Your Ears Say They Need Me

[Please add my next book, "I Dare You to Date Me", to your reading list!] *Marriage first, love later / sunny and mischievous heroine × gentle and refined hero / five-year age gap After graduating from college, Lu Nian landed her dream job at a special education school. She hadn’t been there long before her sweet, lively looks and sunny, kind personality won over the whole school, students and staff alike. Even the cafeteria ladies adored her. One of them found the young teacher so endearing that she couldn’t resist trying to set her up. “Teacher Lu, my childhood friend’s son is 27, 185 centimeters tall, and a local from Lin City. He’s successful and runs his own company.” “Both his parents are doctors, and they have a wonderful family atmosphere.” “The only thing is, he has hearing loss.” Lu Nian had nothing against blind dates, and she didn’t mind his hearing impairment. She just felt she wasn’t at the age where she needed to go on one yet. But after the cafeteria lady’s enthusiastic recommendation, she eventually agreed to meet him. - For twenty-two years, Lu Nian had never believed in love at first sight. It took one blind date for her to understand the saying: love at first sight is when two souls recognize each other. She hadn’t planned to marry young, but her biological parents kept picking fights with her, and in the end she still boarded the early-marriage train. Fortunately, the person beside her was the right one. Shen Yan Hui had been the apple of everyone’s eye since childhood. Then, after an accident in high school, people’s opinion of him changed. He went from being the kid all the other parents wished they had to “That boy from the Shen family is great in every way, except he can’t hear well.” One day, while visiting the children at an orphanage, he met a young woman. Using both hands, she told stories in sign language, making the few children in front of her, who couldn’t hear a thing, laugh until their eyes crinkled. Later, that young woman said to him, “Shen Yan Hui, next time you don’t want to wear your hearing aids when you go out, bring me along. Your ears say they need me.” Special thanks to the lovely cover artist @ChuliBacuiLvLaotou Reading guide: 1. The age gap is five years. 2. The male lead has acquired hearing loss. He isn’t completely unable to hear without his hearing aids. "The Restaurant Reviewer Is My Ex" *Cool and distant × proud and cocky | A self-media creator determined to make money and turn her life around × a hot pot restaurant owner who doesn’t want to be a rich second-generation kid *Second chance romance | First love for both A heat wave, a downpour, an umbrella on the verge of breaking. Xue Tang’s trouser legs were already soaked from the splashes of passing cars. Just as she neared the school, another car came from the distance, one whose make she didn’t even recognize. She was caught off guard and had no time to dodge. But as the car came up beside her, it slowed down. Xue Tang watched it stop at the school gate as a boy got out. Her gaze fell on his shoes. They were this year’s latest model, the pair she wanted to give her older brother for his birthday. But after saving for half a year, she’d only managed to save half the price. At sixteen, Xue Tang was once again struck by just how vast the gap between people could be. - For the last two years of high school, this rich young man was always around Xue Tang. Xue Tang told him they came from different worlds. The boy raised an eyebrow, amusement glimmering in his eyes. “We’re both here, aren’t we? How can we be from different worlds? Besides, I just want to be friends with you.” - On the day the college entrance exams ended, faced with his sincere yet cocky confession, Xue Tang couldn’t bring herself to turn him down. When they returned to school for a class meeting, their classmates seemed to notice the unusual atmosphere between them. At a post-graduation dinner, their classmates noticed something else unusual. While one of them was absent and the other kept his head down, drinking, someone started whispering. “Did they break up? Did Xue Tang dump Cheng Jin’an?” “Have you ever seen someone who got dumped act like that? Cheng must be the one Xue Tang dumped.” At twenty-six, Xue Tang left the city where she’d spent years working hard. Not long after returning to her hometown, she used the money she’d earned as a content creator over the years to buy a home outright. Xue Tang’s longtime followers knew that although she made lifestyle content, she was a huge foodie. After returning to Lin City, she decided to make a video reviewing a hot pot restaurant. Only later did she find out that the restaurant owner was her ex-boyfriend... That night, she was editing the video absentmindedly when the real estate agent messaged her to say the previous landlord had left something behind and would be coming to pick it up soon. Xue Tang didn’t think much of it. When the doorbell rang, she got up and opened the door. When she saw who was standing outside, Xue Tang wondered if her eyes were playing tricks on her. How could the previous landlord look exactly like the ex-boyfriend she’d just seen that afternoon... "I Dare You to Date Me" *Glamorous, flirtatious, and playfully demanding heroine × cool, distant, truly icy hero | She pursues him | Six-year age gap Lin Chaoxing was beautiful, had a great figure, and came from a wealthy family. She’d also studied martial arts since childhood, so she was remarkably nimble. Her life had gone smoothly for more than twenty years, and she’d never been short of admirers. It was rare for Miss Lin to decide to pursue someone herself, but she got nowhere. That’s right, she’d fallen for her direct supervisor, Pei Li. The newly appointed director was, without a doubt, the most extraordinary man she’d ever met. He was tall and handsome, with an intimidating presence. His particularly icy gaze made her want to conquer a man for the first time in her life. But who knew this man was completely impervious to temptation? During a business trip together, Lin Chaoxing wore her battle outfit and blocked his way. With great confidence, she asked, “Why haven’t you started dating anyone? Don’t tell me you’re waiting for me?” Pei Li’s gaze swept from her face down to her bare legs. His tone was utterly indifferent. “I don’t know if I’m waiting for you, but if you keep going without pants in a place this freezing, you’ll be waiting for someone to push your wheelchair.” “...” Lin Chaoxing kept trying and failing, then trying again. When she got back, she reviewed her approach and prepared to give it another go. She found an excuse to bring Pei Li coffee. With no one else in the office, she parted her red lips and said, “I heard your ex-girlfriend looks a lot like me. So, since that’s the case, why don’t you give dating me a try?” Pei Li frowned at her. “Who told you that you two look alike?” Lin Chaoxing was a little surprised. “We don’t?” “She talks a lot less than you do.” “...” Lin Chaoxing: I shouldn’t have asked. Pei Li’s life had been utterly dull. He’d thought changing careers was the boldest decision he’d ever make. But he never expected such an interesting person to suddenly appear in his life. From one day onward, he found himself unconsciously having increasingly bold thoughts, such as trying to date her. Sometimes Pei Li thought that there weren’t many wonderful people in the world, and that he was pretty lucky to have met one. Theme: When fate comes knocking, seize the chance!