Edited by Elanor
Going to a networking event was just a normal choice for singles, as they were not seeing anyone and didn’t have to worry about their partner being upset or jealous, and there was nothing wrong with developing a relationship at the event.
Lu Xun understood this truth, but this did not prevent him from feeling angry.
Lu Xun, who had already received an answer, asked again, in a tone that was full of suppressed emotions, “Are you really going to attend this social event?”
Ye Yao did not answer this time, but simply gazed at Lu Xun in silence.
He hadn’t changed his mind about joining.
“Don’t go!” Lu Xun blurted out subconsciously.
Ye Yao didn’t say anything, but he took Lu Xun and turned the view slightly so that Lu Xun could easily see that Xiao Pang and Wen Ke were both staring at them in disbelief.
Their eyes looked quite shocked.
Lu Xun’s grip on Ye Yao’s wrist abruptly loosened and he met the eyes of the other two dormitory members.
Xiao Pang couldn’t help but speak up, “Brother Lu, it’s not that bad, you really don’t want Ye Yao to go? It’s not a big deal to just go and have some fun ……, right?”
Although they had been jokingly referring to Lu Xun and Ye Yao as a couple, in reality they knew that Ye Yao and Lu Xun were really friends and were just too close to each other that they were always glued to each other. Their relationship was so great, but like, there was absolutely no such ambiguous behavior like kissing or whatsoever.
When Ye Yao went out alone to meet girls before, they sent comforting messages to Lu Xun, because they both felt that Lu Xun, as Ye Yao’s friend, could not really prevent Ye Yao from having a girlfriend, but they were just sad that Ye Yao would not have as much time for him in the future.
But now it looks as if this is not the case?
Lu Xun took a deep breath, Ye Yao’s hand struggled again in his palm, this time Lu Xun let go of his hand, allowing Ye Yao to leave easily.
He and Ye Yao are not the only two people here, and he could not embarrass Ye Yao in front of others.
When a person did not even have the power to decide what to do on his own, they could easily be looked down upon by others.
And Ye Yao was never a sidekick to him.
Lu Xun tried to curl up his lips, which were a little stiff at the corners, but he managed to force a smile to complete it.
“Just kidding, I’m just complaining that I’ll have to stay in the dormitory alone again, how can I really not let him go?” Lu Xun replied.
“Oh~” Xiao Pang came to his senses.
I see, just a little fun again!
The dormitory was calm again. While the attention was not on them, Lu Xun quickly approached Ye Yao and whispered in Ye Yao’s ear, “When you come back, let’s have a good talk. I have…a lot of things I want to tell you.”
*****
After washing up, Lu Xun laid down on his bed and when he raised his eyes he saw the closed curtains of Ye Yao’s bed, making him completely blind to the person behind them.
When will Ye Yao be able to lift the curtain on his bed again, he will work hard for such a day.
Ye Yao’s bed curtain was a light-colored sea and blue sky print, Lu Xun looked at it and entered into fantasy.
He would work hard to make money to buy a comfortable yacht, and buy an exclusive coast and small island. He and Ye Yao could hold hands and walk on the soft sandy beach, watching the ebb and flow of the tide and the full moon.
Just the two of them on the island was enough.
A corner of the sea and blue sky was lifted up, and Lu Xun’s fantasy was interrupted, allowing the face he had longed for to appear before his eyes.
Lu Xun: “?”
Lu Xun quickly sat up: “Do you need anything?”
Ye Yao sighed softly as he watched Lu Xun correct his slightly sleep-dishevelled hair and clothes and rearranged himself to look cool.
He leaned over to the side and gestured for Lu Xun to lean over, then lowered the volume of his voice.
“Lu Xun, we both have a good relationship and we used to hang out together every day. If I were to fall in love with someone else, I would have less time to share with you and it’s normal for you not to accept it for a while.” Ye Yao slowly said, “This is a normal thought that will occur between all friends, it’s not strange at all, you don’t have to question yourself because of it, and don’t self-deceive yourself by suggesting it to yourself, understand?”
Lu Xun was taken aback.
Ye Yao continued to enlighten Lu Xun: “The most important thing in making friends is to be happy. Don’t force yourself to do things you don’t like and become something you don’t like for me.”
Seeing Lu Xun frowning and wanting to speak, Ye Yao reached out and patted Lu Xun’s shoulder: “Don’t be in a hurry to contradict me, think about it slowly. Good night and have a good dream.”
Lu Xun squeezed his quilt tighter as he watched Ye Yao draw the curtain back again.
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Ye Yao actually felt that his state of mind was normal?
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It was just going to a networking event where everyone in there didn’t know anyone and it’s quite impossible for Ye Yao to meet and make a deep friendship with his Mr. Right in a few hours.
He could only wait for Ye Yao’s return and have a long talk with him.
