Edited by Rae and Elanor
The aroma of food wafted through the night market and Ye Yao blew on the stick of octopus balls in his hand and took a bite.
“Eat slower, don’t burn yourself.” An arm draped around his shoulder and another skewer was passed to Ye Yao’s mouth, “Try mine.”
The man holding the skewer was tall, with impeccably handsome features that could be spotted at a glance even if he was thrown into a crowd.
This striking appearance made people around him stare at him intentionally or unintentionally, but he didn’t spare a single glance to the people around him. He just looked intently at Ye Yao who was wrapped in his arm, with the intention that he wouldn’t stop until Ye Yao ate the food he was holding in front of his face.
Ye Yao opened his mouth and took a bite: “It’s good.”
“Yeah.” Lu Xun took the skewer back, and not missing a beat, bit down on the spot where Ye Yao had bitten into.
Ye Yao’s eyes lowered as the stick of octopus balls in Lu Xun’s hand was taken from his mouth, and when it was returned, the topmost ball that he had bitten into had disappeared.
The food grabber happily hummed a tune and continued to wander the streets with his arm firmly around Ye Yao as if his hand was glued onto Ye Yao’s body.
……..
Lu Xun was not very approachable to outsiders and was known to be a difficult man to get close to. For Ye Yao, however, this distance was non-existant.
They could eat from the same bowl of noodles, wear each other’s clothes, sleep in the same bed, and do whatever he wanted with Lu Xun.
Because they were the best of friends.
Ye Yao knew in his heart that Lu Xun would never be able to distance himself from him as long as he didn’t step on Lu Xun’s biggest minefield.
And the biggest minefield of all was ……
“What a coincidence, you guys are playing here too.”
A voice came from behind them and Ye Yao stopped and looked back to see a handsome, clean-shaven, boyish face.
Ye Yao thought about where he could have seen this seemingly familiar face and remembered that the boy was Lu Xun’s classmate from university, and he could be considered a good friend of Lu Xun.
The clean-shaven boy had said ‘what a coincidence’, but the expression on his face was full of an artificial look of surprise, looking less like a chance encounter and more like he had been waiting here on purpose for a long time.
“Is anything the matter?” Lu Xun asked.
The boy didn’t speak right away. His eyes went to Lu Xun’s hand tightly wrapped around Ye Yao’s shoulder, and then to Ye Yao with a flash of hostility in his eyes.
But this hostility quickly vanished as he smiled coyly at Ye Yao: “Could you excuse us for a moment? I have something I want to say to Brother Lu alone.”
Ye Yao nodded and took Lu Xun’s hand off his shoulder before gesturing to the mini-mall not far away and saying to Lu Xun, “I’ll go over there and wait–”
Before he could finish his sentence, Ye Yao’s hand that was pointing to the mini-mall was grabbed.
Lu Xun held Ye Yao’s hand tightly, the cheerful expression on his face that he had when he was facing Ye Yao had disappeared. His face was now expressionless as he looked at the handsome boy, a sense of distance and indifference was instantly revealed from his deep brows.
“If you have something to say, just say it, if not I’ll leave first.” Lu Xun said straightforwardly.
Ye Yao had a vague suspicion about the boy’s purpose this time and tried to pull his hand out of Lu Xun’s grasp, only to have it gripped tighter.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Brother Lu …… I’ve liked you for a long time, can you give me a chance?”
The handsome boy looked at Lu Xun’s dark brows and felt nervous from the bottom of his heart.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to confess when Lu Xun was alone, but he had known Lu Xun for so long that, except during class time, Lu Xun was either with Ye Yao or on his way to Ye Yao’s side.
Lu Xun would not stop to listen to him or even talk to another person as he made his way to Ye Yao’s side.
There was no emotion in Lu Xun’s voice when he replied: “I thought everyone around me knew I am not into men.”
“Well ……” the clean-shaven boy bit his lip and glanced at Ye Yao .
Of course he knew Lu Xun was homophobic, that he was so repulsed by homosexuality and yet he clung to Ye Yao so closely every day, guarding him like he was the love of his life?
He did have some suspicions about Lu Xun’s sexuality because of the relationship between Lu Xun and Ye Yao. And if he didn’t get down to confessing soon, these two may have already become a pair on their own.
The boy said again: “I won’t interfere with your relationship, Brother Lu, can you give me a week to try?”
Lu Xun didn’t bother to speak, he just lowered his head and pulled out his phone, his eyes indifferent.
Sensing that something was wrong, the boy immediately took a step back and said with a smile, “I can’t force you if you don’t want to, I will retreat to my original position and be your friend like before.”
Ye Yao was standing next to Lu Xun and could easily see in his peripheral vision what Lu Xun was doing.
Lu Xun was unceremoniously blocking all kinds of contact details of the person in front of him, and after he had done so, he raised his eyes to the handsome boy, and the corner of his thin lips drew into an arc of disgust.
“I do not befriend people of the same sex who have a crush on me.”
