Chapter 37: I'm officially courting you

Ye Yao knew that Lu Xun would go from being gay to giving up, and that Lu Xun would do all sorts of things just to convince him that he was bent.

But Ye Yao did not expect Lu Xun to act so quickly.

The next day, Ye Yao woke up to the smell of food. He got out of bed and looked down, seeing a pile of breakfast on the table.

Everyone's desktop has one, but Ye Yao's is the most visible to the naked eye.

Xiao Pang, who was also awakened by the aroma of food, smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into slits: "Wow, who brought us breakfast, I can't thank you enough for your kindness, but I have to give my body to you!"

The door to the washroom was opened from the inside, and Lu Xun's voice rang out with a smirk, "It's not necessary to give your body in return."

Ye Yao looked over and met Lu Xun's eyes, who winked at him, "After all, I can only accept one person's love for me, otherwise my heart would twist and hurt and I wouldn't be able to breathe."

Ye Yao: "......"

What, after thinking that he is also gay Lu Xun is unlocked what seal, this familiar flirtation is back.

"Oh~ I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it," Xiao Pang was very receptive and made a please gesture to Ye Yao, "Ye please! Please be the first to eat!"

Ye Yao couldn't help but laugh and cry, he couldn't possibly say in front of the whole dormitory that he wouldn't eat Lu Xun's food to let Lu Xun down, he would choose to talk about anything when he was alone with Lu Xun. So he got off the bed and went to the washroom first to brush his teeth and wash his face.

Ye Yao was halfway through washing his face when he suddenly heard the door to the washroom click shut. He moved the towel away from his eyes and saw Lu Xun standing beside him.

Lu Xun half leaned on the edge of the washstand and watched him wash his face, seeing that he had discovered it, the corner of his mouth picked up a smile, "They said that the recently improved shrimp dumplings were very tasty, so they bought one for you to try."

There was no one else in the washroom, so Ye Yao lowered his voice and asked directly, "What are you doing?"

"What do you think?" Lu Xun held up his hand, "Ye students knowingly ask, we are both gay, I can not do anything without evil thoughts?"

Ye Yao didn't say anything for the moment as he cleaned his face and towel and hung the towel up, then turned to face Lu Xun.

"Do you remember, in high school when we lived in a dormitory, sometimes when I was late for school, you would get up early and go get me breakfast?" Ye Yao said, "Just like now, you brought me the most."

A few years ago, Ye Yao did not mention Lu Xun really did not match these two things, he suddenly realized: "No wonder I feel this operation déjà vu, it turns out to have been done before."

Lu Xun wasn't impressed by his own purchases, but he remembered that not too long ago he had a cold and fever, and Ye Yao had gone out in the middle of the night to buy him medicine.

Lu Xun told Ye Yao, and Ye Yao was stunned: "Did you? I don't remember much. You don't need to keep such a small thing as buying medicine in mind."

"You don't remember going to buy medicine in the middle of the night by yourself, but you remember the breakfast I bought for you." Lu Xun's eyes colored with laughter, "You're so double standard, I love it. I'm the same way, isn't this a coincidence, a natural pair?"

"......" Ye Yao was still too flirty for Lu Xun, so he chose to go straight to the point, "Have you noticed that your various behaviors now are still similar to when we were friends? This relationship is still there and hasn't changed."

Ye Yao is convinced that Lu Xun is straight, so he feels that this matter is very clear. Whether it's from the straight period in the past, or Lu Xun's current period when he thinks he's bent, Lu Xun is treating him in the same way, then it proves that Lu Xun subconsciously still treats him as his best friend.

It can't be that Lu Xun's been bending over backwards for years and has liked him since he was in high school, can it?

Ye Yao taps Lu Xun on the shoulder and leaves, Lu Xun stands in place for a moment. He goes over and wrings Ye Yao's towel a little drier and hangs it up.

How can it be the same? Best friend turned best boyfriend, logical and natural!

Ye Yao doesn't believe it now, but that's okay, he'll slowly convince Ye Yao.

*

On Monday, everyone started their regular classes.

Unlike winter, spring is more prone to rain this season.

School ended in the morning, but the sudden rain trapped many in the school building.

The girls who were in the habit of carrying umbrellas with them happily left with their little sisters, and the gay men who were not in the habit of carrying umbrellas for shade were more often than not stuck where they were.

"I see the weather forecast, today obviously no rain?" Wen Ke sadly looked at the outside, "Before three or four days there is no rain, the weather is very good, how to say down on the down."

Ye Yao looked up at the sky that had become overcast during class, "I wonder how long it will rain."

As time passed, Ye Yao and Xiao Pang and the others watched a number of guys with girlfriends or girls with boyfriends being picked up by their dates with umbrellas, while the three of them, single dogs, hugged and watched.

"How come I don't have a girlfriend to pick me up!" Xiao Pang lamented.

Wen Ke, who had his head down on his cell phone, quietly moved behind Xiao Pang, poked Xiao Pang's shoulder, and whispered, "Brother Lu put umbrellas upstairs for the two of us and told us to go up and get them."

