Edited by Elanor
Of course, Ye Yao was not hurt by the accidental bump, but he was still dragged around for a good inspection for a long time.
As Lu Xun examined him, he watched Lu Xun’s head getting closer and closer to his neck.
He could even hear the faint sound of Lu Xun’s breathing. Lu Xun was taking a deep breath, but he didn’t know what he was inhaling.
“I didn’t get hit on the neck.” Ye Yao said.
“…” Lu Xun stepped back a little to look at the puzzled Ye Yao.
Of course he knew that it was unlikely that he would get hit on the neck while walking, but he just… couldn’t restrain himself.
He hadn’t been able to inhale Ye Yao’s scent for a long, long time, or at most he could only inhale Ye Yao’s clothes.
Now the living and breathing Ye Yao was in front of him, so close to him, that it easily aroused the deepest addiction in his heart.
Lu Xun rubbed his nose and said in a muffled voice, “Just in case, it’s always good to check.”
When Ye Yao didn’t say anything, Lu Xun sat down next to him and continued to grill the meat.
“I overheard a lot of the conversation you had with that person just now.” Ye Yao said, “I’m sorry for eavesdropping.”
Lu Xun immediately retorted: “How can you call this eavesdropping? It’s called listening openly. This is your place, you can come back whenever you want.”
Ye Yao laughed, then restrained his smile, and continued: “After he gives up on you as a target, chances are, he’ll go find another boy.”
“That would be best.” Lu Xun’s face flashed with a touch of disgust and revulsion that was familiar to Ye Yao, he put the roasted meat into Ye Yao’s bowl and returned to his smiling appearance when facing Ye Yao, “Let’s not talk about that, let’s continue eating.”
*****
Back in the dormitory, Ye Yao lay on the bed.
He recalled every single thing that had happened today.
Lu Xun’s overwhelming desire to be exclusive and possessive of him did not allow anyone to intervene with the absolute exclusivity between the two of them.
There was also the flash of disgust on Lu Xun’s face, probably unnoticed by Lu Xun himself, when he mentioned that the boy might go looking for other men.
It was exactly the same resistance Lu Xun used to feel when he heard about homosexuality when he was a homophobic straight man.
This subconscious reaction was still present today even when Lu Xun claimed to have gone bent.
He didn’t get to see the expression on Lu Xun’s face when he was talking to the boy, but now that he thought about it, it should have probably been one of extreme disgust and revulsion.
This made him even more convinced that Lu Xun was still very straight, but there seemed to be a slight possibility of a bend in the straightness.
…How could such a contradiction exist?
Ye Yao was not very good at relationship matters. It was a rare enlightenment for him to be able to realize that he liked Lu Xun. It was only normal for him not to be able to see that other people were hitting on him. It was only normal for him not to ask himself to immediately transform himself into a master of feelings. It was impossible to analyze Lu Xun’s feelings clearly and logically.
Ye Yao’s phone vibrated, he picked it up, and saw a message from Lu Xun.
Lu Xun: [Little Penguin Probe.jpg]
Lu Xun: [Can I get a passing grade for today’s date?]
Ye Yao thought for a while and replied:
[Today’s not called a date.]
[It’s called a dinner date.]
*****
It was another school day, Lu Xun was still in the throes of a date turned dinner date, and Ye Yao received a message from his mother.
Mother Ye: [Yao Yao, did your Grandfather come to see you?]
Ye Yao also quickly replied during class: [No, what’s the matter, Mom?]
Mother Ye replied: [Your Uncle wants to buy a house, and Grandpa wants us to help pay part of it. If he comes to you, you can ask him to call Mom directly, no need to bother talking to him more and affect your mood.]
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Ye Yao lowered his eyes: [Okay, Mom, don’t worry about it.]
*****
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Ye Yao received the call at eight o’clock in the evening, and he walked outside the dormitory with his mobile phone.
There were greetings and a few pleasantries at the beginning, but Ye Yao’s attitude was indifferent, and it didn’t take long for his Grandpa to get to the point.
“Xiao Yao, your second Uncle is going to buy a house. We are all family, so we should help each other more, right? Grandpa knows you must have some money, and your academic performance is very good. Don’t be stingy, you’re an only child, when you’re old, in case something happens to you, won’t you also ask your Cousin to take care of you?”
Ye Yao walked to the corner of the unoccupied staircase and opened the closed window, letting the breeze, which was beginning to carry the heat of early summer, hit his face.
