Edited by Elanor
At this moment, Ye Yao suspected that he was hallucinating.
Was it because he was too angry after hearing Yan Xing’s provocation that he fantasized about Lu Xun coming to punch Yan Xing in the face?
Ye Yao turned his head from his chair to look at the person behind him. In the not-so-clear ambient lighting of the ballroom, Lu Xun’s three-dimensional and smoothly defined features were still highly recognisable, and coupled with his upright posture, made him instantly handsome.
Ye Yao and Lu Xun looked at each other and Lu Xun, who had a sullen face, smiled at him and then, without holding his hand, moved the chair he was sitting in backwards, leaving a large distance between him and Yan Xing, who was sitting next to him.
Lu Xun let go of Ye Yao, took a step forward, and stood in front of Ye Yao.
Ye Yao came back to his senses and said in surprise, “Why are you here?”
Facing Yan Xing, Lu Xun sneered: “There are people with bad intentions here, of course I have to come over.”
Lu Xun was tall enough to be very oppressive when people were standing, let alone to those who were sitting.
“Heh, bad intentions?” Yan Xing laughed coldly and stood up from the chair he was sitting in, facing Lu Xun, no longer speaking with the same cheerfulness as before, “This is the third time you have interrupted my conversation with him, Classmate Lu.”
Lu Xun snorted: “Conversation? So it turns out that being shameless enough to stick to people could even be called like this.”
This sentence made Yan Xing slightly unable to maintain his polite expression, “It’s not polite to speak like that, Classmate Lu.” Yan Xing turned his gaze and fixed on Ye Yao who was behind Lu Xun.
“We obviously were having a nice chat, weren’t we, Ye Yao?”
He could tell that Ye Yao, shared his preference for the same sex.
And Lu Xun was a straight man. The reason why he was so sure was because if these two people were both bent, it was impossible for them to be just friends. With this premise, no matter how rich and handsome Lu Xun’s family was, he still had a good chance with Ye Yao.
He had just analyzed the advantages and disadvantages between him and Lu Xun with Ye Yao, and he didn’t believe that Ye Yao wasn’t a little bit tempted.
Ye Yao, who was sitting behind, met Yan Xing’s eyes.
Ye Yao’s eyes were cold: “Confidence is a good virtue, but conceit is not.”
This disrespectful remark that gave no face was tantamount to slapping Yan Xing across the face, and his eyes widened as he said: “You—”
“Hah, have a little bit of self-awareness!” Lu Xun sneered unrestrainedly, and then his face took a cold expression, “Listen carefully, he doesn’t want to talk to you, and he doesn’t want to have any contact with you, so don’t let me see you hanging around him next time, otherwise it will not be as simple as a verbal warning.”
Ye Yao stood up behind Lu Xun, and Lu Xun put his arms around Ye Yao’s shoulders.
After many days, he was finally able to put his arms around Ye Yao’s shoulders again.
Lu Xun was so excited that his arms trembled slightly, he had to find a place to confess to Ye Yao as soon as possible: “Let’s go.”
Ye Yao stiffened slightly, but still did not remove Lu Xun’s hand, giving Lu Xun enough face in front of outsiders.
When they got to a place where no one was around, he would ask Lu Xun to let him go.
However, before they could even take two steps, Ye Yao heard Yan Xing’s irritated voice: “Very impressive. How can you be more noble than me when you are a straight man who is making advances on a gay man in the name of friendship? Heh, Ye Yao, this is the most contact he can give you, and you’re satisfied with that?”
These were the words that Ye Yao did not like to hear, his lips tightened, and he, who was always good-tempered, actually had the urge to go back and punch Yan Xing.
Before he could act, however, Lu Xun, who was next to him, suddenly snorted.
Lu Xun’s voice was close to his ears, yet it seemed far away in the sky.
“Who told you... I'm a straight man?”
*****
Ye Yao followed Lu Xun to an unoccupied gazebo outside.
With everyone having fun inside, there were very few people outside. It was easy to find a place where no one else would hear their conversation.
Walking into the gazebo, Ye Yao directly removed Lu Xun’s hand away.
“Thank you for helping me out.” Ye Yao said.
Lu Xun scratched his hair, as he glanced at Ye Yao, who looked as normal, with no expression of shock or disbelief on his face.
So Lu Xun finally asked: “Did you hear what… I said earlier?”
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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Because those were not important, so he could face them casually, but Ye Yao was too important.
