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Ye Yao stared at this reply for a while, then returned to the top to see the title of this post.
[How can I relieve my feelings when the person I like has another sweetheart?]
In a space of a breath, Ye Yao had already analyzed the reason why this post had been seen by him.
There were only two possibilities. This post was made by Lu Xun, or Lu Xun was in a depressed mood and saw a post that matched his mood and clicked on it to check it out.
Then, because Lu Xun was in a bad mood, he gave him the wrong phone, and this post was seen by him by accident.
Lu Xun was in a bad mood today, was it because he remembered his crush again?
And he… was this “the person I like”.
Ye Yao recited the words silently in his heart several times, feeling uncontrollably happy emotionally, and rationally thinking that it was normal for Lu Xun to say that.
After all, if this post was really posted by Lu Xun, Lu Xun couldn’t ask his friends how to cope with having someone he liked who liked someone else, and the comments below would probably be advising Lu Xun to look on the bright side, make some new friends and not stop his friend from pursuing his true love.
But Lu Xun…would not take it lightly and look away. Long time ago, Lu Xun stubbornly wanted to be with his best friend in this world. In Lu Xun’s mind, love must also be compromised for this friendship.
Many people would not understand such a friendship, so it needed to be covered with a layer of veneer.
Ye Yao gradually cleared his mind, and looking at those replies, feeling a bit calm.
Surprisingly, he actually felt that what the netizens had advised was not completely unreasonable. If he stood from the perspective of a bystander, he would also probably advise Lu Xun to think twice.
Ye Yao scrolled down, and after reaching the bottom comment, it automatically refreshed, and he saw a new message.
[To be honest, this kind of discomfort is difficult to resolve. After all, love is different from friendship, it has a strong exclusivity, if you like him, then you definitely want to monopolize his body and mind. Work harder to make him like you too, and make him forget about that sweetheart.]
Ye Yao was flabbergasted.
… the exclusivity of love?
It was indeed true that their relationship had always been exclusive, but Ye Yao didn’t think there was anything wrong with it before. Lu Xun said that best friends were like this, and he agreed with Lu Xun’s point of view, never thinking about the exclusive nature of love.
And it couldn’t only be love that was exclusive, could it?
Ye Yao quickly cut out to search for the exclusivity of friendship, and there were quite a few answers.
[Friendship will of course have its own exclusivity, after all, sometimes you hope you can only be his/her only friend. However, this phenomenon is more common among women. After all, the contact between girlfriends is more intimate, and it is normal to hold hands and hug. Such a situation between boys is quite rare, at least I haven’t seen it, probably because there is relatively little physical contact in the first place.]
Ye Yao thought about the situation calmly.
Lu Xun liked to pose similar to what girlfriends did, such as taking pictures with his face next to his face
Lu Xun also liked to walk with him hand in hand like two girlfriends.
… It seemed reasonable that Lu Xun had friendship exclusivity towards him like many girls did with each other.
For whatever reason, now that this uniqueness had been destroyed by him, would a distraught Lu Xun seek the comfort of another for balance, as the post suggested?
He didn’t want to make conclusions about what had not happened, let alone make bad guesses about Lu Xun because of it.
He didn’t want Lu Xun to continue to suffer, so he might as well wait for a while and tell Lu Xun that he was gradually losing interest in emotional matters.
Ye Yao closed the webpage, cleared his search traces, as if nothing had happened.
Lu Xun was not so attentive in class, his mind was somewhere else as he took out his mobile phone while listening to the lecture.
After he took out the phone, he finally realized something was wrong and stared wide-eyed at the fat dinosaur on the phone case.
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Why did he have Ye Yao’s phone! Didn’t he give this phone to Ye Yao? What kind of illusion was this?
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…that forum.
Did he close the forum page properly at that time?
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Hopefully Ye Yao did not read of the bullshit, it was just a bunch of netizens trying to stir up trouble!
Lu Xun hesitated whether to take the initiative to ask Ye Yao about it, but was afraid that if Ye Yao hadn’t turned on his phone, he would see everything if he sent him a message.
Lu Xun waited until class was over, and suddenly received a message from Ye Yao: [Let’s not go too far for dinner tonight, and make it too complicated, let’s just eat casually, we have to go to class tomorrow.]
