Great, Ye Yao just likes men!

Ye Yao didn't realize that not long after he moved in, his students would be rushing in, saying they couldn't afford to waste every second of their study time.

The spirit of learning is commendable, but it's getting late now, so Ye Yao went over the basics and gave Wang Xue a few problems to work on, and then ended the lesson for the day.

When he got to the door, Wang Xue wouldn't leave, propping herself up against the wall with one hand and holding the book with the other, puffing out her chest and making herself look like she could show him the outline of her abs underneath.

Teasing from a prepubescent male makes Ye Yao's heart stop: "Memorize everything I'm going to give you tonight, and if you feel like wasting your time here, I'll make a cup of tea and keep watching for half an hour."

Wang Xue: "......"

The pretty tutor is really mean, how come his seduction didn't work at all!

Wang Xue entered the elevator with his head hanging down, and as the elevator closed and the numbers began to jump downward, Ye Yao turned around and went back inside.

*

The door slammed shut, cutting off Lu Xun's view.

Ye Yao disappeared from his sight again.

Lu Xun slowly closed the door, his hands were covered in cold sweat.

Ye Yao says something in time for him to realize that the man is one of Ye Yao's students, thus restraining himself from pushing his way out of the door and carrying the strange man away.

Ye Yao was already alienating him, and he had to be careful not to do anything that would push Ye Yao further away.

Even if he hates gay men, and hates Ye Yao even more for spending so much time alone with other people, it's Ye Yao's job, and Ye Yao is just using his work ethic to get along with people.

He holds back, looking for a chance to get closer, until the day the strings snap in his head, or he figures it out.

Lu Xun waited until the next day.

Knowing Ye Yao's routine, he went to the cat's eye of the door and waited for Ye Yao's lunch time. After waiting for a while, he saw the damn high school boy coming out of the house, and then a little while later, he saw Ye Yao, who had finished his morning's work and was about to go out to eat, all dressed up.

Lu Xun immediately took out his cell phone and called Ye Yao, when the call was answered, he softened his voice: "Have you eaten yet? I'll go over to your neighborhood and have lunch with you?"

Ye Yao replied to Lu Xun while closing the door and walking out : "Well, I've already eaten."

Lu Xun's crisp reply made him stop breathing for a moment, and as he watched Ye Yao leave his sight, Lu Xun continued to ask in a soft voice, "Why did you eat so early today?"

"Meal times will change with the make-up time, so it's not quite the same as before." Ye Yao pulled the topic away from himself, "Have you eaten yet? You have to eat well even if I'm not accompanying you, okay?"

"I ...... I haven't eaten yet." Lu Xun struggled to continue speaking, "What did you have for lunch today? I want to eat the same as you."

"Eat cassoulet rice, I remember there's a cassoulet rice in the school that does a good job too, you go there?" Ye Yao said.

"Okay, I'll have the cassoulet too." Lu Xun said softly.

They chatted some more, and figuring Ye Yao had already taken the elevator downstairs, Lu Xun opened the door carefully.

Ye Yao was nowhere to be seen outside, so Lu Xun pulled his hat and mask back on again and pressed the elevator button.

It was the midday rush hour, and the elevator took some time to come up and go down, so Lu Xun didn't even see Ye Yao when he went down. He followed his appointment with Ye Yao and went to a nearby cassoulet restaurant, where he saw Ye Yao sitting alone in the corner.

A heavily armed Lu Xun orders his meal and sits behind a green plant, one part of his mind on the sizzling chicken and nine parts on Ye Yao.

Ye Yao would rather eat alone than with him.

What the hell happened ...... how did it come to this?

*

In the evening, Lu Xun continues to ask Ye Yao out to dinner, but Ye Yao still politely declines.

"How tiring for you to run around just to have a meal with me." Ye Yao says, "And I'm going back tomorrow, what do you want to eat in the Center District? I'll bring you one back."

Lu Xun lowered his eyes, "It's good to have you back in person, so you don't have to stand in a special line for it."

