Unrequited Love Is Mute

[Rivals-to-Lovers Couple | A Dog-Type Man Who Thinks He's Been Betrayed and Turns Into a Lone Wolf x A Cat-Type Woman Who Can't Figure Out How to Explain Herself]

Tang Yi and Xu Tong were childhood friends who grew up practically joined at the hip.

As kids, they were a lot alike:

Both were troublemakers, both were dirt poor,

and both secretly had a crush on the other.

But on the day Xu Tong decided to confess,

Tang Yi vanished without a trace.

-

Ten years later,

they met again at a banquet full of entrepreneurs.

Tang Yi was accompanying a greasy, balding coal mine owner,

while Xu Tong had his arm around a luxurious lady over sixty.

They stared at each other in silence, each assuming the other had latched onto a rich older partner.

When Xu Tong found himself alone, Tang Yi went over to toast him, smiling with a knife behind her back. "Mr. Xu, your wife takes great care of herself. You'd never guess she's sixty."

Xu Tong paused for a second. "Miss Tang, that's my stepmother."

Then he glanced at the embarrassed Tang Yi and mocked her. "Your man, on the other hand, is so bald even a fly couldn't land on his head. Ten years apart, and your taste in men has gotten even worse."

Tang Yi nearly crushed her wineglass. "That's my father!"

-

Later, Xu Tong officially met Tang Yi's father as her boyfriend.

He said respectfully, "Mr. Tang really is a remarkable man, upright and honorable, the perfect example of an entrepreneur."

Tang's father was so flattered he could hardly think straight, and nearly accepted Xu Tong as his son-in-law on the spot.

At that moment, Tang Yi took a leisurely sip of tea and said expressionlessly, "Dad, he used to call you bald."

[Reading Notes]

1. The leads' professions: rising internet tycoon x social media influencer

2. One-on-one, happy ending, both sexually inexperienced

Theme: Say it out loud when you're in love