The Mute Rose

My next upcoming novel is called "Misplaced Heartbeats": a prickly closeted gay bottom who hates gay people x a sweet-on-the-surface, dark-inside older top with a motherly vibe. Twelve-year age gap. If you're interested, feel free to add it to your reading list.

Sensitive, insecure, gloomy mute bottom x cold-on-the-outside and cold-on-the-inside, icy older queen top

A bittersweet push and pull | Reunited after a breakup | Healing each other | Love at first sight | Bottom pursues top | Nine-year age gap | Set in Guangdong

Blurb

Because Jiang Jingtian had suffered from aphasia since childhood, she was the one who got abandoned. Her childhood in her adoptive parents' home was not a happy one, and she grew into a child who was silent in both body and mind.

Pursuing Lin Ting was the craziest and boldest decision Jiang Jingtian had ever made.

But she was sensitive and insecure, and only dared to approach her under the guise of friendship.

At first, she signed to Lin Ting, "I don't have any friends here. I think of you as my only friend."

Later, she said, "I don't have any family. I think of you as my only family."

Finally, she signed with red eyes, "Yes! That's right! I'm not normal. I like you. I've liked you since the first moment I saw you!" Every gesture was full of force.

She thought Lin Ting would be disgusted by her, but Lin Ting merely sighed and said,

"All right, don't cry."

The bottom pursues the top in the first half, and they heal each other in the second half. Lin Ting is the top.

Writing the story I want to read, and letting myself go.

Content warnings are in the author's note for Chapter One.

Theme: Don't give in when faced with hardship.