and endure.

Later, Su Mo met the older boy he’d loved most as a child, the one he’d lost touch with: Gu Yan, who had once said he wanted to learn Su Mo’s language and bring him warmth.

Gu Yan still gently called him “Momo,” but Su Mo shrank back. He was no longer the carefree little boy who used sign language to make stars.

Everyone knew the Gu family’s only son. He was like a beautiful piece of jade immersed in an icy spring: outstanding, powerful, distant, impeccably mannered, and impossible to approach. He was the ideal marriage prospect in countless people’s eyes.

And yet Gu Yan always kept to himself, surrounded only by his old friends. Then one day, everyone was astonished to see him fussing over an unknown young man and dotingly calling him “baby.” He even told his persistent suitors outright, “I have someone I like.”