Lu Xun lowered his head slightly, and moved forward slightly so that the tip of his shoe touched the tip of Ye Yao’s.
This distance was too close, so Ye Yao took a step back.
Lu Xun didn’t continue to go forward. His hands in his pockets were balled into fists. On the surface, he still seemed to be struggling: “I didn’t say that just to slap him in the face. I… really bent.”
It turned out that confessing one’s sexual orientation to a sweetheart was such a nerve-wracking thing? How would Ye Yao answer him?
Lu Xun stared at Ye Yao’s shoes, waiting for Ye Yao’s response. After a while, Lu Xun, who still had not heard Ye Yao’s response, noticed something was wrong and raised his head.
Ye Yao’s cheeks were half hidden in the darkness, looking at him with complicated eyes. The exact meaning of that look was not clear to Lu Xun, but in general, Ye Yao looked helpless.
Ye Yao sat down on the bench in the gazebo and patted the seat next to him, and Lu Xun immediately followed and sat down.
Lu Xun pressed his own shoe against Ye Yao’s, and this time Ye Yao didn’t retract his foot as he sighed: “Why are you imagining that you are not straight again?”
Lu Xun was taken aback for a moment, then instantly sobered up.
He was so excited that he forgot that Ye Yao didn’t believe that he could bend previously and thought that he was just hinting at himself about it.
“It’s not a random thought.” Lu Xun thought for a moment and explained, “I have concrete evidence to prove that I have been bent.”
“Oh? Let’s hear it.” Ye Yao replied.
The open pavilion was easily blown in by the wind, and Lu Xun saw Ye Yao’s hands resting on his lap, his fingers white and slender.
Lu Xun looked at the hand and said slowly: “I would imagine myself hugging him on the playground, and him resting his head on my shoulder. When I called out to him, he would raise his head and kiss me.”
“I don’t feel sick at such an image, I only feel happy.”
Ye Yao didn’t speak, so Lu Xun continued to speak slowly.
“Of course we won’t just kiss, we’ll do a lot more than that.” Lu Xun said with a smile in his voice, “We’d have a candlelight dinner together at home, and I’d prepare a bottle of red wine, and when he poured the red wine he accidentally spilled it on himself, and I’d wipe it off for him.”
With this familiar plot, Ye Yao could understand the following story without Lu Xun having to tell it.
The cool night breeze sent Lu Xun’s voice into Ye Yao’s ears, and Ye Yao’s voice lowered unconsciously: “Who is it?”
Who made Lu Xun unfold this fantasy and made Lu Xun feel happy?
He felt a warmth in his hand, it was Lu Xun who had taken his hand in his.
Lu Xun leaned forward, his voice slightly hoarse: “You.”
Ye Yao’s heart skipped a beat and he subconsciously tried to withdraw his hand, but Lu Xun had held it tightly again. Ye Yao stood up abruptly in a panic, and Lu Xun followed him.
No matter where Ye Yao went, he would never leave.
“Can I have this privilege of turning my imagination into reality?” Lu Xun asked softly.
He didn’t know whose hand was sweating in the two hands that were clasped together, and the palms were sticky and not dry at all.
Lu Xun felt that Ye Yao was nervous.
He was on the edge too, and it was nice that their emotions were in sync.
Lu Xun waited for a long time without urging Ye Yao, until the sweat on his palms had disappeared, then he finally heard Ye Yao speak.
“Your imagination, it does sound quite bent enough.” Ye Yao said.
In fact, there was an even more bent real operation that had happened, one which confirmed Lu Xun that he had been bent, but Lu Xun did not dare tell Ye Yao about it, he was afraid that Ye Yao would be mad at him.
Lu Xun rubbed his nose, and said straightforwardly: “I was bent in the first place, but you still didn’t believe me when I told you before.”
After that Lu Xun immediately justified and conceded: “It’s all my fault that I didn’t explain clearly, making you misunderstand that I was just thinking I was bent just by holding hands.”
Ye Yao smiled: “Let go of my hand first.”
Lu Xun was forceful again: “If you don’t give me a clear answer, I won’t let go.”
Ye Yao sat down on the bench again.
It was a beautiful night, the moon and the stars were shining brightly. Ye Yao looked at the full moon in the sky, and asked Lu Xun in his same tone as usual: “You used to be so unacceptable to homosexuality before. When you found out that you like men, was it painful? Was it a struggle?”