Lu Xun quickly replied: [En, will listen to you.]
Ye Yao did not sound unusual so Lu Xun was relieved, it looked like he had closed the forum page at that time.
With his mind at ease, Lu Xun continued to search on Ye Yao’s phone.
He changed direction this time, and the questions he asked became such as [How to defeat a rival in love], [How to overcome the white moonlight in my boyfriend’s heart], [How to turn the white moonlight into white grains of rice].
Probably because he was asking the right question, Lu Xun searched this time and found a lot of answers that he thought were helpful.
[If your rival in love is a lonely moon in the sky, then you should be a cinnabar mole! If your rival in love is as gentle as water, you can be as flamboyant as fire. If you are completely different types, it will help reduce the chance of him thinking about your rival in love.]
[The white moonlight, who is far away in the sky and can’t care about people, is useless. How many times did a white moonlight come back after going abroad, and found that his followers already had an ordinary-looking but super caring double? The white moonlight wanted to use other means to hook back his followers, but his followers have long been inseparable from the care of the double infiltrating all aspects of life, as is written in novels.]
It made sense, it all made sense. He had followed Ye Yao so closely that he never found any suspicious person, the odds were that Ye Yao probably never said a few words to that person.
The kind of person who used his face to bend Ye Yao, in the face of such a person Ye Yao would come to his senses sooner or later.
Lu Xun was satisfied and felt much better. He made up some impromptu love stories, turned off the mobile phone and continued to listen to the class, and along the way, he was thinking about where to take Ye Yao to eat tonight.
When Lu Xun came to the classroom, he was not in good spirits and was completely oblivious to who was sitting nearby. Behind him, a boy showed a thoughtful expression.
If Ye Yao were here, he would recognize this person. When he and Lu Xun were eating outside, this boy suddenly appeared out of nowhere to confess his love to Lu Xun, only to have Lu Xun block all of his contact information, and say outright that he would not accept having a friend of the same sex who liked him around him.
The boy took his eyes away from Lu Xun’s phone, and thought about the several questions that Lu Xun had searched, and came up with a bold idea.
Although his confession had failed last time, it didn’t mean that he had given up so easily, instead he lurked and bided his time, waiting for another opportunity. This was Lu Xun, and who wouldn’t want to take a shortcut once they managed to hook up with someone who could give him a life without worrying about food and clothing? He wanted to anyway.
The last time he confessed in a hurry, as he was afraid that if he confessed later, it would already be too late before Lu Xun and Ye Yao became a couple. But now Lu Xun has fallen in love with Ye Yao as he had expected, and Ye Yao had fallen in love with someone else!
Wasn’t this the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time?
Ye Yao and Lu Xun ended up going to a small barbecue shop next to the school.
The taste and environment of the barbecue shop was okay. Ye Yao ordered the usual two-person menu. When the meat and vegetables were served and he was about to start grilling, he saw Lu Xun picked up a slice of fat beef roll with enoki mushroom.
“Do you know what’s rolled inside?” Lu Xun said with a deep expression.
It was a strange question and Ye Yao looked at it a few more times before answering: “Enoki mushroom, what’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, I just looked at it and thought of myself.” Lu Xun let out a long sigh, “The fat beef rolled up the enoki mushroom, but what you rolled away was my heart.”
Ye Yao: “…”
Help.
There was an event in the store, and each of them was given a raw sterile egg, which could be mixed with their rice. Lu Xun used chopsticks to pick the egg mixture wrapped with the rice, and sighed again: “This egg mixture can’t be separated now that it is wrapped in rice, and you who is wrapped in my heart, also can’t be separated. Once wrapped, it will last forever.”
Ye Yao: “…”
Fortunately, he knew that Lu Xun said he was pursuing him, otherwise he would have thought that Lu Xun was performing cold press oil extraction for him.
Ye Yao gradually became expressionless: “If you say two more words, this plate of meat doesn’t need to be brushed with oil, I’ll just throw you in as refining oil.”
Lu Xun raised his eyebrows, with a smile on his lips: “Then you eat me into your stomach, you and I will become one.”
Lu Xun frowned again: “No, you can’t break the law and commit the crime for me, I’ll jump in by myself.”