----

Lu Xun asked for two days of meals in a row, but Ye Yao refused for various reasons.

Sunday night's dinner date also failed, Lu Xun sighed hard, rubbed his face, and left the house to return to the dormitory early, incidentally instructing the rest of the dormitory not to tell Ye Yao about his absence over the weekend.

Ye Yao returned to the dormitory after 9:00 p.m. He still brought Lu Xun a small snack.

As long as it was something Ye Yao brought back, Lu Xun could eat anything. He sat down against Ye Yao and ate while talking softly, "I knew Brother Ye was the best to me, no matter what, he could always think of me, worthy of being the best brother in my life."

Ye Yao answered, no mood swings visible on his face as he patted Lu Xun's hand, "I'm going to take a shower first, so take your time eating."

As Ye Yao left, the strings in Lu Xun's head that had already been tense at all became tighter and tighter.

He would have to continue to endure.

Try hard to be a ten perfect best friend, one day ...... Ye Yao will be willing to make up with him, right?

*

On weekends, Ye Yao continues to go out to stay, and Lu Xun follows.

Before leaving the dormitory, Xiao Pang hesitantly asks him if he's having trouble with Ye Yao, but Ye Yao seems to be doing fine, and they don't really understand what's going on.

"There's a little bit of friction," Lu Xun says, "and I'll try to reconcile that."

Lu Xun is indeed working hard, but the biggest problem he's facing now is that Ye Yao doesn't give him a chance to work hard.

He still tries to ask Ye Yao out to dinner on weekends, but Ye Yao uses all sorts of excuses and finally says that eating out isn't clean enough.

Lu Xun didn't give up.

"So I'll buy groceries and go make them for you? Find a house with a kitchen for you to finish cooking, I'll deliver it to the intersection, and you come out to get it." Lu Xun said, "Guaranteed to be clean and hygienic, and definitely your favorite flavors. The chef will cook for you today, Brother Ye."

Ye Yao let out a laugh, "Chef is too expensive, my wallet is not enough to pay Chef Lu for half an hour, I will hire Chef Lu next time when I have money."

"How can it be high, it's free, I'm a guy who casually whored out." Lu Xun dismissed the joke-like reasoning.

Ye Yao sighed extremely softly, "I'm too busy Lu Xun, I probably don't have time to eat so formally, I'll just cook random noodles to cope with it, you don't have to work hard."

Rejection after rejection, even though Lu Xun was trying to relax, the strings in his mind couldn't help but become tighter and tighter.

Lu Xun said, half-jokingly, half-seriously, "How can you be so busy that you can't even take time out to eat? This must be a dozen hours of work a day, it's very inhumane. I'll go fight for you, how about changing it to an eight-hour workday."

"Well, my homeschooled kid has fallen behind so much that I have to scramble to make up for him, and time is really running out." Ye Yao said, "When I was tutoring you in the past, I was also scrambling to make up the time. He is the same as you, and his foundation is much worse than yours, so it is even more urgent now than when I was tutoring you in the past. You can imagine him as you were in the past, and you should be able to understand."

It's not the first time Ye Yao has used the excuse that he's busy with tutoring, but it's the first time he's compared Lu Xun to anyone else.

Same as him.

Lu Xun heard the sentence.

Ye Yao has only been with that high school boy for a while and he's just like that guy?

And for him to visualize himself as that male high school student, what do you mean, that guy will become best friends with Ye Yao later, just like him?

Ye Yao is unique in his heart and will never be compared to anyone else, and he longs for the same place in Ye Yao's heart.

The overstrained brain couldn't process much information and the string in his head finally snapped.

All his efforts were to no avail. Ye Yao was determined to stay away from him.

"Ye Yao." Lu Xun took a deep breath and spoke quickly, "I know your employer, I just happened to run into her after you left that day, I told her that the two of us were friends and were arguing right now, so she gave me the key to the house next door and told me to find a chance to make up with you. "

Ye Yao on the other end of the line was suddenly silent.

