We're Just Giving Each Other the Silent Treatment

After a disaster struck the Lin family, Lin Yan, a high school sophomore, was forced to move to the United States and live with an old friend of her late grandfather.

The young master of the Zhou family had lived abroad alone for years. He was unruly and rebellious.

The boy lounged lazily on the sofa, his legs carelessly propped up on the coffee table. With a cold, distant gaze, he watched the shy, well-behaved girl following behind his father.

“From now on, Lin Yan is your younger sister. Take care of her while she's abroad.”

The boy smirked. “My sister?”

After giving a few instructions, Mr. Zhou returned to China, leaving the two of them alone.

The boy had a long list of rules. He forbade her from showing her face around him, made her live in the basement, and told her to act like they didn't know each other at school.

Zhou Shiran was the school's most popular guy, while Lin Yan was an outsider everyone shunned.

Later, when the boy who had hated her saw her being bullied, he kicked the culprit to the ground.

Drunk and out of control, he cornered her against a wall and kissed her. “You're not my sister. You're my girlfriend.”

But just as she fell for him, she happened to overhear him and his friends laughing at a party:

“It's just for fun.”

Lin Yan's heart turned to ash, and she disappeared without a trace.

Eight years later, Lin Yan returned to China and ran into the boy from back then at a business banquet. He was now the head of the Zhou family, no longer playful, but composed and aloof.

To protect the Lin family, she reached out to greet him, only to see Zhou Shiran look right through her and say coldly, “Who are you?”

Lin Yan decided to go on a matchmaking date and marry someone else to save the Lin family.

Who knew that Zhou Shiran would get drunk that night and beat her date until his face was swollen and bruised?

Lin Yan slapped him. “Zhou Shiran, we're over. We ended things ages ago!”

Zhou Shiran's heart clenched at the coldness in her eyes. “We were just giving each other the silent treatment.”

“We never broke up!”

In the stillness of a late-night luxury suite, the man tore off his composed facade, gripping her waist and pinning her fiercely against the floor-to-ceiling window. He even began to sob between ragged breaths.

“We were just giving each other the silent treatment...”

[Cold-hearted little white rabbit] x [Mean crybaby]

May 30, 2025

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