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When Lin Dongyang returned to the dormitory he hadn’t finished eating the cream cake in his hand yet, but he had no appetite at the moment, and the sweet cream was like foam. He tossed the cake aside, and lay on the table with the spoon in his mouth as he squinted slightly, thinking about something.
After a moment, as if he had realized something, he smacked the table and said nervously, “F*ck, I’m finished…”
Li Wei had followed closely behind him. After entering the dormitory, he placed the bread and skewers he had bought on his study desk. He then heard Lin Dongyang’s inexplicable words and asked in confusion. “What’s finished?”
Lin Dongyang: “I’m bent.”
Li Wei: “Finished what? What is finished?”
Lin Dongyang pursed his lips and frowned, he didn’t answer Li Wei’s follow-up questions directly, but said with a deeply tangled look, “Let me ask you a question. If you guys caught me acting intimately with a girl, what would be your reaction?”
Li Wei raised an eyebrow and said meaningfully, “How intimate?”
Lin Dongyang: “…Didn’t your Chinese teacher teach you to focus on the key points? It’s just an analogy!”
Li Wei pretended to think carefully for a few seconds, and then raised his hand and slapped Lin Dongyang’s back, very excitedly saying, “You’re not a loyal brother ah! You have a girlfriend but didn’t even tell us, you must treat us to drinks! ——That would probably be my reaction.” After his exaggerated performance, he instantly recovered his composure. In merely a second he became a different person, startling Zhu Wenbo and Fatty Han, to the point that their skewers almost poked into their nostrils.
Lin Dongyang coughed twice after he slapped him. He didn’t open his mouth to blame Li Wei for his heavy hand, but his frown deepened.
Because his own reaction had been completely different. He didn’t feel the least bit elated about his friend leaving singlehood, so just now he had ignored Qiao Yichen without reason.
He clearly realized that he had really stepped into a quagmire.
After Fatty Han heard Li Wei’s roar, he, who only understood the literal meaning of the words, ran over to join in the fun, asking curiously, “Who did our Yang-zi bow down for?”
Lin Dongyang sighed to himself, but it was a helpless sigh, “I want to be in a relationship.”
The three roommates hugged each other and sobbed endlessly.
Lin Dongyang was the representative of the class’ face value. At his youthful age he was simply a walking hormone. With his handsome face, it was unknown how many enviable women had been recruited. Even the class flower was pursuing him, but this person just had to be a clear stream and take a unique route. Swearing to them, a group of single dogs who aren’t treated fairly: What love? Is the computer game not fun?!
Now, that his heart had found a place to belong, he emotionally announced: I want to be in a relationship.
Only then did Li Wei react to what Lin Dongyang had said before. He immediately leaned over and slung his arm around Lin Dongyang’s shoulders, inquiring, “You’re in a bad mood because of him ah?”
Lin Dongyang exchanged a glance with him and then nodded in acknowledgement.
Li Wei blinked his eyes a few times, not knowing what to say, before finally saying dryly, “It’s really f*cking true!” Although he also followed Fatty Han in thoughtlessly taunting him, in the end, it was just a bit of teasing between friends. But now that he really heard his good friend say that he was bent, it would be a lie to say that he wasn’t surprised.
To the side, Fatty Han listened from amidst the fog, scratching his head and saying, “Can you not use code words? My brain capacity is limited.”
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Li Wei gave a blank look at the interrupting man and reached out to slap him on his pregnant looking stomach, “Crawl!”
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At this moment, Li Wei pulled over a chair and copied Lin Dongyang’s pose, lying down on the corner of the study desk and acting as an attentive ‘close friend in the harem’, whispering to Lin Dongyang, “When did you start liking him?”
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Lin Dongyang recalled that Qiao Yichen had blocked the stick that had tried to smash the back of his head for him, and had applied medicine for him twice a day. There were also some other subtle things that had provided the opportunity for their relationship to deepen. If it wasn’t for seeing Qiao Yichen acting intimately with a girl today, he would probably always treat Qiao Yichen as just a good friend. A good friend who he could hook his arm around and share his thoughts with.
Li Wei comforted him. “No it’s not, animals will develop feelings after living around each other for a long time, let alone people. Liking is also one of the many feelings, so it’s not surprising.”
There was no unit of measure for liking someone. Maybe it would last a lifetime, maybe it wouldn’t. There was no way to tell.
“Then why didn’t you greet him when you saw him earlier?” Li Wei asked again, puzzled.
Lin Dongyang: “Just now, I only cared about being angry, and didn’t look at him.”
Li Wei expressed his opinion. “You two are fighting, right? It’s only a little conflict between men, just smile and let it go, don’t dwell on it too much. I don’t like it when a man acts extremely aggrieved, it’s unbearable.”
Lin Dongyang turned his head to look at Li Wei and said in disbelief, “Where am I acting extremely aggrieved?”