"I am next door to you ...... going out now, in front of your house, are you willing to come out and frankly talk to me all out?" Lu Xun walked out.

Ye Yao is awfully quiet.

"If you don't come out, I will wait here until the end of time." Lu Xun coldly said, "I just want a reason, a reason for you to treat me like this, is this request too much for you? Don't say something like you didn't intentionally alienate me you were just busy, I haven't zeroed in on my IQ yet."

The phone was hung up by Ye Yao, and Lu Xun stood straight in front of Ye Yao's house, holding his cell phone.

He didn't look at the time, and he didn't know how long he waited before he finally heard the front door slam.

Ye Yao, who walked out, had no panic on his face; he looked at Lu Xun with the same gaze as usual, as if nothing had happened.

Instead of getting angry and questioning why Lu Xun was following him around like that, he just said calmly, "You shouldn't have come over, I had arranged it."

Lu Xun was furious, his patience had been consumed over the past few days, and he couldn't afford to add more fuel to the fire. He pushed Ye Yao by the shoulders and strutted into the house, snapping the door shut with his backhand and pinning Ye Yao against the wall.

In his anger, he remembered to put his hand on the back of Ye Yao's head to cushion it from the direct contact of Ye Yao's head with the hard wall.

"You've organized this? Do you want me to follow your plan every step of the way Ye Yao?" Lu Xun's face was horribly gloomy, the hand he put on the back of Ye Yao's head was slightly harder, making Ye Yao raise his head to meet his eyes, "If you don't give me a reason that can convince me, not only will I live next door to you, I'll also find a way to get closer, don't you dare just get rid of me like that. closer, and you're not going to get rid of me just like that."

Ye Yao doesn't talk.

"Are you going to say it?" Lu Xun pressed his voice, "Do you think I have a good temper Ye Yao, that I can be waved away at your beck and call?"

Ye Yao is still silent, as if he has suddenly become a sawbucket and has lost the ability to speak.

He's also reluctant to meet Lu Xun's eyes again, and instead rests his eyes on the vase to his side.

Lu Xun was definitely not a gentle person at heart, and he knew this very well. In the past, when Lu Xun was nice to him, he enjoyed special treatment, but after today, this special treatment would probably be gone.

They have now torn their faces apart, if he just doesn't tell Lu Xun the reason today, then how long can Lu Xun stick by his side with a hot face and a cold ass? Lu Xun is very proud in his bones, I am afraid that it will not take long to leave.

He thought he'd arranged for the right distance, any closer and he couldn't afford it, but in reality the distance was unacceptable to Lu Xun.

Things can never be both.

"You really aren't going to tell me anything?" Lu Xun spoke again.

"I've already said what ...... needed to be said," Ye Yao finally opened his mouth as he raised his eyes to look at Lu Xun, "You shouldn't have followed me here."

Ye Yao suddenly felt that this scene was somewhat familiar, as he seemed to have confronted Lu Xun many times during this period of time.

And every time they've faced off it's been Lu Xun who's gone soft first, and that certainly won't be the case this time.

Ye Yao could see Lu Xun's angry eyes, and then Lu Xun slowly lowered his eyes.

Ye Yao's waist was wrapped around by an arm, and the person who had just confronted him forcefully and was full of anger hugged him gently, leaning down and resting his head on his shoulder.

"Yes, I'm just so ready to go," Lu Xun's muffled voice sounded in Ye Yao's ear, a low, weak tone, "You can do whatever you want, just don't ignore me, don't get angry with me, okay?"

Ye Yao felt like he'd been punched in the heart.

He is not afraid of Lu Xun to start a tough conflict with him, the only thing he is afraid of is Lu Xun talking to him like this.

Ye Yao took a deep breath and pushed Lu Xun outward, "...... Let go."

Lu Xun hugged the person a little tighter, "No letting go, I'm an octopus with no bones that have to stick to you."

Ye Yao pushed again, and this time he gave a reason: "I'm thirsty, I'm going to get some water."

