After Going Bankrupt, the Proud Beauty Was Taken In by His Mute Lackey

1. Ying Xun was beautiful and dazzling, the center of everyone's attention. He had been raised in luxury until the age of nineteen, when the melodramatic novel trope of “a bankrupt father, a sick mother, and a broken-hearted son” suddenly happened to him. Overnight, the proud beauty fell from the clouds. 2. A stuffy, sweltering alley. A group of burly debt collectors surrounded Ying Xun and demanded he repay what he owed. Otherwise, they would sell him to a rich woman or rich man to work as a gigolo. Just as he was in a desperate bind, a shadow appeared and rescued him. His rescuer was none other than the “mute lackey” he had once ordered around, bossed about, and treated like a dog. 3. The lackey was called Zhou Qi'an, the son of a nanny who worked for Ying Xun's family. He was a year younger than Ying Xun, with unnaturally black, empty-looking eyes that made the way he looked at people seem strange. He couldn't speak; he was mute. But he was obedient, well-behaved, and sensible. Whatever Ying Xun told him to do, he did. The little mute carried Ying Xun's schoolbag. When he peeled mandarins, he carefully removed every bit of pith from the segments. He knew Ying Xun loved strawberries but was allergic to the fuzz on their skin, so every time, he painstakingly picked off all the fuzz and seeds before feeding the berries to himself. He even played “master and dog” with Ying Xun. Everyone at school knew that Young Master Ying had a “dog” of a mute lackey who would do his bidding and let himself be ordered around however Ying Xun pleased. Ying Xun thoroughly enjoyed being waited on by the little mute. 4. Everything changed in their second year of high school. During swimming class, Ying Xun took off his uniform shirt, tossed it to the little mute, and went swimming. Suddenly, a commotion erupted from the changing room. One by one, the rich kids in Ying Xun's little fan club came running over to complain. “Brother Xun, I knew your mute dog was up to no good. Do you know what he did? He secretly took your clothes and smelled them while you were gone. He's gay, a pervert!” Ying Xun went over and saw his usually honest, well-behaved mute lackey crouched in a corner of the changing room. Blood ran from his temple. He lowered his eyes dejectedly, not daring to meet Ying Xun's gaze, like a big dog that had done something wrong. Ying Xun's clothes lay scattered around him. That afternoon, rumors spread all over the school that Zhou Qi'an was “a pervert who liked stealing boys' clothes to smell them.” The next day, the nanny quit her job at Ying Xun's home and disappeared with her son. 5. Years later, the bankrupt young master was reunited with the mute lackey from his childhood. Down on his luck, humiliated, and out of options. He had expected the lackey he once bullied and publicly humiliated to take brutal revenge on him. Instead, the man took him home. Just like before, the little mute waited on him with utmost care, treating him like a precious young master and holding him in the palm of his hand. 6. Gradually, Ying Xun once again “fell” under the mute lackey's attentive care. He also came to believe he had been unfair and had misunderstood the little mute back then. Zhou Qi'an was so good to him. Apart from being unable to speak, he was practically perfect. How could he be the pervert everyone had accused him of being, secretly lusting after Ying Xun? What he didn't know was that on the first night after he was taken in, in the softly pattering shower, the mute lackey he thought of as gentle, well-behaved, and misunderstood pictured the beautiful figure and slender waist he had seen years ago in the changing room, framed by slanting light and sparse, shadowy branches. His rough fingers reached into the laundry basket and picked up one of Ying Xun's shirts. Warm water streamed over Zhou Qi'an's body, now grown tall and powerfully built. He tilted his head back and pressed the piece of fabric, scented with skin and body, over his face, holding it to his nose. His pitch-black, empty-looking eyes were filled with uncontrollable madness and longing... ◆ Couple: A proud beauty bottom with a bad temper, spoiled nature, and a whole host of “young master” habits, who often blusters to cover his nerves, paired with a gloomy mute top who is great at putting on an act, a crazed warrior to the outside world, and a well-behaved puppy in front of his beloved. ◆ Reading guide: 1. Written to indulge my preferences; sc, age gap with the top younger; 2. Tentatively updating at nine every evening; 3. A small amount of livestream content, but not much. It's mainly there to let the two of them cuddle; 4. The top has trauma-induced mutism and will regain his ability to speak in the end. Theme: Don't rush to pass judgment on others