Ye Yao: “You are really very kind, please.”
Lu Xun failed miserably in his afternoon blitz of love words. He roasted a few slices of meat and put them in Ye Yao’s bowl, and asked, “Can’t you see from these words that I’m really sincere?”
Ye Yao told the truth: “…I can’t see your sincerity, but I can definitely tell that you have never pursued anyone before.”
Lu Xun was taken aback for a moment, then smiled slowly, and said softly, “There was never anyone to pursue before, you are the first one. I’m still groping for my way around, so don’t mind it.”
Ye Yao was silent, waiting for the new batch of barbecued meat to be fully cooked, he also picked up a few slices of meat for Lu Xun in a courteous manner, and watched Lu Xun eat it up fully.
He didn’t feel it when he was fighting and bickering, but once Lu Xun talked to him so seriously like this, it shifted from their old ways of getting along to the present.
Lu Xun was pursuing him.
This really sounded like some dark humor.
Lu Xun looked at him with his face propped up in one hand: “I don’t know what you like either, why don’t Brother Yao do me a favor and just tell me how to pursue you in the most effective manner?”
“…You don’t have to pursue me.” Ye Yao whispered.
Lu Xun immediately said: “You won’t let me pursue you? I don’t agree.”
Ye Yao sighed: “That’s not what I meant.”
Lu Xun didn’t understand, he frowned and thought about it, and then suddenly it dawned on him.
“Yes, the act of courting appears more appropriate between two people who are not familiar with each other. From the starting, making a plan to meet, have dinner together, it would gradually get better. If you don’t like it, you would not agree to go out to eat together. But the two of us are different, we have done everything, and inviting you out to dinner again, there is no blushing and heart beating atmosphere at all.”
Lu Xun had no problem interpreting it that way, and Ye Yao didn’t explain. Halfway through the meal, Ye Yao wanted to go to the toilet, and the tall and big Lu Xun acted like a little bird: “I will keep an eye on our home here, so you should come back early.”
Ye Yao strode away: “From now on, it will be my home in the four seas.”
Ye Yao was halfway to the toilet when he realized that he had forgotten his mobile phone again.
Recently, no matter what you do outside, you have to scan the QR code for transactions. Without a mobile phone, you don’t feel safe at all. Ye Yao had not come to use these public establishments for some time, he was worried that even the toilet would require him to scan a QR code, so he just returned.
Because this barbecue shop was near the school, it was easy to meet acquaintances from the school. In order not to be disturbed, Lu Xun deliberately chose a corner on the farthest side, so that it would be difficult for others to find them, and both of them could spend some time alone.
It was difficult for others to spot this position, and it was equally not easy to see people approaching. Ye Yao walked around the corner, but before he could see their seats, he heard the sound of voices talking there.
… Someone was talking to Lu Xun.
It was a very young male voice.
The sudden arrival of the unknown person while he was away stopped Ye Yao in his tracks. He stood by the wall and listened to a conversation that he was not supposed to hear.
“I warned you before.” Lu Xun’s voice was very cold, completely devoid of the enthusiasm and cheerfulness he had when facing Ye Yao, “It seems that you didn’t listen.”
“I…I would like to fight for it again.” Another soft male voice responded, “You rejected me before because you didn’t like men, but you like men now, don’t you?”
Lu Xun sneered: “Last time I have blocked all your contact information, it seems that you want to experience further blocking methods.”
Further blocking was just shorthand; and no one knew what the actual means behind it were, but the unknown was something most people feared.
The boy probably didn’t expect Lu Xun to talk so badly either, he was stunned for a few seconds, and then softened his voice: “I’ll just finish the last few sentences and try to fight for myself. I didn’t mean to peek. I was sitting behind you in class…and I accidentally saw your searches on the phone. Ye Yao has someone else he likes, right?”
Lu Xun’s voice seemed to contain ice: “It’s none of your business, just mind your own business.”
Ye Yao stood quietly behind the wall, he couldn’t see Lu Xun’s face, but he could imagine Lu Xun’s expression.
His expression right now would be extremely sullen, with the corners of his mouth drooping, making him look fierce.
When he and Lu Xun were both straight men, Lu Xun had been already reluctant to fall in love, much more for Ye Yao to fall in love with others. Now that someone else had made it clear, Lu Xun must have been furious to hear this.
