Due to his shoulder injury, Yang Mo ultimately did not go to pick up Mi Shu who finished her entrance exams. Han Shi Yu went in his stead. He heard that Mi Shu did quite well on her own and was in a happy mood when she came out from the exam halls.
She used the pocket money she had saved up to buy a lot of fruits and snacks for the injured Yang Mo, asking Han Shi Yu to pass it to Yang Mo.
Lu You Qi noticed that Yang Mo’s little junior had returned to his previous state of being a chewing gum, or even worse, intensified to sticking to Yang Mo all day long now.
This was not harmful to Lu You Qi at all since his own share of takeouts were secured again. And so, Lu You Qi started to tease Yang Mo with the female owner’s joke again, asking Han Shi Yu when he was going to become the official wife.
It was also this same joke that led the two to mistakenly assume Lu You Qi had already known about their newly established relationship. So much so that after several years later, Lu You Qi, this slow-witted dense guy, was still kept in the dark.
For Yang Mo, this was truly unthinkable.
He would often wake up in the morning and feel that everything that happened to him was too absurd, as if they were all part of a dream that have yet to dissipate.
It was his first time getting involved in this area. Stepping into the unknown made Yang Mo fearful and timid, as if he was walking on thin ice. After finishing his finals, he crammed himself full of knowledge on same-sex relationships.
He began to consider this question: how to deal with their integration into the traditional society.
Yang Mo felt that it was still quite difficult to achieve it. The solutions he had currently thought of had really slim chances.
Therefore, he wanted to seek out Han Shi Yu to properly talk about it.
By this time, they had already entered summer break and Yang Mo’s injury had fully healed. He didn’t reveal to Old Yang about his injury and under the pretence of working a part-time job, Yang Mo told him he wouldn’t be going home over the break.
After dating each other in an ordinary manner for some time, Yang Mo finally picked a suitable time to ask Han Shi Yu out. As they sat in a café, Yang Mo gritted his teeth, pushed his iced americano aside and got ready to talk about serious matters.
He had only just opened his mouth when Han Shi Yu called out, “Senior.”
Yang Mo looked at him.
He appeared like he had finally gathered the courage to say the words he had been holding in for a long time.
“Shall we…do it once.”
The long speech that Yang Mo had worded in advance suddenly crashed into a white, error page as he swallowed all of them down.
Yang Mo didn’t like to travel nor has he travelled far before, so he had never stayed the night at a hotel.
On their first time paying for a night at the hotel room, the purpose was this extraordinary.
Yang Mo subconsciously registered that he was on the ‘gong’ side.
But the hotel room fees were paid by Han Shi Yu, so he couldn’t help but feel a little guilty inside.
After arriving in the room, Han Shi Yu paced around for half a day before sitting on the bed, folding his hands together, with one on top of another. He even took out his phone and started a round of game, getting scolded by his teammates for playing so awfully.
Yang Mo: “……”
The sight of this Han Shi Yu made him feel like laughing a little. He walked up to him, rubbed the head of Han Shi Yu who was controlling his game character and running around the map. He asked, “Come on.”
Han Shi Yu jerked his head up as his gaze landed on his collarbone. His mouth hung open dumbly for a moment before he exited his game resolutely and said, “I’ll go buy the condoms…”
Yang Mo did not stop him, and so he ran out in a blaze. Pulling open the bedside table, he realized there was clearly a lot of them inside.
Yang Mo waited for a long time, even thinking that time stood still at that moment. Han Shi Yu finally came back with a large bag. Using two packets of potato chips as cover, the rest were filled with various brands and flavours of condoms.
Yang Mo was speechless for a while before taking out a box to examine it.
Han Shi Yu: “You…pick one?”
Yang Mo was puzzled, “Are you very particular about these things.”
Han Shi Yu shook his head and said, “I was worried you would be.”
Yang Mo couldn’t help but smile, “Virgin?”
Han Shi Yu wished he could bury his head into the bag and become one with the items inside. He squeezed out: “En…”
Yang Mo suddenly felt the urge to tease him. A wave of restlessness and tingling itch crawling down his nerves to all parts of his body.
It was silent for a while. As the older one between the two, Yang Mo spoke up first. “You can go take a shower first.”
Han Shi Yu said, “I took one in the school’s public bathroom already earlier on, since it was on the way.”
Yang Mo: “?”
How far did this person run off to just now?
Only as the hot water from the shower splashed down on Yang Mo did he realize clearly how much he had blabbered on moments ago.
As if he had a lot of experience in life.
Even though his knowledge of the reproduction of living creatures was only acquired through biology textbooks and some literature works.
The reproduction seen on textbooks were calm and sensible while the ones from literature works depicted sex as beautiful and sensual. Obviously, these had no practical reference meaning for Yang Mo and only made him feel like he was submerged in deep, hot waters.
The only night he was fortunate enough to learn about the practical experience was also the one time he couldn’t finish watching the video due to his physiological resistance.
Yang Mo brushed his hair backwards.
He thought he would be uncomfortable, but that wasn’t the case.
He seemed to have naturally accepted Han Shi Yu, as if it was destined for this position to belong to this person. All the previous struggles he had, were only resistance before he had adapted. It didn’t have any substantial impact on the real thing.
Turning off the shower, he simply wiped down his body and wrapped himself up in a bathrobe.
His hair was still a little wet. When he walked out, he saw Han Shi Yu sitting cross-legged with a concentrated expression on the bed.
Yang Mo pursed his lips and took a step closer, only to find out this man had placed the condoms of various colours and brands neatly on the bed.
He was puzzled, raising an eyebrow as Han Shi Yu slapped one hand down on a lone condom before sliding it to the side with another one of the same brand.
Then he eliminated them.
Yang Mo: “…….”
He felt like he had somewhat underestimated Han Shi Yu’s ability to self-amuse and self-entertain.
Emotions such as sadness and anxiety surely could not occupy his mind for too long, because he would always find all kinds of ways to get rid of such distress.
To think he used such a way on condoms.
Playing connect the dots.
Seeing Yang Mo appear from the bathroom, Han Shi Yu looked up, “You’re done…senior?”
Yang Mo: “What are you doing?”
Han Shi Yu rubbed the tip of his nose, “I…I’m nervous.”
Yang Mo didn’t know what to say either. He was on the same boat after all. Sitting down on the edge of the bed, he stared at the “situation” and was silent for a while.
Then, Yang Mo reached out a hand, slender fingers touching one of the packets.
He moved, helping Han Shi Yu eliminate yet another pair.
Han Shi Yu: “.”