CH 8

When Ye Yao returned from buying lemonade, Lu Xun seemed to be back to normal, which was a great relief to him.

Ye Yao tried to take the shopping bag from Lu Xun’s hand, but Lu Xun refused to let him carry it. At the same time Lu Xun had to carry the lemonade and stick with Ye Yao, so he wanted to grow three hands at once.

At last Lu Xun walked back with his shopping bag and lemonade in one hand and Ye Yao’s shoulder in the other.

“I should do something relaxing and entertaining tonight to soothe my broken heart.” Lu Xun said.

“Yeah.” Ye Yao has managed to respond to Lu Xun’s homophobia without revealing himself, “Playing a game?”

“What’s the point of games if you don’t play them.” Lu Xun laughed a little.

They were already close enough when Lu Xun suddenly tilted his head and pressed his lips against Ye Yao’s ear, sending wisps of hot air into Ye Yao’s ear.

Ye Yao heard Lu Xun’s voice with a smile and expectation, “Helping each other with me?”

The air currents blowing on Ye Yao’s ears as he speaks brings a tickle which burrows into Ye Yao’s ears, into his heart and tickles the tips of his heart.

Lu Xun still seems keen to engage in all sorts of physical interactions with him that express friendship. He used to suspect that Lu Xun was in a deep closet, but now he knows that Lu Xun is just too straight and doesn’t think that way at all.

Ye Yao wasn’t about to indulge his desires and he lowered his eyes, “But I’m a bit tired.”

“Forget it then.” Lu Xun didn’t doubt it and rubbed the back of Ye Yao’s neck, “Just go back and have a shower and rest while I see what quiet won’t disturb your entertainment.”

*

When Ye Yao came out of the shower, he saw a voice message from his mother on WeChat.

Ye Yao’s mother’s voice was gentle: [Ye Yao, is the weather getting colder over there? Be careful to dress warmly, don’t catch a cold.

Ye Yao’s eyebrows softened: [Yes, don’t worry, Mum, I’m doing fine here.

Mum quickly replied with a message: [Do you have enough money to live on after you buy the clothes? If you don’t have enough, tell the family and mum will give you money. The family is now in a better position, so there is no need to save money for the family.

Ye Yao had a scholarship in hand and still had money to live on, but why did his mother know he had gone out shopping for clothes today?

Ye Yao had some doubts and asked this question in response to the family’s concern.

His mother laughed: [Little Lu has posted pictures in his circle of friends, don’t you know?

Ye Yao : “……?”

What circle of friends? I thought Lu Xun didn’t post circles of friends?

What happened while he was in the shower?

After chatting with his mother, Ye Yao quickly clicked on his circle of friends and found that the first entry in his circle was a new post by Lu Xun.

Lu Xun posted a picture of him and Lu Xun wearing the same new style of clothing, he was standing half a step in front of Lu Xun and was holding a black jumper up to Lu Xun’s body.

Lu Xun’s image as a cool guy when he’s out in the world is still dead on, with only two words to match: [shopping].

Ye Yao Yao didn’t know if it was because of his current change in sexual orientation, but this picture didn’t look right to him in any way. It always looks like the daily routine of a young couple after they get together to the uninformed eye. There is even an eerie hint of a domineering president doting on his lover as he goes shopping with him, thanks to Lu Xun’s temperament and looks.

Calm down, what a mess he was thinking.

But is it okay to send such photos to friends and not block the elders?

They are already too close, and now they are posting this kind of photos, will Lu Xun’s parents really have a misunderstanding about their relationship?

Ye Yao looks up at Lu Xun, who is lying on the bed, happily poking and prodding with his mobile phone, a smile on his face, not sure what he is doing.

Ye Yao slowly pulled down the picture and prayed in his heart that Lu Xun’s friend circle had just been posted, and that Lu Xun’s parents, who were both busy, had not noticed Lu Xun’s circle yet.

At the bottom of the picture, further down, Ye Yao can see a whole bunch of likes, from high school friends and their university housemates.

Everyone was shocked by Lu Xun’s posting and delighted by the content of the circle.

[Is this an official announcement?