The boy’s voice was like a little white flower swaying in the wind: “Brother Lu… I really like you a lot, can’t you give me a chance? When you get tired of chasing him, just look back at me. I will definitely not add to the mess. I can make you relax, you can do whatever you want, you can use me to relax before you go to pursue him, as long as I stay by your side, that is enough.”
Every sentence of this plea sounded very serious, and every word was full of temptation and enticement to human nature, so much that Ye Yao, after listening to it, couldn’t help but recall the reply he read on the forum.
[You find someone to pursue you, you lick him, your back up person licks you, and in this process you will get a wonderful balance. It’s best to pursue people, but there are other options if you can’t.]
At that time, he didn’t go deep into guessing whether Lu Xun would do this, because he didn’t want to imagine badly about something that hadn’t happened, lest it affect his relationship with Lu Xun.
But now, this possibility was literally in front of him.
Lu Xun was extremely well endowed in all aspects, and the fact that even in these excellent conditions, there was not one suitor, was purely due to Lu Xun’s struggle to drive those people out.
So what about this situation? Lu Xun had just got angry during the day because Ye Yao liked someone else. This was simply a good thing that was tailor-made for Lu Xun.
Lu Xun might still be very straight, and accepting this proposal didn’t mean Lu Xun was bent. After all, there were many ways to relax, and it was not always necessary to engage in that specific aspect of contact in order to gain the psychological satisfaction of being held in high regard by others.
Should he go out and tell Lu Xun that his so-called white moonlight was actually Lu Xun himself?
Then everything would further get into confusion because then, Lu Xun would just hammer it home and directly confirm that they were in love with each other, and could be together immediately.
But was it actually love or friendship? Who knew whether Lu Xun was just enduring his disgust towards homosexuality to have further contact?
Ye Yao looked at the white wall in front of him, that was painted as white as his now white brain.
It would be great if time were to stop at this moment, Ye Yao thought.
But the passage of time did not change, and Ye Yao heard Lu Xun’s voice again.
Lu Xun sneered: “If you like acting so much, you should transfer to the Drama and Acting Department as soon as possible. The Department of Finance can’t hold a talent like you.”
“I will have him all to myself, and he will have me all to himself. Get lost, and don’t stand here like an intrusive clown and spoil my appetite.”
There was silence in the air, and then there was the sound of footsteps.
Ye Yao walked out behind the wall and bumped into the person who ran away, he locked eyes with the boy he bumped into. Ye Yao didn’t think anything of it, but the corner of his mouth seemed to twitch into a smile.
This smile made the boy even angrier, but he didn’t dare to do anything, and strode away.
Lu Xun, probably wondering what the sound of the collision had been, came out to have a look and was startled to see him, nervously pulling him forward for examination.
“Did that person hurt you?” Lu Xun asked worriedly.
The boy who vaguely heard this sentence ran even faster, utterly angry.
Ye Yao, who was pulled back to his position by Lu Xun for inspection, was still in a daze.
Lu Xun had refused.
Lu Xun’s answer…has a strong sense of exclusivity.
It was so strong that it seemed a bit out of place to put it only as an exclusivity of friendship.
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Learned a new term exclusive love
Clenching my hands, when will they both realize? 😖
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Jesus wept. What is Ye Yao hesitating for? Friendship or love? Can’t it be both? However he justifies it to himself, he’s playing with Lu Xun’s feelings.
At least Ye Yao likes to make solid and sound conclusions instead of hasty and permanent ones 😅
Because he wanted to make sure, he observed Lu Xun and managed to come to the truth about Lu Xun’s feelings through rational thought. That’s……so rare to see in novels, so I’m really enjoying this type of MC (and dumb ML lol)
Thanks for the chapter! 😘
+1 Right, if he really believes this is Lu Xun being impulsive (and he knows Lu Xun is impulsive lol) and it’s just a phase, then jumping into it would potentially ruin their two person unit. Now he’s finding out if Lu Xun is sincere or just stubbornly sticking to a momentary thought.
Finally, our dimwits are finding each other. Love…sigh.
Thank you for this chapter.
Oh yeah! 😍 Ty for the chapter ❤️
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