Running away

Lu Xun pressed Ye Yao's hand, this time not through the plush holster, but actually against Ye Yao's warm skin.

He looked into Ye Yao's eyes, which were still a little red.

"...... still want my help?" Ye Yao asked softly.

Lu Xun replied in the affirmative: "I can't see whether the neck is really clean or not in the blind spot, so you wipe it and then finish it, not clean at all, right?"

Ye Yao didn't say anything for a while, he looked at Lu Xun , and finally smiled slowly: "Then don't move, let go first."

Lu Xun let go of his hand, and a free Ye Yao moved his fingers, then pressed his index finger against Lu Xun's jaw.

He didn't press hard, just gently, as if the man in front of him had consciously tilted his head up, so that his neck would be more in his line of sight.

Ye Yao repositioned his hand.

Lu Xun's neck is long and slender, and the top is clean, with no dirt or grease on it.

The story has the Emperor's New Clothes, and today it has his Ye Yao's sauce.

As an important part of the neck that can be life-threatening if injured, most people are cautious and avoid being touched on the neck, and very few are willing to put their necks in other people's hands.

Not to mention that for a homophobic straight man, the probability of being willing to let a gay man touch his neck is almost zero.

Ye Yao watched Lu Xun's expression as he narrowed his eyes, his face was pure satisfaction, not a trace of reluctance to be found.

Ye Yao withdrew his hand, and in the next moment it was pressed again.

"Thank you, Mr. Ye for doing me such a great favor." The corners of Lu Xun's lips rose slightly, looking at Ye Yao with eyes like an untamed wolf, extremely aggressive, but the words he spoke were very polite, "Next time we eat together, if you're still dirty, you'll have to remember to help me out as well."

Ye Yao met such a sight and returned a friendly smile, "The next time ...... then the next time."

*

It was already Sunday night, and after eating, they had to pack up and head back to their dorms.

Ye Yao took the bear he got from the amusement park back with him, after all, the dormitory was his real home for four years of college. He wanted to put the bear at the end of his bed with him, and had just thrown it on the bed when he heard Lu Xun's grim voice.

"I thought that Noble Consort Xiong slept on a desk, but it turned out that she actually slept on a bed, what a blessing."

Ye Yao: "......"

"I used to sleep there too," Lu Xun climbed onto the bed and spoke to Ye Yao through the curtains, "Now that Princess Xiong has taken over, it's time for me to go, I'm old and gray, and the world only hears the new people laughing, but not the old people crying."

Ye Yao lifted the curtains without expression and put the doll bear on Lu Xun's bed.

Lu Xun was in the process of making the quilt more comfortable when suddenly something was placed on the bed, he fixed his eyes on it, saw what it was and picked it up and threw it onto the desk below.

"Yo, what's this about testing me, Your Holiness? I'm not the kind of random person who would share a bed with another bear." Lu Xun patted the pillow, "There's only one person who can sleep on this pillow besides me."

"Your son." Ye Yao said, "for you to take care of."

Lu Xun's eyes rolled back into his head and he went back down to bring up the doll bear.

"It's all because it's still too young to sleep on its own, causing its parents to split the room." Lu Xun pinched the bear's face, "When will it grow up and sleep in a bed by itself without needing parental care?"

Lu Xun's words have hidden meaning Ye Yao has seen it, he did not answer, he lay down on the bed, his cell phone received a message from Lu Xun.

Lu Xun first sent him an emoticon of [I'm at home with my baby, you don't have to worry about us as a couple when you're out fighting], and then asked:

[How many points do you get for today's date and yesterday's?]

Ye Yao It feels like a normal person wouldn't chase after every date to ask if they were satisfied with the date while the relationship is still in the courting stage, but rather should be subtle and express that it was nice to go out together and that they hope to go out together next time as well.

But Lu Xun is clearly out of this normal person's league, and Lu Xun is pressing forward, wanting to know all of his thoughts.

Ye Yao rolled over in bed and replied: [Secret.]

Ye Yao put the phone down and recalled the look on Lu Xun's face when he suddenly touched the knot in his throat during dinner.

He was sure that this move was definitely out of Lu Xun's expectation, so much so that Lu Xun's first expression was a bit dumbfounded and disbelieving.

Then again, that stupefaction followed by disbelief transformed into surprise.

