—“Have you ever had a situation where your ** got out of control?”
The moment he heard my words, Li Xiaoming was petrified.
Li Xiaming: ?
God, I can’t believe I actually asked such a thing out loud.
Li Xiaoming was silent for a moment before answering me. “Cheng-ge, when you said **, it’s that ** I understand?”
I solemnly nodded.
Li Xiaoming said, “Why don’t… You go to the hospital to have it checked?”
I panicked and said, “No, you misunderstood. It’s that I have a friend who came to me to complain about these things, so I came to ask you.”
With an expression that ‘I understand’, Li Xiaming echoed with me quite perfunctorily, “Oh, oh, oh, friend. I understand, then that friend—but seriously, I recommend that you… Uh, no, your friend, if they have any problem, they must go to the hospital without delay.”
Me: …
Forget it, I’ll still continue talking about it.
I said, “It’s that friend of mine ah. He, he seems to be normal again as soon as his ** sees a man…”
Li Xiaming didn’t show much surprise and said, “Is it possible that your friend is gay?”
“It doesn’t matter. Society is very tolerant nowadays. You… Your friend must be brave and face their own heart by all means. What sexual orientation, it’s okay.”
“No way,” I immediately denied. “No, that’s not the point. It’s that, my friend, as soon as he sees someone else’s boyfriend, he just…”
Li Xiaoming’s brows wrinkled and said to me seriously, “Cheng-ge, no matter what, you can’t be a mistress ya.”
This sentence stung me deeply.
I felt my lips tremble. I tried my best to calm myself down and said, “If you were the original spouse, what would you think?”
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“Haha, just kidding la. I won’t do anything illegal but if someone makes a move on someone I like,” Li Xiaoming pulled his fist without changing his face, squeezing it so hard that his knuckles crunched, “I won’t let him get away with it anyway.”
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I supported myself against the sink and my legs were nearly unable to stand. I said stuffily, “Xiao Ming, I’ve known you for so long, how come I haven’t seen you be in a relationship with someone else?”
Li Xiaoming said as if it wasn’t a big deal, “I’m most annoyed with those who come over because of my appearance.”
“But people are visual creatures, so it’s good for me to maintain my current state.
–
I have to keep my distance from Ning Yiheng, I can’t make another mistake. Maybe it was just a momentary confusion on my little brother. There’s still room for everything to be salvaged.
Li Xiaoming told me not to talk about it, but I didn’t dare to confirm whether he was telling the truth or not. I didn’t believe that he really wanted to be single for the rest of his life.
But Ning Yiheng was still my boss after all. I can’t be too indifferent. I can’t return to look at his WeChat picture the way it was. I just lost the enthusiasm to make friends with him.
I no longer ask myself to do something for his emotional problems, as long as I don’t make mistakes.
I’m so worried that I can’t even read my favorite Doujin literature anymore, and the original anime has become tasteless like chewing wax.
The conversation with Li Xiaoming didn’t ease my inner pain.
Late at night, when I was tossing and turning and had trouble sleeping, I posted a thread on an anonymous relationship forum.
I roughly described what had happened to me, my boss, and my roommate, hoping to get some ideas from netizens to solve the problem.
But most of the netizens came to see the drama. They only replied 666 and “Hahaha”.
A small group of extremely homophobic netizens thought I was gay and made a series of unfriendly remarks to me and my family. There was also a small group of netizens who firmly believed that Ning Yiheng liked me.
The netizens’ focus and brains were just too outrageous. There were even some who thought that Ning Yiheng was just coveting my cat so he deliberately seduced me and asked me to be careful if my roommate colluded with my boss.
In the end, they argued over whether or not to leave the cat in the rental house when going home for the Chinese New Year.
I stroked the back of Mimi, who I had left in the rental house for an entire annual vacation, and silently closed the webpage.
As long as I didn’t think about it, the problem didn’t exist.
I decided to let it be for the time being.
–
After I talked to Li Xiaoming in the toilet, in the second week of his declaration of singleness, I woke up early to wash up and found Li Xiaoming skillfully wearing a tie in front of the mirror.
Li Xiaoming was a pretty good-looking man. He can wear anything on a clothing rack and looks a lot more handsome in a suit.
My mood still hasn’t improved, but to see him rarely dressed so formally, I reluctantly cheered up and joked, “It’s only been a few days since we went to work. Are you going on a date ah?”
It can’t be a date with Ning Yiheng, right? I silently added in my heart, feeling more and more lost.
That’s why I don’t easily believe people who say they are determined not to fall in love. A large part of people will change their minds later. They just haven’t met the right person.
Li Xiaoming wasn’t in a good mood either. He said listlessly, “My jie forced me to go on a blind date, so I can’t help but go.”
“I’ll just deal with it casually and forget about it—Sigh, I have to waste a day off.”
Oh, so it was Li Yingning who forced him to go on a blind date. I thought it was to go on a date with Ning Yiheng.
Excuse me? Blind date? Li Xiaoming is going on a blind date?
I was greatly shocked and said, “Xiao Ming, aren’t you that…”
Li Xiaming stopped tying his tie and looked at me doubtfully, “I’m what?”
As far as I know, Li Xiaoming would never dare to confess his sexual orientation to Li Yingning. I know how important Li Yingning is to Li Xiaoming. He won’t disobey Li Yingning’s ideas at all, even if it was a blind date, he would have to bite the bullet.
But for Li Xiaoming, with his character, he would never do such a thing as cheating on marriage, even if it was just to deal with his jiejie’s face. How difficult it would be during this period of time?
I hesitated again and again, and finally said, “Does boss know about this?”
Li Xiaoming yawned and didn’t dwell on my previous words as he continued to tie his tie while saying, “I asked him for leave yesterday.”
Since Ning Yiheng knew about this, what would he think?
I don’t know if it was the aftermath of my little brother’s lack of skill, but I’ve also grieved over the passing of spring and the coming of autumn, and I began to feel sorry for Ning Yiheng’s situation.
With a flash of inspiration, I suddenly thought of a foolproof plan. I gritted my teeth, and said “Have you guys seen each other’s photos?”
Li Xiaoming said, “Not yet.”
I said, “Then I’ll go for you, Xiao Ming.”
Even though I was indeed thinking about Li Xiaoming and Ning Yiheng, I wasn’t completely without selfish motives. I also wanted to try and take this opportunity to have normal contact with girls and finally confirm if it was my own problem or not.
“This way you’ll be able to deal with your jie and you won’t have to waste a day’s vacation.”
Author’s Note:
Xiao Cheng will soon recognize himself. Can boss, who learned that Xiao Cheng went on a blind date, really sit back and do nothing?
/Readers who have read the original short story, please rest assured, that it’s not the same as the original plot.
Jie Jie: The short story the author probably meant was this.
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