*****
Lu Xun was left alone in the dormitory. He paced around the dormitory thinking about how he would talk to Ye Yao when he returned.
His relationship with Ye Yao had always been too close, so close that he felt that no one other than Ye Yao’s family could ever carry more weight than him. All their intimate acts were a testimony of this friendship.
Ye Yao thought that all the things they did were behaviors of straight men.
He used to think that way too.
But now he was starting to feel that something was wrong.
Straight men holding hands with friends, hugging, sticking together every day, and all that other behaviors?
Well, just looking at these behaviors, it still felt very straight for him, wasn’t that what friends were like?
But it could be the same with couples too.
The difference between lovers and friends was too small!
Lu Xun continued to pace around the dormitory, and finally stopped in front of Ye Yao’s wardrobe.
He had an idea.
In his imagination, kissing Ye Yao was not disgusting at all, but that might have been due to the embellishment of his imagination, and it didn’t mean that when he did it in reality, his reaction would be the same as in his imagination.
Now, he was going to do something in reality that a straight man would absolutely not be able to endure.
His heartbeat started to increase.
Lu Xun rushed to the sink and rewashed his already clean hands and face.
He wiped himself down again with antiseptic wipes, then dried out any remaining moisture with clean paper towels.
If you don’t have the conditions to burn incense, you can only do this first.
After doing all this, Lu Xun walked to Ye Yao’s wardrobe again. Taking a deep breath, he opened Ye Yao’s wardrobe and poked his head in.
He had helped Ye Yao wash his clothes by hand previously.
He just wanted to smell the scent on those clothes again.
*****
The scent seemed to have been lingering in his nostrils, and it had not dissipated for a long time.
Lu Xun’s outlook on life and the world was shattered into powder.
Lu Xun picked up the shattered three views and rearranged them into a beautiful brave new world.
Is this what the world looked like after one was bent? It must be wonderful.
Great, he was not straight anymore either.
He knew he really wasn’t straight!
Lu Xun’s mood was as excited as a rocket launch. He opened the window and let the wind blow on his face, but it couldn’t extinguish the surging emotions in his heart.
Even if the 18th generation of his ancestors were unearthed and stood in front of him today, angrily scolding him for being unfilial to his descendants, it was impossible for him to come back as a straight man.
After all, straight men didn’t sniff their friends’ clothes and found it physically and mentally pleasing.
When Ye Yao comes back, he will directly tell Ye Yao the news that he was also bent!
Lu Xun actually wanted to call Ye Yao directly right now, but of course it was best to talk about this kind of thing face to face. He could not see Ye Yao’s expression on the phone, and the tone of his voice might be misrepresented over the phone.
Lu Xun walked back and forth in the dormitory again, tapping into the chat box with Ye Yao to check their past chat records.
The emoji Ye Yao sent him was too cute. The pig Ye Yao sent was not just an ordinary pig, but the cutest pig in the world.
Ye Yao’s messages were really well-worded, as expected of Ye Yao, even the phrase “Have you eaten?” was so phrased to the point of his heart.
Lu Xun swiped his phone with excitement. He looked at the daily chat records with Ye Yao for a while and cut it out again to slow down for a while. He couldn’t watch this kind of stuff all the time. Watching it for too long would make him explode with excitement.
As he cut out the scene to ease his mood, Lu Xun clicked into his circle of friends.
The first post in Moments was from Xiao Pang.
Xiao Pang took a row of photos and captioned: [So much food, so high class, so many people!]
This circle of friends photo by Xiao Pang had a location showing an estate.
The consumption in this manor was indeed not cheap for most students, and everyone was very happy to be able to come here for free.
Lu Xun clicked on the photos, and saw Xiao Pang’s shot of all kinds of delicacies, gorgeous architecture, and beautiful flowers and plants.
Xiao Pang had focused on taking pictures of the scenery, as well as the photo of him and Ye Yao and Wen Ke, but he did not purposely avoid other people when he took the shots.
The first thing Lu Xun saw was Ye Yao, who was wearing a set of white casual suit today, standing in the shining sunlight, his eyelashes casting shadows under his eyes like a small fan.
He looked so beautiful. How could someone look like this? A nose is a nose and eyes are eyes. Everyone has noses and eyes, but only Ye Yao’s eyes and nose had grown to his heart.
Lu Xun didn’t know how long he had been staring at Ye Yao’s photo before he finally turned his attention away from Ye Yao, wanting to see if there were any good-looking males around.
Looking at it, he found something was not right.
Xiao Pang posted nine frames, and in three of the photos, a person who made him quite uncomfortable could be seen away from the frame of the camera.
It was the man who had once invited Ye Yao to drink milk tea and tried to give water to Ye Yao after a basketball game.
Ye Yao and Xiao Pang took a photo together by the side of the flower bed, and the man stood on the other side of the flower bed, looking towards the camera.
