Who is your crush?
The afternoon sunlight through the branches of the trees scattered on Ye Yao's body and face, and also on the small piece of talismanic paper, the bright yellow paper shining brightly.
Simple statements, most essential blessings.
Ye Yao's eyes are sore and he blinks to keep the tears from spilling out onto the paper.
Lu Xun never betrayed his trust, but gave him better answers than he expected.
Lu Xun did everything he did just because he liked him so much.
He also likes Lu Xun.
There's nothing better than that.
Ye Yao tied the talisman back to the tree and ran back in a hurry.
He went back and forth quickly, and it was far from ten minutes, but he saw Lu Xun standing in the doorway as he walked out.
Lu Xun tall and long legs, no matter where it is very conspicuous, there are a lot of people come to pray for blessings often staring at him, but he did not return a glance, silent slightly hanging head looking at the ground, full of people do not approach the aura.
Ye Yao softened his steps and came around behind Lu Xun, reaching out to pat his shoulder.
Being bumped into by someone obviously made Lu Xun extremely unhappy, he turned his head back with a cold face and frowned, and then changed his expression the moment he saw who it was afterward, his eyebrows softening down.
Ye Yao laughed along as he held Lu Xun's hand, "Let's go."
*
There wasn't much else to do in this small town, and after a night's rest, they took another flight to Ye Yao's home.
Ye Yao's Lu Xun has been here countless times, but this time he's different from the usual.
Lu Xun was a bit nervous, and after organizing his look on the phone screen, he went to ask Ye Yao's opinion: "How is it, do I look good?"
"......" Ye Yao reassured, "They've seen you many times, it's okay, don't be afraid. And they've already agreed to the two of us being together."
Lu Xun took a deep breath, "You're right, an ugly daughter-in-law always has to meet her mother-in-law."
Ye Yao's mom and dad had been waiting at home for a long time, but even though they had been mentally prepared, they still froze for a moment when they heard Lu Xun call out to their mom and dad directly.
Ye Yao's mom laughed out loud, letting them into the house while chattering with them, "This kid Xiao Lu is still so enthusiastic, you've been together for a few years, right, and it wasn't easy to hold back until now to tell us."
Ye Yao knew that her family had misunderstood, and explained helplessly, "We just got together not long ago and told you that we used to be really just friends."
"What, you guys just got together not long ago?" This time it was Ye Yao's father's turn to be shocked, he looked at Ye Yao and then Lu Xun, his face full of disbelief.
However, despite his disbelief, Ye Yao's father opened the family's stock of good wine and filled it up for both Lu Xun and Ye Yao during the meal.
Ye Yao remembered that Lu Xun didn't like to drink, and when he got really drunk, he might even go crazy. If he wasn't there, Lu Xun could still be a cool boss when he was drunk, but if he was there, what Lu Xun would do was completely unpredictable.
It would be a hilarious scene in case he was forced to hold him down and kiss him in front of his parents.
Ye Yao knew that if he told Lu Xun not to drink, Lu Xun wouldn't agree and it would spoil his dad's fun, so he decided to find another way.
The amount of wine in a bottle is fixed, and as long as he drinks more, the amount that goes into Lu Xun's mouth will be less.
As long as he drinks enough that's all that matters.
*
"...... Yao Yao, fellow student Ye Yao?" Lu Xun cautiously touched Ye Yao's shoulder, receiving a sideways glance from Ye Yao.
Ye Yao's cheeks and earlobes were all tinted with a layer of scarlet, and his eyes were also filled with a layer of watery light, even though his expression was serious, the whole person did not look intimidating.
"Are you drunk?" Lu Xun asked.
"How can I be drunk," Ye Yao frowned, "I could use ten more bottles, Dad, where's the house wine?"
"There's more there's more, I'm going to get it right now, you wait." Ye Yao dad said while looking at his son's drunken appearance in rarefaction before being slapped by Ye Yao mom.
"What nonsense, no more drinking." Ye Yao's mom glared at Ye Yao's dad, then smiled and said to Lu Xun, "Xiao Lu, you can help Ye Yao back to his room to rest, his dad and I can clean up here. Ye Yao has never been drunk before, so I'll have to ask you to take care of him."
Lu Xun was already a bit impatient, this state of Ye Yao was a rare sight, it would be a waste if he didn't take this opportunity to talk more with Ye Yao.
Lu Xun helped Ye Yao into the bedroom, the door closed and he turned on the light.
Ye Yao automatically walked to the desk and sat down, as if he had been triggered by some mechanism.
