I Married Into a Wealthy Family

Song Tingxue is beautiful, with delicate light-brown eyes like a Persian cat’s. Yet everyone who has ever met him can’t help but sigh, “What a shame.” What a shame that he’s deaf. What a shame that he didn’t grow up with the Song family. By comparison, the Song family’s other adopted son, Song Shiyuan, is far luckier. Sometimes Song Tingxue feels that the Song family took him in not because a nurse at the hospital accidentally switched the babies the year he was born, nor because he is their real son, but simply because they see him as a tool. A useful tool that the Song family can exploit. So when his mother tells him that he needs to marry Fu Yexi, the head of the Fu family, in Song Shiyuan’s place, Song Tingxue isn’t surprised at all. Fu Yexi is a man with few family ties, cold and ruthless. They say that his birth caused his mother’s death, and later he clawed his way to the top of the Fu family with an iron fist. In return, all his relatives keep their distance from him. A famous fortune-teller in Ningcheng even declared that Fu Yexi was born under the Seven Killings star and would bring misfortune to his wife and children. No one dares get close to a man like that. -- Outsiders assume that once Song Tingxue joins the Fu family, Fu Yexi will soon grow tired of him. After all, the two seem so ill-suited to each other. But one snowy day, Fu Yexi himself braves the heavy snowfall and rushes Song Tingxue, who has only a slight cold, to the hospital in his arms, looking anxious as he hurries along. When a tabloid publishes a photo of Fu Yexi carrying Song Tingxue to the hospital, the headline reads: “Fu Family’s Young Madam May Be Seriously Ill.” Rumors spread, but the Fu Group’s PR department responds quickly, prompting Fu Yexi himself to issue a clarification: “Thank you for your concern. My husband just has a cold. I was worried, so I overreacted.” All of Ningcheng is stunned. Is this really Fu Yexi, who has always kept a low profile and treated everyone with cold detachment? One month, then two. The outsiders’ hopes come to nothing. Instead, they watch Fu Yexi cherish his spouse more and more. The entire Fu Group even scraps its overtime culture, because the boss forbids it: he has to leave on time, since someone is waiting for him at home. -- On a snowy day, Song Tingxue takes out his cochlear implant and gazes blankly at the white snow. “The world is so quiet. I can’t hear a thing you say.” Fu Yexi bends down and gently kisses his earlobe. “You don’t have to say anything. I can write it down for you.” In the snow, he solemnly writes three words with a twig. Fu Yexi has never been afraid of anyone in his life. But the fortune-teller who foolishly claimed he would bring misfortune to his wife once truly frightened him. Fortunately, he doesn’t believe in fate, either. He’ll protect the person he loves himself. A cold and aloof husband in public, a doting husband at home, top X a beautiful deaf bottom Note: 1. Some medical and illness details are fictional. Please don’t take them as accurate. 2. There is an eight-year age gap between the leads. My upcoming story: “After the Spoiled Young Master Gets Back Together with the Cold-Faced Top” Yu Mi is beautiful and has been spoiled since childhood. In his sophomore year of college, his family falls on hard times. His father flees to avoid his debts, and Yu Mi is so broke he almost ends up homeless. Lying in the bed of the mansion that’s about to be seized, scrolling through his social media feed, Yu Mi suddenly sees a post about Shang Huaizhou, the head of the Shang family. Shang Huaizhou is the Shang family’s second son, the real young master who was switched at birth. At fifteen, he was reunited with the Shang family, but he remained unnoticed for years. Two years ago, Shang Huaizhou suddenly did something inexplicable: with ruthless, seasoned tactics, he ousted several old fossils who had a firm grip on the family’s shares and took over as head of the Shang family. Everyone says Shang Huaizhou has inherited his father’s ways, a man-eating tiger lying in wait. Nobody knows that during the summer break of their senior year of high school, Yu Mi and Shang Huaizhou had a relationship. Back then, Shang Huaizhou seemed to like Yu Mi a lot, always bustling around after him, even if he didn’t say much. Yu Mi still remembers his build: broad shoulders, a narrow waist, lean and well-proportioned, with rock-hard abs. He was handsome, too. At the thought, Yu Mi’s cheeks turn pink. He quickly asks a friend for Shang Huaizhou’s current contact information and sends him a friend request: “Hey, do you remember me?” ** The day he’d been waiting for has finally come. Shang Huaizhou looks down at Yu Mi’s verification message on his phone and thinks viciously that there’s no way he’s taking Yu Mi back. He turns off the screen and tosses the phone aside. A little while later, he picks the phone back up and accepts the request with a cold expression. ** Yu Mi has always thought he could keep Shang Huaizhou wrapped around his little finger. After all, even after they got back together, Shang Huaizhou still treated him just as well as before. When Yu Mi wants a new Hermes bag, Shang Huaizhou gets it for him right away. When he wants sushi from his favorite little-known restaurant, Shang Huaizhou is willing to spend hours waiting in line for him. Except that he’s always cold toward Yu Mi now, and no longer chases after him calling him “baby” like he used to. But Yu Mi still gets bored, especially after hearing Shang Huaizhou’s friend say behind his back that the only reason Shang Huaizhou agreed to get back together was to punish Yu Mi for suddenly dumping him two years ago, claiming they weren’t right for each other. He’ll break up with Yu Mi when the time is right. There’s no way he’ll marry a spoiled, difficult young master who’s fallen on hard times. Yu Mi is furious. How dare he! Even if he’s down on his luck, he still has plenty of admirers chasing after him. He doesn’t need Shang Huaizhou! But that night, before Yu Mi can even finish saying he wants to break up, Shang Huaizhou pins him firmly to the bed. He turns him over and over, calling him “baby” nonstop, while threatening to cut off his allowance and cancel the unlimited-credit card if he dares break up with him! Yu Mi cries until his face is red, thinking, Fine, then we won’t break up. Of course, it’s absolutely not because of that credit card, nor because Shang Huaizhou is so good in bed that he’s left Yu Mi feeling wonderful. A spoiled, beautiful, silly young master bottom × A ruthless, sinister, cold-faced top who does his lover’s laundry Theme: Only by becoming stronger can we protect the people around us.