I’ve been doing this for a long time. I can’t believe there’s a follow up to the CP I’ve been knocking on, they’re still so good!

[Brother Lu came out to show off his daily routine with his wife, I’m sour, I want a wife too].

Ye Yao was relieved not to find Lu Xun’s parents among the likes. The few friends who are close to Lu Xun are only getting replies from Lu Xun’s cool guy style.

However, Lu Xun’s attitude suddenly changed when he replied to someone’s message.

Ye Yao’s mum: [Little Lu is still very handsome, keep warm as the weather gets colder. Ye Yao, the child is prone to illness in winter, so I may need your help to look after his.

Lu Xun: [Auntie, please don’t worry about leaving Ye Yao to me, I will take good care of him.

Ye Yao’s mother replied with a smile of relief.

Ye Yao : “……”

” Lu Xun , aren’t you going to entertain tonight?” Ye Yao spoke with a headache.

Lu Xun, lying in bed, put down his phone and looked over, puzzled, “Don’t you think posting friends is a civilised and harmonious form of entertainment?”

Ye Yao has no opinion on this fantastic form of entertainment and is just trying to be as objective as possible.

“Your parents seem to be able to see your message to my mum,” Ye Yao said, “or why don’t you delete it first?”

When Lu Xun, a rebellious teenager, changed his attitude and studied hard to get into this university, Lu Xun’s parents were overjoyed and attributed their son’s change to him, inviting them to dinner and adding them to their WeChat.

“Delete? Why did you delete it?” Lu Xun furrowed his brow as he picked up his phone and glanced at his reply again, “My reply should be decent, right?”

Lu Xun often doesn’t care what people think, and Ye Yao had to break it down and tell him why: “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this is a bit of an odd choice of words? It will easily make your parents misunderstand and think that we are secretly together, only hiding it from them and pretending to be friends in name only.”

Ye Yao pauses for a moment, “Lu Xun’s family is a big one, and according to the dogma of various dramas or real-life interviews, when the parents find out their son is gay, they must do their best to separate them and steer their son back on the right track?

Before he could explain further, Lu Xun refreshed his circle of friends and raised an eyebrow: “They’ve seen it.”

Ye Yao’s heart stopped for a beat as he stiffened and refreshed to see two new replies from Lu Xun’s mum and dad.

Lu Xun Dad: [Heh, Ye Yao’s aesthetics are much better than yours].

Lu Xun : [Oh, you still need to tell me that?

Lu Xun’s mother: [Ye Yao has grown more and more handsome after a long time.

Lu Xun : [I think so too].

Lu Xun put the phone down again, smiled at Ye Yao and said soothingly, “Don’t worry, they like you a lot.”

Ye Yao had a wooden face: “…… Oh.”

Was he the one who didn’t understand the world of heterosexuality anymore, when he had been a straight man for almost twenty years before?

It was true that he was too sensitive and paranoid, it was not even a big deal, in the eyes of his parents’ generation, good brothers are like that, right?

Lu Xun, who was lying down, sat up. He didn’t care about many things and didn’t care about other people’s emotions, but Ye Yao was the exception.

He did not want Ye Yao to worry about this.

“I don’t want to hide how we really get along from anyone,” Lu Xun dropped his head from the top bunk so that their eyes met and he looked into Ye Yao’s eyes, “If they get the wrong idea or have a problem with you because of that… …I’ll always be on your side.”

Ye Yao’s heart was mixed as he averted his eyes and whispered, “Well, I know.”

*

The event seemed to pass, the chill of autumn dispelling the heat of summer and the bright green leaves turning yellow in a short space of time.

It was a Sunday, the heating had not yet been turned on and it was cold, so Ye Yao liked to lie under the warm blanket when he had nothing else to do, even if it was a nap.

Everything was great, and it would have been even better if someone hadn’t insisted on squeezing into a single bed with him.

There was a faint vibration on his phone, someone must have sent him a message. Ye Yao reached out and hooked the phone over to him, his meagre sleepiness disappearing as he saw the name of the person sending the message – Lu Xun’s mother had approached him.

[Ye Yao, are you free? Auntie wants to talk to you about something.

