Ruins of Obsession

[The Cookie Trap is currently updating next door: Proud heiress x aloof executive assistant. You won't regret getting invested!]

Person with hearing loss x hearing and speech rehabilitation therapist

[My next novel, The Cookie Trap, a male version of a Shan Cai-style unrequited love story, opens in mid-July. If you're interested, please come support it!]

Blurb One:

When Wei Wenzhi had a spare moment, she pulled out her duvet insert to take it upstairs and air it out in the sun. When she got to the rooftop, she saw someone she hadn't expected.

He stood quietly with his back to her, his pale, bloodless hands hanging at his sides. The wind blew, lifting the hem of his shirt and ruffling his soft black hair. He looked every bit the young boy.

The backdrop was a vast blue sky without a cloud in sight, making for a beautiful scene.

Wei Wenzhi couldn't help imagining him ten or so years later: a handsome, accomplished young man, dazzling with success.

That daydream ended when he put both hands on the edge of the wall.

Then he rose onto his toes...

"Qi Xiao!"

From that day on, Wei Wenzhi gradually treated him with the affection and concern of an older sister toward her younger brother. She never expected that, in the years to come, his love would take deep root, long planned and quietly nurtured, as he forcefully yet tenderly turned their relationship into something more.

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Blurb Two:

The first time Wei Wenzhi saw Qi Xiao was after school in her senior year of high school.

He was sitting in the humid, stuffy stairwell, head bowed as he worked through math problems. Quiet and focused, his eyes lowered, his long lashes casting faint shadows.

The second time she saw him, it was in the stairwell again.

He was holding a tissue to the cut on his forehead. Several blood-soaked wads of tissue lay by his feet. Even so, he hadn't put down his study notes.

Afterward, she invited him upstairs so she could bandage him up.

The nth time.

She stumbled upon Qi Xiao's secret.

Wei Wenzhi: What should I do if the boy living downstairs has a crush on me?

After that, she deliberately kept her distance and avoided him.

Until one night,

he knocked on her door and woke her from a deep sleep.

Wei Wenzhi opened the door. Thunder rumbled outside, and a flash of lightning lit him up for an instant. She saw pus oozing from his ears. She heard him say, word by word:

"Sis, I can't hear anymore."

Years later, Wei Wenzhi returned from studying overseas and became a well-known hearing and speech rehabilitation therapist in Huarenli.

On her first day at work, she never expected to see Qi Xiao again after eight years.

During their rehabilitation sessions, Wei Wenzhi's perspective: moved by Qi Xiao's sincerity and warmth, she gradually realizes her feelings.

Qi Xiao's perspective: constantly playing up his sad story, using sly tricks and acting sweet and innocent as he secretly tries to win her over.

The nth plus first time.

One night, when passion took hold, Wei Wenzhi leaned close to Qi Xiao's ear and softly whispered, "I love you so much."

The next second, Qi Xiao's face lit up with barely concealed delight. He turned to look at her, his gaze warm and honest, his smile growing wider.

"I love you too."

Wei Wenzhi: ???

"Your ears are better? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"...They're not."

"What, are you going to tell me your ears just got better this second, and you haven't had time to tell me yet?"

To that, Qi Xiao replied:

Does that matter? Isn't the important thing that our feelings are mutual?

Wei Wenzhi: Get lost.

"Tenderness is moonlight on the sea, flowers blooming in the dust, and him, ears flushed, walking toward her without hesitation and taking her hand."

[All medical content in the novel related to hearing, rehabilitation training, and so on has been researched online. I'm not a professional, so please don't nitpick. Thank you, everyone!]

#MakeWayForMyIdolQi##ReunitedAfterYearsAndWooedByAYoungerGoldenRetrieverWhoPlaysTheVictim##MutualHealingAndMutualDevotion##TheEightYearSecretCrushOfAnInnocentPuppyAndHopelessRomantic#

Next up: The Cookie Trap

Blurb One:

Her parents divorced, and Shu Wei was spoiled and indulged by her grandfather from childhood, growing up headstrong and unruly.

Shu Quan was often at his wits' end over his willful, playful daughter. As luck would have it, Zhou Xian, who had come to repay a favor, showed up just then. He was the son of Shu Quan's former bodyguard.

Seeing the man's stern features and serious expression, then looking at the message on his phone that the family's thirteenth housekeeper had resigned, Shu Quan made up his mind on the spot.

"Zhou Xian, don't worry about paying back your tuition. I heard you graduated from college last month... It's nothing, really. I have a daughter, and she..."

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Shu Wei has a secret she's never dared tell anyone:

The new live-in assistant her family hired looks like a proper person, but in reality, he's a beast, cruel and heartless!

That night, under a moonless sky with the cold wind howling, Shu Wei was about to push open Zhou Xian's door to get a late-night snack when she heard his deep, terrifying voice from inside:

"Burning at the stake or a chainsaw? Or should we shoot them? That's faster."

Shu Wei froze, her face turning deathly pale.

...Someone, please save me.

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To make sure the terrorists faced justice, Shu Wei waited until Zhou Xian was out, then climbed into his room to look for evidence.

She flipped through the documents on his desk. Her elbow accidentally knocked a book to the floor.

Shu Wei jumped in fright, quickly picked it up, and opened it. A photograph slipped out. She looked closely:

The girl in the photo sat by a window, the corners of her eyes lifted and her lips curved in a smile, her black hair curled. Lush greenery filled the background, and she held a white cat in her arms. Bold and free.

Shu Wei's brain immediately short-circuited.

Why does Zhou Xian have a photo of her tucked inside a book?

...Is she his next target???

#NoTimeToExplainJustSomeoneComeSaveMe

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*Scatterbrained, outspoken, proud heiress x an aloof, warm-hearted executive assistant who can't be direct and secretly nurses a crush on her

Theme: Love can overcome anything