I'm Mute, Yet My Ex-Husband Insists on Making Me Famous

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Blurb: Beautiful, melancholy mute bottom × ghostly man transformed into a devoted, protective daddy-type top (both have only ever been with each other)

After disappearing from the entertainment industry for two years, Yu Shi reunites with his ex-boyfriend while lying in someone else’s bed, at his most wretched.

The man he had once “dumped” is now a chairman with overwhelming power, while Yu Shi has gone from a top-tier star in the music world to a useless mute.

With a frown, Ji Zhangzhou hauls him out of the mire. Disgust is plain in his deep-set eyes. “You’re filthy. I won’t touch you.”

Before passing out, Yu Shi silently mocks himself. That’s how it should be. They should never have met again.

He should return to that psychiatric hospital and live or die on his own.

Ji Zhangzhou finally realizes something is wrong with him and sneers, “You used to be so eloquent. Are you pretending to be pitiful?”

Yu Shi curls up without explaining. He can’t explain.

After Yu Shi twice teeters on the edge of life and death, he sees Ji Zhangzhou sitting in the dark all night, staring at him. In the end, whatever wild thoughts Ji Zhangzhou has worked himself into, he silently punches the wall.

Then Ji Zhangzhou keeps him locked at his side, never letting him out of his sight.

After learning that trauma left Yu Shi mute and suffering from severe depression, Ji Zhangzhou stays by his side with painstaking care, shielding him from the storm.

But Yu Shi doesn’t dare admit that he still loves him. So every time Ji Zhangzhou takes a step forward, Yu Shi takes one back.

After flying into a rage and then finding himself helpless, Ji Zhangzhou turns around and hands him a script.

Later, when the casting list for the film Murmured Whispers is announced, it sparks heated discussion.

Yu Shi returns to the public eye, and abuse and rumors erupt overnight.

A year later, his starring role in Murmured Whispers wins him the Golden Image Award for Best Actor, making him the first Best Actor in history with aphasia.

Clips from Yu Shi’s film go viral across all the major short-video platforms.

“Ahhh! The music world has lost a genius, but our star brother can still shine on the acting path!”

“Yu Shi was basically playing himself, wasn’t he? I hope he’s made it through this rough patch and that the road ahead is smooth.”

Back then, Yu Shi had broken up with Ji Zhangzhou without a word, cutting him off completely. Ji Zhangzhou had hated him for it.

He had imagined countless ways they might meet again, but never this one.

Yu Shi was sprawled in someone else’s bed, a miserable sight that disgusted him;

And yet he was so pitiful, having reduced himself to such a wretched state.

Ji Zhangzhou had coldly left him with harsh words, only to realize he still loved the man who had vanished without a goodbye.

He couldn’t bear to see Yu Shi suffer or stand hearing others insult him. At first, all he wanted was to keep Yu Shi by his side so he wouldn’t disappear again.

But he grew more and more addicted. He wanted more. He wanted Yu Shi back at the top. He wanted Yu Shi to become a dazzling top-tier star once more...

Bonus Scene:

“Ji Zhangzhou...”

Yu Shi’s voice was hoarse and faint, halting from disuse. Yet it struck Ji Zhangzhou right in the heart.

Yu Shi looked up at him, his eyes red-rimmed.

Clumsily, he spoke the words he had kept hidden through countless days and nights: “I... love... you.”

Ji Zhangzhou had waited so long to hear him speak, and never expected his first words after recovering to be a confession.

“Yu Shi, I love you too.”

“I always have.”

Reader’s Guide: This is a 1v1 story with a guaranteed happy ending. Nothing else is guaranteed.

1. An unconventional entertainment-industry story, set in a fictionalized version of reality.

2. Early chapters involve the bottom nearly being assaulted and losing consciousness at the hands of a villain, followed by the top rescuing him. The bottom remains completely innocent. Please read at your own discretion and don’t force yourself if you’re uncomfortable with this.

