Hatred Above All: A Blended Family

Coming soon: After My Deaf-Mute Desk Mate Dominated Me... See the blurb at the bottom.

[Separation anxiety / dog training / atonement and redemption / younger top / blended family / mutually exclusive and each other's first love]

A younger top, cold-hearted and remorseless, is changed and tamed by his stepbrother.

A beautiful bottom with a hearing impairment, sensitive and insecure, with little presence.

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Song Weishi grew up as a pampered young master, surrounded by adoration, with no idea how hard life could be.

His mother died early. His father had no time for him, but had time to bring a stepmother into their home.

As if having a stepmother weren't enough, she also brought a burden along to compete with him for the family fortune.

That was a quiet, taciturn young man, a delicate beauty with a cool aura.

Song Weishi was going through a rebellious phase. He thought Jiang Guozao ignored him because he looked down on him, so he made a hobby of bullying him every day.

Later, he accidentally lost Jiang Guozao, nearly causing him to die.

His usually gentle and serene stepmother broke down and sobbed for the first time. Song Weishi was thrilled. He thought he'd won, but then he heard his father say:

"Jiang Guozao lost his hearing. He wanted to talk to you, but he couldn't hear your voice..."

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There were always two rumors on campus.

One was that the campus heartthrob Song Weishi had a brother complex.

The other was that anyone who dared bully Jiang Guozao would be socially dead by the next day.

The rumors had no basis, and no one had ever connected the two.

That night, someone had smashed Jiang Guozao's hearing aid. He crouched alone by the roadside, secretly wiping away tears, when a familiar school uniform was draped over his shoulders.

It was the first time Jiang Guozao had seen Song Weishi's violent side. He didn't know what Song Weishi had gone off to do while swearing under his breath. He only knew that the next day, the people who had bullied him were kneeling in front of him, bleeding from the head and begging forgiveness.

Jiang Guozao was stunned. Later, emboldened by alcohol, he dressed provocatively and went to Song Weishi's room to thank him.

He babbled incoherently, and Song Weishi had already embraced him and led him to his bed...

[His love is subtle yet unmistakable.]

A Few Notes:

1. Blurb revised on 2024.11.28.

2. The bottom lost his hearing later in life. He can speak, but doesn't dare to, and can read lips.

3. The top loves him more, loves him desperately, and is the type to bide his time. He's a little dark and twisted.

4. They aren't blood-related. Neither parent is legally married, and they aren't registered in the same household.

5. The top has separation anxiety. He wasn't a bad person as a child; there was a misunderstanding, and later he changes and is tamed by his older brother.

6. The leads aren't perfect. Their relationship progresses quickly without dragging things out. There may be some logical inconsistencies, so feel free to point them out, sweetheart~

7. The bottom will change his name later, and his hearing is unlikely to recover.

-----The next book is After My Deaf-Mute Desk Mate Dominated Me...-----

[Sensitive, reserved, secretly a psycho, hearing-impaired top x an insecure, pitiful beauty of a bottom]

Severe dependency / each other's first love / the top is turned straight, then becomes utterly obsessed and loves the bottom desperately

Cheng Sheng x Ding Ling

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Ding Ling was a rebellious son raised under a regime of beatings.

His father gave him a light beating every three days and a hard beating every five.

At first, Ding Ling didn't know how to fight back.

Later, his deaf-mute mother was gone,

and he picked up a stick and fought his father himself.

That was just normal life for him, and he never thought there was anything wrong with it.

He even bragged about his battles in front of his good-for-nothing friends.

Until a quiet, deaf-mute student transferred into their class.

Ding Ling was the only person in class who knew sign language, so naturally he became the student's desk mate.

One day, Ding Ling was putting on an act again.

His handsome, aloof desk mate wore a dark expression and spoke softly for the first time:

"What's so funny? Aren't you the victim?"

His desk mate'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 of class to go online, eat barbecue, and wander the streets. He even took him to a hotel and gave him his first kiss.

At their last meeting before graduation, Ding Ling was covered in bruises, but wore a roguish 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 been cold and quiet since childhood. He didn't like to talk or smile.

He lost his hearing in middle school and spent the rest of his adolescence isolated and mocked.

The one exception was his delinquent desk mate in high school, who always brought him along wherever he went.

He would shield him and drive off anyone who picked on him with a stick.

He didn't treat him as deaf, or even as human.

After graduation, Cheng Sheng saw Ding Ling again after a long time apart.

By then, Ding Ling was dressed in a suit and tie, polite and elegant in speech and manner. He had left his past behind, and forgotten Cheng Sheng too.

A piece of Cheng Sheng's heart went empty. Dizzy and disoriented, he took Ding Ling to his home, which was less than ten square meters.

Because he couldn't hear Ding Ling's cries, he possessed him again and again.

Afterward, he knelt on the floor in despair and begged Ding Ling incoherently not to abandon him again.

Ding Ling touched the bite mark on the back of his neck and lifted his chin. "Listen to me first..."

[I made jokes about my own pain until someone cared enough to tell me it wasn't funny.]

Theme: Treat the world with kindness, and you'll find it blossoming into spring.