Lu Xun thought about it.
Was it painful? But the most painful thing was obviously because of his different sexual orientation, the distance between Ye Yao and him was getting farther and farther.
Because the pain of separation was so intense, when he found that the problem could be solved, he didn’t even have time to think about the pain after being bent. The joy of being close to Ye Yao again was greater than anything else.
He was so happy, because he had the opportunity to have further contact with Ye Yao.
“It was not painful,” Lu Xun said in a lighter tone, “I’m fantasizing about you and not some other stinky guy, why should it be painful?”
The scent of Ye Yao’s clothes flooded into his nostrils again along with the memories, and Lu Xun couldn’t help grinning: “You smell so good everywhere.”
Lu Xun shook and bumped Ye Yao’s shoulder and said, “Don’t change the topic and try to muddle through with all this nonsense, just say it!”
Lu Xun finally got an answer.
“Okay, then I’ll be straight. Frankly speaking, I don’t trust you.” Ye Yao said, “Our relationship was too good before, so I think this is a ploy you’ve come up with to bring the two of us closer together again.”
Lu Xun was taken aback, Ye Yao turned his head, and the two of them looked directly at each other.
Ye Yao’s pupils were dark and calm: “Lu Xun, since the day I met you, you have been extremely homophobic.”
He liked Lu Xun, but that didn’t mean he could accept Lu Xun pretending to be bent just to be with him.
Ye Yao thought about it for a while, and gave another reason in an attempt to make Lu Xun give up his plan of pretending to be a bent person: “Besides, it’s not like the two of us will be together just because we are both bent. I haven’t seen you liked any type of girl when you were straight before”
Lu Xun: “…?!”
Lu Xun’s attention was drawn away by the second half.
Ye Yao didn’t believe that he was really bent now. He would really try his best to convince Ye Yao in the future.
But Ye Yao had a white moonlight in his heart.
Ye Yao had also said that rabbits don’t eat grass beside their nests!
He was not Ye Yao’s ideal type of man!
Lu Xun, who had no experience in love relationships and had only held Ye Yao’s hand, was a little confused for a while.
…Oops, bad, he had to find a way to make Ye Yao like him too.
*****
Xiao Pang and Wen Ke were a little surprised to see Lu Xun, but felt it was strangely expected, after all, Lu Xun was always clinging to Ye Yao.
After the social event ended, everyone went back to school together, each to their own respective dormitories.
Lying on the bed, Lu Xun thought about asking his dog-headed advisor, but quickly dismissed his idea.
How could that guy know how to please a man when he could only talk about heterosexuality, and only knew how to identify gay men? His advice might even throw him into a ditch.
Lu Xun took his mobile phone to Baidu for a long time, and eventually poked into an emotional forum.
Lu Xun researched for a while and started posting:
[I fell in love with my friend, he has his own white moonlight and seems to really only regard me as a friend. Is there any good way to make him like me the same way? We’re both of the same gender.]
Perhaps it was because the title was hot enough, or the fact that there were very few same-sex relationship inquiries, Lu Xun received a lot of replies in a short period of time.
[Are you a GG or MM?]
[Are you a 1 or 0? You’d better ask clearly in advance, otherwise, in the end, if you get together in a wrong position, someone will be the one with tears in their eyes, tsk tsk tsk, that would be too miserable.]
[Let’s be realistic, how about your family background and how you look, with these two things you are basically invincible.]
Lu Xun felt that the questions asked by this group of people were quite reliable, and they could hit the point right away, maybe there was a way.
So he blurred his personal data and family background and replied:
[Male, more than 1.85 meters tall, good-looking, family assets of more than hundreds of million, more than ten houses in the front line, no conflict in position, I am 1.]
Netizens called out of being deceived:
[Fake, too fake! Even with such good conditions how can you not hook people?]
[No way, no way, do you know that there is nothing left to rely on now? This condition is still one point only, why don’t you just tell him what you want?]
[Are you bragging with elementary school students? Do you know how much the first-tier houses prices are?! Speechless.]
The voices of doubt disappeared after Lu Xun coded his bank card balance, and everyone exclaimed that it was unbelievable.
[No way, is there still an 0 that cannot be chased in this condition?]
[Big millionaire brother, I don’t recommend you take the initiative with your conditions, otherwise he will think he can handle you and spend your money like crazy in the end, especially since you look really inexperienced, you’ll be cheated easily.]
