Edited by Elanor
Ye Yao froze for a moment, and quickly came back to his senses.
Obviously, it couldn’t be that Lu Xun wanted to shake hands with him, it could only be that Lu Xun was trying to move his hand away, but unfortunately he chose to withdraw at the same time and in the same direction as him.
For a man who abhorred physical contact with men, this was quite an unfortunate event.
Ye Yao directly retracted his hand to his side, returned to the counter and took a few pieces of tissue paper and put them in front of Lu Xun.
Lu Xun had a serious face, looking very fierce and unfriendly, as if he was about to stand up and start fighting with Ye Yao in the next second.
“Here you go.” Ye Yao said.
The sullen school bully took the tissue from Ye Yao’s hand, and wiped the corner of the table that was slightly wet with the glass of frozen lemonade.
Ye Yao: “It’s not for you to wipe the table… Forget it, it’s fine.”
Lu Xun frowned and looked over: “What did you say?”
“I didn’t say anything.” It seemed that Lu Xun didn’t want to talk about it anymore, so Ye Yao didn’t mention it, “I’ll go back to work, call me if you need anything.”
Lu Xun watched in silence as Ye Yao turned back to the counter, threw the tissue into the trash can below, and held the cold lemonade with the hand that had been in contact with Ye Yao.
… Touching Ye Yao’s hand did not make him feel sick.
It was probably because they were friends, and it’s normal for friends to occasionally hook shoulders, give high fives and fists bumps once in a while.
All kinds of messy and confusing thoughts flew through Lu Xun’s mind.
Who said high-fives and fist bumps were necessary to be friends, wasn’t spiritual and mental communication enough?
There was also a certain difference between this and high-five and fist-bumping. Whose high-five and fist-bump was finger-to-finger touching, it was a bit disgusting to think about it.
But it was okay if it’s with Ye Yao, Ye Yao looked like a straight man like him, and he was clean and tidy.
…… He wouldn’t be the first friend to come across Ye Yao’s hand, would he?
***
The door of the milk tea shop opened, the wind chimes jingled a few times, and a lively and cheeky male voice rang out.
“Classmate Ye, we’ve come to see you!”
Lu Xun looked up and saw several other boys from his class.
They probably just finished playing football, their hair was messy and a little wet, they were laughing and joking as they walked up to the counter to talk to Ye Yao.
The shop was quite noisy and Lu Xun could not hear the full conversation, he could only hear a sentence or two occasionally, watching Ye Yao hand over the prepared drinks.
The people at the table who had been talking in front had left, and Lu Xun was finally able to hear the conversation between Ye Yao and those boys.
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Ye Yao briefly gave his friend a high five, then joked with them some more, and watched them leave.
The calm was restored and Lu Xun lowered his eyes, averting his gaze, his aura of being unapproachable intensifying.
He had to say that the topics in the textbook became more and more annoying the more he looked at them.
***
The workday ended.
At the end of the working hours, Ye Yao changed his clothes, took his backpack, and walked over to Lu Xun’s table.
Their new school bully was probably in a grumpy mood after finishing his homework, his brows were furrowed, and he didn’t seem to have the slightest bit of good temper.
Ye Yao thought that there was probably something wrong with him. Anyway, he was extremely happy when he saw someone who didn’t study started to study, even if this person looked like he was going to beat up the person who came up with the questions.
It’s very good that we are all the future pillars of the motherland.
“Have you finished answering them? Let me copy it.” Ye Yao said it in a very natural way.
Lu Xun put down his pen fiercely, crossed his hands across his chest, and leaned back on the chair: “There are so many questions, how can I possibly finish doing them?”
Ye Yao sat down opposite Lu Xun, pulled Lu Xun’s workbook over to look at it, and raised his eyebrows.
“You’ve actually answered these few questions.” Ye Yao said, “I saw that you were sleeping during class, I can’t believe that you can answer this too, you are amazing.”
The fierce-looking school bully didn’t seem to be so fierce anymore: “…Does this even need to be said?”
Ye Yao took out his own workbook and started copying, saying as he wrote, “Can I borrow your homework again to copy in the future? It will be much faster this way.”
Lu Xun’s expression stiffened slightly. If the person who said this to him had been someone else, Lu Xun felt that he could have immediately switched into cynical mode.
What a joke, someone actually wanted to copy his homework from now on! Don’t you have hands? If you don’t have time to do it, then don’t hand it in. You don’t even have the guts to be criticized by the teacher for not turning your homework in. You just want to copy other people’s homework. Pushing this burden to him was a joke in a joke. It’s none of his business, right?
Even if he ran away from home for three years and jumped off the building, he still couldn’t do his homework in a regular manner.
But now the person sitting opposite him and saying this to him was Ye Yao.
… Ye Yao was quite serious about his studies. He must really have no time to write.
It was rare to make a friend with such a personality and temperament that suited his liking, so it was probably not good to refuse him outright.
Lu Xun’s face stiffened: “You can borrow someone else’s.”
Lu Xun suddenly changed the topic: “You can borrow the homework of the group of friends who came to you just now. I think the one who gave you a high-five is pretty good, he seems to be doing well in his studies, en, his academic performance looked good.”
Ye Yao was not interested in asking someone who was already doing his homework on time to lend him homework to copy. He was more interested in asking someone who wouldn’t otherwise open a book to start doing homework.
“It’s not convenient, it’s not like they are my deskmate.” Ye Yao said, “After all, you are my deskmate.”