“That’s not necessary, I can ask a caretaker to take care of me, so I won’t bother him.” Ye Yao said indifferently.
Grandpa’s voice was very loud: “How can outsiders be more caring as family members? There was a news story a few days ago that a caregiver with a monthly salary of $10,000 was not even willing to help with shit and urine!”
“It’s okay.” Ye Yao said, “I’m afraid that my Cousin will pull out my oxygen tube if he takes care of me. A caregiver is fine with me.”
Grandpa was blocked by Ye Yao’s words for a few minutes, and when he spoke again, he sounded even more angry: “You can’t be wolf-hearted, Ye Yao! Do you remember when you were little and I took you and your Cousin out to play? You had so much fun then, but now that you’ve grown up, you will disregard your past friendship completely, and turn your back against me like your Mother?”
The spring breeze could not blow away the frost that covered Ye Yao’s brows and eyes as he looked out of the window, his chest surging with depression.
“I didn’t have fun when you took me out that time,” Ye Yao said coldly, “and Mom, she didn’t turn her back on anyone. I am going to hang up now.”
Ye Yao hung up the phone straight away, he closed the window again and was about to walk back to the dormitory, but as he turned around, he saw a figure standing furtively at the corner of the stairs coming up from downstairs.
He was familiar with that figure.
“I didn’t mean to eavesdrop.” Lu Xun said, holding up the shopping bag in his hand to show his innocence, “I saw you were studying too hard, so I wanted to go downstairs to buy you some snacks, but I didn’t expect to come across you talking on the phone here.”
“…Hmmnn.” Ye Yao adjusted his mood and faced Lu Xun, “Let’s go back together?”
Of course that was fine.
Lu Xun took three steps up the stairs and walked to Ye Yao’s side.
Based on Ye Yao’s tone on the phone call just now, it was easy to guess that Ye Yao was not in a good mood. Lu Xun carefully touched Ye Yao’s shoulder: “What’s wrong, is your Cousin bullying you? Why are you not happy? Tell me, I’ll help you bully him back.”
“…It’s okay, what happened more than ten years ago, it’s long gone.” Ye Yao smiled and didn’t say anything.
Lu Xun was not surprised by Ye Yao’s reluctance to say anything. Ye Yao had always been the kind of person who liked to keep things bottled up inside. In the past, Ye Yao didn’t take the initiative to tell him about the difficulties at home. He only found out by asking. Yes, this was the only way to help Ye Yao as much as possible.
Of course, not everything was a good time to get to the bottom of things, but Lu Xun’s instincts told him that Ye Yao cared enough about it to warrant asking.
Wouldn’t it be bad if Ye Yao also had a psychological shadow that made Ye Yao reluctant to turn his friends into lovers?
After a bit of subtle probing, seeing that Ye Yao would not relent and spill, Lu Xun chose to seek help off-site.
He took out his mobile phone and started to contact Ye Yao’s Mother.
As Ye Yao’s friend, he had great respect and enthusiasm towards Ye Yao’s Mother. Now, as Ye Yao’s suitor, Lu Xun’s attitude was even more warm and cordial to the extreme.
How could it be Ye Yao’s Mother, that was his Mother as well! From now on, we will all be family!
After Ye Yao’s Mother had been coaxed into a happy mood by him, Lu Xun began to tentatively ask his own questions.
[I was talking with Ye Yao today, I heard him talking about how he was upset when he went out to play with his Cousin, but he didn’t tell me in detail, do you know what happened at that time?]
Ye Yao’s mother did know.
At that time, Ye Yao was still young, and he hadn’t fully developed the habit of keeping everything in his heart. After returning home and being hugged and coaxed by his Mother, he spilled out his grievances.
At that time, a new amusement park had opened, and Ye Yao’s Grandfather took Ye Yao’s Cousin to play, fearing that his Cousin would be bored if no one accompanied him, so he brought Ye Yao along.
The amusement park was a big, very high class, and new place for people at that time, so there were a lot of people going there, and the stuff inside was always sold out.
The trendy fruit soda was sold down until there was only one glass left, and this glass of fruit soda was given to his Cousin as a matter of course, and Ye Yao was given mineral water to drink. Since Ye Yao was the Elder Brother, he had to give way to his Younger Brother, and the mineral water was healthy.
