CH 35

Going to a networking event is just a normal choice for singles, as they are not seeing anyone and don’t have to worry about their partner being upset or jealous, and there is nothing wrong with developing a relationship at the event.

Lu Xun understands this, but it doesn’t stop him from feeling angry.

Lu Xun, who had already received an answer, asked again, in a hushed voice, “Are you going to the sorority?”

Ye Yao did not answer this time, but simply gazed at Lu Xun in silence.

His mind has not changed.

“No go!” Lu Xun subconsciously blurted out.

Ye Yao didn’t say anything, but he took Lu Xun and turned the view slightly so that Lu Xun could easily see that Xiao Pang and Wen Ke were both staring at them in disbelief.

Their eyes were quite shocked.

Lu Xun’s grip on Ye Yao’s wrist abruptly loosened and he met the eyes of the other two hostel members.

Xiao Pang couldn’t help but speak up, ” Brother Lu, it’s not that bad, you really don’t want Ye Yao to go? It’s not a big deal to just go and have some fun ……, right?”

Although they had been jokingly referring to Lu Xun and Ye Yao as a couple, in reality they knew that Ye Yao and Lu Xun were really friends and were just too close to each other so they were always glued to each other.

They sent comforting messages to Lu Xun when Ye Yao went out alone to meet girls, because they both felt that Lu Xun, as Ye Yao’s friend, could not really prevent Ye Yao from having a girlfriend, but they were just sad that Ye Yao would not have as much time for him in the future.

But now it looks as if this is not the case?

Lu Xun took a deep breath and Ye Yao’s hand struggled again in his palm, this time Lu Xun let go and let Ye Yao go.

He and Ye Yao are not the only two people here, and he cannot embarrass Ye Yao in front of others.

When a person does not even have the power to decide what they want to do, they can easily be looked down upon by others.

And Ye Yao was never an accessory to him.

Lu Xun tried to hook his lips, which were a little stiff at the corners, but he managed to force a smile to complete it.

“I’m just joking, I’m just complaining that I’ll have to stay in the hostel alone again, how can I really not let him go?” Lu Xun said.

“Oh~” Xiao Pang came to his senses.

I see, another little fling!

The dormitory was calm again, and when no one was looking, Lu Xun quickly went up to Ye Yao’s ear and lowered his voice, “When you come back, let’s have a good talk. I have …… a lot of things I want to say to you.”

*

After washing up Lu Xun lies down on his bed and when he raises his eyes he sees the curtains of Ye Yao’s bed, making him completely blind to the person behind them.

When will Ye Yao be able to lift the curtain on his bed again, he will work hard for such a day.

The curtains of Ye Yao’s bed are a light colour of the sea and the blue sky, and Lu Xun looks at them in a fantasy.

He will work hard to earn money to buy a comfortable yacht and an exclusive piece of coast and island where he and Ye Yao can walk hand in hand on the soft sandy beach, watching the ebb and flow of the moon.

It was enough for just the two of them on the island.

The ocean blue sky is lifted up by a corner and Lu Xun’s fantasy is interrupted, allowing the face he has longed for to appear before his eyes.

Lu Xun : “?”

Lu Xun hurriedly sat up: “What do you want from me?”

Ye Yao sighed softly as he watched Lu Xun pick at his slightly dishevelled hair and clothes from his sleep and regroup himself to look cool.

He leans over to the side and gestures for Lu Xun to lean over, then lowers the volume of his voice.

” Lu Xun , we both have a good relationship and we used to hang out together every day. If I were to fall in love with someone else, I would have less time to share with you and it’s normal for you to accept it for a while.” Ye Yao slowly said, “This is a normal thought that will occur between friends, it’s not strange at all, you don’t have to question yourself because of it, and don’t self-deceive yourself by suggesting it to yourself, understand?”

Lu Xun froze.

Ye Yao continued to enlighten Lu Xun: “The most important thing in making friends is to have fun, don’t force yourself to do things you don’t like and become something you don’t like for me.”

Seeing Lu Xun frowning and wanting to speak, Ye Yao reached out and patted Lu Xun’s shoulder: “Don’t be in a hurry to contradict me, think about it slowly. Good night and have a good dream.”

Lu Xun squeezed his quilt tighter as he watched Ye Yao draw the curtain back up.

His mindset Ye Yao, and he thinks it’s normal?

He admits that he used to think it was normal himself, that he and Ye Yao were the best friends in the world, but now he is exceptionally upset to hear Ye Yao’s affirmation of this view.

Is it so easy to put the straight man hat on someone’s head?

*

Saturday came and went in a flash.

Lu Xun resists the urge to tie Ye Yao to himself and sees him out the door with the others.

It’s just going to a networking event where everyone in there doesn’t know anyone and it’s always impossible for Ye Yao to meet and make a deep friendship with his true love in a few hours.

He could wait for Ye Yao’s return and have a long talk with him.

Lu Xun was left alone in the dormitory, walking around the dormitory thinking about how he would talk to Ye Yao when he returned.

His relationship with Ye Yao had always been too close, so close that he felt that no one other than Ye Yao’s family could ever carry more weight than him. All their intimate acts are a testimony to this friendship.

