Translator: Ryn
Since Qi Feng already said it this way, there was nothing else Ling Ke could do. Fortunately, he didn’t care much about gifts given to him by girls, especially by one whose face he didn’t get to see clearly.
And when he thought of the kiss, he felt that he had instead profited from this. In any case, it was Qi Feng’s first kiss… ah, that’s not right, was Qi Feng’s definition of a first kiss the same as his? Or did it have to be a mouth-to-mouth before he could consider it a kiss?
While Ling Ke let his thoughts run wild, he held the bouquet of roses and followed Qi Feng in leaving the auditorium.
Throughout their way back, the two were silent, once again.
Qi Feng continuously tormented the teddy bear in his hands. One moment he was pulling the bear’s legs whilst playing toss, another moment he was strangling the bear’s neck, pinching the bear’s nose, and jabbing at its eyes, nose and mouth.
Ling Ke really couldn’t bear watching on… he simply pulled out his phone and started browsing through WeChat.
Not browsing would’ve been better, as this one browse just scared him witless.
There were dozens of unread posts, and all of them were either photos or videos of him and Qi Feng, taken from various angles and various fragments of their time onstage. He simply can’t bear to look straight at them ah!
The groups were still discussing what had just happened, and if it wasn’t for Ling Ke having turned off the his message notifications, it can be estimated that his notification alerts would’ve accumulated up to several hundreds by now.
He didn’t even have to think to know what they were discussing about, they must’ve already been crazily YY-ing!
Sighing, Ling Ke then turned to browse through his friends channel. This time, he directly spit out a word: “F*ck…”
The very first post was one that Gao JunFei posted!
“My two roommates are together. 
”
The photo attached was a perfectly timed capture of Qi Feng grabbing hold his neck whilst kissing his temples, and the him in the photo was unexpectedly…smiling?
…WTF! At the time, he should’ve been extremely stupefied ba? Why was he smiling? Has this been photoshopped?
Before Ling Ke could zoom in for a closer look, Qi Feng, who had heard him curse, leaned over him: “What’s wrong?”
Ling Ke didn’t have any time to hide. Qi Feng managed to glimpse at his mobile screen. He then wedged the teddy bear under an arm and pulled out his own mobile phone from the pocket of his trousers.
“…What the f*ck! Haha!” it could be estimated that Qi Feng had also received tons of notifications. After the initial shock had passed, Qi Feng couldn’t help but smile and continue reading through them.
Seeing this, Ling Ke cursed at himself. Qi Feng was able to treat this as a joke, so why must he be so tensed up and nervous? Can’t he just act a little more indifferent?
Very quickly, Qi Feng also saw the photo posted by Gao Junfei. It was unknown if the expression on his face was out of delight or of bad taste, he specifically pointed to his mobile and said to Ling Ke: “You were smiling when I kissed you orh!”
Smile, then just smile bei. In any case, he was acting as a straight man, so he’ll just treat this as being kissed by a girl. Besides, given that their performance was so successful, it’d be even stranger not to smile.
“Oh? Really?” Ling Ke glanced at Qi Feng, silently reflecting on the codes of his straight man disguise, and quickly adjusted his mentality.
Seeing his calm demeanour, Qi Feng in turn felt a little embarrassed, and dropped the topic.
After skimming through dozens of posts on their circle of friends’ channel, they found that at least half of the posts were those that teased their relationship, some of those were even posted by their straight male classmates.
Ling Ke really wanted to sigh at this unfathomable, enigmatic world: Unbelievable…
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When they arrived at the dorms, neither Gao Junfei nor Xie Qibao had returned. They were most probably still at the auditorium watching the show.
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He came out after washing his head, and saw Qi Feng hugging the teddy bear and sitting in front of his desk, browsing through the web. He had one hand continuously fiddling with the bear, rotating its limbs and joints, separating the in-filled cotton in the body of the bear into segments, making the originally connected limbs hanging there as if their bones have all been pulled out.
The corners of Ling Ke’s mouth twitched. As he wiped his hair, he asked: “You have enmity with it?”
“En?” At first, Qi Feng seemed confused, but after tracing Ling Ke’s line of sight towards the bear in his arms, he explained, “My hands are just itchy, as long as there’s something that belongs to me within my arms’ reach, I can’t resist messing with it.”
Ling Ke was speechless. Thinking about it, he seemed to remember there being several occasions when he’d seen Qi Feng playing with empty water bottles, cans and the like. He’d even pinch and pop each and every one of the bubbles on the plastic bubble wrap that came with their express deliveries.