[I agree with the above’s point of view, if the original poster is really handsome and rich, then you can use some small tricks to seduce him.]
Lu Xun frowned at the comments.
What kind of bullshit was this? He would be very happy if Ye Yao was willing to spend his money like crazy, why were these people talking like it was a bad thing?
Lu Xun resisted the urge to complain and replied: [What type of tricks?]
Netizens really gave him various tricks
For example, ask Ye Yao to go out with him to various high-end restaurants for dinner, and during the meal, tell Ye Yao how popular and sought-after he is, which would make Ye Yao feel a sense of crisis and he would take the initiative to confess to him.
For example, from time to time, he expresses his specialness to Ye Yao, and after some time, he withdraws this specialness, making Ye Yao feel a sense of loss, and eventually forget about his white moonlight, and he would become the number one in Ye Yao’s heart.
[It’s like fishing, one catch after another catches the prey, what’s wrong with being a fishing system?]
[Then you can see him falling for you, going crazy for you, clanging against the wall for you, chasing after you and showing you mad love, hee hee.]
Seeing these tricks, Lu Xun’s face gradually became expressionless.
He clicked on the upper left corner, and then clicked on ‘delete this post’, and as soon as he refreshed the page, the thread was gone.
Lu Xun stuck his head out of the quilt. The dormitory was already pitch black, because everyone was fast asleep after a long day of playing outside.
Lu Xun quietly climbed off the bed, walked over to Ye Yao’s bedside, and quietly lifted the bed curtain to look inside.
Ye Yao was peacefully asleep, and his heart softened when he saw him.
Those people didn’t understand anything.
He would really wanted to be deceived by Ye Yao, and it would be best if he deceived his bank card along the way, but Ye Yao would not give him this chance.
Ye Yao was a very, very good person.
How could he possibly endure playing hard to get and play all sorts of tricks to make Ye Yao sad before pursuing him? Obviously, as long as Ye Yao gave him the slightest response, he would definitely nod his head.
He didn’t want to seduce Ye Yao like that just to make Ye Yao like him, that kind of agreeing was like giving charity.
A person like Ye Yao should be worthy of an upright pursuit.
He didn’t even dare to pursue boldly, then how could he be worthy of saying that he was sincere to Ye Yao?
Lu Xun reached out his hand and gently stroked Ye Yao’s hair.
The hair was soft and flowed like water through his fingers.
“Get ready, Classmate Ye.” Lu Xun said in a breathy voice, “I’m going to start pursuing you.”
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Zaki~ at long last, now I can finally not dreading opening a chapter to translate… but of course there’s more… now we just have to convince Yao Yao that Xun Xun really loves him not just as friends..
Ahhhhhhhh… It’s finally happening!!
Thanks for the chapter!!
Thank you so much for the chapter!
Operation is a go!
Thank you for the early Christmas present! I’m squealing so hard omg 😭❤️
I’m glad author-laoshi wrote Ye Yao to react realistically! Lu Xun definitely has to make up for his homophobia in the past before Ye Yao can trust him and open up.
That will be tough! Thanks for the chapter!
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
He really no-homo’d himself into a corner
Well, at least they talked! \(๑╹◡╹๑)ﾉ And great that LX saw that advices from netizens aren’t good choice~
Thank You for the new chapter ♡(˃͈ દ ˂͈ ༶ )
Lu Xun’s judgement is getting better and better. I’m so relieved he knows enough not to try using tricks to get Ye Yao. And it’s cool that Ye Yao was happy to get rescued too.
I agree! Although Lu Xun tends a bit towards the yandere side, at least he wants to give Ye Yao a clean and upright chasing because he respects and loves him too much to resort to such dirty tricks that would tarnish their ‘pure’ relationship.
Aiya~~ Classmate Lu, at last you have seen the light!! Now go forth and chase after your husband! Wooosh 🏃♂
Thanks for the chapter and happy holidays!
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thank you for the chapter!!!!!
Let beginning! 🎉 Ty for the chapter ❤️
tearfully rubs away the box
Okay much better now, going green 😌
i’m glad lu xun is thinking straight. i don’t think ye yao can last long if lu xun is earnestly pursuing him.
yaoyao listen to me xunxun really likes I swear I have screenshots here for evidence 🙇🏽♀️🙇🏽♀️. Just get together already and fed us dog food Im begging youuuuu😭🙏
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