Enjoyed being treated like that by him, too?

But Lu Xun already had a lot of contact with his hands, and it wasn't unfathomable that she wouldn't resist being touched by them.

What if it was replaced with the touch of other parts, such as ...... never touched Lu Xun's, his lips?

Ye Yao pursed her lips and pulled the quilt up over her head in its entirety.

*

Class days were still busy, every classroom was full, and everyone had to crowd down the stairs after class, unless they waited in the classroom for so many ten or twenty minutes for everyone else to leave.

Ye Yao didn't have a cleanliness fetish where he couldn't be touched, so he got used to it as he squeezed and squeezed. After class, he was ready to leave, and when he took out his cell phone to look at it, he found that Lu Xun had sent him a few messages more than twenty minutes ago.

[I'm also in class today in the third religion, I'm on the sixth floor, wait for me when you get down to the bottom of the building].

Ye Yao's classroom was on the fourth floor, and he replied with a [Good] before walking out in no hurry.

The stairs were really crowded, most of the people who were too lazy to wait for the elevator chose to take the plain stairs, the crowd was so dense that within a few steps, Xiao Pang and Wen Ke, who were originally next to him, were squeezed out of sight.

Being rubbed on the shoulder or touched on the hand by someone else in this environment is perfectly normal, and Ye Yao didn't think anything of it when his hand was touched.

Then his fingertips were touched, and then touched again.

It was either the intensity of an inadvertent brush, or a light touch, like a feather scratching lightly at his fingertips.

After being touched so many times in a row, all with the same intensity, Ye Yao finally felt something wasn't right and turned his head with a frown.

There was no one directly to his left, and the man who had been touching his hand was a small step behind, tall and distinguished in appearance, standing out in the crowd.

Seeing Ye Yao turn back, the man raised his eyebrows with a surprised expression, "Huh, what a coincidence, isn't this Ye Yao's classmate?"

"Huh." Ye Yao's furrowed brow loosened, "Coincidence indeed."

Lu Xun, who was a small step behind him on his side, stepped forward and came into position directly to his left.

The hand that had only touched his fingertips once in a while was now pressed against the back of his hand and his wrist bumped against his wrist because of the crowding.

If such a contact had occurred between two strangers, surely one of them would have withdrawn his hand to his chest to hug the book or simply shoved his hands into his pants pockets to avoid another equally embarrassing incident.

But now, no one takes back their hand.

Ye Yao's index finger was gently hooked, and the man's index finger was inserted into the gap between his fingers, wrapping around his knuckles. Seeing that he didn't resist much, he slowly and boldly took hold of his index finger.

"There are so many people here, it's so crowded that I don't even have a place to put my hands." Lu Xun approached Ye Yao's ear, "Can I borrow a seat, Mr. Ye?"

Ye Yao glanced at Lu Xun without speaking, and his hand was held directly.

Bad-eyed suitors don't miss a chance to make contact, and they hold hands in the middle of a crowded room as if they're making a secret deal.

*

The time after school is more leisurely, today they don't have homework, Xiao Pang and Wen Ke cheerfully go out to play, Ye Yao and Lu Xun are left in the dormitory.

Lu Xun is in the shower while Ye Yao sits at his desk looking at his hands.

That hand-holding in the staircase was like a dream, with Lu Xun initiating the attack, holding him along with him into the past.

Lu Xun liked to hold his hand, not between normal male friends of course, and not when he and Lu Xun were just normal friends.

At that time, Lu Xun still maintained the image of a cool guy in his eyes, and was not as sticky as he was later. As a friend of Lu Xun's, and knowing that Lu Xun was homophobic, he would seldom have any physical contact with him, even if he was on good terms with him.

Physical contact began to increase, as if his class had won a tough ball game in high school, and he gave Lu Xun a hug in his happiness at the victory.

It was the first time they had such intimate physical contact, Lu Xun who was held by him was frozen, he reacted and released Lu Xun, Lu Xun did not say anything.

After the ball game was over and dispersed, he and Lu Xun went back to the dormitory together, and after taking a shower, Lu Xun suddenly said to him with a face full of unhappiness, "I didn't even react to it, and I haven't even responded to you and celebrated with you yet, so how come you let go of it?"

At the time Ye Yao inexplicably asked, "So what else, I'll hug you again?"

