My Ears Say You Like Me

[A top student and little devil who seems like a disabled fairy but is actually a powerhouse x a favored son of heaven who bows only to his little devil]

High school in the first half, college in the second.

In their senior year, Jiang Ting, wearing counterfeit Converse and fake trendy clothes, bumped into Chen Shu. Wrinkling his nose at the cheap perfume, Chen Shu brushed her away as if scraping rubbish off himself.

The girl nervously stammered as she held out a letter. He slapped it away, then turned and left without a word.

He'd never seen such a low-class way of hitting on someone.

Just as he turned, he suddenly heard two crisp, clearly enunciated words.

"Dumbass."

Chen Shu turned back in disbelief, only to find that the girl had already slipped away.

-

Chen Shu thought of the incident as a one-off.

That evening, his mother, the school principal, told him that a younger girl would be staying with them for a while. She was disabled, timid, and very well-behaved, like a little fairy. He absolutely must not bully her.

The next day, his mother brought the little fairy home.

Curious, Chen Shu looked at the little devil who had sworn at him the day before.

As if she hadn't cursed him yesterday, she obediently held out her hand and stammered a greeting.

"Hel...lo."

He looked down at her and only then noticed the hearing aid on her ear. Without mercy, he said, "Little deaf girl."

His mother scolded him and told him to get along with his new little sister. The little deaf girl took two steps forward and sweetly called him "Big Brother." Out of sight, she stomped on his foot with all her might.

As Chen Shu's toes nearly broke, he watched the little devil move into the room next door, carrying a shabby suitcase that held everything she owned.

Every morning, Chen Shu saw her heading out with a worn-out bag on her back. They went to the same school, but she refused to walk with him, swinging her head from side to side as her ponytail swished about.

After spending time together, Chen Shu began to wonder if the Jiang Ting he knew was the same person everyone else knew.

To everyone else, Jiang Ting was a little angel: gentle, sweet, and hardworking.

To him, she was an utterly wicked little devil. She was in his class, sitting in the southeast corner while he sat in the northwest.

Their only interaction came when Jiang Ting, eager to be class representative, came to collect his homework. She tapped his desk twice.

Chen Shu, asleep with his head on his desk, couldn't be bothered to respond. She simply shoved him aside, rummaged through his desk, took his homework, and then clearly enunciated an insult:

"Dumbass."

He promptly replied, "Deaf girl."

-

The worlds of Chen Shu and Jiang Ting were like parallel lines, never meant to meet.

At a school for students with disabilities, Jiang Ting's life was full of stumbles and setbacks. When she wasn't wearing her hearing aid, people had called her a little deaf girl countless times. Once she could read their lips, she'd kick them. She grew up wild, knowing that simply staying alive was hard enough, and never daring to hope for anything from the future.

Chen Shu of Huacheng No. 1 High School was born to be a favored son of heaven. Everything went smoothly for him, and the dreams ordinary people could only long for were within his reach, easy to grasp.

That's how it was supposed to be, as far as everyone was concerned.

But Jiang Ting didn't see it that way. Before meeting Chen Shu, she had no dreams. After meeting him, she gained the resolve to fight her way out of her bleak world.

-

By coincidence, Chen Shu's birthday fell on their graduation day. After the college entrance exam, their brief time living together would come to an end. At Chen Shu's birthday party, his friends teased him, laughing that now the two natural enemies would go their separate ways for good.

A number of girls offered her drinks, and he accepted every one. That night, he drank himself into a stupor in silence, then lay on the floor and refused to get up. His friends helplessly wondered whether they should carry him upstairs together.

At that moment, they heard movement on the stairs. The usually quiet girl came downstairs without a word, picked up a book, and headed back up.

The drunk Chen Shu suddenly stood up and called her name, but she didn't react.

The usually composed and dignified Chen Shu suddenly began acting like a drunken fool. He ran over to Jiang Ting and gestured wildly before his friends forcibly dragged him upstairs.

Later, his college friends played back the birthday party vlog to publicly roast him. Laughing, they pointed out that they went to the same university, so the two natural enemies were still bound to cross paths.

Only one girl, who was studying sign language at Huashi University, froze. She saw it all clearly: the rebellious young man pointed to himself, gently brushed his fingers with his right hand, then pointed his index finger at the other person.

It was the simplest sign language of all:

"I love you."

The girl stared at him for a moment, unmoved. The usually proud young man froze, then kept signing:

"You like me, don't you?"

#Her world was silent, yet his love was deafening#

Theme: Study hard and care for people with disabilities.