Deaf, Yet Spoiled by a Short-Tempered Tycoon

Also known as Boss, Boss, Tell Me

Nie Jin was a talented online singer five years ago, with fans everywhere. Then he appeared on a televised talent competition and was exposed for lip-syncing, bringing his career to a complete halt. At the time, he not only injured his left ear, but also developed severe PTSD from online abuse. He could never sing in front of other people again.

Five years later, at twenty-one, Nie Jin has just graduated from college and desperately needs money, so he has no choice but to start singing again.

But every audition turns him down. No one wants a newcomer with hearing loss and bad intentions. The only person who auditions him has designs on him, then turns around and blames him instead.

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Nie Jin: (._. ) Fine, then. I'll go back to working a regular job.

Just when he is at the end of his rope, another handsome poor guy appears, insisting against all reason that he will be Nie Jin's one and only boss and help him clear his name.

Nie Jin, thinking he has found someone who recognizes his talent: Boss, Boss, you really think I sing well?

Boss: Who said that? You're the only one I can afford to sign.

Nie Jin: Boss, Boss, which building is our company in?

Boss: I couldn't afford an office, so it's at my place.

Nie Jin: Boss, Boss, what about my dorm?

Boss: Also at my place.

Nie Jin: ? What about my living allowance?

Boss: I can't pay it. You'll eat with me.

Nie Jin: ...Then what about the other artists at the company?

Boss: You're the only one.

Nie Jin: ...Boss, I'm a proper entertainer. I'll sell my talent, not my body.

Boss: Sure. I'm your boss, so if you won't sell, I will.

Nie Jin, tackled to the ground: Huh?

They start from the start with two people, and recruit all their employees by poaching them from other companies.

And Nie Jin only dares to sing in front of people when his boss is by his side.

He works until the early hours, and his boss stays with him until the early hours, never leaving his side.

Even his manager says he's clingy, like a child who can't be away from an adult.

Until one day, at a press conference, he sees his boss in a suit, arm in arm with a female companion, chatting confidently with everyone around him.

It turns out the stingy boss who had always depended on him as much as he depended on the boss was secretly the heir to a shipping empire! And a heartless playboy, too!

A reporter asks the eldest young master Zou, who has spent years traveling incognito, why he suddenly chose to come home.

Zou Jingyu looks thoroughly annoyed. "I laid out too big a plan for my precious artist, and ran out of money to keep things going. My parents wouldn't lend me any, so I had no choice but to come back and earn appearance fees. Everyone gets a share. How about you chip in, too?"

The innocent reporter: ...

His ship-king father: ...

His speechless little sister: ...

After finishing the long-winded interview, President Zou is just about to check his phone and watch his beloved, sweet-talking artist chatter away and call him "Boss" to cheer him up, when he finds a message: "Let's break up. I'm not interested in being the other woman."

Zou Jingyu: ...

His precious artist: ... (looks up at the sky)

Later, Nie Jin's fame sails overseas and around the world aboard the ship king's fleet. The company's precious cash cow has become impossible for anyone to control, so his short-tempered boss posts a new set of rules by the bed just for him:

No singing in bed!

No beating out rhythms with your tongue!

One time laughing in bed, and you'll lose six months' worth of appearance fees!

Nie Jin's eyes widen in shock. "Boss, dock anything you want, just don't dock my pay!"

As soon as he finishes speaking, Zou Jingyu grabs him by the waistband. "You said it yourself. Don't blame me for being rough with a flower when the time comes."

Little Nie is horrified. "Huh? Ah, aaaaaah!"

Zou Jingyu's veins bulge as the bizarre melody rings in his ears. "I told you not to sing! I'll dock you into the ground!"

A high-energy, insomnia-ridden, chatterbox, beagle-type seme X a sweet-natured, human tuning-fork, hard-of-hearing singer uke

Both leads are sexually inexperienced. The seme needs his wife to sing him a lullaby every day, but singing is forbidden during sex.

Theme: Keep pursuing your dreams, and you will shine.