There was only one bucket of Crown Ice Cream left, and it was of course rightly given to his Cousin. Ye Yao could just eat a small box of ordinary ice cream, because Ye Yao was too skinny and couldn’t eat that much.
Later they saw a balloon seller with a balloon bearing the print of Huluwa and Sun Wukong that most little boys liked, and Ye Yao also was no exception.
There were still two balloons left, and Ye Yao was very happy to think that he would be able to get one this time, whichever one it was, he would be very happy.
But Ye Yao didn’t expect that he would still end up with none of them. Because his Cousin liked both the Huluwa and Sun Wukong printed balloons, he couldn’t let go of either one. In the end, under his Cousin’s crying and screaming, the old man put both balloons into his hands.
“Xiao Yao looks so delicate, he must not like this kind of thing,” Ye Yao’s Grandfather said, “Grandpa will buy it for you when he sees Snow White’s.”
“…I don’t like Snow White, I just like this.” Ye Yao said.
“What did you say?” Grandpa asked.
Ye Yao didn’t answer. After buying the balloons, you could have your photo taken with the people dressed as cute doll bears not far away for ten yuan per person.
The large doll bear was fluffy, and the fur on its body was very soft to look at. The Cousin buried his face in the teddy bear’s belly excitedly, and Ye Yao couldn’t take his eyes off it as well.
He liked that too, and he wanted to go and hold the teddy bear’s furry-looking hand.
Ye Yao, who was waiting, got the bad news that his Grandpa had spent too much today, and there was not enough money left.
This time Ye Yao withdrew voluntarily, and was praised by his Grandfather who said he was sensible.
Maybe because he was the Elder Brother, maybe because he’s the Grandson, no matter what the reason was, he would not be the one being favored in this excursion.
And Ye Yao’s introverted nature also prevented Ye Yao from competing for favor.
Ye Yao’s Mother roughly finished talking about what had happened, and then sighed: [Now, these are trivial things, and he definitely doesn’t want to tell you such trivial things again, because he will feel embarrassed.]
Lu Xun was furious when he heard what had happened, so angry that he wished he could have been next to Ye Yao at that time, buying everything and giving it to Ye Yao.
How could he have only met Ye Yao in high school? They should have been close friends since they were three years old, childhood sweethearts, started dating when they were teens, and went to get a marriage license when they turned twenty-three years old, so no one could even try to bully Ye Yao under his nose.
Lu Xun took a breath to calm himself down, and then replied to Ye Yao’s Mother: [Yes, I’ve been to the amusement park with him before, and he never said anything about it, even once.]
The current Ye Yao, as long as he deliberately hid something, he would definitely hide it so that no one would find out.
Ye Yao’s Mother continued: [When we tried to take him to the amusement park afterwards, he always said he didn’t like it anymore and wouldn’t go.]
Did you really dislike it, or did you pretend not to?
With Ye Yao’s character, I am afraid that after seeing the cost of going to play once, he was unwilling to burden his parents again. It was only after Ye Yao started to get scholarships and part-time jobs that he started to go out more.
… Ye Yao’s regrets, the times Lu Xun was not involved in, Lu Xun wanted to make up for them all, and occupy every inch of Ye Yao’s memories.
Lu Xun poked his head out of the bed and asked Ye Yao, “Would you like to go to the amusement park this weekend?”
“I have to tutor for make-up lessons on the weekend.” Ye Yao replied.
Lu Xun turned his head back and tapped on his phone again, and after a while, poked his head back out again: “But I saw Ms. Wang’s Circle of Friends saying that because her Son did well in the monthly exams, she was going to take him out for the weekend.”
Ye Yao took out his phone to check, and found that it was actually true. He also soon received a text message from Ms. Wang that he had the weekend off.
“Eitherway, I don’t want to go.” Ye Yao said.
After today’s phone call, he probably wouldn’t even want to go to the amusement park for the next while.
Ye Yao thought that this was the end of the matter, but he did not expect that after a few minutes, he received a message from Lu Xun.
[Do you want to go to the amusement park this weekend? If you don’t want to, I’ll ask again in five minutes.]
Ye Yao: “…”
Lu Xun really kept his word and sent invitations to Ye Yao every five minutes. It didn’t matter if Ye Yao didn’t reply, he continued to send messages periodically.
By the time Ye Yao had finished reviewing his textbook and had gone to bed after washing, dozens of invitation messages from Lu Xun had already been piled up on his phone.
