Edited by Rae and Elanor
Autumn was short, and winter soon began.
Lu Xun’s injury was not too serious, and after a period of time, he had already almost recovered.
After the last incident, Ye Yao was dragged by Lu Xun, who was very anxious for some reason, to learn ‘How To Spot a Gay’.
“Look carefully.” Lu Xun sat next to Ye Yao with his arms folded, and said earnestly, “This is the beginner’s version, it’s relatively simple, but at least you will be able to identify the ones that are not too deeply closeted, and keep your distance from them.”
The deeply closeted Ye Yao felt a little guilty, but he still retorted calmly, “There’s no need to learn this kind of thing.”
“How is it unnecessary?” Lu Xun stared at Ye Yao, “You don’t even pay attention to this, be careful or else you will be surrounded by gay men someday!”
Lu Xun said, and clicked the video of ‘How To Spot a Gay’.
A strong male voice sounded: [If your male friend has downloaded a certain blue xxx app and xxx app on his mobile phone, you don’t need to have any doubt, he’s definitely gay.]
What was this blue app?
Ye Yao was a little curious. He searched the app store and found that it was a dating app.
Lu Xun pointed out earnestly: “They like to find guy friends here, almost everyone has one. If you find a man who wants to be friends with you, just pretend your phone is out of battery, use their phone to make a call, and then check if they have this app on their phones.”
When he thought about it, he knew that Ye Yao was very popular. According to the proportion of homosexuals in the crowd, he was unsure how many people were staring at Ye Yao in this school! How dare they!
“It’s not polite to scroll through other people’s mobile phones.” Ye Yao responded.
“Don’t look at their private information, just look if that app is there, that’s the point.” Lu Xun took out his mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to Ye Yao, “You try it first, and find out all the apps within half a minute.”
Ye Yao used his fingerprint to unlock Lu Xun’s phone and scrolled it casually. The content of Lu Xun’s mobile phone was very simple. As a person with a very fulfilling real life, there were only a few commonly used apps in his mobile phone, and there were no strange apps.
Lu Xun didn’t ask for his phone back, and continued to lead Ye Yao to watch videos on the computer. After watching one, he pulled out another document.
As soon as he opened it, Ye Yao saw the bright red letters at the beginning of the document, and was shocked.
[How to tell if the person around you likes you?]
Before Ye Yao could take a closer look, Lu Xun closed the document.
“I’ll zip these documents and send them to you, remember to read them when you have time.” Lu Xun grabbed Ye Yao and urged, “Be sure to remember to read them, I’ll test you on them!”
“This kind of thing…is it really useful?” Ye Yao asked in a muffled voice.
“It’s useful, I wasn’t so keen before.” Lu Xun frowned, “Then after research, I found that someone around me had a crush on me.”
Ye Yao didn’t expect Lu Xun to have such a past. Ye Yao didn’t feel jealous about this ‘Lu Xun’s secret lover’, but was startled, “…And then?”
“Of course I cut off my friendship with him,” Lu Xun frowned, as if he didn’t understand why Ye Yao asked, “Why would I still want to be friends with him?”
At this time, Lu Xun’s face was full of emotions that Ye Yao was familiar with. There seemed to be no exception to this matter in Lu Xun’s place.
Lu Xun continued to add, “Fortunately, I didn’t like him very much, and I didn’t pay much attention to him, otherwise, when I think about all kinds of interactions now, I feel so disgusted that I can’t sleep.”
So disgusted that he couldn’t sleep?
Ye Yao lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes trembled, and clenched Lu Xun’s phone in his hand, “Okay, I’ll study it seriously.”
*****
Lying alone on the bed, Ye Yao clicked on the document that Lu Xun had sent over.
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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Ye Yao first clicked on the article [How to judge whether the people around you like you].
[Does he always want to stick to you all the time? And on the grounds that you have a good relationship, he does not allow you to play with new friends, or even make new friends. When a large group of friends are together, he will always find ways to show the special relationship between you two, such as only serving you food, remembering what you like to eat, and saying it publicly. When someone makes a joke about your relationship with him, he doesn’t argue, he just laughs and doesn’t speak, pretending to be embarrassed.]
[Think carefully, are these behaviors really okay? Having one of these behaviors is a coincidence, but is it a coincidence if he has so many?]
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Lu Xun’s childhood friend who liked him was probably of this type before, so Lu Xun caught him with certainty.
He never restricted Lu Xun from making friends, but Lu Xun himself had no interest in making new friends and was always with him.
When others joked about the relationship between him and Lu Xun, he really didn’t refute most of the time, but that’s because Lu Xun would always agree with the joke all the time, so he didn’t bother to refute.
As for the food when eating, of course there would be times when the scenario happened, but if you really want to count it carefully, Lu Xun had served him more dishes than him serving Lu Xun.
This experience did not hold for him.
The relaxed Ye Yao continued to look at other things, and happily thought that these discoveries basically didn’t apply to him.