3. There are many author-invented details, and no real people are the inspiration. Please don’t read them as such.

Upcoming Story:

A beautiful Amanita mushroom who’s actually a sweet, naive grudge-holder of a bottom

A glamorous male celebrity who’s actually a scheming, jealous, tsundere top

Du Qi’an is a red Amanita mushroom that grew deep in the mountains. By a twist of fate, he takes human form and is picked up by Wei Lan, who calls himself a “great artist.”

The mushroom knows nothing of the world and does whatever Wei Lan tells him.

Wei Lan once told him, “Oh my god, darling, you have no idea how beautiful your body is! It’s the greatest work nature has ever created. I’m going to capture you with my brush so the world can admire you.”

So Du Qi’an became his nude model.

Wei Lan also told him, “Darling, what kind of magic have you used on me? I’ve realized I can’t live without you. Without you, life would have no meaning.”

So Du Qi’an became Wei Lan’s bedmate for four whole years.

Later, when Wei Lan ran out of inspiration, he told Du Qi’an, “Du Qi’an, you’ll always love me, even if I lose my talent, right? You can’t leave me. You have to keep loving me.”

The mushroom also thought he would spend his whole life with this mad artist, until he met Fu Xin.

A sketch by Du Qi’an titled Forest Slumber suddenly goes viral among the elite. Famous figures compete to bid on it, and it is finally bought for the staggering sum of 46 million by an anonymous buyer who makes no effort to hide the purchase.

Before long, people online dig up his real-world identity.

A company called Kuxing Entertainment approaches him and invites him to join a wilderness-survival variety show, promising him a large sum of money.

Du Qi’an has never seen that much money in his life, so he is easily coaxed into it and blunders into the entertainment industry, still somewhat confused.

Everyone in the industry knows Fu Xin is strikingly handsome, a free-spirited, flirtatious control freak.

At their first meeting on the show, he casually pulls Du Qi’an behind him. The tension is off the charts, setting the internet ablaze in an instant. Countless fans of the pair stay up all night celebrating, completely losing their minds over the ship!

Seizing the moment, their agency forces them into a publicity partnership, deliberately selling their relationship to build hype.

In public, they’re a temporary couple with irresistible chemistry and an intimate atmosphere on camera. Their performances are perfectly in sync, and their sweet moments have the whole internet swooning.

In private, Fu Xin flirts with him at every turn, unable to hide his jealousy and unable to stand anyone else looking at Du Qi’an for even a second.

“Du Qi’an, I don’t think you’re well-behaved at all. Under our contract, you’re my boyfriend, which means we’re a couple. Yet you’re living with another man.”

“Does living together make people a couple?” Du Qi’an asked, confused.

Mushrooms in the mountains grow close together beneath the same tree. By that logic, he must have had lots of partners.

“I lived with him for four years. We just kept each other company and had somewhere to stay. It was like the mushrooms in the mountains, helping each other out.”

Fu Xin was furious and amused at the same time. “Only couples live together. You can only live with someone you love.”

Du Qi’an quietly protested, “You’re living at the same camp as me now, and we’re a couple too. So why are you still angry?”

The first time Fu Xin saw Du Qi’an, his beauty left him completely captivated.

It seemed that everyone who met Du Qi’an was dazzled by his looks.

That was an extremely bad thing.

Fu Xin would never allow anyone but himself to touch Du Qi’an.

So he drove up the price of Du Qi’an’s sketches and got his agency to sign Du Qi’an, planning to keep him in sight every moment of the day.

So what if he already has a boyfriend? Fu Xin can just steal him away.

Bonus Scene:

Fu Xin discovers that every time he kisses Du Qi’an, he passes out and enters a beautiful, dreamlike dream. “Du Qi’an, what kind of irresistible beauty are you? Kissing you once feels like being poisoned.”

“Me? I’m just a harmless Amanita mushroom. Isn’t it normal to get sleepy after a kiss?”

“Normal? Who falls straight asleep after being kissed?”

Du Qi’an tilts his head and earnestly explains in a soft voice, “Amanita mushrooms are poisonous, after all. When you kiss me, the toxins cling to you on your breath.”

“Surely my Mr. Fu has realized by now that falling in love with me is irresistible and addictive?”

Theme: Follow the path of life