He had previously seen from the news, describing this sort of behaviour as a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or perhaps a destructive desire in human nature…. Ling Ke did not understand, well anyway, he didn’t have this issue.
However, as he was rubbing his hair dry, it suddenly reminded him of the feeling when Qi Feng brushed through his scalp with his fingers.
With his cheeks flushed, he quickly turned around, not daring to think about it anymore.
At this moment, Qi Feng suddenly asked: “Say, do you think there’ll be anyone who’d think this is real?”
Ling Ke stared at him blankly. What is he referring to? Our schoolmates’posts of them being together?
Qi Feng pointed to his laptop screen, feeling somewhat helpless: “I’m looking through the school forum. What Senior Liang said earlier was correct, there’re already gossip threads in the forum ah.”
Ling Ke was shocked. That was quick, it hasn’t even been an hour since the end of their performance!
Ling Ke: “They’re just joking around ba…”
Qi Feng raised an eyebrow: “What if there’re some who think it’s real?”
Ling Ke, pretended to be calm: “There shouldn’t be ba…”
Qi Feng stared at him for a few seconds. Just as Ling Ke’s heart was about to jump out of his chest, Qi Feng retracted his gaze and continued looking at his laptop screen.
Ling Ke wasn’t sure why Qi Feng had asked such a question, and his heart felt somewhat uneasy.
After a while, Qi Feng turned sideways, draped his arm on the back of his chair and asked, “Hey, what are your thoughts on homosexuality ah?”
“Ah?” Ling Ke’s heart, which had just stabilized, was immediately suspended in his throat.
Qi Feng’s tone was very serious. It seemed as if he really wanted to discuss this issue with him, and not as a joke.
Ling Ke grabbed onto the towel that covered his head. Somewhat in a daze, he wrinkled his brows and thought for a while before replying: “This… is also pretty normal ba.”
Qi Feng: “You don’t find it disgusting?”
Ling Ke shook his head, and subconsciously stared at Qi Feng before asking: “You think it’s disgusting?”
Qi Feng did not hesitate in his reply: “Of course not.”
Ling Ke breathed a sigh of relief: “Nowadays, aren’t people more open towards this?… if not, they wouldn’t have made this kind of joke ah.”
Qi Feng’s tone also relaxed a little: “I thought you would’ve minded.”
Ling Ke was confused: “Why?” He had even slapped a straight man’s butt ah…
“Because when we first started school, didn’t someone post gossip threads of us in the school forum?” Qi Feng made a small gesture with his hands before continuing, “At that time, you seemed as if you were disgusted ah.”
Ling Ke smiled. He put down his towel after drying his hair, and lowered his gaze: “I wasn’t disgusted, I was just afraid of causing you trouble.”
After hearing his response, Qi Feng seemed somewhat surprised. He seemed distracted for a while before saying, “You are really…” After saying these three words, he got stuck again. There was a short pause before he continued, “considerate.”
Ling Ke: “…”
After putting away his towel in the bathroom, Ling Ke turned back to deal with the large bouquet of roses.
To be honest, although he is a gay, he didn’t care for pink-coloured things. Hence, Qi Feng’s reasoning of him wanting this bouquet couldn’t be anything but utter nonsense.
However, the flowers were innocent, and since he had already accepted this gift, it would be a pity to throw them away. And if he just left them there, they would’ve quickly dried out.
Ling Ke had the packaging removed, but he wasn’t able to find a suitably sized vase. There were some empty mineral water bottles in the dorm, but seeing as there were almost a hundred stalks of roses in the bouquet of flowers, he would’ve had to cut at least seven to eight bottles before being able to fit them all.
Just as he was struggling with this, Ling Ke heard Qi Feng say: “If someone really takes our gossip seriously, will it make you feel troubled?”
Ling Ke didn’t know how or why they came back to this topic.
Qi Feng seemed a little fixated on this, but after hearing his question, Ling Ke understood. The reason why Qi Feng had repeatedly asked him this question was the same as when he had wanted to clarify their relationship back then – worry of causing trouble to the other.
Ling Ke suddenly felt warmth in his heart. Although it was impossible for him to be together with Qi Feng, just knowing Qi Feng’s acceptance towards homosexuality and with himself being treated so gently by the other, it had already made him really happy.
“I won’t,” Ling Ke smiled at him, saying, “Weren’t you the one who told me that we have no control over other people’s gossips, so we might as well just relax and not take it to heart?”
Qi Feng asked: “But what if some took it seriously? Won’t this get in the way of you finding a girlfriend?”
