TW: some homophobia (from in-story netizens), but Cao Feng disagrees.
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Cao Feng searches up homosexuality, and sees a lot of results about ‘curing’ gayness and people wanting to cut off their children for being gay. He immediately disagrees with them and is trying to learn to accept homosexuality for Duan Yuche’s sake.
Skip from “He typed out the word “homosexuality”, and hit enter.” to “Cao Feng thought this was absurd. Those were their flesh and blood relatives, how could they even think that?” if you don’t want to read it!
Cao Feng asked Duan Yuche if he was going to use the computer, and Duan Yuche said no, letting him take it. He knew that Cao Feng often had to do research whenever he made things. Duan Shumin had said that day that he would buy a new laptop for Cao Feng, but Duan Yuche hadn’t let him: “If you buy him something new again, he’ll cry for you to see.”
A pretty good laptop cost upwards of ten thousand yuan. Cao Feng wasn’t even willing to buy new gel pens when they ran out, and would only buy refills. Two days ago, Duan Yuche had even seen him trying to figure out how to refill the refills with regular ink, and ending up with ink all over his hands.
Cao Feng hugged the computer back to his room. He opened the search bar, but then stopped. There was some struggle on his face. After a long time, he pressed the first letter ‘h’.
He typed out the word “homosexuality”, and hit enter. An overwhelming amount of information immediately came into view. In this day and age, there was a lot of research about sexuality, but somehow the first thing Cao Feng saw was an immoral advertisement: “Can homosexuality be cured? How to cure homosexuality? Please call XXX Psychotherapy Centre 171x-xxx-xxxx…..”
Cao Feng’s gaze only paused there for a second, and then moved down. There was a post right below of a mother asking for help: “My son is abnormal, he likes men, what should I do? Please help me…”
The number of similar results was actually not small, and there were even people asking, was it because their son actually wasn’t a boy, but was a girl, so they liked men? A lot of people also thought it was disgusting and scary, morally corrupt, wanting to sever ties with their children.
Cao Feng thought this was absurd. Those were their flesh and blood relatives, how could they even think that?
Even though he himself…was struggling to accept it, he would never hate others for such a reason!
Cao Feng continued to search for information. There were many positive results, saying that this was normal and had a scientific explanation. Cao Feng read the relevant materials for a long time, and though he couldn’t ignore the slight resistance in his heart, since his younger brother was part of the gay community, he would learn to accept it.
Reopening the browsing history, Cao Feng entered the gay friend-finding website that Duan Yuche used. Here, all the forum topics were completely open-minded and liberal. It was just that English wasn’t his mother tongue, so it took some effort to read.
The forum also had buttons for downloading beautiful images and movies.
Cao Feng originally wanted to watch some scientific movies. In the end, when he clicked in, the straight-forward images made his eyeballs explode. He immediately slammed the laptop shut! It was like he was hoping that if he did that, those things wouldn’t be able to pollute his eyes anymore.
How could there be such a thing!
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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The early morning sunlight was softly filtering into the sky. Cao Feng put on his school uniform and went out from the backdoor of the villa, carrying a supermarket shopping bag. He ran along Weishan Lake; the lake was flooded in fog, and alongside the clean walkways were large sections of greenery. There were even long benches for resting. In rich communities, all installations were assimilated with nature.
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After returning home, Duan Shumin had just gotten up. He was holding a glass of water in his hand, doing leg lifting exercises in the living room.
“Xiao Feng, you went grocery shopping? What did you buy?”
“I bought fish, so I’ll stew crucian carp soup for lunch. I also bought beef, potatoes, cabbage…”
“You ran back? You’re still sweating.”
Cao Feng smiled and said, “I’m exercising too.”
“Go take a bath first, uncle will make breakfast. How’s mung bean porridge?”
Cao Feng made a sound of agreement, and went back to his room to take a shower and change clothes. When he came out, Duan Shumin said, “I warmed up some milk, do you want some?”
“Thank you Uncle.” He didn’t know if it was just a misconception, but Duan Shumin had been treating him better and better recently. Maybe it was because Cao Feng knew his secret. But Cao Feng wasn’t that kind of person; no matter what, he would never reveal someone else’s secret.
“The porridge is almost ready. Go and wake your didi up. If his door is locked, just knock on the door and get the key to open it.”
Duan Shumin had been counting the time. Duan Yuche could laze in bed for anywhere between 20 minutes to a few hours, but when he had been diagnosed with kidney stones, the doctor had specifically said he couldn’t skip breakfast. Duan Yuche had developed kidney stones because his eating habits were poor, so Duan Shumin had to coax Duan Yuche to eat breakfast every morning, and after eating he could go back to sleep.
The door was unlocked, and Cao Feng pressed down the door handle and went in. There was a large bed, and blankets that had been messed up in sleep. Duan Yuche’s sleeping position was also very strange – his head was wedged in between two pillows, the blanket was covering half his face, and his calf was exposed, hanging over the side of the bed.
“Xiao Che.” Cao Feng walked in, and his voice was not loud. “It’s time to get up, the sun is already shining on your butt.”
Duan Yuche didn’t respond, so Cao Feng called his name again, then several more times: “Breakfast is ready.”
Duan Yuche finally said dazedly, “What breakfast?”
“Your dad made mung bean porridge.”
“I’m not eating that.” His eyes closed deeply, and his expression was disdainful. He hadn’t fully woken up, so his face was lightly reddened from sleep.
“Then get up and drink a glass of milk, if you drink milk you can grow taller.” He imitated Duan Shumin’s usual phrases.
“Don’t talk like him.” Duan Yuche murmured. He turned over to grab the blanket, exposing a part of his neck and collarbone. When he yawned, his neck would stretch out, like a lazy kitty, “I don’t eat mung bean porridge.”
Cao Feng’s gaze swept over his deliciously coloured skin, and paused: “Then what do you want to eat? Chestnuts? Ge will buy it for you in the afternoon. What do you want to eat now? Do you want to eat sweet wine and egg soup? Gege will make it for you. “
