Coming soon: Playing with Fire [Reborn]. Blurb at the very bottom. Thanks for adding it to your collection
[An introverted, sensitive, secretly unhinged deaf seme × a beautiful, insecure uke who needs reassurance]
Severe dependency / each other's first love / the seme is turned straight and then falls so hard he can't stop, loving the uke desperately
Cheng Sheng × Ding Ling
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Ding Ling is a rebellious son raised on beatings.
His father gives him a light beating every three days and a thorough one every five.
At first, Ding Ling didn't know how to fight back.
Later, after his deaf-mute mother passed away,
he picked up a stick and fought his father right back.
That kind of life was normal to him, and he never thought there was anything wrong with it.
He even loved bragging about his victories in front of his troublemaking friends.
That is, until a cold and aloof deaf-mute student transferred into his class.
As the only one in the class who knew sign language, Ding Ling naturally became his deskmate.
One day, Ding Ling was putting on another act.
His handsome, cold-faced deskmate said quietly for the first time, using his voice:
"What's so funny about that? Aren't you the one being hurt?"
His deskmate's voice was as faint as a mosquito, but to Ding Ling, it was deafening.
After that, Ding Ling often showed up in front of Cheng Sheng covered in bruises.
He also dragged him out to skip class and go online, eat barbecue, wander the streets, and even visit a hotel, where he gave up his first kiss.
The last time they saw each other before graduation, Ding Ling was covered in wounds, but wore a cocky grin.
He signed to him,
[If I got hurt a little worse, would you feel sorry for me?]
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Cheng Sheng had always been cold and quiet, never fond of speaking or smiling.
He lost his hearing in middle school, and from then on lived through the isolation and ridicule of adolescence.
The only exception was his high school deskmate, a delinquent who always brought him along, no matter what he was doing.
He would even shield Cheng Sheng behind him, swinging a stick to drive off anyone who bullied him.
He never treated him like a deaf person, or even like a person.
After graduation, he ran into Ding Ling, who had been gone for a long time.
By then Ding Ling was dressed in a suit and tie, polite and elegant in manner. He had left his past behind, and had also forgotten Cheng Sheng.
A void opened in Cheng Sheng's heart. Dizzy and reeling, he brought Ding Ling to his bedroom, which was less than ten square meters.
Because he couldn't hear Ding Ling's cries, he took him again and again.
Afterward, he fell to his knees in despair and begged Ding Ling incoherently not to abandon him again.
Ding Ling touched the bite marks on the back of his neck and lifted his chin. "Listen to me first..."
[I joked about my own pain until someone felt sorry for me and said it wasn't funny.]
Content warnings:
1. The seme has separation anxiety and an extremely possessive streak. He loves the uke even more later on, and they can't bear to part. There's no fixing him.
2. There is no noncon scene when they reunite later.
3. The seme can barely hear with hearing aids at first. His hearing gets worse and eventually he becomes completely deaf.
4. The seme can read lips. The uke doesn't know at first and says a lot of nonsense before the secret comes out.
5. Blurb written on 2024.11.06, revised on 2025.6.23.
6. A companion piece to The Height of Hatred, but even more unhinged.
7. Set in 2010.
------ Blurb for Playing with Fire [Reborn] -----
[An intensely devoted, sensitive and paranoid seme with a dark side × a gentle, insecure, quiet crippled uke]
[Love-struck seme / possessiveness / You're all I have left...]
Ling Can × Tan Tan
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Tan Tan was born disabled. After his parents abandoned him, he lived alone.
He spent his youth feeling inferior and lonely, all by himself, all the way through college.
By chance, he heard that Ling Can, the most dazzling and popular boy in his high school class, from a wealthy family,
had hanged himself at home. He was only twenty-three.
Stunned, Tan Tan decided to pay his respects at Ling Can's grave. But just as he reached the tombstone,
he opened his eyes and found himself inside a teddy bear.
Before he could take it all in, he saw Ling Can as a high schooler, with his so-called "executive" father
holding a pillow over his head, nearly smothering him to death.
Terrified, Tan Tan trembled, then in the blink of an eye returned to his own high school body.
The next day, he decided to find Ling Can and get some answers.
But Ling Can, who had been violent and gloomy the night before, seemed like a different person now. He was still the model student, laughing and chatting with everyone, as if nothing had happened.
Tan Tan was stunned. It turned out that the person he had envied throughout his entire youth was someone he had never truly understood.
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Ling Can lived up to his name. In the eyes of others, he had the most wonderful, radiant image.
He was an excellent student, capable, good at socializing, and from a wealthy family.
No one knew that his father liked to control him through violence.
Then one day, medicines, his favorite foods, solutions to difficult problems, and bouquets of his late mother's favorite flowers began mysteriously appearing on his desk.
It was as if someone in the world had suddenly come to understand him.
Later, when his father nearly strangled him to death,
the quietest, least mobile student in their class knocked on his door.
He had never seen anyone panic like that for his sake.
The boy hobbled over, shielded him, and pulled him out of the abyss.
From that day on, Tan Tan was the only person left in his world...
Theme: Become each other's haven, and find a rainbow after the storm.
There's a Good Little Poor Thing at the Orphanage [ABO]
Bitten by My Younger Brother's Friend
The Senior Isn't Well-Behaved
Black Impermanence Left the Book of Life and Death at My House [□□ Literature]
After the Breakup, My Secret Crush Begged for Me Back
Criminal Investigation: He Came from Tonight
Hatred Above All: A Blended Family
I'm Being Haunted by the Victim's Ghost
When You Sink Beneath the Sea
A Life of Pleasure (Reborn)
After Parting Ways with the Film Emperor [Showbiz]
Amnesia from a Secret Crush
I really like this kind of character, the writing and plot are so good, I burst into tears. Teacher, do you dare to post an update of 20,000 words at once? It scares me to death
Ah, it's mom 😭 Happy May Day
Let me go, boss, you are back again 😭 Although I have actually forgotten what I said before 😭 I will go back and watch it again 😭
I would like to ask if there is an approximate update frequency. I check it every day but there is still no update😭😭
I'm going, my dear, you're back 🙏 🙏 🙏
I finally waited until 😭 😭 for so long that I almost forgot the plot of this book. I only remember that I really liked the character and basically only read the ending. I couldn't help but follow the series 😭 😭
Has it been abandoned??? It's rare that I want to catch up on the serialization, but when I saw it was over 20, I found that it stopped at 5.6 And no longer updated. . . . . Can you finish it? Help.
Hahaha [Glasses] Did you accidentally watch a movie together [Glasses]
Are factories so scary?
It's so beautiful, why is it so shallow? 😭 😭 😭