CH 21

When Ye Yao got up and left the room, he saw Lu Xun setting up the plates with his father, and it looked like a happy scene.

When Ye Yao came out, Lu Xun picked out one of the bowls of noodles and placed it in front of Ye Yao.

“You don’t like uncooked, fully cooked eggs cooked especially for you.” Lu Xun raised an eyebrow.

“Little Lu is a sweet boy, which girl will be lucky to marry you in the future!” Ye Yao’s father exclaims.

“No, no,” Lu Xun said modestly, “I just grew up being gentle and considerate, I’m used to taking care of people.”

Ye Yao : “……”

What’s the play here?

Ye Yao did not understand, but thought Lu Xun was trying to show off in front of his elders, so he did not poke at him.

Ye Yao sits down normally and eats the noodles. Lu Xun watches his expression and knows that his actions are not working.

Ye Yao has spent so much time with him, of course he knows what kind of person he is. Trying to change his image on the fly would be very abrupt and unnatural.

Why do you want to be portrayed in a way that Ye Yao likes?

The more he does well, the higher Ye Yao’s expectations will be, and the more likely he will be unable to find someone to live with and die alone with.

The two of them together are enough, no need to insert anyone else.

He needed to find a gentle way to fit his character, and there it was, and he’s halfway done it – Ye Yao’s birthday present.

When Ye Yao finished his noodles, Lu Xun came up to him.

” Brother Ye , come back to my side of the family with me in a few days? My birthday present for you is still at home.” Lu Xun thought for a moment and added, “If you really don’t want to go, I’ll have them send it over.”

Ye Yao felt that this would be the last time he would go to Lu Xun’s house, so he nodded: “Yes, it’s not a bad idea to go around while you have time, after spending the seventh day of the Chinese New Year with my parents?”

Lu Xun quickly used his vip privileges to book two tickets for the 8th day of the Chinese New Year, and then joyfully put his arm around Ye Yao’s shoulder: “Guess what I’ve got for you this time?”

Given Lu Xun’s work in previous years, Ye Yao speculated: “Did you design the rotating crystal ball yourself? A carved wooden castle? Strawberry jam made from the strawberries you grew and raised?”

Lu Xun snorted, “How is it possible, who would give a gift that has been given before again, I am such an insincere person in your mind?”

“There’s no mystery if you guess.” Ye Yao says.

That being said, Lu Xun stopped asking questions and instead imagined in his head what Ye Yao would look like when he used the gift.

He, Lu Xun, a soft-hearted man, deliberately learns a new skill and knits Ye Yao a pink jumper for his birthday.

Before he came to Ye Yao’s house after the winter break, Lu Xun was busy with this very thing. At the time he was thinking simply, the thought of Ye Yao wearing the jumper he had knitted himself made him too happy to sleep.

In retrospect, the act of many girls knitting jumpers to protect their loved ones from the cold is known as tenderness. His main purpose was not to keep Ye Yao warm, but the act was always the same.

After knitting a large part of the jumper, he went back and finished the small part, so that on the night of Ye Yao’s birthday, he could let Ye Yao wear the jumper he had knitted, hold Ye Yao’s hand and cut the birthday cake, and take lots of pictures together.

We have saved all the photos together so that when they are old, they can look back and remember their youth together.

Lu Xun smiles contentedly as he imagines this image.

*

After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, when most of the workers started their normal work, Ye Yao and Lu Xun took a flight to Lu Xun’s home.

The Lu Xun family car was already waiting outside the airport and took Ye Yao and his family straight to the Lu Xun family’s mid-level villa.

Lu Xun’s parents are both very busy people and have long since started their various work commitments, so there is really no one else in Lu Xun’s house at the moment, apart from the staff responsible for cooking and cleaning.

There is plenty of room in the Lu Xun house, so Ye Yao chose to stay in the guest room on his first visit to Lu Xun, and he did the same this time.

“This is outrageous, what kind of relationship do we have and we’re sleeping in separate rooms.” Lu Xun muttered a few times and led Ye Yao to the door of the guest room closest to his room without strong objection.

After all, he still has to sneak in at night to finish his jumper, so he has to leave Ye Yao alone for the time being.

After helping Ye Yao to put his luggage away, Lu Xun thought of something and said to Ye Yao, “My cousin may come to visit during this period of time, so if you want to pay attention to him, you can do so.

Ye Yao remembers Lu Ming and smiles.

“It’s not possible to turn around and leave when you really see it, otherwise it’s too rude.” Ye Yao asks, “Does he have any hobbies?”

Lu Xun frowned, for some small reason he didn’t really want Ye Yao to be very happy talking to someone else and forgetting all about him.

“He doesn’t have any hobbies,” Lu Xun said vaguely, “just call me when you see him, and you can talk to him casually during the time you wait for me. Did I tell you that he wrote all those gay guides I showed you earlier? You can talk to him about that.”

Lu Xun said it casually, but Ye Yao, who heard it, was stunned.

“…… Are you saying he’s good at identifying who isn’t straight?” Ye Yao asked in a deep voice.

“Well, I used to be around a hairdresser who pretended to be straight and had a crush on me, and he was the one who noticed something was wrong first.” Lu Xun replied.

Ye Yao frowned imperceptibly as he thought back to the day he met Lu Ming, what he had done to Lu Xun, and the conversation he had had with Lu Ming alone.

He didn’t see anything wrong at the time, but now that he knows Lu Ming’s other identity, he can look back on the conversation and see that there was a trap almost everywhere.