"Huh?" Xiao Pang was stunned and hurriedly lowered his voice to make a secret communication with Wen Ke, "What about Ye Zi?"

Wen Ke pushed his glasses, his eyes filled with hatred, "Are you stupid, Ye Zi of course, Lu will pick it up himself!"

Xiao Pang instantly understood, he turned back to look at the corner of the stairs, and there he saw Lu Xun, who was waiting with half of his head poking out.

Gotta, they don't have girlfriends to pick them up, but Ye Zi has a boyfriend to pick them up.

This little flirtation really gets under his skin sometimes.

Xiao Pang immediately hooked Wen Ke's neck: "I think I saw my goddess upstairs, I'll try to talk to her! Wen Ke, go and give me some courage, if the rain stops, Ye Zi, you go first without us!"

Ye Yao responded and continued alone, waiting for the rain to stop.

Otherwise, when the rain subsided a bit, he'd rush straight back and change his wet clothes when he got back to the dormitory?

Alone waiting for the rain to stop the white-clothed young man with a picturesque brow, not far from him a few girls scuffling, the last girl gathered the courage to stand out and walked to his side.

The girl's cheeks blushed slightly, "Classmate, did you not bring an umbrella, I ...... I'll give you a ride?"

Ye Yao froze slightly, then smiled, "Thank you, but someone came to bring me an umbrella, so I don't need to bother you."

The girls return disappointed, and Ye Yao continues to wait for the rain to stop.

The umbrella delivery was, of course, a lie told by Ye Yao.

In fact, it is not impossible to call Lu Xun, Lu Xun today the last two periods no class, people should be in the dormitory. But this building is remote, the dormitory building to here really long distance, the weather is not convenient to ride a bike, the school bus is also overcrowded, walking can be close to half an hour.

Calling an errand boy to help buy an umbrella and send it over is much more convenient than Lu Xun delivering umbrellas, and he doesn't want to bother Lu Xun too much for various reasons.

Let's just forget about it and wait, maybe the rain will stop later.

A lowered male voice sounded behind him, "Classmate, did you not bring an umbrella, let me send you to the dormitory."

Ye Yao subconsciously shook his head, "No, thanks--"

Before he could finish his thank you, the man came up behind him, "Is there really no chance? I'll ask again in a minute then."

Ye Yao: "......"

With this familiar flirty way of speaking, Ye Yao would be foolish not to recognize who this man is.

His heart tightened and he turned his head to Lu Xun, asking softly, "What brings you here?"

Lu Xun raised an eyebrow, "I didn't even send you a message to ask if you had brought an umbrella, so I must have just come straight over, is that even questionable, what do you take me for?"

Ye Yao suddenly realized, "Xiao Pang, they were also sent away by you, right?"

Lu Xun turned the umbrella propped up on the ground in a circle, and said in a serious manner, "As the saying goes, love is thirty-six plans, and getting along alone is the top--"

Ye Yao once again lost on the thickness of his face, he didn't let Lu Xun finish his sentence, he picked up the umbrella and held it up, pulling Lu Xun into the rain and fog, away from the crowd.

"In public, are you completely unaffected by your foul language?" Ye Yao couldn't help but ask.

"Just expressing my heart." Lu Xun is pleased with himself as he tries to take the umbrella from Ye Yao's hand, but Ye Yao doesn't let go.

Originally, Lu Xun came all the way here to give him an umbrella, so he shouldn't have let Lu Xun get tired of holding it.

"If you don't let go, then I'll just hold your hand." Lu Xun didn't back down, "You know I'm dying to hold it, if you don't let go I'll just take that as a yes."

Ye Yao: "......"

Lu Xun puts his hand out again, and this time Ye Yao lets go.

The raindrops kept hitting the surface of the umbrella, making a snapping sound. The world outside the umbrella was cut off by the rain, a heavy mist of rain separated them from the distance of the others, and the only thing that wasn't cut off was the space between the two of them inside the umbrella.

Ye Yao didn't say anything as he realized that the umbrella was slowly tilting towards him.

It wasn't a small umbrella, but it was still difficult to fully encompass two grown men, not to mention the fact that they weren't even walking shoulder-to-shoulder with a gap in between.

With the umbrella tilted like this, the rain would drench Lu Xun's other shoulder.

Ye Yao pushed the tilted umbrella back, and not a moment later it tilted again, so he had to reach out and take hold of the umbrella pole above the handle, applying strength to push it over again.

An umbrella is pushed back and forth between the two men, and finally Lu Xun reluctantly puts the umbrella in the center.

"You're going to get wet, don't you know?" Lu Xun said.

"So would you." Ye Yao replied.

"Why? You care about me." Lu Xun hooked up his lips, "It hurts me to wet you, but it hurts you to wet me?"

How could it not hurt?

The words Ye Yao didn't say, he pursed his lips.

There was no one who would not be happy when being cared for by his beloved, and naturally he was happy too, and secretly touched by Lu Xun's gesture. If Lu Xun was his boyfriend, he would probably hold Lu Xun's hand and let Lu Xun hug his shoulder to narrow the distance between the two of them so that the umbrella would be big enough to accommodate them.