Ye Yao’s fingertips were taut and white as he held the phone, and beside him, Lu Xun opened his eyes: “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing, a classmate asked me for homework, you go back to sleep.”

Ye Yao found an excuse to slip away, got out of bed and went to the unoccupied washroom and started replying to Lu Xun’s mother’s messages.

He had met Lu Xun’s mother several times, and he was beautiful, elegant and well-spoken. In any case, looking at his, he could not have imagined having such a rebellious and disobedient son as Lu Xun.

Lu Xun’s mother’s message came back quickly, this time with a voice.

Ye Yao adjusted the volume and clicked on it, hearing Lu Xun’s mother’s voice with some difficulty: “Ye Yao, it’s like this, auntie has a friend who has a daughter who is also studying in your school, she is one year younger than you, she is just a freshman this year.”

Ye Yao froze, his mind already flashing through many dogma clips uncontrollably.

For example, Lu Xun’s mother took a cheque to him and said, “Here’s $50 million to leave my son.”

For example, Lu Xun’s powerful family needed a business marriage, but because they were afraid Lu Xun wouldn’t want it, they asked him to act as a lobbyist to bring Lu Xun and the girl together. In the end, thanks to his efforts, Lu Xun was married and he was the smiling best man at the wedding.

As Lu Xun’s mother, he can’t just stand by and watch his son get too close to his same-sex friends.

Ye Yao pursed his lips and tapped on Lu Xun’s mother’s next voice.

Lu Xun’s mother’s voice sounded even harder: “That’s …… what, that girl said he likes you, wants to talk to you, wants to add you a WeChat, do you want to see?”

Ye Yao : “?”

“That child is more lively and said he would wait for you at your school’s milk tea shop this afternoon and treat you to afternoon tea, and that auntie would turn it down for you if you didn’t want to.”

Ye Yao had no intention of having a girlfriend, but he knew that it would be easy to hurt a girl’s pride by refusing to do so, so he thought about it and decided to go there in person to set the record straight.

With some doubt, Ye Yao asked, [I thought Auntie would tell Lu Xun and have Lu Xun pass it on to me?

Lu Xun’s mother sighed: [If you tell him, you’ll probably never know this news].

After all, her son, who will only cut off all the peach blossoms around Ye Yao, is a real worry.

Ordinary people can’t afford such an overbearing friendship, and I’m afraid that one day …… this friendship will be killed by Lu Xun.

Lu Xun’s mother put down his mobile phone and said to Lu Xun’s father next to his, “Your son is too abnormal, so much pestering others Ye Yao, won’t Ye Yao get annoyed?”

“It’s your son too.” Lu Xun’s father glared, then grunted, “I don’t know where you learned such a domineering nature, anyway, I am Ye Yao I turn and run, looking for death Lu Xun that Little Wang octogenarian.”

*

Lu Xun woke up from his nap in a daze, his mobile phone on the desk below almost shaking the sky.

Lu Xun, who is tall and has long legs, did not even take the bed ladder, but rolled off the bed and grabbed his mobile phone from the desk.

As soon as he opened his phone, Lu Xun was inundated with countless @contents.

[Brother Lu Brother Lu, are you crying in silence right now?

[Brother Lu tough, why don’t you come out for a drink, or come and hack with us at the internet cafe, the guys will keep you company].

What is it, why does he silently grieve and weep?

Lu Xun frowned inexplicably, then saw a picture.

The picture shows Ye Yao, who was sleeping next to him not long ago, wearing a simple jacket and jeans, walking on the campus next to a cute girl in a white dress.

A crack appears on Lu Xun’s expressionless face.

Ye Yao Yao meets girls alone when he is not around.

Ye Yao …… is dating other girls!

Ye Yao is so well dressed and so good looking, surely no one can resist!

Who would reject Ye Yao is not blind. Whoever dares to reject Ye Yao and make Ye Yao sad, he will beat that bastard up.

Ye Yao is about to become a couple with someone else!

Countless thoughts and ideas flooded into Lu Xun’s head, and he felt his eyes go black and the sky spinning.

He held onto the table and wiped his face, grabbed the same jacket as Ye Yao, gathered himself up as quickly as he could and flung the door open with a bang.