……….
It was still summer, but Ye Yao’s hands were getting colder.
As they walked back to the school grounds, Ye Yao’s hand was still being held.
“What’s wrong, why are your hands so cold?” Lu Xun asked, “Are you sick?”
“No, it’s just that my body temperature hasn’t adjusted with the cold drink.” Ye Yao calmly adjusted his voice, while trying to pull his hand out, “Don’t hold it.”
So much for struggling. The more he struggled, the tighter his hand was held.
“What’s wrong with me holding your hand? Can’t I hold it?” Lu Xun smiled, but the strength of his grip did not relax at all.
Ye Yao was silent for a long time and then sighed softly, “If you keep hugging me like this, people who don’t know the truth will misunderstand that you like boys. Even if you try to clarify, they will only think that you are hiding your sexual orientation, so there will always be boys confessing their love to you.”
At the end of the sentence, Ye Yao was greeted with a familiar hug.
The tall youth embraced him from behind, pouring his hot breath onto the skin of his ear with abandon, turning that small patch of skin scorching hot.
Ye Yao heard Lu Xun’s laughing voice, “What do I care about what other people think? Just because others may get the wrong idea, I can’t hug you?”
……..
When they returned to the dormitory, Lu Xun was still holding Ye Yao’s hand.
The other two roommates in the dormitory took one look and burst into laughter.
“Oh Brother Lu, are you going on your honeymoon with Ye Yao again?”
“Other couples are better off than newlyweds. You two are better. You don’t need a honeymoon to be like newlyweds every day.”
Lu Xun, a homophobic, didn’t get angry at all when he heard that he and Ye Yao were being joked about, instead he smiled and put the snack he was carrying on the table: “Jealous of our love? Here’s your wedding candy, eat it.”
Cheers sounded in the room and the two roommates started to eat unceremoniously. After a couple of bites, Xiao Pang turned to Lu Xun and Ye Yao and gave them a toothy smile and a thumbs up: “Brother Lu and Ye zi, have a harmonious married life!”
Wen Ke, who was burying his head in the food next to him, reacted by turning around and giving a thumbs up: “Have a baby soon!”
Ye Yao : “……”
Give birth to a hammer soon.
Lu Xun frowned and put his arm around Ye Yao’s waist: “Don’t listen to their nonsense.”
Ye Yao was stunned and was about to say something when Lu Xun suddenly started to laugh again, returning to his joking self.
Lu Xun touched Ye Yao’s belly and smiled: “We are still very much in love and not planning on having children yet.”
“……” Ye Yao couldn’t stand it anymore and slapped Lu Xun’s hand away, “Go away!”
After taking a shower, Ye Yao, who had not dried himself fully, lay down on the bed.
In the dormitory Xiao Pang and Wen Ke were playing a game downstairs, while Ye Yao buried his face under the covers and slowly relaxed his body.
On the way back, not only were his hands cold, but his heart was cold too.
When he saw Lu Xun not hesitating to block out people he called friends and saying outright that he would not accept a person who was attracted to him as a friend, his heart went cold.
Because he …… also liked Lu Xun .
Without him even realizing it, something in their friendship had subtly changed. By the time he realized it, it had become a blazing fire that could not be extinguished, let alone returned to just pure friendship.
Lu Xun was a straight man, there was no doubt in the slightest. He was able to accept all kinds of joking flirtatious words between the two of them, but completely unable to accept serious affection from the same sex. Once Lu Xun found out what was on his mind …… the relationship between them would be over.
Xiao Pang and Wen Ke had gone to bed, but there were still occasional low voice commands coming from their direction, and they were obviously still playing the game with their headphones on.
Ye Yao was lying with his eyes closed in dismay, when there was a sudden rustling in his ears and when he opened his eyes, he saw the curtain of his bed being lifted open and a tall figure had climbed into his bed from below.
Even if Ye Yao was blind and guessed with his feet, he could have guessed who was climbing into his bed in the middle of the night.
Lu Xun skillfully lifted Ye Yao’s blanket and got inside.
The single bed in the dormitory was not wide enough to begin with, and two people who were both very tall squeezed in like this, leaving little room to move around.
Ye Yao tried to carve out a space for himself to move around, but a strong arm was placed on his waist, and he was instantly shackled in Lu Xun’s arms.
Lu Xun adjusted his position, found the perfect angle and stopped contentedly.
Ye Yao endured and tried to get along with this as a normal friend, ignoring Lu Xun’s behavior. But Lu Xun was pressing on him too tightly, he could clearly feel Lu Xun’s hard abdominal muscles sticking to his stomach.
Further down was…..
The person you like just sticks to yourself like this, and it was too inhuman to ask for no reaction at all. Ye Yao, feeling unable to hold back any longer, pushed Lu Xun away before any clue would show.
“Fuck, it’s summer, you don’t mind the heat?” Ye Yao scolded in a whisper.