Ye Yao thinks all the things they do are straight behaviour.

He used to think so too.

But he was now beginning to feel that something was wrong.

Straight guys holding hands with their friends, hugging, sticking together every day, and all that other behaviour?

Well, just looking at these lines, for him it still feels straight, isn’t that what friends are for?

But couples can be like that too.

The difference between lovers and friends is so small!

Lu Xun walks around the dormitory and finally stops in front of Ye Yao’s wardrobe.

He had an idea.

In his imagination, kissing Ye Yao was not at all disgusting, but that may have been due to the embellishment of his imagination, it didn’t mean that he reacted the same way as he did in reality when he did it.

Now he was going to do something in reality that straight men would never be able to stand.

The heartbeat began to increase.

Lu Xun rushed into the sink and rewashed his already clean hands and face.

He wiped himself again with antiseptic wipes before drying the remaining water with a clean paper towel.

Without the means to burn incense, this is the first thing you can do.

Having done so, Lu Xun walks to Ye Yao’s wardrobe again. Taking a deep breath, he opened Ye Yao’s wardrobe and poked his head in.

The last time he helped Ye Yao wash his clothes by hand.

He wanted to smell the scent on that dress again.

*

The scent seemed to linger in the nostrils for a long time.

Lu Xun’s outlook on life and the world is shattered into powder.

Lu Xun picks up the shattered three views and rearranges them into a beautiful new world.

Is this what the world looks like when it’s bent? It’s not too wonderful, is it?

Great, he’s not straight anymore either.

He knew he really wasn’t straight!

Lu Xun’s excitement was like a rocket launch. He opened the window and let the wind blow wildly, but it did nothing to quench the surge.

Today is the ancestors 18 generations re-emerged to stand in front of him and angrily rebuke his unfilial children and grandchildren, he can not come back straight.

After all, straight men don’t sniff their friends’ clothes and find it physically and mentally pleasing.

When Ye Yao comes back, he’s going to tell Ye Yao straight away that he’s bent the news too!

Lu Xun was tempted to call Ye Yao directly, but of course it was best to talk face to face, as he could not see Ye Yao’s expression on the phone and his tone of voice might be lost in the call.

Lu Xun walks around the dorm again, tapping into the chat box with Ye Yao to check their past chats.

The emoji Ye Yao sent him was so cute, the pig Ye Yao sent was not just any pig, it was the world’s number one cute pig.

Ye Yao’s words are so well worded, he is worthy of Ye Yao, even the phrase “Have you eaten?

Lu Xun swiped his phone with excitement, he watched his daily chat with Ye Yao for a while and then cut it out again to slow down for a while, this kind of stuff can’t be watched all the time, watching it for too long would make him explode with excitement.

As he cut out the scene, Lu Xun tapped into his circle of friends.

The first post in the circle of friends was from Xiao Pang.

Xiao Pang took a row of photos and exclaimed: [So much food, so much class, so many people!

This circle of friends by Xiao Pang with a location shows an estate.

It’s not cheap for most students, so it’s great to be able to come for free.

Lu Xun clicked on the photos and saw Xiao Pang’s shots of all kinds of food, gorgeous architecture and beautiful flowers.

Xiao Pang focuses on the scenery, as well as his photos with Ye Yao Wen Ke, but doesn’t purposely avoid other people.

The first thing Lu Xun saw was Ye Yao, who was wearing a white casual suit today, standing in the sunlight and shining, his eyelashes casting shadows under his eyes like a small fan.

How can anyone look like this? Everyone has a nose and eyes, but Ye Yao is the only one who has grown to his heart’s content.

Lu Xun didn’t know how long he had been staring at Ye Yao’s picture before he finally took his attention away from Ye Yao a bit to see if there were any good looking males around.

This look reveals that something is not right.

Xiao Pang posted nine frames, and in three of them, a person who upset him considerably appears far inside the shot.

The man who once bought Ye Yao milk tea and tried to bring water to Ye Yao after a basketball game.

Ye Yao and Xiao Pang are photographed together at the edge of a flower bed, and the man is standing on the other side of the bed with his eyes directed towards the camera.

Ye Yao and Xiao Pang stand in front of the bas-relief for a photo, while the man watches Ye Yao’s back from a distance at the dessert table.

Lu Xun’s face sank and he squeezed the phone in his hand.

The man in the photo has a shadowy gaze, following Ye Yao.

There are only three photos of that man, but at other times, did he follow Ye Yao around, in corners Ye Yao didn’t notice, watching all the time?

Lu Xun has had a problem with this man for a long time. He used to think it was because he didn’t want this man to bend Ye Yao, but now that he looks at it again, there is a reason here that couldn’t be clearer.

…… This is his love interest.

Lu Xun gets up and takes his coat, striding away.

*

Ye Yao spent the day on the estate on a break.

He dawdled with his two housemates and turned the fellowship into an autumn trip.

In the evening Ye Yao asked the class monitor, “Is it time to go back?”

“Not so fast, the main event hasn’t even started yet.” The class president laughed, “We’re a bonding event this time, and there’s a dance in the evening. If we get a good feeling during the daytime together, we can dance together at night and deepen our relationship.”