“Didn’t I already tell you that I’m not intending to look for a girlfriend in university?” Ling Ke frowned before continuing, “In any case, you don’t need to worry about me, it’s fine as long as you don’t think it’s a problem.”
As soon as his voice fell, they could hear sounds of footsteps in the hallway outside.
Seems like the large group of people who had gone to watch the show, had returned.
Sure enough, after a few seconds, their dormitory door was pushed open. Seeing Qi Feng and Ling Ke, Gao Junfei took the lead in greeting them: “Yo!!!”
Having heard his loud greeting, the guys from the neighbouring rooms also rushed to the door of Room 412, and bellowed at them in unison: “Yo~~~~~~~~!!!”
Qi Feng & Ling Ke: “…”
Ling Ke, who had just finished talking about how he was “not taking things to heart”, suddenly felt his face grow warm.
Their schoolmates started teasing them, one after another–
“You two are so awesome ah, your piano duet sounded so good!”
“…… the both of you looked so compatible when standing together on stage!”
“HAHAHAHAHAHA!”
“Did you know how loud the girls in our class screamed when the two of you kissed on stage? F*ck, that volume! Enough to deafen this laozi’s ears!”
“Ahhaha, our media and journalism school is going to be really famous now!”
Someone started yelling the words “They’re together”, and before long, the group of guys can be seen standing by their dormitory door, repeatedly chanting, whilst thrusting their hips and exerting a push-forward motion, replaying the grand scene in the auditorium: “They’re together! They’re together! They’re together…”
Qi Feng & Ling Ke: “……”
Now, not only was his whole face burning hot, his eyes also felt hot.
What Ling Ke found inconceivable, was not the repeated chants of “They’re together”, but the repeated humping motions of this herd of straight males.
… they were simply hard to look at ah.
And then, someone shouted “Kiss!”…
Before the situation could spiral out of control, Ling Ke hurriedly picked up the bunch of roses beside him and expressionlessly asked them: “Want a flower?”
“Want, want, want! Give me one!” The guys immediately stopped what they were doing and rushed forward to grab a flower. “I also want one, faster snatch one ah!”
All the roses from the initial large bundle were immediately snapped up.
Now that they’ve watched the excitement, “whored” themselves, and even robbed a flower, the group of guys finally returned to their rooms in satisfaction.
Ling Ke breathed a sigh of relief, fear still lingering in his heart. When he finally regained his bearings, he didn’t know if he should thank those flowers for saving the day, or ridicule the group of big boys for fighting over flowers.
Nevertheless, this move not only diverted the guys’attention, but also solved his difficulty in finding a vase, truly can be described as killing off two birds with one stone ah.
Qi Feng, who was standing next to him, secretly gave him a thumbs up: Well done.
Ling Ke: “…”
Xie Qibao, who had also taken advantage of the chaos and grabbed a few flowers, smugly asked them for credit: “Fortunately, I also managed to snatch a few, if not, we wouldn’t have any flowers left for our dorm room ah… F*ck, those bunch of robbers, all those roses were supposed to be ours!”
Black lines formed on Ling Ke’s head, as he thought of their having pink roses in every male dorm room on their floor. This is truly absurd ah!
【A brief interlude】
(One)
Qi Feng inflicted all kinds of torture to the bear.
Bear: What did I do wrong! Why are you treating me this way!
Qi Feng: You didn’t do anything wrong. It’s just that my hands are itchy and I just wanna mess with you.
Bear (looked towards Ling Ke): Master, save me! You can’t just abandon me like this ah! QAQ
Ling Ke: Sorry, I’m unable to help you. My hands are tied.
(Two)
Qi Feng: “What if there were some people who took it seriously?”
Ling Ke: “There won’t be ba…” (I’m hoping they do! Just let them think it’s real!!)
Qi Feng: “…”
Lol If you both guys only knew.. ahahahahahaha
Thank you so much for the chapter!!!~ 🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇
Is this finally the prequel to two bent men pretending to be straight men pretending to bent? 🤭
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
The boys doing thrusting motions with their hips killed me ಠωಠ
The teasing is scarily accurate to what straight males would do,,,
Thank you for the update!
That bunch of guys are really funny. It’s good no one is acting rude to Ling Ke or Qi Feng.
Thanks for the chapter!
I find the whole situation hopelessly adorable.
Thanks so much for translating this! ❤
Thank you for the chapter!
Grrr, just make out already (a mildly annoyed but satisfied kitten)
Thank you for the chapter!