"It's not impossible." Lu Xun said.

So he hugged Lu Xun one more time, and this time Lu Xun responded.

Since then his physical contact with Lu Xun has increased and he has become Lu Xun's best friend.

The last time they walked down the street directly holding hands was back in their friend days, and now the two of them are in a different relationship than they used to be.

Lu Xun is testing him, and he is not testing Lu Xun.

Ye Yao opened his laptop, picked a variety show to play and sat down at his desk to watch it.

Lu Xun came out of the shower and hung around behind Ye Yao, finally dragging a chair and sitting next to Ye Yao: "What's the point of watching a variety show alone, I'll watch it with you."

Ye Yao pushed the computer toward the center of the two men so that Lu Xun could also see clearly.

It's a relationship variety show, and it's now playing to the point where the female guest accidentally falls into a small dirt pit, gets pulled to her feet by the male guest, and then the male guest just keeps holding the female guest's hand in case she falls again.

The camera switches to an interview with the female guest of honor after the end, who smiles and arches her eyebrows, "He just kept holding my hand and didn't let go yeah, really had a heart to."

"This is normal for people, they can blush when they hold a hand." Ye Yao said, "The two of us holding hands is like the left hand holding the right hand, we're used to it."

Seeing that the topic was about to lead to the difference between them and normal couples, and could lead to friendship again, Lu Xun hurriedly stopped it, "What are you talking about, I'm not holding my right hand with my left hand, don't talk nonsense."

Lu Xun mimicked the female guest's tone of voice: "When Yao Yao shook my hand, I also had a heartbeat to."

Ye Yao didn't say he believed or didn't believe, and the two of them continued to watch the variety show together.

The computer screen is filled with pink love bubbles, while off-screen, Lu Xun's fingertips are once again touching Ye Yao's fingertips without him realizing it.

Ye Yao's drunkenness was not in his mind, but on the surface, he still pretended to be watching the variety show seriously, pretending not to realize that Lu Xun was getting closer and closer to him.

Closer, he needed to be closer, closer to a distance where he could incline his head and give Lu Xun a kiss.

It's the first time I've had to do something like this, and I'm not as nervous as I am about checking my college entrance exam scores.

What if Lu Xun gets scared and pushes him away?

If Lu Xun didn't control his subconscious reaction to throw up, what kind of face should he put on?

What if Lu Xun is so scared that he falls to the floor with his chair and the back of his head hits the ground?

Ye Yao pursed her lips and quietly stepped on Lu Xun's chair with one foot.

It ...... was the first time he had ever done such a thing.

Tension.

The male guest on the screen is secretly preparing a surprise gift for the female guest, so he moves carefully and speaks in an airy voice.

Ye Yao, as if infected by the atmosphere on the screen, also said in an airy voice, "Do you think that the male guest is quite handsome?"

Lu Xun didn't hear him and he leaned his head over, "What did you say?"

"I said ......" Ye Yao didn't realize that Lu Xun had come as close to him as if he had, turning his head and sliding his lips all the way from the corners of Lu Xun's lips, sliding over his cheeks, and finally stopping at his earlobes.

Lu Xun's earlobe is cool. Ye Yao thought as calmly as he could about a piece of crap.

To make sure he was the first to see the expression and reaction on Lu Xun's face, Ye Yao quickly stepped back and saw a spectacle.

No matter what time is very capable of playing a rogue cheek thick skin, even drinking will not be on the head blush Lu Xun, face and ear roots strange some red.

The expression on his face was blank, as if he hadn't reacted to what was happening, Ye Yao made a careful observation and also felt his face heat up a bit as well.

Lu Xun stood up violently, his face even more strange.

As he stood up, Ye Yao immediately realized something was wrong.

Lu Xun took a step closer to him, his dangerous aura instantly surging out, and Ye Yao stood up from his chair and took a step backward as well.

The alarm went off, and Ye Yao gulped.

...... He felt that he should not remain here, but should leave the space alone for Lu Xun.

He'd made all sorts of speculations before, but none of them had gone this way.

Turning gay Lu Xun is indeed different from straight Lu Xun, or at least completely different in terms of danger to him, and he hadn't, surprisingly, thought about it before.

He admitted he was a little flustered.

He's headed in the direction of the gate, and Ye Yao takes two steps back and grabs the door.