When Gu Huai hated Shen Qingqiu most, he once crushed the “Bluetooth earpiece” beside her ear in front of everyone, his eyes full of disgust. “Shen Qingqiu, I'm talking to you. Why are you pretending to be deaf?” Shen Qingqiu's face was deathly pale. She looked at the shattered hearing aid on the ground and could only manage a silent smile. He didn't know she wasn't ignoring him. She really couldn't hear anymore.
Three years ago, Shen Qingqiu took a thirty-million-yuan check and discarded the destitute Gu Huai like trash. Three years later, Gu Huai made his comeback and kept her trapped at his side, tormenting her day and night. He forced her to play a piano piece she'd long forgotten at a banquet, letting the entire room mock her out-of-tune performance. For the sake of his fake “first love,” his stepsister, he personally pushed Shen Qingqiu onto the operating table for a bone marrow transplant. She endured it all without a word, like a soulless doll.
Then, at the deliberately arranged engagement banquet, a massive crystal chandelier came crashing down. Everyone screamed and ran for their lives. Only Shen Qingqiu stood frozen, staring blankly at the frightened shapes of their mouths until shards pierced her body. At that moment, Gu Huai rushed toward her like a madman, only to see blood flowing from her ear and the diagnosis of a terminal brain and nerve disease she'd hidden for three years.
Later, Gu Huai knelt beside her hospital bed, screaming himself hoarse as he begged her to respond. But Shen Qingqiu's world had already fallen into silence. She merely lifted a hand with difficulty to wipe away his tears, then comforted him in a slurred voice: “Gu Huai, don't cry... You're making too much noise. I can't hear you.”