Lu Xun finally let go of his hand, Ye Yao walked to the living room and sat on the sofa, to pour a cup of tea for himself and Lu Xun, but the teapot was again grabbed by Lu Xun.

"I'll do it, how heavy is this teapot, the water inside is still a bit hot, don't burn you." Lu Xun said.

Lu Xun catches Ye Yao's faltering as he holds him in his arms and speaks softly, and he certainly doesn't miss the opportunity to build on it.

Seeing that Ye Yao was about to turn back into a silent sawbucket, Lu Xun poured a glass of water and held it in front of Ye Yao.

Ye Yao sipped his water in silence as Lu Xun softened his voice and said, "I don't know why you suddenly don't want to pay attention to me, but is there a problem that we can't solve together?"

Ye Yao drank in silence, his lips wet with the liquid and turning a watery red.

His left hand, which was resting on the couch, was suddenly gripped, and he didn't need to think about it to know who had held his hand.

Ye Yao's left hand is pulled up by Lu Xun, who wraps it completely in both hands and holds it in his palm.

"I haven't been able to touch you like this in a long time." Lu Xun whispered.

Ye Yao didn't answer, he jerked his hand out, and it didn't come out.

"I used to think about pulling you along like this for the rest of my life," Lu Xun continued to whisper his heartfelt story, "but back there you just didn't want me to."

Lu Xun warmed Ye Yao's hand whole, "I don't know why you're distancing yourself from me, but my heart won't change. Not now, not ever."

Ye Yao held the teacup without drinking or moving.

"Ye Yao, Brother Ye." Lu Xun's tone was already considered pleading, "Yao Yao, what did I do wrong to make you dislike me, tell me why, I'll change."

Every word entered Ye Yao's ears and fell down his bloodstream to his heart.

The levees that had been held up collapsed in a flash.

He would rather Lu Xun fight with him than face him with this attitude. If you're not angry and furious, why don't you fight with him, go cold turkey, get tough and live with him for a few days and then get tired of it and finally go your separate ways?

Why do you have to show weakness like this and say soft words, saying that you will definitely change if you have mistakes, and that you are arrogant and do not give in to softness?

He can't hide it. With Lu Xun's attitude, how can he hide his true feelings?

No one should trample on a piece of someone's heart.

Ye Yao heaved his teacup on the tabletop.

"Okay, I'll tell you why." Ye Yao said in a deep voice, "It's not your problem, it's mine."

Lu Xun's entire body tensed up as he covered Ye Yao's hand and laughed to ease the atmosphere: "Your problem? How could you possibly have a problem, Ye is right even if he is wrong."

Ye Yao didn't smile as he tried to pull his hand out again, still failing.

Forget it, just let Lu Xun hold on to it, and when he learns the truth, Lu Xun will let go of his own accord.

"The most intolerable thing you can think of that you can't stand is the reason I chose to stay away." Ye Yao lowered his eyes, "It's something you'll draw the line at once you know."

The one he can't stand?

There were a lot of things Lu Xun didn't like, but there were only two that came to his mind at this very moment. Any one of them could make his body go cold and his blood flow backwards.

Ye Yao has already fallen in love and become someone else's boyfriend, and has even secretly gotten a license and will be having a big, grand wedding in a few days.

Or maybe Ye Yao meets a like-minded friend who is an unbeatable fit, decides that person is a friend of the soul, and gets tired of him.

Ye Yao looked at Lu Xun's stiff expression and slowly hooked the corner of his lips : "Looks like you've already thought of it."

Ye Yao said, word for word: "Yes, I like men."

The two mountains that had been weighing Lu Xun down to the point of being unable to breathe were suddenly shattered, and Lu Xun's spiritually uncontrollable whole person was lightened, and bright daylight shone in through the cracks of the shattered mountains.

Lu Xun's heart thumped and his body was wrapped in warmth, making him unable to stop himself from showing a smile.

Great, great, Ye Yao just likes men!