There were always books on Ye Yao's desk, Ye Yao took out one and placed it in front of him and opened it, then turned his head with a serious face, "Lu Xun, what are you standing there for? Come and read with me."
Lu Xun happily dragged another chair and sat next to Ye Yao, turning his upper body in Ye Yao's direction, propping one hand on the desk and staring straight at Ye Yao.
When Ye Yao looked over in confusion, Lu Xun lifted his lips and smiled, "I don't want to read a book, I just want to look at you."
Ye Yao frowned again, "How can you get into college without reading books? How do you stay with me for four years in college even if you don't work hard to get into college ......?"
Ye Yao's voice began to fade as he spoke, his watery eyes looking at Lu Xun, and Lu Xun and Ye Yao looked at each other, their hearts softening once again.
"Then give me a kiss and I'll read the book with you." Lu Xun said.
Ye Yao's memory was probably regressed back to high school, and when confronted with Lu Xun's flirty remark, he pondered for a long time before wondering, "Do we have to start kissing to be friends now?"
"That's for sure." Lu Xun made a serious nonsense, "This is how our socialist brotherhood works, how can we prove a good relationship without kissing, are you still my best friend?"
Ye Yao and Lu Xun stare blankly at each other.
Lu Xun knew in the back of his mind that if the real Ye Yao from high school was here, she wouldn't take his bullshit seriously, and Ye Yao wouldn't be kissing her friend.
But now he is confronted by Ye Yao, who has become his boyfriend and is drunk.
Ye Yao slowly leaned over, Lu Xun opened his mouth and got a deep kiss from his boyfriend.
Ye Yao didn't kiss for too long, he withdrew with a frown : "Your mouth smells of alcohol, you must have had too much to drink."
Lu Xun from goodwill: "Yes, I drank most of the bottle, drunkenly I returned to eighteen years old."
Ye Yao's brain is now in a muddle and he can't hear what Lu Xun is saying, so he sits back down and tries to study with Lu Xun to pull his grades up.
He looked to the desk to get Lu Xun a book and pen and paper, yet froze again when he saw what was on the desk.
There is nothing on the table that belongs to Lu Xun, it's all his own.
Even the pen container is full of his pens, Lu Xun's used pens are nowhere to be seen.
Ye Yao jerks to his feet and turns to scan the room behind him.
No, there's no Lu Xun stuff anywhere.
Ye Yao was too groggy to remember much, but he vaguely remembered that this room should have been filled with Lu Xun's objects of all sizes, and should not have been so clean.
"Why is this room so empty." Ye Yao asks Lu Xun, "Where's your stuff?"
It was a question Lu Xun wondered about as well, remembering the last time he'd come to Ye Yao's house and entered this bedroom, annoyed by the fact that the room was devoid of any trace of his presence.
At the time, Ye Yao explained to him, "I didn't know he was coming over, so I put my stuff away."
If Ye Yao didn't mention it, Lu Xun didn't think about it for a while. Now that he brought it up and looked at the room that did not have the flavor of his life, Lu Xun was also a bit bored.
Not wanting to speak loudly to Ye Yao, he asked softly in return, "Yeah, where's my stuff, where did you put it?"
Ye Yao slowly sat back in his chair, one hand covering his forehead.
When one is drunk, one's head is very hard to bear, Lu Xun reaches out to help Ye Yao to rub the corner of his forehead.
"Lean into me." Lu Xun said, "I'll rub it for you."
After getting drunk, Ye Yao was quite good at talking, following Lu Xun's strength and collapsing on top of Lu Xun, letting Lu Xun help him rub the corners of his forehead.
Ye Yao was thinking, Lu Xun did not rush him, let him think slowly.
After thinking about it for a while, Ye Yao suddenly popped out, "...... I seem to be bent."
Lu Xun didn't know why asking where something had been placed would make Ye Yao associate himself with being bent, but agreed, "Yes, you're bent, completely."
Ye Yao slowly slides down and ends up lying on Lu Xun's lap.
He looks at Lu Xun from the bottom up, an angle that would be death for most people, but Lu Xun still looks handsome at this angle, with his high nose and pronounced jawline.
Good-looking and from a good family, he was the school boy many people had a crush on.
Ye Yao looked at such Lu Xun, and suddenly popped out a sentence, "I have a crush on someone for a long ...... long time."
The topic suddenly turned to an unexpected place, Lu Xun's hand on Ye Yao's forehead shook, and his mood, which had been bright and sunny not long ago, sank to the bottom.
