The Scumbag Regretted It After I Left

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Tong Liu is mute.

He has a home, a tiny one that fits only Xia Jingyan and him.

What makes Tong Liu happiest is having dinner with the person he loves.

He doesn't ask for much. That's all he wants.

But his lover hasn't come home for five days, and all the food in the fridge has spoiled.

Thinking Xia Jingyan was just too busy, Tong Liu worked up the courage to go out and bring him a meal. But he saw Xia Jingyan sitting in an upscale Japanese restaurant, chatting and laughing with a handsome young man.

At the table, their hands were clasped together without a trace of shame.

So Xia Jingyan had someone else to eat with.

Tong Liu is only mute.

He had almost nothing in the first half of his life. Even when he left, all he had to carry his belongings was an old striped burlap sack.

Apart from a change of clothes, all he had inside was a small photo of himself pieced together with Xia Jingyan's ID photo.

In the six years Tong Liu had loved Xia Jingyan, this was the only time the two of them had ever been close.

How could a man capable of building such a huge company possibly love a mute who couldn't speak?

Tong Liu should have known.

If he had, he wouldn't have ended up with a broken heart and cried himself blind.

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Xia Jingyan wasn't mute or blind.

But while searching for the little mute, his vocal cords were damaged and he temporarily lost his voice. He even became unable to see in the dark.

Only when he stood amid the din of a crowded city did he understand how lonely the little mute's world was.

The little mute was gone, and Xia Jingyan no longer had a home.

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1. Dongdong will date someone else.

2. A realistic ending.

3. Some details are fictional. Any resemblance to reality is unintended.

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After Being Crushed into an Insect Egg by My Male Wife on Our Wedding Day

My male wife is nearly thirty centimeters taller than me.

Before I transmigrated, I was a human from Earth. At 1.75 meters, I was of normal adult male height, but in the insect world, that counts as a severe height disability.

Sorry for embarrassing all my fellow countrymen.

No, all my fellow bugs.

At our wedding, he spread his wings, looking like a gorgeous moth in the sunlight.

I told him he looked beautiful. He got so excited that he flew down without hitting the brakes and crushed me to death.

After dying, I turned back into my juvenile form: a big, smooth, shiny white egg.

My male wife, who had only been married for a few minutes and was now a widower, began his life as an egg incubator.

The stern-faced officer carried the big white egg on his back during training. The scene was both ridiculous and a little awkward.

Luckily, I had my eggshell to protect me. I wasn't the one getting embarrassed. He was.

Theme: Love may be separated by mountains and seas, but mountains and seas can be overcome