Excessive Delusions

"A hard-of-hearing sign-language lawyer vs. a cross-border conglomerate heir who seduces and steals"

The day Xu Yanqing smashed Song Ning's hearing aids, the love she'd expressed in eighteen signs shattered like glass.

Kneeling amid the wreckage, 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 fitted her hearing aids and learned sign language for her was the one who pushed her into the storm of public opinion.

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To Song Ning, Lu Wangchi was a wicked demon king.

He bullied her and teased her, taking delight in it.

He was an unbearable bastard she couldn't fight or escape.

Song Ning never imagined that one day she would have a secret, illicit arrangement with Lu Wangchi.

In a dimly lit private club, with wine flowing and laughter all around, he gripped her slender waist in the restroom and laid a trail of kisses on the back of her neck. "He taught you to read lips. I'll teach you to read desire."