CH 79

After learning that Lu Xun had a crush, Ye Yao paid special attention to who Lu Xun had a special attitude towards. However, no matter how much he observed, he could not tell who Lu Xun's crush was.

Because Lu Xun is still the same buddy who spends every day with him, except for sleeping in the same bed, and who spends all day with him, and who wants to eat and shower with him.

Is it possible that Lu Xun likes someone in their class, so they don't need to take the time to sneak a peek at their crush?

The more Ye Yao thought about it, the more he realized that this was the case. Thinking that he and many of his classmates had been in the class together since the first year of senior school, he knew the class better than Lu Xun, who had transferred to the class halfway through the year, Ye Yao began to pretend to talk about the personalities of the girls in the class, and their possible preferences from time to time.

But Lu Xun did not receive his kindness at all, and every time he spoke of it, Lu Xun's face looked strange, vaguely green.

"......" Lu Xun's face turned green, "Why are you saying this, you have a crush on her?"

He explained his reasons to Lu Xun, who finally looked a little more relaxed.

"...... Don't guess." Lu Xun put Ye Yao's favorite food in his own bowl, and then put the celery, which Ye Yao didn't like much but would eat clean in silence every time, in his own bowl, "Guess not, that one can scare you."

How could he be so shocked?

Ye Yao frowned slightly as he pondered and gave Lu Xun his favourite dish.

Ye Yao glanced to the side to make sure no one was eavesdropping on them, before lowering her voice and nervously asking Lu Xun: "You're not ...... falling for our class teacher, are you?"

Lu Xun: "......"

Lu Xun was simply furious, and the incident was temporarily ended by Lu Xun's frantic denial, which made Ye Yao feel even more mystified by Lu Xun's crush.

I wonder if that person likes Lu Xun? I hope he likes it, Lu Xun is a really nice person, except for being a bit too straight and uncomfortable at times, he is perfect in every way.

So thought the straight and sometimes uncomfortable Ye Yao.

* The time in senior year always flies.

It's the end of the week and Ye Yao is not going home, instead she's in the house with Lu Xun, revising and resting.

Ye Yao's neck and shoulders ached from the long hours spent looking down at his book, and he casually reached up and pressed his neck.

It was a small gesture, and Ye Yao made no sound, but he had only just given himself two clicks when Lu Xun, sitting next to him, spoke softly.

"I just watched a video the other day and learned a set of massage techniques to relieve sore shoulders and neck, can I help you with that?"

Ye Yao stopped moving as he looked at Lu Xun, the proper young master of the gentry, and paused for a moment before asking himself, "What are you learning to do with this?"

"Of course I'm here to help Brother Ye relieve his fatigue, otherwise I'd have nothing better to do." Lu Xun raised his eyebrows and, regardless of whether Ye Yao agreed or not, got up and stood behind Ye Yao, placing his hand on Ye Yao's shoulder and neck.

Lu Xun's palm is warm and the heat seeps into Ye Yao's skin, warming it like a little sun in his palm.

Ye Yao tilts his head back and Lu Xun catches his eye, and the rebellious teenager with a rebellious brow flashes him a smile.

"Still happy with my service, boss?" Lu Xun asks.

"Satisfied." Ye Yao said.

Young Master Lu threw a wink at Ye Yao: "Then boss remember to order me again next time."

Ye Yao was amused: "That depends on my mood and on your performance."

* The evening

At night, Lu Xun forgot his clothes when he took a shower, so Ye Yao went to Lu Xun's room to get them for him. When she was in the room, she saw a photo of the two of them on Lu Xun's bedside table and the red rope bracelet she had bought some time ago on the table in Lu Xun's bedroom.

The red rope has been woven to the end of the knot and looks in good shape.

...... Is this almost finished?

Ye Yao approached with Lu Xun's clothes and was able to take a closer look.

I'm afraid Lu Xun will be able to finish it tonight or tomorrow.