Ye Yao and Xiao Pang stood in front of the relief sculpture for a photo, while the man was at the dessert table far away, looking at Ye Yao’s back from a distance.
Lu Xun’s face suddenly sank, and he squeezed the phone tightly in his hand.
The man in the photo had a dark gaze, following Ye Yao all the time.
There were only three photos of that man, but at other times, did he follow Ye Yao around, in corners Ye Yao didn’t notice, watching him all the time?
Lu Xun had disliked this person a long time. He used to think it was because he didn’t want this man to bend Ye Yao, but looking at it now, the reason for his dislike couldn’t be clearer.
…this person was his rival in love.
Lu Xun got up, took his coat, and strode away.
*****
Ye Yao spent the day relaxing in the manor.
He ate and drank and dawdled with his two roommates, turning the fellowship into an autumn outing.
In the evening, Ye Yao asked the class president: “Is it time to go back?”
“How can it be so fast, the main event hasn’t even started yet.” The class president laughed, “This is a social event, and there will be a dance in the evening. If we get along well during the day time, we can dance together at night to deepen our relationship.”
So that’s the case, Ye Yao nodded.
But this dance ball didn’t sound like it had anything to do with him at all, he would probably still be around to enjoy the food.
Time flickered to six or seven o’clock in the evening, and Ye Yao entered the dance venue with his two friends.
“Everything was good about this social event, but it’s a pity that the other group was from civil engineering, and there aren’t many girls at all.” Xiao Pang sighed, “Oh, but it’s not a bad thing for the girls in our class. We really can’t have it both ways.”
Wen Ke covered his mouth and burped, patting his stomach heartily: “After I finish eating today, I probably won’t have to eat again for the next week. Not to mention, the food was really good, and the big guy who shouldered all the expenses was too generous.”
Xiao Pang laughed: “Maybe he fell in love with someone in our class, and wants to have a romantic encounter with the beauty.”
“Speaking of this… wasn’t there something weird about that guy today?” Wen Ke frowned.
They had a photo shoot and played games with Ye Yao today, and there was an enthusiastic civil engineering student who helped them out a lot. Not just once or twice, but almost from the beginning to the end. However, they didn’t participate in many games, so they didn’t have much contact in total.
“Ah, was there?” Xiao Pang was taken aback, “I think he has quite the spirit of serving people the whole time, what’s weird about it?”
“Unsolicited hospitality must be harboring evil intentions. Ye Zi must have thought the same way, he barely spoke when facing him. Is that right, Ye Zi?” Wen Ke nudged Ye Yao with his elbow.
“Hmnn.” Ye Yao nodded.
When the time came, the lights and music in the ballroom were all turned on, and the atmosphere instantly became lively.
There was a large dance floor here. There was plenty of room for many people to dance together. Most people were still embarrassed at first, but then a few pairs of friends who were having a good time, took the lead and went down to have fun and danced together, and gradually more and more people came on the dance floor.
Seeing that Wen Ke and Xiao Pang were also getting ready to move, Ye Yao said with a smile: “Go ahead and dance, don’t worry about me, if I can take pictures, I can also help you take video.”
So Wen Ke and Xiao Pang stood up happily, and before leaving, Xiao Pang said jokingly: “If we two keep standing here, we might even block future Ye Zi‘s peach blossom.”
Ye Yao’s smile faded as he watched his two friends walk away.
Peach blossom? More like a rotten peach blossom.
He was not Neptune who liked to raise fish, and did not enjoy being showered with affection by his admirers.
When he liked someone, he would carry that person in his heart. Only when the relationship faded, when the feelings had subsided, and he would no longer be affected by that person at all, would he want to start a new relationship.
This was only fair, and it was also the pace and procedure he preferred.
Ye Yao fiddled with the glass on the side of his hand, causing the orange juice inside to shake slightly.
Shortly afterwards, a man took a seat next to him.
The guy’s voice was bright and cheerful: “Why do you only look at the food and not eat it? Is it because the food here is not to your liking? It was my fault for not being thoughtful enough to ask about your tastes when I booked this manor.”
“No, really it’s all good.” Ye Yao said politely, “We don’t know each other very well, so there’s no need to ask me, as long as you like it.”
Yan Xing chuckled: “We don’t know each other well now, but there will always be opportunities in the future, and our relationship will always grow.”
Of course Ye Yao would not go along with that, he shook his head: “I’m busy with life and work, sorry, I don’t have the energy to make new friends.”
“Friend?” Yan Xing put his fist on his lips and let out a laugh, “Everything is possible, maybe we can take it to a new level?”
After this sentence was finished, Ye Yao’s voice cooled down: “That’s even more unnecessary.”
Yan Xing was not discouraged by Ye Yao’s words. He took a glass of beer and drank it down, his eyes taking on a snake-like greed when he looked at Ye Yao.
