1. Chen Zhengxun first met Xia Shu in a private restaurant with simple, elegant decor. At the time, she was a deaf woman on a blind date whom everyone looked down on. People were loudly gossiping about her in the restroom. Out of simple curiosity, he glanced at her and thought she was beautiful. In more than thirty years, this was the only time Chen Zhengxun had ever had a kind opinion of a woman he didn't know.
2. Xia Shu first saw Chen Zhengxun outside a special education school. Her fingers danced as she stood at the lectern. He watched her with an intense, unwavering gaze. Xia Shu looked away, her face turning bright red.
3. One day, student Gong Li was watching a livestream by a beautiful influencer in the lab. Chen Zhengxun walked up behind him and asked with a perfectly serious expression, "Why is that streamer so happy?" Gong Li immediately put away his phone and stammered, trembling, "Just now, just now someone sent her a sports car." That very night, Chen Zhengxun appeared as the top fan in Xia Shu's quiet livestream and sent her several sports cars in a row. Xia Shu blinked, then held up a little board that read, "The streamer doesn't need gifts! If you want to support me, please learn sign language with me!"
4. When Xia Shu's mother came over to cook for her, she noticed the tall man across the hall, who had a face like a block of ice and didn't look like a good person. She hurriedly lined up several pairs of men's slippers on the shoe rack outside her daughter's door to show him who was boss. A few months later, Xia Shu and Chen Zhengxun were kissing in the hallway when Xia's mother unexpectedly caught them. Xia Shu pursed her lips awkwardly and signed, "Mom, this is my boyfriend."
Some people said Professor Chen, the god of the School of Intelligent Systems at A University, had lost his mind in his thirties and quit to start a business. Others said he hadn't lost his mind at all, but had left in style after being treated unfairly. Rumor had it that on the day he left, a young woman was waiting for him downstairs, and the two walked away hand in hand. Within hours, posts titled "Professor Chen Quits A University" and "Professor Chen Is Taken" topped the trending list, breaking countless young women's hearts. Years later, when Chen Zhengxun stepped onto an awards stage, he thanked a number of people, then calmly raised his long, slender hands and signed with practiced ease: "Thank you to my love, Xia Shu. The road of life is long and arduous, but because of you, time feels fleeting, and my love never fades." The woman in the audience was radiant, her fair cheeks flushed as she shyly made a heart with her hands. The gesture went viral. Someone dug up a photo of Chen Zhengxun leaving A University hand in hand with Xia Shu all those years ago, and netizens commented, "Professor Chen's romance belongs in a textbook." The two of them, it turned out, were still just as they had been back then, and so was their love.
Because of Xia Shu, Chen Zhengxun discovered that scientific research could have a human touch. The intelligent technologies he developed were bringing convenience and hope to millions of people with disabilities. Because of Chen Zhengxun, Xia Shu experienced the sound of her heart stirring for the first time. She became braver and found her own worth.
A sunny deaf sign-language teacher x a cool, reserved university professor
Theme: You don't have to say you love someone. It shows in your eyes.
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