[Preorder: You Lied to Me About Being Deaf, You Deceived Me So Badly! Please add it to your collection!]
Yu Ting transmigrates into an R-rated novel set at an elite academy.
The novel's protagonist is the only poor student at the academy. Because he looks just like the school's universally adored dreamboat, the rich and powerful F4 ostracize and bully him. After using his warm, noble, sunshine-like personality to face-slap the F4, the protagonist and the F4 go through a tangled romance full of love, hate, and groveling, before reaching a happy ending with the male lead.
Yu Ting is the aloof beauty mentioned only in passing in the novel's background: admired by everyone at the elite academy, beautiful and sickly, and destined to die young. He is their unattainable dreamboat.
Yu Ting has no interest in getting involved in the protagonist's clichéd, melodramatic mess.
Reborn for another life, he may have a frail body as delicate as glass, but he has a top-tier family background, talent, looks, and refinement.
Yu Ting only wants to get healthy and live the quiet life he wants.
So he chooses to steer clear of the protagonists. His figure appears in a corner of the library, atop the winners' podium, in the spotlight at a banquet, and in the medicinal hot springs of a top-tier sanatorium...
But he resolutely stays away from the protagonists' conflicts.
What Yu Ting doesn't realize is that...
The indecent discussions about him on the school forums, the mysteriously disappearing grade reports with his name at the top, the sweat-soaked handkerchief that goes missing from the changing room after riding class, and the restless gazes that seem to watch him from somewhere at every moment...
He thinks he's staying clear of the whirlpool, never realizing that he is the eye of the storm stirring everyone's hearts.
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"The more radiant and untouchable someone is, the more they draw those who are dark, desperate, and willing to risk everything."
● Please note before reading ●
1. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.
2. Not suitable for readers underage. No writing advice or personal attacks, please. Comments of that kind will be deleted.
Preorder blurb:
Six years after being adopted by a royal family thought to be infertile, Chu Lin learns that the queen has finally given birth to a baby boy.
The overjoyed couple name him Gareth, meaning "a blessing bestowed from above."
From that day on, Chu Lin's life is turned upside down.
He's driven into the servants' stables, with the snow and wind for blankets and tears for meals.
But then the royal physician declares that Gareth was born deaf.
After consulting doctors far and wide, even the king and queen are overcome with despair, convinced their son is cursed.
Only Chu Lin remains by his side.
He holds Gareth's hand and teaches him sign language. When Gareth burns with fever, Chu Lin stays up all night wiping his sweat and testing medicines. He teaches him to read, hunt, and wield a blade, hearing the thunder in the silence.
Twenty-two years pass in a flash.
Gareth grows into a tall, strong man. He is an erudite nobleman and a brave warrior.
And Chu Lin has long since become the older brother he loves and admires most. He moves from the stables into Gareth's chambers, sharing his meals and living quarters, and riding with the crown prince in his golden carriage.
When noble ladies come asking for Gareth's hand, he even declares that unless an alchemist can use his and Chu Lin's blood to conceive a child, he'd rather never marry and die without an heir.
People say Chu Lin certainly knows how to find himself a powerful backer.
Then, on the night the royal decree of marriage is issued...
Without warning, the rebel army arrives at the gates of the royal city, poised to attack before dawn.
The towers burn like clouds of fire. Chu Lin, the rebel leader who has lain low for years, faces the boy he raised one last time.
There is no wild-eyed fury, no overwhelming grief.
Gareth's calm eyes hold only a desolate, bitter smile and the composure of a man ready to die.
They exchange no last words, yet say more than a thousand words could.
And so Chu Lin watches helplessly as Gareth clutches the ring from the marriage decree, draws his sword, and kills himself, perishing in the sea of flames.
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After the tyranny is overthrown, a new dynasty replaces the old royal house.
Rumors abound about the new king, Chu Lin.
Some say His Majesty was once a lowly dog of the old royal family.
Others say His Majesty was cursed because of someone from his past, and has lost his sight.
A year later, the diligent king publicly announces that he is summoning renowned physicians to treat the blindness in his eyes, caused by overwork.
The requirements are extremely strict, and only one person answers the summons.
The young king sits behind a curtain, his eyes covered by an exquisitely embroidered strip of cloth, his handsome features as beautiful as a painting.
"What reward would you like once the treatment is complete?" he asks in a voice devoid of emotion.
The visitor kneels on one knee and takes His Majesty's pale hand. The ring on his left ring finger gleams with a cold metallic light.
He bends to kiss the back of Chu Lin's hand. The familiar warmth makes him lose himself for a moment.
"I want one of your secrets," says the old friend who has returned from the dead, "and one tear you truly shed for me."
[Little Scene]
An old wooden table and a single bed with gauze curtains: those are all Chu Lin owns in Gareth's room.
Even so, Chu Lin has secrets of his own.
Taking advantage of Gareth's deafness, Chu Lin freely passes secret messages to his accomplices.
Taking advantage of Gareth's deafness, Chu Lin says countless cruel things about his adoptive parents.
And taking advantage of Gareth's deafness, on countless lonely nights Chu Lin gives himself free rein to seek release, trembling beneath the covers and making low, catlike sounds...
But Chu Lin doesn't know.
Gareth has never once been asleep. In the dark, he lies with his eyes open, silently watching the slender figure tremble behind the gauze curtain, breathing in the suggestive, intimate atmosphere filling the room.
If he could hear...
What beautiful sounds would his older brother make?
Theme: Cherish life
After I Died, My Nemesis Lived as a Widower for Years
Sis-in-Law, My Brother Did That on Purpose
Please Don't File for Divorce After Losing Your Memory
You Pretended I Was Deaf and Fooled Me So Badly!
Honorable Chancellor, Please Rise from the Brothel
Beneath Little Chong Mountain
I’m Set on Being the Most Hated One [Quick Transmigration]
The Child I Took In Was a Spy for My Enemy
The Price of a Secret Crush Is Thirty Thousand Yuan
It's okay. In fact, the writing is a bit messy, but the ending is pretty good. I feel like the writing has room for improvement.
The problem is that the male protagonist always knew that Lu wanted to harm him, but he did not take any precautions. As a result, others were injured every time to protect him. It is not the case that he does not care about his own life. This behavior is quite strange.
In fact, only Yan Xun and Yu Ting were completely innocent in this incident. For Lu Yuezhang, the bullying, insults and violence were all real. Lin Fu might be okay and didn't take action directly, but the death of the other two would not be a pity.
Wow, love is a bitter drink hahaha
This ending made me feel that the injuries suffered by the protagonist were meaningless. In the end, a disgusting person like Lu was sentenced to one year 💔
So frustrating. . . Lu only went offline after seeing this
Ah? Is it going to end so soon? I feel so hasty and anxious. Don't the other three of f4 except Yuri not know about it?
Is it over so soon! Teacher, please write more extra stories 😳
Yes, you are miserable, but what does this have to do with my baby? My baby has never done anything sorry for you, he is just alive. Since you have the luck to awaken and know your happy destiny, why is it that my baby is not even allowed to have the luck of being alive? You are a selfish, narrow-sighted, greedy and dissatisfied villain.
Such a hasty and fast progress