He was sitting next to Ye Yao, but now he suddenly reached out and draped his arm around the back of Ye Yao’s chair. He leaned in close to Ye Yao, and said in a seductive voice: “Did your straight friend ever tell you that you were pretty?”
Ye Yao did not speak, his face was getting colder, as if it was slowly freezing.
Yan Xing’s voice was tinged with laughter: “He is a straight man who doesn’t know how to appreciate masculine beauty, but I am different.” He threw out the bait little by little, “There are some beauties that are destined not to be appreciated by straight men. Wouldn’t it be a pity to stay by his side? And I… understand all your beauty.”
In such a dimly lit ballroom, Ye Yao was astonishingly beautiful.
The viper continued to release its venom in an attempt to paralyze its prey.
“Maybe he is better than me in every way, but there is one thing that I am completely better than him.” Ye Yao heard Yan Xing’s voice, “I can like a man, can he?”
Ye Yao tightly squeezed the cup in his hand.
His deep and hopeless hidden feelings, the very first mistake he made was that he fell in love with a straight man.
Why did this guy want to dig out the things he buried in his heart?
This person was just too annoying.
Yan Xing reached out his hand to Ye Yao’s face, Ye Yao sneered inwardly, ready to slap the other person’s hand.
However, before he could make a move, a hand reached out from behind him and wrapped his entire body tightly into an embrace.
Ye Yao even felt that person’s heartbeat.
Ye Yao’s eyes widened.
He could not see the face of the person behind him, but he was familiar with this embrace.
His all-too-familiar voice now carried an overwhelming sense of rage: “Get out! Don’t you dare lay a finger on him!”
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Zaki~ soon now! Aiyah, quickly tell him lah Xun Xun, I’m already too frustrated translating your chaps tsk..
Finally. Finally! Xun Xun has achieved enlightenment! throws flowers and confetti
Thanks for the chapter!
Thank you for another chapter!
AHHHH FINALLY IM SO GLAD. PLEASE PLEASE WE NEED YHE CONFESSION NOW
Someone finally has realisation~
Thank You for the new chapter (♡ ὅ ◡ ὅ )ʃ♡
So proud of how far our Xun Xun has come!
The previous comments regarding internalized homophobia and how it was being handled were spot on and well said. For him to have come this far, to be able to decide with all the facts that he wants to continue to be in Ye Yaos life, and romantically at that, is so impressive!!
AND NOW WE GET TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT! tbh I didn’t read the other guy as mal-intentioned, just a tad too persistent, but lol the author cleared that up!
Thank you so much for all the wonderful translations!! 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Right? The comments on this story have been
(😑 phone is not funny today) – comments on this are so perceptive and well thought out, that I feel like agreeing to meet up in the next one too ☺️.
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
i can’t believe his final method of confirmation was sniffing yy’s clothes 😭 but then again, it’s exactly what lx would do. congrats on realising you’re gay bro
hahaha. OMG, we had the same thought. I’m like…the heck?? You’re sniffing his clothes.. Kinda creepy for most of us, but then again..that’s Lu Xun we are talking about. As expected of him LOL
I absolutely DIED laughing at the part where Lu Xun had to rebuild his three views. Can I say this man has a very impressive mental state? It’s so rigid yet so efficient in rebuilding itself, it’s just so 😂😂😂
not gonna lie I thought he was going to masturbate to his underwear, thank god he’s not a creep, unlike this rando. Beat him up Lu Xun!!
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Lu Finally Bent Xun
Congratulations, Lu Xun 🎉
Congratulations 💐👏 Our Xun Xun has finally attained enlightenment!
I was so relieved that Ye Yao needs to be completely over someone before moving on. Everything in this chapter came together so beautifully and satisfying 😌
Tbh, i like yan xing hahaha i was seduced 🥲🥲🥲
Dear Namizaki, I can feel your sentiment. 🙂. I can’t count how many times I want to knock some senses into Lu Xun. It must have been exhausting for you to translate this. Thank you so much for your hard work, also to Rae and Ella.
YES YES YES
Finally!!!! The bricks of the gods found their target and hit the head of our Xun Xun to realization that he is as bent as a mosquito coil.
Thank you for this chapter.
Finally he achieved enlightenment! 🥳 Just confess now😉 Ty for the chapter ❤️
Yay, finally the awakening! So proud of LX to be able to break away from the internalized homophobia and accept it ❤❤❤
I’m tearing up. My heart—
yass! i’m so proud of lu xun for realizing it himself (with minimal angst upon realization, too). now, let’s hope yy won’t try to talk him out of it…
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YEAHH, HE FINALLY REALIZE!!! I need to write this down on my diary entry,
[Dear diary,
Today’s weather of 34°C is so nice, the world is so colorful, lu xun is finally enlightened.]
P.s, I don’t write diary