According to Lu Xun, he will confess his love when he has officially finished weaving the red rope.

...... By that time, the two of them won't be spending as much time together anymore, I guess.

Ye Yao drops her thin eyelashes and reaches out to touch the bracelet.

He was uncomfortable with the sudden reduction in time spent with his best friend, who had been inseparable for so long, and felt a sense of loss when he suddenly left.

It's not that there aren't ways to solve this problem, such as picking a fight with Lu Xun once you know who he likes, telling Lu Xun what's not right about that girl, or conveying bad things about Lu Xun to that girl while the feelings are still fresh.

But he didn't want to do that, not only was it immoral, but Lu Xun would probably be very upset if the confession didn't work.

He didn't want to see Lu Xun too upset.

It would be best if she could always be happy and well.

Ye Yao put that bracelet back in place and removed his hand.

"Go for it." Ye Yao whispered, "Give you all my luck and good luck with your confession."

*

Ye Yao didn't get to sleep on time tonight.

At times he thought about the maths, at times he thought about how Lu Xun would confess, what if Lu Xun was rejected, and so on until after 1am.

Ye Yao does not feel sleepy, but rather hungry, as the youngsters consume a lot of food during their growth period.

He took out his phone and opened the short video app to distract himself, but to his surprise, the first video pushed to him gave him a head-on blast.

The sweet and soft sweet potatoes are taken out of the oven and the hot skin is peeled away to reveal the bright golden flesh inside. The steaming heat is accompanied by the faintest hint of juice and water, and the mere glimpse of it is enough to make you sink.

Ye Yao immediately switched off his mobile phone and he rolled over in bed a few more times before finally rolling out of bed and opening the door to his room, walking gingerly towards the living room.

The living room is filled with their stock of food, braised beef, old pickled vegetables and vine pepper beef, all beautiful.

Ye Yao stood in front of the food cupboard and chose.

He's a big family now, and it's impressive to have three choices of noodles to eat.

It just seems that whichever flavour it is, it doesn't quite satisfy him.

...... So hungry for sweet potatoes.

Ye Yao, not one to let himself be indulged, pauses for a moment and reaches for the braised beef flavoured noodles.

Ye Yao was doing his best to keep his voice down, but as he was boiling water, Lu Xun's bedroom door snapped open.

Lu Xun emerges with his eyes not yet fully open, his hair a messy mess from sleep, the back of his head sticking up in patches.

"Cooking noodles? Hungry?" Sleepy-eyed Lu Xun asked.

Ye Yao asked rhetorically, "Did I wake you up?"

"How can you wake me up, you look down on me." Lu Xun muttered as he approached and stood next to Ye Yao, "Let me have a go."

"What are you doing just making noodles?" Ye Yao cried, "Go back to bed, you make me look like an unscrupulous landlord who got Little Lu up in the middle of the night to cook me noodles."

Lu Xun curses as he walks towards the kitchen and comes out with a bowl in his hand. Having probably washed his face in the kitchen, Lu Xun looks much more sober.

"Let's eat together, don't try to eat alone when I'm around." Lu Xun said as he squeezed over. Lu Xun said as he squeezed over to Ye Yao, he looked at her for a few moments and raised his eyebrows, "We don't have the urge to have a snack on Brother Ye's face, don't you want to eat this?"

There's nothing we can't say, Ye Yao tells Lu Xun that he's craving sweet potatoes and is just using the noodles as a stand-in to fill his stomach.

"So bad, at such a young age, you've learnt to find a double!" Lu Xun tsked several times before reaching out in style and turning off the boiling kettle that hadn't yet boiled the water.

Ye Yao: "?"

"There are carts selling sweet potatoes over on Qianfeng Road, and that uncle doesn't close his stall until almost dawn every time." Lu Xun said, "You wait here."

The clothes Lu Xun was wearing to bed were his T-shirt, and he didn't even need to change now.

"What are you doing there?" Ye Yao lowered her voice.