So that’s it, Ye Yao nodded.

But this ball doesn’t sound like it has anything at all to do with him, and he’ll probably still be around to enjoy the food.

It was six or seven in the evening when Ye Yao entered the dance venue with two of his friends.

“Everything was good about this sorority, but it’s a shame that it’s in civil engineering and there aren’t many girls.” Xiao Pang sighed, “Oh, but it’s good for the girls in our class, it’s hard to have it both ways.”

Wen Ke covered his mouth and burped, patting his stomach heartily, “After I eat today, I probably won’t have to eat again for the next week. Other than that, it was good food, and the big guy who reimbursed all the expenses was too generous.”

Xiao Pang laughed: “Maybe he has a crush on someone in our class and wants to have a romantic encounter with his.”

“Speaking of which …… isn’t there something odd about that guy today?” Wen Ke frowned.

They had a photo shoot and game with Ye Yao today and one of the eager civil engineering boys helped them out a lot. Not just once or twice, but almost from the beginning to the end. But they didn’t participate in many games, so they didn’t have much contact in total.

“Ah, did he?” Xiao Pang was taken aback, “I think he’s quite a Thunderbolt, what’s weird about it?”

“Nothing is adulterous, nothing is treacherous. Ye Yao must be thinking the same thing, barely speaking when confronted by him. Isn’t that right Ye Yao?” Wen Ke elbowed Ye Yao.

“Hmm.” Ye Yao nodded.

When the time came, the lights and music in the ballroom were all turned on and the atmosphere was instantly high.

There is a large dance floor. There is room for many people to dance together. Most people were embarrassed at first, but then a few pairs of friends who were playing well took the lead and went down to play and dance, and slowly the crowd grew.

Ye Yao looked at Wen Ke and Xiao Pang and said with a smile, “Go ahead and dance, don’t mind me, I can even video you if I can.”

So Wen Ke Xiao Pang happily got up, and before he left Xiao Pang jokingly said, “If we two keep standing here, we might even block Ye Yao’s peach blossom.”

Ye Yao’s smile faded as he watched his two friends walk away.

A peach blossom? Yes there is a rotten peach.

He is not a sea king who likes to keep fish and does not enjoy the pleasure he gets when his admirers shower him with affection.

When he likes someone, then he carries that one person in his heart. Only when the feelings have subsided and he is no longer affected by that person at all will he want to start a new relationship.

This is only fair and is the pace and procedure he prefers.

Ye Yao fiddles with the glass on the side of his hand, causing the orange juice inside to shake slightly.

Shortly afterwards, a man took a seat next to him.

The man’s voice was bright and cheerful: “Why do you only look at me and not eat, is it because the food here is not to your liking? It’s my fault for not being thoughtful enough to ask about your tastes when I booked this manor.”

“You’re welcome.” Ye Yao looked polite, “We don’t know each other too well, there’s no need to ask me, as long as you like.”

Yan Xing let out a low laugh: “We don’t know each other well now, but we’ll always have the chance later, and our relationship will always grow.”

Ye Yao certainly doesn’t go along with that, he shakes his head, “Life and work are busy, sorry, I don’t have the energy to make new friends.”

“Friends?” Yan Xing put his fist to his lips and let out a laugh, “Anything is possible, maybe we can take it to a new level?”

Ye Yao’s voice cools as he finishes his speech, “That’s even less necessary.”

Yan Xing was not discouraged by Ye Yao’s words, he took a glass of beer and drank it down, his eyes taking on a snake-like greed when he looked at Ye Yao.

He was sitting next to Ye Yao and now he suddenly reached out and wrapped his arm around the back of Ye Yao’s chair. He leaned in close to Ye Yao and said with a seductive tone in his voice, “Did your straight friend ever tell you that you were pretty?”

Ye Yao did not speak, his face grew cold, as if it was slowly freezing.

Yan Xing’s voice was tinged with laughter, “He’s a straight man who doesn’t appreciate male beauty, but I’m different.” He threw out the bait bit by bit, “There are some beauties that are not destined to be appreciated by straight men, wouldn’t it be too bad to stay by his side? And I …… understand all your beauty.”

In such a hazily lit ballroom, Ye Yao is stunningly beautiful.

The viper continues to release its own venom in an attempt to paralyse its prey.

“Maybe he’s better than me in every way, but in one way, I’m totally better than him.” Ye Yao heard Yan Xing’s voice, “I can like a guy, can he?”

Ye Yao squeezed the cup in his hand.

His deep and hopelessly hidden feelings started off wrong when he fell for a straight man.

Why dig up again what he had buried in his heart?

This one is just too loud.

Yan Xing reached out his hand to Ye Yao’s face, and Ye Yao sneered inwardly.

Before he could strike, however, a hand reached out from behind him and wrapped his entire body tightly into an embrace.

Ye Yao even felt the man’s heartbeat.

Ye Yao’s eyes widened.

He could not see the face of the person behind him, but he was familiar with the embrace.

His all-too-familiar voice now carried an overwhelming sense of anger: “Get out! Don’t you dare touch a finger on him!”