Great, as long as there are no accidents, I can continue to hide my feelings.
*****
On the other side, Lu Xun, who was in the meditation class, received a message on his phone and he casually swiped his screen.
The person who sent the message was his cousin. The two were about the same age, and their relationship had always been good.
Lu Ming: [Brother, I’m flying back to China. I heard that there’s a newly opened theme park there, take me there to play.]
Lu Xun replied a little rudely: [You are already so old and wouldn’t get lost, can’t you play by yourself?]
Lu Ming: [? Can’t you even show your brother a little sympathy?]
Lu Ming: [Ha, cross the river and demolish the bridge? If it wasn’t for the fact that I, a gay connoisseur, worked so hard to write so many documents for you, could you have made rapid progress and find out who had a crush on you?]
Lu Xun’s cousin studied music. Perhaps there were a lot of homosexuals who learnt Art so every time his cousin, this straight man, went to a professional class, he felt that he was surrounded by a sea of gays.
Due to this unique environment, Lu Ming’s gay radar was quite sensitive. Every time he had a new discovery, he would share it with Lu Xun, a homophobic straight man, so that Lu Xun could also develop a good gay radar.
Lu Ming: [You take me for a walk, maybe I can catch a few friends who have a crush on you.]
Lu Xun sneered, what kind of friends could he have who would have a crush on him now? Most of his current friends were the ones who spoke to him once a few months and barely had any contact with him..
But it was true that they hadn’t seen each other for a long time, so it might be good to meet up.
And most importantly, he wanted Ye Yao to meet his relatives and friends more, preferably everyone around him could know Ye Yao.
Lu Xun thought about it and agreed.
*****
Ye Yao was a little surprised when he received Lu Xun’s invitation.
“You’re going to play with your cousin, if I go, won’t your cousin feel uncomfortable?” Ye Yao asked.
Lu Xun replied very naturally, “If he feels uncomfortable, then let him play by himself.”
Ye Yao, “…”
“Just kidding.” Lu Xun found a reason to cover up his truth, “I already asked him if I could bring you with me, he doesn’t care about this, he likes to make friends.”
In this case, Ye Yao agreed and they decided to go during the weekend to see this cousin who flew back from abroad.
They agreed to meet at the entrance of the theme park. Ye Yao and Lu Xun arrived first, and after waiting for a minute, Lu Xun pointed in one direction, “He’s here, the one over there wearing a leather coat in this cold weather.”
He thought that Lu Xun’s music-studying cousin would be a gentle and soft guy, but when he saw him, he realized that he had assumed wrong.
Lu Ming was wearing a black leather jacket and trousers, black Martin boots, and was sporting long hair that was braided in a cool manner.
Even if he didn’t speak, he has a surging rock and roll aura.
Lu Ming found that they had arrived, and trotted over, “Everyone is here? I’m late this time, I will treat you both.”
“It doesn’t matter if you treat us or not,” Lu Xun put his arm on Ye Yao’s shoulder and introduced him to Ye Yao, “This is my cousin Lu Ming.”
“This is my best friend Ye Yao, remember his name, so you won’t forget it next time.” Lu Xun said again.
This introduction was a bit vaguely solemn, Lu Ming raised his eyebrows, and while saying hello, he swept his eyes filled with interest from Ye Yao and Lu Xun’s hand around Ye Yao’s shoulder.
In fact, he saw Lu Xun and Ye Yao from a distance, but he didn’t dare to think it was them.
The two were wearing the same red down jacket, making it look like a couple’s outfit at first glance, so he didn’t dare to recognize the couple as his cousin and his friend.
How could his maverick Brother Xun go out wearing the same style of clothes as others?
They must have a very good relationship.
Lu Ming was thoughtful, reached out and shook Ye Yao’s hand politely, and then they entered the theme park together.
Lu Ming started on the topic with a smile, “When I didn’t see clearly that it was the two of you, I thought it was a couple from somewhere. I also thought that there were too many couples today. It’s pitiful that I am a single, third-wheeling dog, but it turns out that I was wrong.”
“Aren’t you?” Lu Xun sneered, “Aren’t you a single third-wheeling dog now?”
Lu Ming, “…”
“We are three single dogs.” Ye Yao told the reality.
Lu Xun frowned, “How can you degrade yourself like that?”
Lu Ming, “…?”
What happened, and why did he feel that this conversation was very strange?
This newly opened theme park was very popular. There was a narrow passage that was overcrowded , and it would be easy to accidentally get separated in the crowd.
Lu Ming turned his head and was about to tell the other two people to follow closely and not get separated in the crowd, when he saw the two people holding hands.
They held hands and didn’t have to worry about getting separated because of the crowd. Walking slowly, it revealed a different kind of warmth.
It’s not accurate to say this, because only Lu Xun was very openly holding hands, and Ye Yao looked somewhat stiff and unnatural. His eyes met Ye Yao, Ye Yao smiled slightly at him, trying to release himself from Lu Xun’s hold, but failed again.
