1.
Shen Tingxia had the kind of first-love face that everyone would find beautiful.
Unfortunately, a high fever when she was little damaged her hearing and vocal cords. She couldn't hear or speak.
That was also why she had always lived with her grandmother in the countryside.
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The Cheng family of Beijing's elite circles had a rebellious son.
Their second son, Cheng Yanshen, refused to study business management and instead applied to a photography program in the media arts department.
His parents flew into a rage and kicked him out.
Cheng Yanshen was happy to be free. He traveled here and there with his savings, until he reached this place,
where lisianthus bloomed across the mountains and fields,
and he was captivated by the smile of a young woman among the flowers.
2.
When Shen Tingxia first met Cheng Yanshen, she thought he was some clueless rich kid.
When she told him to draw water from the well, he dropped the bucket in without tying a rope to it.
When she told him to gather firewood, he grabbed an axe and went to chop down a tree.
Apart from being handsome, he was no help at all.
She thought he was a little stupid and mercilessly teased him in sign language.
The boy couldn't understand, so he just scratched his head and grinned foolishly.
Shen Tingxia's heartbeat, steady for seventeen years, suddenly quickened.
At the end of that summer,
the boy stood among the flowers, blushing as he clumsily asked her in sign language, "Will you wait for me to come back?"
The girl nodded.
But when he returned, she was long gone.
3.
A few years later, Cheng Yanshen had become a famous celebrity photographer.
With his handsome face, he was always surrounded by admirers, but there had never been any rumors linking him to anyone.
Until recently, when word got around that he was close to a popular young comic artist, and that they were even living together.
Their friends knocked on Cheng Yanshen's door to get the truth, only to see the man open it sleepily, looking annoyed. "What is it?"
Beneath his loosely tied bath towel, vivid red scratches were clearly visible.
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Shen Tingxia never expected the blind date arranged by her friend to be with Cheng Yanshen.
The boy had long since outgrown his youthful awkwardness. He was mature and composed, and his gaze was unfamiliar, as if he didn't know her.
Her heart aching, she hurriedly and awkwardly brought the date to an end, only for the man to pull her into an alley by the restaurant entrance.
He kissed her fiercely and roughly, his voice inexplicably aggrieved. "After all these years, you've finally decided to come back."
[Bonus Scene]
That summer, Cheng Yanshen made Shen Tingxia so angry that she furiously signed a whole string of insults at him.
The boy looked at her and began signing too, moving quickly. It was a kind of sign language she'd never seen before, and even the interpreter didn't know how to translate it.
When the argument was over, she asked what his signs meant.
The boy just smiled mysteriously and pulled out his phone.
On the screen was a series of hand seals from Naruto.
Furious and exasperated, she chased him across the mountains and fields. At last, they both fell into the sea of lisianthus, gazing at the sky and feeling each other's racing heartbeats.
Celebrity photographer × beautiful comic artist
Lisianthus is also called the thornless rose. I shed all my sharp edges so I can embrace you better. My sincere, passionate love is for you alone.
[Reading Guide]
1. They only start dating as adults. As minors, they only have crushes.
Theme: The unchanging love of my life is for you alone
