After the Little Deaf One Regained His Hearing

[Handing Out Invitations at the Funeral~]

When Song Shu was eighteen, he was found and brought back to the Song family, becoming the young master of the Song family, envied by everyone in the capital.

At eighteen, Song Shu was under five foot seven, short and thin, and deaf in both ears.

Mr. and Mrs. Song wanted to make up for the ten years they'd spent apart from Song Shu. They spoiled him rotten, even more than his twin brother.

Song Shu also believed his birth parents loved him very much.

Until one day, his hearing returned. He heard his father, who doted on him and patiently taught him calligraphy and painting, say, "Song Shu is a match for A Yan's heart. They can do the transplant next month."

He heard his mother, who always indulged him and kissed his forehead every night, say, "Why couldn't Song Shu be the one lying in the hospital bed?"

Only then did Song Shu learn that his parents had brought him back to the Song family only to provide a transplant for his brother, who had heart disease.

When he went missing at eight, people asked about him, and all his parents said was, "That stupid kid? If he's lost, then he's lost."

Song Shu was afraid of needles and surgery, so he hid at school, too scared to go home. Instinctively, he called Lu Hui.

Lu Hui was always kindest to him. Lu Hui would definitely help.

He threw himself into Lu Hui's arms, crying nonstop and begging him to take him away.

Lu Hui stubbed out the cigarette under his foot and said to the group of friends behind him, "You guys go ahead. I'll take him home."

Song Shu couldn't believe it. Wasn't Lu Hui the one who liked him most?

Then he heard Lu Hui's friends laughing without restraint behind him. "How could someone as outstanding as Song Yan have such a dumb little brother as Song Shu? No wonder Brother Lu can't stand him."

"Shh, keep it down."

"He's deaf. He can't hear us."

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Song Shu ran away.

Not long afterward, Song Yan died. Everyone in their circle wondered what would become of the young master the Song family had just brought home. He was a coward who'd left his own brother to die, so surely he'd be too ashamed to return to the Song family.

On the day of Song Yan's funeral, everyone was certain Song Shu wouldn't show up.

But Song Shu did come, and he had clearly been well cared for. He was taller now, with snow-white skin, and so handsome they barely recognized him.

His parents called him an ungrateful brat, and Lu Hui called him cold-blooded, saying he didn't deserve to be Song Yan's brother or attend the funeral.

Song Shu had only come to deliver an invitation. "Dad, Mom, I'm getting married."

Lu Hui thought he was delusional. Who would want a deaf man?

Lu Hui tore the invitation to pieces without a second thought.

The next time he heard news of Song Shu, it was that the Tan family's young master was getting married.

Everyone watched the lavish, billion-dollar wedding of the century aboard a luxury cruise ship, but Lu Hui could see only Song Shu in the Tan family's young master's arms.

Song Shu was the one getting married.

Lu Hui went mad.

On the wedding night, the Tan family's servants saw the eldest young master of the Lu family, a man who wouldn't utter a sound even if his backbone were broken, kneeling in the rain all night.

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