A Stubborn Mute Shows Up at the Horse Ranch

New stable hand Suo Ersa tamed the racecourse's wild horse.

Then he beat up Gan Qilang, the young master of the racecourse.

The horse was tamed, and the young master was, too.

The secret illness Gan Qilang had never told anyone about was cured??

Insomnia, erectile dysfunction... It had plagued him for years, making him sick with worry, and then suddenly he woke up feeling alive again??

The young master could hardly believe it. Even more incredible, he discovered that whenever the stable hand slept beside him, he could sleep soundly until morning.

All right, a troubled mind needs the right medicine.

A talent like this must be put to good use!

He got him licensed and put him on the track, having him race horses for him by day and personally inspect the staff dormitory at night.

Suo Ersa: "Boss, my shift is over."

Gan Qilang: "Then work overtime."

"Overtime doing what?"

"Sleep with me."

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But Suo Ersa was meticulous with horses and utterly clueless about people.

Gan Qilang pointed at the sick horse and mocked him: "It's worth at least three million. What about you? How much are you worth?"

He answered, "That's right, I'm not worth anything. So I should save it all the more. It's valuable."

"You cheap bastard..."

The young master couldn't swallow that insult. Watching the man care for the horse with the patience of a completely different person, he stood by and suddenly wondered if he was worth less than an animal.

"Why do you have so much to say to it, but nothing to say to me?"

"It's frightened."

"I'm frightened too."

"Then go back to your own stall and stop wandering around outside."

"..."

Nerd, you damned bastard, you mute...

Such a stubborn, clueless idiot.

He irritated the young master so much that he decided to teach him himself.

And his way of teaching him was to keep him penned up like a horse.

Suo Ersa was so fed up with his pestering that he said, "When a horse acts up, you can check its shoes, saddle, and stomach."

"?"

"Even being in heat follows seasonal patterns."

"...What are you trying to say?"

"You don't have any of that. You just need gelding."

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Gan Qilang thought that if he kept the man by his side and taught him little by little, he would eventually learn.

Instead, he found out that Suo Ersa had joined the racecourse with an ulterior motive.

The Derby was coming up, and business came first.

He confiscated Suo Ersa's papers and locked him up, yet still asked gently, "Haven't I treated you well enough?"

He had picked out the most comfortable place for the mute bastard to live and paved the way for him to have the brightest future. As long as the man would just give in, they could work anything out.

Suo Ersa replied woodenly, "Then let me go."

"Anything but that."

...Anything but that.

On the night the stable caught fire, Suo Ersa ran without looking back. He gave up the money, the future, even that rare, sincere affection Gan Qilang thought he had shown him.

Gan Qilang hated deceit and betrayal most of all, and this man had done both, then left without a trace of regret.

He ought to find him and settle the score. That was what he thought as he set out. But after traveling thousands of kilometers to the ends of the earth, he saw Suo Ersa standing before him and, for no reason, remembered those nights when he had finally managed to sleep.

He hated him so much, yet in the end, he still couldn't let him go.

"Come back with me."

"No."

"Then I'll stay."

"You can't."

"You're so good at taming horses. You can ride any horse. Why won't you give me even half a step?"

"A wild horse needs to be tamed. Once it becomes a good horse, a jockey will be willing to ride it."

"Then tame me... Take control of me... Could you please not leave me?"

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Hypocritical top (rotten-hearted, an utterly unhinged brat) x nerdy bottom (stubborn, a cold-faced beauty)

One-on-one, happy ending

Content warnings!

# The top is genuinely a scumbag at first: snobbish, sharp-tongued, fond of making things difficult for people, and resentful. Does he get even worse after falling in love? Includes coercive control and more.

# Mainly from the top's point of view, with lots of the bottom.

# Packed with all kinds of melodramatic tropes!

And so on.

Theme: A purebred nerd's survival guide to the Hong Kong horse-racing scene