After they got together, he never mentioned that person in front of Ye Yao, hoping that Ye Yao would slowly forget.
But after getting drunk, Ye Yao remembers the man.
Lu Xun inquired with a suppressed voice and also a suppressed temper, "Just now, weren't we still talking about where we put our stuff, what's the point of talking about him?"
Speaking without logic or forethought, a drunken Ye Yao pointed to a certain cabinet in the corner of the room, "So I put your stuff away, stuff I put there, uh ......"
Ye Yao couldn't say any more, he covered his mouth and got up from Lu Xun's lap and ran to the toilet in the room.
The toilet door was snapped shut and Lu Xun was left alone in the bedroom.
Lu Xun sat like a stone in his chair, his hands clenched and his fingertips dug hard into his palms.
He didn't want to think about the hidden meanings in Ye Yao's words, but his brain analyzed the reasons against his instructions and laid them out in front of him.
Put all his stuff away because of a crush on that one guy.
Why?
What a simple and well-associated reason.
Because Ye Yao loves that person with all his heart, he doesn't want to see his stuff in the room, after all, that would be a blasphemy to the person he loves too.
If he likes Ye Yao, then he would never put gifts from other friends in his bedroom. The bedroom is such a private place, so of course he can only put his and Ye Yao's stuff in it.
He believes Ye Yao is thinking the same thing he is.
Turns out Ye Yao liked that guy earlier than he thought.
It turns out that there is also for that person, who has been heartbroken to this point.
Lu Xun stood up from his chair, his steps heavy as he slowly walked towards the cabinet Ye Yao had pointed to and slowly opened it again.
He saw what was stacked inside.
One thing after another, neatly arranged.
Exercise books, pens, toy robots, and a picture of the two of them in high school.
They are still young in the photo, with innocent joy on their faces.
Lu Xun's hand squeezed tightly around the picture frame.
The sounds in the restroom begin to shift as a drunken Ye Yao pukes and then very self-consciously begins to wash up.
After washing up he probably started to realize that he smelled of alcohol all over him as well and turned on the shower again.
The sound of water running came and tingled Lu Xun's nerves as he stood up and walked over, knocking on the bathroom door.
"Bathing while drunk is dangerous," Lu Xun's voice trailed off, "Open the door."
"...... But I'm not drunk." Ye Yao, inside, said.
Lu Xun took a deep breath, "You forgot your clothes, open the door."
This reasoning persuaded Ye Yao to open the door.
Ye Yao's black hair was dripping with water, beads of water dripping from the tips straight down to her collarbone, which was steaming pink from all the heat of the water.
Ye Yao was clearly delirious now, but he saw Lu Xun and managed a smile.
This smile easily broke Lu Xun's last line of defense, and he stepped forward, clasped the back of Ye Yao's head, and kissed him.
Ye Yao struggles a bit, quiets down and accepts the wild kiss.
With the tips of their noses bumping into each other and their breaths hotter than the flow of water, Lu Xun bit Ye Yao's lower lip and asked in a husky voice, "Do you like me?"
"...... likes it."
Lu Xun wrapped his arms a little tighter around the person and pressed further, "Isn't that what you like best about me?"
Ye Yao sight disoriented, eyes as if covered with a layer of fog, voice slurred: "Well ...... favorite."
Lu Xun's intensity seemed like he was trying to strangle someone into his own flesh and blood as he continued to press, "Do you know who is kissing you right now?"
The two men's faces parted some distance, and Ye Yao struggled to focus his eyes on Lu Xun's face before smiling again, a light smile.
"...... Lu Xun."
Enough with the questions.
Lu Xun knows that there are many things that should not be investigated deeply, and that you will be happier if you don't get to the bottom of everything.
But he couldn't help it.
Lu Xun lowered his voice, "Do you still like that guy you had a crush on before?"
Ye Yao blinked softly, the moisture making his lashes wet and gathering in clusters, "Like."
The monstrous anger could consume the entire heart, and even breathing became so difficult.
He mustn't hold back any longer.
Lu Xun pinned Ye Yao against the wall and inquired fiercely, "Who is that guy you have a crush on and what's his name?"
The drunken Ye Yao's entire reaction was half a beat slower, and he looked at Lu Xun as if he didn't understand the question.
Lu Xun was about to ask a second time when he suddenly saw Ye Yao open his mouth and spit out two syllables.
"...... Lu Xun."
Published at: 07/22/2024 23:00