"Let's go and buy you some baked sweet potatoes, don't you want to eat them." Lu Xun, who had been tugged, turned his head to look at Ye Yao, who had no look of credit on his face, his expression was as normal as if he had done all these things as a matter of course.

Ye Yao's grip on Lu Xun's wrist tightened as he lowered his voice, "How can you go shopping for whatever you want to eat in the middle of the night? I'll just have some noodles."

Lu Xun frowned: "Why doesn't it make sense, why do you have to make do with what you have, where did you learn that bad habit from, you have to change it in the future."

Ye Yao pursed her lips, "...... is too much trouble."

"What are you talking about, what's bothering me, we Brother Ye want something, we must have it, do you know?" Lu Xun's frown loosened slightly and a smile tugged at the corners of his thin lips.

Ye Yao meets the eyes of Lu Xun, who appears to be joking but is actually serious.

He had said so much and given so many steps, and if Lu Xun had just been impulsive, he could have gone along with the steps he gave him and he would not have blamed Lu Xun at all.

But now Lu Xun still insisted on doing so, just because of his casual words.

Ye Yao slowly let go of his hand and looked at his best friend.

He stuffed his own phone into his pocket as well and took two steps forward to Lu Xun, smiling, "Come on, I'll go with you."

* The freshly baked sweet potatoes are still steaming.

Freshly baked sweet potatoes are still steaming, summer cicadas are squeaking in the trees, the aroma of summer and the sweet smell of sweet potatoes are mixed together, and everything you see and hear can become a dream.

Hot sweet potatoes are handed over to Ye Yao with a fragrant aroma.

"I picked the biggest one for you." Ye Yao heard Lu Xun say, "Open it up, we'll buy more if you don't have enough."

The dim yellow streetlights spill over the top, and there are no other pedestrians on the street late at night, only cars speeding down the road, swishing close and away.

Late at night like this, there are still people who will interrupt their sleep for his simple munchies to come out with him and do this almost nonsense.

"Thanks." Ye Yao said softly as she looked at the sweet potato in her hand.

Lu Xun didn't catch it: "What did you say?"

Before Ye Yao could say anything, Lu Xun frowned and speculated, "No, you're not thanking me, are you, this happy day, must you say such things to chill my heart?"

"...... I'm not talking, I'm blowing up the sweet potato." Ye Yao made a denial and started another topic, "When I was helping you with your clothes, I saw your bracelet was going to be done, when are you going to confess, tomorrow?"

The subject seemed to create a sense of tension for Lu Xun as Ye Yao watched Lu Xun kick up the gravel under his feet, which was kicked far away and blended into the grass.

"That thing ...... I'll get done before I go to bed tonight." Lu Xun said in a muffled voice.

"Well, that was fast." Ye Yao nodded his head in encouragement.

Lu Xun added: "As I said before, I'll confess when I'm done, I won't wait."

"Well, decisive." Ye Yao continued to nod.

Then he saw Lu Xun digging into his pocket with the hand that wasn't holding the sweet potato, and the corner of his mouth turned down.

"I was going to wait until tomorrow, but I didn't think I'd be out in the middle of the night tonight. There was a bit of a rush to get out this time ...... I didn't have time to bring it with me." Lu Xun's voice was tinged with some strain.

"Hmm." Ye Yao nodded, and after less than a second of nodding, he looked back, suddenly realising something and pausing violently in his nodding.

Ye Yao slowly turned his head to look at Lu Xun beside him.

The talking dies down and only the summer cicadas are making noise.

They were so close, almost shoulder to shoulder, that they could smell the sweet smell of roasted sweet potatoes in each other's hands.

"Although I didn't have time to bring it, I still want to confess to my crush now." Lu Xun is also confessing for the first time, under a million nervousness, but still speaks clearly word by word, "I have unilateral friendship deteriorated, can you give me a chance ...... to upgrade our friendship a bit?"