As an Art creator, Lu Ming had come into contact with so many gay people that he had become a gay expert, but at this moment, he still felt that he couldn’t comprehend what he was seeing.
What a strange feeling.
He grew up with Lu Xun and knew Lu Xun very well. Knowing that Lu Xun was a 100% straight man, why was there such a picture which was giving him a headache?
Wasn’t this kind of scene supposed to appear between young couples?
Intuitively, he felt that neither of them were straight men, but reason told him that Lu Xun must be. Then it would be strange for such a situation to arise.
In the suffocating crowd, Lu Ming, who was squeezed that he was almost flattened into a biscuit, thought hard and suddenly realized.
Yes, a trope that was very popular now.
Carefree straight man, with his angling boyfriend!
After such a catch, the straight man who couldn’t react at all took the bait.
Did he really catch a secret lover lurking beside Lu Xun again?
Last time, he found out that Lu Xun’s childhood friend seemed to like Lu Xun, and dared to directly attack Lu Xun in various ways, but this time he was somewhat unintelligent.
At first glance, the relationship between Lu Xun and Ye Yao was better than his and Lu Xun’s relationship. If he guessed wrongly, it would be a provocation. Lu Xun could probably beat him to the point of being unable to get out of bed for three days.
In that case, it would be better if he could confirm his hypothesis by himself first, and then tell Lu Xun about it when he could confirm it.
*****
After playing for a while, they got hungry and entered a theme park restaurant.
After ordering food, Lu Xun went to the toilet and warned Lu Ming, “Don’t bully him while I’m away.”
“What are you talking about, we rock musicians never bully others!” Lu Ming said seriously.
When Lu Xun left, Lu Ming, dressed in a very cool dress, poured a cup of tea for Ye Yao himself, and at the same time asked with a smile, “Brother Ye, are there any boys around Lu Xun who dare to confess to him? In the past, he really hated men confessing to him, and he was very angry every time.”
Ye Yao smiled, “I haven’t really seen any, everyone knows that he doesn’t like men.”
“It turns out that this is the case, everyone knows his dislike.” Lu Ming repeated what Ye Yao said. He put the teapot down and raised his eyes, “I’m actually quite surprised that he’s so close to you. Since that incident, I thought he wouldn’t want to make any more close friends.”
“What happened?” Ye Yao asked.
“He used to have a young friend who didn’t look as good as you, but he was also a very handsome guy. The young man had a crush on him, and the longer he knew him, the more he was unable to control himself. Because Lu Xun was beside him, he felt special without other friends of the same type.”
“As a result, when Lu Xun found out later that he liked Lu Xun, he didn’t give that guy any face, and directly told him to go away with his stupid thoughts. There would be no possibility of a romantic relationship between them.”
As Lu Ming spoke slowly, he observed the expression of the person sitting opposite him.
When a secret lover heard the tragic news of his rival, wouldn’t he feel a little bit of grief?
Lu Ming saw Ye Yao raised the corners of his mouth, his expression was so casual, as if he had heard a ridiculous story.
The red down jacket made his complexion white and warm, and there was no trace of sadness and grief on his face.
“He was too greedy, when he realized that he couldn’t control his feelings, he should have stayed away.” Ye Yao swirled the teacup, “How could he be so confident that he could become an exception to a straight man?”
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Rae.exe corner:
Xun Xun: These books are really effective to identify gays!
Yao Yao: Well they certainly are a hoax!
Xun Xun: What?
Yao Yao: It’s facts.
Honestly, these two could give Wei Wuxian a run for his money 😁
Human gay radar, nice job 😂
Thank You for the new chapter ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
Isn’t it all Lu Xun?
Thank you for the chapter
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Yeah, isn’t it so funny how all those criteria apply to Lu Xun? So weird, right?
straight people who think they have a real gaydar are so funny. theyre almost always just playing into stereotypes as if we’re a monolith lol.
lx’s self awareness is so nonexistent that the essay he sent to yy failed to ping his brain that the behaviour sounds like him to the T. may your awakening be devastating ❤️🙏🏼
thx for the chapter!
Those criteria all apply to Lu Xun 😂
Thanks for the chapter
It’s going to be interesting to find out if Lu Ming really can figure it out or if he’s as clueless as his cousin.
ahem. i feel pity for yaoyao. i hope retribution comes upon lu xun. make him chug down vinegar with no way to ascertain if he is still number 1 in yaoyao’s heart. let him grovel and beg. let there be a montage of him wondering if he was the one who bent yaoyao or if yaoyao was the one who bent him. let him see yaoyao platonically interact with guys but still burn with a murderous rage with no outlet. let him stew in it for days.
Thank you for the chapter!
how could lu xun not notice that it describes him perfectly when he’s with ye yao?!
Thanks for the chapter ❤️
all those points in the article def applied to lu xun… lol
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