Excessive Delusions

“A hard-of-hearing sign-language lawyer vs. a flirtatious, possessive heir to a multinational corporation” The day Xu Yanqing smashed Song Ning’s hearing aids, the love she’d expressed in eighteen signs shattered into shards of glass. Kneeling amid the mess, she read his lips: “So the Xu family raised you for ten years just so I could marry a defective?” The gentle older brother who had put hearing aids on her and learned sign language for her personally pushed her into the eye of a media storm. *To Song Ning, Lu Wangchi is a wicked demon king. He bullies her and teases her for fun, a bastard she can neither provoke nor escape. Song Ning never imagined that one day she and Lu Wangchi would enter into a secret, illicit arrangement. In a dimly lit private club, with liquor flowing and laughter all around, he gripped her slender waist in the restroom and pressed a trail of kisses to the nape of her neck. “He taught you to read lips. I want you to read desire.”