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The year she started high school, Shen Qing was diagnosed with vocal nodules.
They weren't life-threatening, nor did they seriously affect her daily life. They had only one symptom: they made her speaking voice sound deeper. So, for a while, Shen Qing went from being a chatterbox to a "mute" in other people's eyes.
Then came the arts festival.
During a raffle that had nothing to do with her, she looked up absentmindedly from her doze, and her eyes happened to fall on a boy in a casual hoodie onstage.
He softly thanked the audience into the microphone, a smile lingering at the corners of his mouth. His voice was so gentle, like a spring breeze, that in an instant, the stuffy heat trapped in the auditorium was swept away.
She heard his name.
It was Shi Yu.
At the end of the year she reunited with Shi Yu, Shen Qing decided to have the vocal nodules that had troubled her throughout adolescence removed.
Just before entering the operating room, she suddenly grew nervous and grabbed the warm hand beside her. The person's voice was as gentle as ever, but now it calmed her like a reassuring dose of medicine.
"I'm here," he said.
"I'll always be here."
Perhaps even when they were in their seventies or eighties, Shi Yu would still regret not hearing Shen Qing out on the day they graduated from high school.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have missed so many years with her.
"The range of sound frequencies humans can hear is between twenty and twenty thousand hertz. If I could, how I wish I could hear the voice in your heart."
A sensitive voice lover x a gentle, cunning man
(Mutual?) unrequited love becomes requited / 1v1 / happy ending
Blurb written on 2022.04.08
Theme: Love is nourishment for the soul.
