Heartquake

Li Zhaoye x Zhu Zhi

Sunny puppy x pitiful little bunny

/ The heroine has a hearing impairment

A sweet little story of the hero winning himself over after a misunderstanding

The story opens when they are adults. Nothing inappropriate happens between them before they graduate from high school

Blurb:

Li Zhaoye was quite pleased with his new deskmate.

Zhu Zhi couldn't hear very well, so Li Zhaoye couldn't annoy her by being noisy. She didn't like talking, either, and wouldn't tattle to the teacher.

All she did was wear her hearing aids in class, and when she strained to listen but still couldn't make out the teacher's voice, she'd knit her two fine brows and press her lips together, then quietly lower her head to hide her little frown.

Li Zhaoye was used to throwing his weight around. He knew she didn't dare cross him, but he never expected to find a page in Zhu Zhi's neat notebook covered in the initials of his name, secretly written again and again.

Zhu Zhi, mortified that her girlish feelings had been discovered, flushed with embarrassment and anger. But then she saw Li Zhaoye's face was even redder than hers.

Zhu Zhi was confused: Why does he look even more embarrassed and angry than I do?

Li Zhaoye: You never say a word, but you've been harboring these feelings for me!

/Zhu Zhi was good at keeping quiet. She was also good at secretly taking off her hearing aids and lying on her desk to escape into a silent world when people teased Lin Zhiyang and his childhood sweetheart.

All she could hear was the sound of her heartbeat beneath her palm.

/But Li Zhaoye was so noisy.

The sound of Li Zhaoye's heart pounding when he blushed was noisy, too.

Theme: Even an imperfect life is worth facing with courage.