Has he been found out?

“I see.” Ye Yao loosened his frown and smiled again, “I’ll have a good chat with him about it.”

*

Ye Yao had no idea that he would see Lu Ming again so soon.

It was an early morning when he woke up thirsty and went downstairs in search of water. Lu Xun was still awake in the morning, and the only person downstairs was the chef in charge of breakfast.

On such a quiet morning, Ye Yao was walking to the dining room when he saw Lu Ming sitting at the table eating shrimp dumplings.

Lu Ming was also stunned to see him, his expression a little surprised.

Ye Yao didn’t go back to his room after getting the water, but sat down opposite Lu Ming: “It’s been a long time.”

“It’s been a long time indeed, the last time we met was before the holidays.” Lu Ming remembered his goal of testing out Ye Yao to see if he was straight. He had vague suspicions the last time they met, and this time, he looked directly at him in disbelief.

For no other reason than the fact that the pyjamas Ye Yao was wearing didn’t fit, they were a size too big and looked like the Lu Xun pyjamas worn by …….

Loose clothing was worn close to Ye Yao’s body, somewhat loosely, adding to his slender, lean figure. A small section of his collarbone is left uncovered by the collar, allowing shadows to rise and fall on his pale skin.

Lu Ming is a straight man, but when confronted with such beauty up close, his eyes were still a little unsure of where to place them.

“Your pyjamas …… seem a bit big?” Lu Ming asked hesitantly.

Ye Yao takes a sip from his cup, his wide sleeve falling away as he raises his hand, revealing his thin wrist.

“It’s big.” Ye Yao smiled slightly, “Because they were Lu Xun’s pyjamas. I’m too lazy to bring too much luggage back and forth, so I borrowed his clothes for the less important ones.”

Ye Yao’s reply was so frank that Lu Ming was at a loss for words.

Wouldn’t a male with a crush on Lu Xun normally find an excuse to wear Lu Xun’s clothes, and shouldn’t he be careful?

It seems like it would, if the person was confident, thought they were different from everyone else and wanted to show off their possessiveness of Lu Xun.

Just like Lu Xun’s former hairdresser.

Lu Ming paused for a moment before replying, “You were close to him and he never lent anyone else his clothes.”

“I’m closer to him than the average friend, so he’s willing to lend me.” Ye Yao Yao replied.

With one word, Lu Ming’s alarm went off straight away.

Showing off his difference in all sorts of details and being proud of the fact that he has a good relationship with a straight man is not something he wants to think about much on purpose, but he has really seen too many people like that.

There are some gays who fall in love with straight guys and just want to get together after bending someone over. This is how many of them proudly show off when they think they are about to succeed.

But …… stories often don’t end well, or the straight man doesn’t bend at all, but just plays a monkey on people. The straight man was bent, and after a while he was straight again, and the people who got happy were only a minority of the minority.

There is no need to do this, not to mention that Lu Xun doesn’t like men either.

It is because it is not possible that it is right to stay away from it sooner rather than later.

“I heard Lu Xun say that you are very perceptive about whether someone is gay or not?” Ye Yao said, “I’ve read your guide to identifying gay people, it’s very well written.”

“Hmm?” Lu Ming froze, “You’ve seen it?”

Ye Yao propped up his face with one hand and tilted his head slightly to look at Lu Ming, his cold eyebrows slightly curved when he wasn’t smiling, his light red lips smiling, “Did you identify anything? For example, …… is beside Lu Xun, a gay man with a crush on Lu Xun?”

Lu Ming was so shocked that he accidentally poked one of the shrimp dumplings he was eating.

He scrambled to pick up the shrimp dumplings that had fallen to the floor and his whole body was in shock.

This is …… this is the werewolf blowing himself up with him?

This statement, combined with Ye Yao’s expression, can’t be wrong, right?

“You ……” Lu Ming wanted to say something, but then stopped and said something, and finally lowered his voice and said, “I’m not going to talk to Lu Xun, so you can see to it that you stay away. Lu Xun is not stupid, continue like now he will know one day sooner or later, when it is not easy to deal with.”

Ye Yao was happy, he was just teasing the cousin, his main purpose was to clear his name. Now that he had finished teasing, he would just say the words.

“What makes you think I have other feelings for him than friendship?” Ye Yao was calm, “That’s how we straight guys all get along.”

Lu Ming had an indescribable look on his face, “What straight man gets along so well, you go out and see? The last time I went to a theme park with you guys, I felt so out of place!”

“Since you don’t believe me, listen to you, I’ll talk to him now?” Ye Yao picked up his phone.

Lu Ming : “?”

Ye Yao found Lu Xun’s WeChat and slowly and methodically sent a voice: ” Lu Xun , your cousin said I like guys and have a crush on you because normal men don’t even get along with each other like that. I think he has a point, I’ll pack my bags and leave now.”

Lu Ming : “?”

Lu Xun’s message flew back to him, and it was also a voice. Ye Yao clicked on it and Lu Xun’s gentle voice dripped into his ears, “He’s just kidding, ignore him. I asked the chef to make your favourite wonton this morning, try it and see if it’s to your liking.”

Lu Ming was dumbfounded when his phone on the table vibrated and he picked it up to find that Lu Xun had also sent him a message.

There are only a few words, but each word is full of murderous energy, the opposite of the gentleness he showed Ye Yao earlier.

[Get your ass up here.]