“Yo, our good student is being rude.” Lu Xun chuckled and lowered his voice too, “How is it hot, isn’t the air conditioning on? It’s really impossible for you to take off your clothes like this. Shall I take them off for you?”
Seeing that Lu Xun was about to come up to him again, Ye Yao quickly reached out and put his hand against Lu Xun to keep him away and tried to intimidate him, “Take off what, If you sleep like that, be careful that I would be seduced by you one day and sneak up on you at night.”
Lu Xun calmed down, Ye Yao wondered if this threat has gone too far and he had stepped on Lu Xun’s homophobic minefield, when he heard Lu Xun speak again.
Lu Xun’s tone rose slightly, not only was there no annoyance in his voice, but he sounded very pleased: “Is there such a good thing?”
Ye Yao’s hand was grabbed and then immediately brought onto the other man’s abdominal muscles, “Come on, touch me.”
Ye Yao : “……”
Iron straight men were truly lawless.
Ye Yao couldn’t bear it anymore. He withdrew his hand and turned over to face the wall, leaving his back towards Lu Xun. In this way, even if he had any bodily reaction that he shouldn’t have, Lu Xun would not be the first to discover it, giving him time to cover up.
Lu Xun laughed a little and once again hugged him from behind.
They hugged each other intimately and Ye Yao could clearly feel the pounding of Lu Xun’s heart, one after another, disturbing his heart.
Ye Yao adjusted his breathing and closed his eyes.
He had to keep his feelings completely hidden, and no matter how much he liked Lu Xun, all he could show was friendship.
He hoped that his acting was good enough and would not reveal any flaws, otherwise …… he could only distance himself from Lu Xun.
He hoped there would never be such a day.
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Rae~ Someone tell LX that this isn’t what bros do.
Ela- ooh another project Zaki took up. Because she was not busy enough *rolls eyes*. Well I can’t leave her alone so here I am again for the editing!
Zaki~ *hides under the quilt*
P.S.
You will be seeing crazy side-comments from Rae in some or if not all chapters, so pls watch for it..:P 😛 😛 ~~~zaki
Thank you for the chapter~
I think someone needs to tell Lu Xun that he’s not acting very straight
Thank you for the chapter- weIl went ahead and read like 10 chapters from MTL and omg- LX making me feel frustrated-
HAHA the side comments were so cute!!
Yo, Lu Xun. This isn’t what bros be doing
Kyah! ヾ(･ω･*)ﾉ wanna more!!
Thank you for the chapter!
Thanks to the side comments, I was getting confused.. like since when do actual straight bros act that way?
Thanks for the chapter! Hahaha! ❤️
Vai matar o coitado
Listen. I had very close friends and we were all girls so we held hands and leaned on each other’s shoulders in stuff. You know what we didn’t do?? Hug each other intimately from behind and whisper sweet nothings into each other’s ears. LX this is not what bros be doing, this is what lovers do smh
Hmm.. Me and my bestfriend (were both girls) do that tho: holding hands, lean on shoulder, normal, s ide & back hug, we do that while walking, standing and talking even in public so sometimes we whisper & giggle like that 🤣
We are pretty close but the show of affection became more stronger (the pda also became longer) because we dont see each other as much as we want anymore after HS graduation, so this is normal for us 😁
Thanks for the sharing the hard work~!
I’m so glad this got picked up by another translator. I’ve read this on another site but it seems that it’s machine translated so it’s very very confusing. I decided to give up on it until I saw it again on CG. A/W Thanks so much for translating!
You’re welcome. hahaha. You have the same frustrations with the one who requested this to be picked up. And Me being so soft-hearted (much to Ela and Rae’s disdain), I picked it up LOL
Ahhhh, I found a gem this time.
so cute
reading this for the side-comments now
Hello~ i’ll camp here and wait for chapters
QwQ i love how their so touchy~
😛😘
This looks like a fun and completely indulgent read ☺️
Moving from all the slow-burn stories to this, I’m shook lol. LX that’s definitely not how bros act👀 Thank you for the chapter!
HAHAHAHA, this is the Real Deal guysss.. 😍😍😍 Also, I think it was Seme who bent the Shou instead of otherwise 🤣🤧.
Lu Xun, who are you fooling? As straight as an iron you say?
I loved the side comments by Rae-ssi… Thank you Zaki-ssi and Ela-ssi for your hardwork.
:-( LX I don’t believe you’re so straight! 😂😂 Thank you very much! 😍
… my brain reading this: dude just confess you touch him so much (LX should confess lol)
My heart reading this: so cuteee
I wonder how would be the POV of LX cause…wtf man, how can a straight dude like an other dude’s touch lol
The closet is made of glass but LX has the eyes of a bird
LX is not a straight man 😆
Thanks for the chapter 💞
Tysmm for the ch
Can’t wait for our seme to realize tht he’d alrdy in love tehee
I love the side comments and OH MY GOD THIS IS HILARIOUS LOLLOLOLLOLOL
Lu Xun brooo, even Ye Yao is straighter than you
❤️❤️❤️