Li Wei: “Who said it’s you? I’m talking about your junior brother. He was waiting for you for half a day but you didn’t greet him and even gave him a blank stare. Can’t he be sad?”
When they came back, Li Wei saw Qiao Yichen standing at the door of the dormitory building looking at Lin Dongyang, but he wasn’t familiar with this junior. He had only met him a few times, so he didn’t think too much about the reason why he was there. Remembering the scene when he had greeted Qiao Yichen just now, it seemed that the person was deliberately waiting at the door for Lin Dongyang to return.
“What could he be sad about?” Lin Dongyang muttered uncertainly.
Fatty Han had been secretly sticking up his ears, and even though he had face blindness and didn’t pay much attention to what was happening around him, at this moment, it was clearly pointed out to him. The two people had discussed the issue for a long time and he really thought Yang-zi got a girlfriend, but didn’t expect he was talking about a boyfriend!
“F*ck! You’re… this is too sudden.” Fatty Han’s three-inch tongue, which had always been able to make things up, was instantly tied up in knots as he struggled, trying to widen his eyes, just as surprised as Li Wei.
Seeing that Fatty’s un-enlightened, melon seed head had heard the hints, Lin Dongyang also didn’t try to cover it up, simply confessing and asking directly. “Can I still be straightened?”
Fatty Han picked up his mobile phone and poked at it, as he said, “Hold on a second, I’ll look it up.”
Li Wei: “What are you searching for? Are you going to ask Baidu how straight men become bent? Or the evolutionary history of gay men?”
“Like hell I am! Don’t interrupt. Hey, this one is good,” Fatty Han fiddled with his mobile phone for a moment before coming over and passing it to Lin Dongyang, saying in a serious manner, “Take a look, do you have any impulses?”
Both Li Wei and Lin Dongyang looked at Fatty Han’s mobile phone screen, only to roll their eyes with contempt.
On the mobile phone screen was a picture of a beautiful woman in a sexy bikini!!
When Fatty Han saw their uniformly disgusted expressions, he immediately said indignantly, “Hey, what are your expressions? This is the sexiest one I found on Baidu!”
“Average.” Lin Dongyang gave a perfunctory evaluation. After thinking about it, he opened Baidu’s gallery and worked hard to flip through the pictures one by one, hoping it would not be a waste of time.
Li Wei, however, didn’t give Fatty Han any face and said, “I know you don’t have any ink in your stomach. If we count on you, all the sows will climb trees. Keep the collection for yourself to treasure ah.”
“Didn’t I just want to test Yang-zi’s reaction?” Saying this, Fatty Han took his mobile phone back and fiddled with it for a while. This time what was handed to Lin Dongyang was no longer a picture of a beautiful woman in a sexy bikini, but a male model in underwear showing off his abs!
“Is there any impulse for this one?”
Lin Dongyang gave Fatty Han a death glare and raised his hand to give a resounding slap on the big belly that seemed like it was months pregnant, “Get lost.”
“Ai, what’s with the big reaction? If you don’t like the face, then just imagine your lover’s face. Look at this great body, male god level.”
Li Wei: “What the hell do you know?! Hurry up and crawl.”
Fatty Han rubbed his big belly that had been slapped and resentfully returned to his seat, not forgetting to add, “Give up, you can’t be straightened. But you can rest assured, we will always be your strong backing.”
Lin Dongyang silently added, “a backing of paper mache.” Then he suddenly turned his head to Zhu Wenbo who hadn’t spoken yet and said, “Zhu Wenbo, I want to ask you something. If someone suddenly confessed their love to you, what would you do?”
He chose to ask Zhu Wenbo for two reasons. Mainly because Li Wei and Fatty Han were unreliable. If you asked which way was East they would answer to the West, and from time to time they would stir up trouble for you. In the end, the topic would be led astray by a hundred thousand miles. Only Zhu Wenbo considered things more steadily. He also wanted to look at Zhu Wenbo’s reaction along the way. Lin Dongyang sympathised a bit with Wang Dan as he felt they shared the same disease, that is, they both liked stuffy gourds.
Zhu Wenbo had been sitting aside as a quiet listener before, but now the topic involved him. He didn’t take so many twists and turns and directly found the key point in the words, “Do you mean a man or a woman?”
The corners of Lin Dongyang’s mouth twitched. “What about a man?”
“Not a chance.” Zhu Wenbo replied decisively.
Lin Dongyang: “What about a woman?”
Zhu Wenbo replied honestly. “You can try it at first as long as it doesn’t interfere with your studies.”
Lin Dongyang: “…” This result couldn’t be used as a reference, just pretend I didn’t ask.
Zhu Wenbo pushed his glasses up using his standard gesture and leisurely reminded him, “Yang-zi, do you remember what you told me in WeChat the night of the first day of the May Day holiday?”
