That Little Mute

(Main story complete // Exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City)

After returning to China, Huo Shu was sent from the capital to a mountain city by the old master.

At first, he treated Lin Zhiyan as a bargaining chip in a bet, a diversion from his dull life.

After all, a deaf-mute girl couldn't hear hurtful words, and couldn't speak up when she was wronged. She was quiet and undemanding.

Then one day, Huo Shu went too far.

When he rushed back from a party in his immaculate suit, all he saw was the family home collapsing in a raging blaze.

The people around him told him fearfully, “The fire department got several calls reporting a fire, but there was no sound on the line. They thought someone was playing a prank, so...”

Huo Shu turned and charged into the flames.

For the first time in his life, he regretted so deeply that Lin Zhiyan was mute!

Reader's Guide: 1. A highly intelligent, unhinged illegitimate son × a gentle, mute bathing assistant;

2. Both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending. Old-school melodramatic fiction, a self-indulgent labor of love. Enter at your own risk if it's not your thing!

3. The male lead has tendencies toward a personality disorder and is not a flawless, morally upright hero. The female lead is deaf. Later, she will regain her hearing with the help of technology and learn to speak.

4. Due to her disability and difficult circumstances, the female lead starts out as a bathing assistant and a special education art teacher. She will overcome her obstacles and have a complete character-growth arc. No discrimination against professions, please. Love you!

(2021/8/28 + synopsis to be updated.)

Next up: After I Abandoned My Sickly Childhood Friend. Please add it to your reading list:

Synopsis 1:

Yan Linlang was born with the “Love Blossom Curse” planted in her. With an incomplete spiritual sea and an overabundance of romantic feelings, she was destined to become an astonishingly lovestruck fool in the Carefree Realm.

In theory, the curse was not especially dangerous. It merely made her a little more fickle and prone to falling for good looks. She took in a pretty, pitiful boy as her child groom, then abandoned him and turned her affections to the top sword cultivator of the immortal sect, a peerless genius with an exceptional spiritual constitution.

But the heartbroken child groom cut away his ties to love with his sword, attained enlightenment on the spot, and ascended to become the unrivaled, noble Lord Xuanming of the Third Heaven.

Meanwhile, her bright and noble fiance, sword in hand, watched her die in Hunting Valley, pierced through the heart by thousands of swords.

Yan Linlang woke from a nightmare to discover that she had returned to three years earlier, to the day her clan was surrounded by countless demons and faced with annihilation.

“Marry me, and I can help you.”

The righteous First Sword Lord stood before her and offered the very words that would push her toward an abyss.

Yan Linlang's eyes reddened with fury. For the first time in her life, she defied the Love Blossom Curse:

To hell with being lovestruck! This time, she would choose her own path!

Synopsis 2:

A lovestruck fool tries to defy fate, while her sweet-faced, scheming childhood friend beats out the man who appeared later.

Reader's Guide: The Sword Lord is the second male lead. The male lead is the sweet-faced but dark-hearted, sickly childhood friend, Lord Xuanming (IMPORTANT).

(Title and synopsis to be revised.)

Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else.