But honestly, when they both used to be straight men as friends, they got along pretty much the same way.

After so many trials from before, he really couldn't believe that Lu Xun would bend so easily.

Lu Xun is disgusted by homosexuality, and if this is all a disguise, Lu Xun, who pretends to be bent, will be in agony. If he agrees because he's tempted to try, Lu Xun will obviously suffer twice as much when it comes to further contact.

And in order to maintain their relationship, Lu Xun will most likely choose to force a smile and pretend he's enjoying himself.

He didn't want this to happen.

He didn't want to just be happy and make Lu Xun suffer.

Ye Yao furrowed his brows, looking a bit like he didn't know what to say. Lu Xun grunted, and instead of leading Ye Yao in the direction back to the dormitory, he turned to the side and turned into a small forest.

There won't be any people who come out to play specially on a rainy day, everyone is in a hurry to rush back to the dormitory, it's easy to find a place to talk quietly, and there's even no one in this kind of grove.

"What are you doing here?" Ye Yao wondered.

Lu Xun mysteriously said, "There's something good here."

He led Ye Yao inside, to a large clump of flowers in full bloom.

"It took me almost a class to find this ground, isn't it pretty?" Lu Xun narrows his eyes.

"Beautiful, enjoying flowers in the rain, Brother Lu is really elegant." Ye Yao said, "Do you still want to compose a poem?"

Lu Xun bobbed his head, "It's not impossible, but I have something much more important to tell you, and even though I think you already know it, the ritual is still necessary."

Ye Yao's heart moved slightly as he turned his head and moved his eyes from the flowers to Lu Xun's face, seeing the seriousness in Lu Xun's eyes.

Lu Xun spoke clearly word for word as he looked into Ye Yao's eyes, "I'm officially courting you, Ye Yao."

The raindrops hit the umbrellas and the leaves, but nothing could prevent the words from reaching Ye Yao's ears.

He looked steadily at Lu Xun, listening to this one bold and passionate statement of pursuit.

Lu Xun hooked the corners of his lips and smiled, "I'm not a decent person, so I won't ask for your permission to chase you on this matter. Since you don't believe it, you might as well take this time to see if it's true or not."

Lu Xun leaned forward slightly, hung his head, and whispered in Ye Yao's ear, "Yao Yao is so smart, she must be able to tell whether I'm sincere or not, right?"

Ye Yao turned his head slightly sideways and saw Lu Xun's very aggressive eyes at that moment, and also felt his heartbeat.

He knows he should stay away from Lu Xun, and at the same time he knows he can't stay away at all.

Unlike in the past, as long as he didn't intend to make a clean break with Lu Xun, Lu Xun, who had made up his mind now, would definitely cling to him.

He could only soldier on.

Ye Yao said softly, "I wish."

*

Ye Yao and Lu Xun retraced their steps back to the dormitory.

Ye Yao's opinion on the matter of chasing people would not affect Lu Xun's actions in any way, so Ye Yao didn't throw cold water on it.

"I know what you're worried about, and I'll make you forget about that him." Lu Xun's face grimaced a little more as he spoke of this and began to grit his teeth.

Ye Yao: "......"

How dare Lu Xun know that he's pursuing someone who has a heart of gold?

A man rode past them on his bicycle in the rain, and as he raised his hand to wipe the water from his eyes, he missed his other hand for a moment, and the front end of his bike skidded into a puddle with a splash.

The water splashed towards Ye Yao and Lu Xun, Lu Xun reacted quickly and quickly blocked in front of Ye Yao.

In the old days, Lu Xun would have held Ye Yao in front of him, but now he's changed his approach and is just holding him back, not making physical contact with Ye Yao.

The boy on the bike got off and came over in a panic: "Ah, I'm sorry I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I didn't think it suddenly slipped, I'll wash this jacket for you?"

"Forget it." Lu Xun said.

When the boy apologized again and left, Lu Xun took his jacket off and looked at it, it was stained.

Lu Xun said deeply, "This is a medal of love I left behind to protect someone."

Ye Yao couldn't help but break it down, "Your medals are gone when you wash them with water."

"Hmph, what a poisonous mouth, I like it." Lu Xun commented.

Ye Yao was speechless, in order to prevent Lu Xun from catching a cold, Ye Yao took off his jacket and gave it to Lu Xun, but Lu Xun rejected it harshly.

Lu Xun emphasizes, "I only wear the jackets my boyfriend gives me."

Ye Yao takes his hand back, "...... don't wear pull backs."

Fortunately, Lu Xun was still wearing a thick coat underneath, and Ye Yao accelerated his pace, hoping to reach the dormitory as soon as possible.

Halfway there, Lu Xun spoke again, "I didn't just hug you."

Ye Yao : "...... I know."

"When I held hands and hugged you in the past, I used my position as a friend." Lu Xun said, "When I hold hands and hug you in the future, my position is that I am your suitor, asking for your mercy, and looking forward to further development with you, understand?"