Being reminded by him, Lin Dongyang’s thoughts immediately returned to the scene of the incident that day. The back of his neck couldn’t help but feel a cold wind blowing past. Qiao Yichen broke the gay man’s arm just because he had touched his waist, if this…
Damn it ah!
“Your reminder is really terrible.” Lin Dongyang didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Yang-zi, my sixth sense accurately tells me that you’re not the only one whose heart has moved.” That heavy rain not only refreshed the air, but also refreshed Li Wei’s understanding of Qiao Yichen. When Lin Dongyang made a joke about asking for a princess carry Qiao Yichen warned Li Wei with his eyes, but the man still stood in the rain, patiently waiting for Lin Dongyang.
Obviously, he seemed to be a difficult person to get along with, yet when he looked at Lin Dongyang, his eyes always unintentionally softened without a second thought.
“How can you be so sure?” Lin Dongyang raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, taking these words as a comfort. Before tonight, he also thought that Qiao Yichen felt that way, but now he wasn’t sure. Maybe it was really him thinking too much.
“As the saying goes ‘The authorities are confused, while the bystanders are clear.’”
Lin Dongyang shook his head and took the initiative to stop discussing the topic that upset him. He got up to grab his clothes and get ready to take a shower and go to bed.
Ever since he started paying attention to a certain someone, he would always involuntarily search the crowd for the figure that he wanted to see.
The next day at lunchtime, Lin Dongyang was preparing to meet up with his roommates with his plate in his hand, when he ran into Qiao Yichen, face to face. His footsteps suddenly stopped. Thinking of how he had been the only one sulking and making trouble last night, he felt a burst of embarrassment and didn’t know what to say. And now, he had bumped into Qiao Yichen again. In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, Lin Dongyang could only bite the bullet and greet him, “What a coincidence, we meet again.”
Qiao Yichen replied stiffly, “En, really a coincidence.”
What a ‘coincidence’, I spent a lot of time creating what you see as just a chance encounter.
“Then, I’ll go first.” Lin Dongyang pulled the corners of his mouth up politely and lifted his foot to leave.
Qiao Yichen stumbled over to stop Lin Dongyang once again, and asked expressionlessly, “Why did you ignore me last night?”
“I didn’t see you.” Except for this reply, Lin Dongyang didn’t know what else to say. He couldn’t say that ‘I’m angry and don’t want to talk to you. I need to be coaxed to be good.’
“You didn’t see?” Then, what were you looking at when you looked at my face? But Qiao Yichen didn’t ask the last question.
Lin Dongyang felt a little uneasy. He felt inexplicably guilty when questioned in person like this. He desperately wanted to leave. At present, he still hadn’t gathered himself to face Qiao Yichen.
Qiao Yichen didn’t make things difficult for him, sp Lin Dongyang just walked away. Qiao Yichen’s eyes followed him, but he still stood in place and didn’t take a single step.
An Qi had already bought his meal and walked over. Seeing Qiao Yichen, who was still empty-handed, he asked, “Why haven’t you bought your meal yet? It took so long for my turn in line.”
Qiao Yichen picked a food window with a relatively small line and casually picked two dishes. It wasn’t until Lin Dongyang and his three roommates had finished eating and got up to leave that Qiao Yichen glanced in their direction. An Qi then realized why he had just stood for so long without ordering a meal.
An Qi: “Your eyes always stay on that person, whether they’re far or near.”
Qiao Yichen stopped moving his chopsticks, “But he can’t see it.”
An Qi: “If you want to give up then even we can’t help you.”
Qiao Yichen looked at An Qi’s rare serious face and solemnly said, “I won’t give up.”
The two people looked at each other and smiled.
On the third, fourth, and fifth day, Qiao Yichen watched Lin Dongyang talk and laugh with other people every day without any hesitation. It was as if a layer of glass had been erected between them. He was in sight but unattainable.
Obviously, Lin Dongyang was usually a person who took a lot of initiative, but suddenly one day he became polite and just stopped. It happened without warning, and it made him feel uncomfortable.
He finally couldn’t resist letting the man know his feelings.
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Thank you for the chapter!
Hnggg, when can we get the sweetnesss!!
I hope that this little bit of chasing won’t be too long, and just enough for our MCs to know each other’s feelings(˘･_･˘)Can’t wait, can’t wait. The dog food after a bit of angst is the best served dish (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)
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Li Wei so cute!!! Aiyo!!! I’m suffering!! Don’t drag it!! LDY don’t run!!!!
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QYC, refuel!!!
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ooohhhhh he finally admitted that he’s bent XD
thank you for the translation
I can’t wait for the next update
F.i.n.a.l.l.y. 🤧🎉🎉🎉
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Thank you for the chapters!!!
I’m so impatient when he’s going to confess 🤗
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