Lu Xun’s expression became less grumpy.
At the beginning, the Head Teacher put them together at the same table. At first, the teacher wanted Ye Yao, the Class President, to take care of his discipline. Second, he probably wanted Ye Yao, who was the number one in the class, to explain to him what he didn’t understand when he was free.
Who would have thought that things would take this turn, and instead of asking Ye Yao questions, Ye Yao would start copying his homework.
Lu Xun, who was in a good mood, changed his mind.
“It depends on my mood.” Lu Xun said.
***
After copying their homework, the two came out of the milk tea shop and rode home.
Lu Xun had rented a house in the neighborhood that was well-decorated to his liking. It was not far from the neighborhood where Ye Yao lived, and it was on the same road, so they could walk to many places together.
When they arrived at the fork in the road, Lu Xun was about to say a cool “bye, see you” and part ways with Ye Yao, when he was called to stop again.
Ye Yao stopped the bike, with one leg propped on the ground, he turned to look at Lu Xun.
“You live alone?” Ye Yao asked.
“So what if I live alone? Do I need to share rent with others?” Lu Xun asked back.
Shared renting was not only shared renting but sharing a room, and he would never share a room with anyone in this life. The thought of sharing a room with someone else in a house that belonged to him was annoying, and he preferred to be alone.
Ye Yao tapped his fingers on the handlebars, and the breeze blew his collar and hair. Against the background of the blue sky and green trees, he was like a boy who walked out of the comics, untouched by the world, and indifferent to the world.
Such a young man looked at Lu Xun, his face was not joking, his eyes were full of seriousness.
“Take down my phone number, you can call me if you need anything.” Ye Yao said, “Living alone here may cause a lot of trouble, so don’t be polite about this kind of thing. I have lived here for more than ten years, I’m much more familiar with the place than you are.”
Lu Xun was quite a rebellious person, was born in a wealthy family and had heard too many people saying affectionately that they wanted to help him take care of him, but he refused to let anyone take care of him, and would confront them instead.
But now the person who said this sentence was Ye Yao, Lu Xun felt that the sincerity in this sentence was very strong.
Although the time they spent together was not very long, it was obvious that Ye Yao’s time was quite tight. If he wasn’t really worried, how could he give him an unknown piece of time?
Lu Xun fished out the phone from his pocket in silence, stored Ye Yao’s number as Ye Yao dictated, and looked at Ye Yao again.
The rebellious school bully was not used to this kind of warmth, raised his eyebrows with a smirk, and said jokingly, “Aren’t you afraid that I’ll call you at two or three o’clock in the middle of the night?”
“It’s okay.” Ye Yao smiled lightly, “Anytime is fine, this kind of thing doesn’t matter.”
Ye Yao stepped on the pedal: “I’m going, bye.”
The young man rode away on his bicycle, the breeze blowing his school uniform and making his back even thinner.
***
Lu Xun returned home, ordered himself a takeaway for dinner and then just sat doing nothing.
Normally, he would go out to play basketball, or if he didn’t want to go out, he would watch TV or play games to pass the time, but now, for some reason, he had no interest in any of these activities.
Lu Xun lay bored on the sofa for a long time, then walked to the study and took out a book from the desk.
Forget it, just take a look, in case one day he was in a good mood and was willing to let Ye Yao copy his homework, and he could slowly do it.
There seemed to be some sort of magic in that book, Lu Xun read it for about ten minutes, then closed his eyes.
Having fallen asleep on his stomach on the desk at seven or eight o’clock in the evening, Lu Xun woke up in the early morning. Checking his phone for the time, it was one o’clock.
There was a slight itching in his throat, Lu Xun coughed a few times, and planned to leave the study and go back to the bedroom to continue to sleep.
Just as he was about to close the open window, Lu Xun saw a somewhat familiar figure from the distance facing the road outside opposite the study.
It was too far away to see clearly, so Lu Xun took out his phone and found the camera function to zoom in on that spot, and he could see it roughly.
It was Ye Yao and a woman who looked to be in her thirties getting down from a taxi. Ye Yao supported the woman the whole time so that she could walk effortlessly. The woman would cover her mouth with her hand from time to time, looking like she was coughing.
Ye Yao with the woman, walked around the corner and disappeared.
Lu Xun made a quick judgment, that woman was probably Ye Yao’s sick mother, and because his mother suddenly felt unwell in the middle of the night, Ye Yao took her to the hospital and was only just returning now.
Lu Xun quickly made the association.
…Previously, Ye Yao said that to him because he was afraid that he would be sick at home alone and no one would take care of him, so he specifically told him to call no matter what time of day it was?
There was an indescribable feeling in his heart, not the urge to continue to confront people.
With Ye Yao no longer visible on the street, Lu Xun put down his phone, left the study and went to his bedroom.
Silence and solitude enveloped him as he lay on the wide bed.
Lu Xun tossed and turned for a long time, took out his phone, looked at the newly added phone number, and set it as a priority contact.
Having done so, he was satisfied, and quietly closed his eyes.
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What the author has to say.
The extra story will be fast paced and will quickly move into the stage where the heart wants to be the best friend in the world without knowing it haha
Oh my he is so stupid nd silly~🪿
My heart! 😭🫶💖
Thank You for the new chapter (⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡
Aw look at Lu Clueless making the connection as he watches Ye Yao take care of his sick mother. It’s making him realize he’s all alone 😔. No wonder he got so sticky later.
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