Five minutes after five minutes, there were only twelve five-minute periods in an hour.
The lights were already out in the dormitory, but Lu Xun’s messages were still coming on time every five minutes.
As long as the phone was turned to silent, these messages would not affect Ye Yao in any way, and Lu Xun would be the only one who would be busy.
At 12:28, Ye Yao, who was lying down, got up and went to the bed curtains which had been drawn up.
At 12:29:50, Ye Yao lifted the bed curtain between him and Lu Xun.
Lu Xun was holding his phone, typing out the invitation message word by word, the light from the phone screen shining on his face, reflecting the seriousness in his dark eyes.
Lu Xun raised his head at the sound of movement, and met Ye Yao’s eyes.
Lu Xun, who had been expressionless till then, immediately showed a smile to Ye Yao, and it seemed to be his instinct to smile happily when he saw Ye Yao.
Ye Yao’s grip on the bed curtain tightened, crumpling the piece of fabric as he said in a breathy voice: “What kind of person types word by word and sends it so many times, don’t you know how to copy and paste?”
Lu Xun didn’t say anything as he sent a new invitation message, then started typing again, and sent.
Ye Yao took out his mobile phone and saw the new text sent by Lu Xun.
[Each invitation must show the sincerity of the invitation, no copy and paste.]
Ye Yao’s hands trembled slightly as he lowered the bed curtain back to block the view between him and Lu Xun, and typed his reply word by word:
[Let’s go then.]
*****
There were many children in the amusement park as it was the weekend, and Ye Yao was surrounded by children and couples as he entered the amusement park with Lu Xun that weekend.
It was probably because he and Lu Xun were more outstanding in appearance, and the children didn’t know how to hide it, many of them just stared at them, and waved to say “bye” to them before walking away.
Ye Yao was infected by this childlike atmosphere, and his eyes were stained with a smile: “The children are quite cute.”
Lu Xun next to him frowned: “But we won’t have children.”
Ye Yao: “…”
Lu Xun came up with a solution: “But as long as you like, we can adopt many of them.”
Lu Xun frowned again: “I don’t like children though.”
Ye Yao: “…I think you’re thinking too far ahead.”
Lu Xun didn’t feel that he had gone too far ahead, but instead of going on about this topic, he stopped when he and Ye Yao came to a place.
“Wait for me here for a moment.” Lu Xun said.
Ye Yao was unsure, but he stopped and stood where he was.
While waiting, several large dolls played by several people walked past him, followed by a group of chattering children.
Ye Yao quietly watched as the big doll and the children left from there. He did not make a sound, so no one would stop for him, and no one would know what he was thinking.
There was a sudden weight on his shoulders, and Ye Yao turned his head to see a big furry paw.
Ye Yao: “?”
Ye Yao turned around and saw a huge doll teddy bear standing behind him.
This bear was fluffy and round, the fur on its body was soft and touchable at first glance, and the bear was holding two sparkling balloons in his other hand, making him look cartoonish and dreamy.
Ye Yao, a big man, was very impressed by this bear, not to mention the other children.
A little boy rushed up: “Xiong Xiong, can I touch the hair on your body?”
“No.” A lazy male voice came out from the bear’s head, it was the voice Ye Yao was most familiar with.
The big bear’s head turned towards Ye Yao, looking at him and there was a smile inside that voice.
“I am his exclusive bear, and I will only let him touch me.”
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zaki~ it’s starting, it’s starting *giggling giggling*
That line 😆😘🥰
Oh my, that was funnly, but sweet at the same time~ (=^w^=) Now I wondering about theirs past, we really don’t know to much…
Thank You for the new chapter (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡
there would be 2 sets of extras…the last set is about their past.. stay with me ei?
So I need to be patient! Can’t wait ~
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
This is so sweet ahhhhhhh. Thank you for the chapter!
HOOHOOOHOOH LETS GOOOOO
That grandpa 😤! I’m relieved that Ye Yao and his mother don’t feel obligated to give in. Maybe we’ll get to see Lu Xun set him straight after he’s finished faithfully righting all the wrongs from Ye Yao’s childhood ( being adorable).
Thanks for the chapter ❤️
Cute….🥹
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AHHHH, i’m screaming silently here in the bedroom palm on heart while punching sheets because of ‘kilig’ kyAHHHHHH mwehehehehehehe