Guide, Don't Cry

Qi Zhou was born profoundly deaf. Yang Yu began teaching him to speak when he was nine, and by the time he was nineteen, he had given everything to Yang Yu. In a steel city ruled by an iron grip, everyone's love runs deep, but no amount of restraint can keep it in check. The author's other ongoing novel, a second-chance ABO romance, "The Sly Beta Ran Away with His Child," is also available to read! The side couples are just as compelling: a powerful, beautiful older guide and an eighteen-year-old sentinel; a frail young woman with exceptional mental strength and a powerful older sentinel woman; and the fathers. "Sentinels can fall in love with sentinels, but guides falling in love with guides is taboo. This brat, disliked by everyone, cares nothing for anyone else, yet cuts out his heart for that one person alone." An S-class guide who wants revenge every day but can't bring himself to go through with it, and an S-class guide who was born deaf, makes enemies everywhere, and is flamboyantly outspoken. A sentinel-and-guide setting, with a touch of wasteland. The romance is sweet. A companion story to "The Sentinel Isn't Obedient," set in a fully connected and condensed timeline. Blurb One: When Yang Yu was ten, his parents were both killed because of faulty intelligence. The guide family responsible for the mistake took him into their home. He could vent all his hatred on the family's youngest son. "I hate you," he told the nine-year-old Qi Zhou. "I'll kill you one day." Qi Zhou set down his toy and smiled as he hugged him. Yang Yu was trapped in his embrace, unable to move, and only then realized that the Qi Zhou he hated couldn't hear him. So he bit Qi Zhou, and was made to wear a muzzle as punishment. Blurb Two: Qi Zhou had been deaf since childhood and had never heard a sound. He didn't get surgery and a hearing aid until he was eighteen, and the first person he heard was Yang Yu. Yang Yu's voice was even more beautiful than he had imagined. "Yu." The little brat Qi Zhou pursed his lips, finally pronouncing the syllable correctly. Yang Yu couldn't hold back his impulse and kissed him. Everyone says Yang Yu will never truly love you. Qi Zhou smiled brightly, paid them no mind, and switched off his hearing aid. * A sentinel-and-guide setting with some original worldbuilding, which will be explained gradually. Don't worry about getting confused. * Yang Yu and Qi Zhou are not adoptive brothers. Yang Yu never acknowledged himself as an adopted son of the Qi family, and they have no legal brotherly relationship. None at all. * This story makes no real-world commentary on war. It is entirely fictional, set in a sci-fi future. * Happy ending. Theme: May the world always be at peace, and may humanity stay far from war.