And stirring up trouble.

Ye Yao didn't miss Lu Xun's mood, which wasn't quite the same as usual.

Though still cool, Lu Xun's eyes aren't actually cold, but rather have a shocked look in them.

What's wrong, what's wrong? Could ...... there be some sort of daily consumable in the living room that he hadn't realized?

Ye Yao's heart was slightly tightened, but on the surface, he still didn't move like Lu Xun.

As he approached, Lu Xun subconsciously took a step back.

A few steps back was a small table with a decorative vase, Ye Yao frowned and took a few steps to Lu Xun's side, pulling him back to prevent him from getting hurt again.

"What's the matter," Ye Yao softened her voice, "Why are you running away from me? Does our brother Lu not want to be my friend?"

Not to be friends this kind of words can't be said casually, Lu Xun face slightly sunken: "You're not unaware, I'm not friends with whoever is not friends with you are not friends."

Ye Yao smiled at that, "So what are you backing out of?"

The question brought Lu Xun's attention back.

Ye Yao was so close to him, his long white neck in front of his eyes.

Lu Xun controlled himself to move his eyes away from Ye Yao's neck collarbone, and his voice became a little low, "You used to ...... not dress like this."

Ye Yao's clothes are clean and neat, with the refreshing lemon scent of laundry detergent all over them.

Most of the time, Ye Yao would button his shirt to the top button in a regular manner, and sometimes, when he felt bored after exercising, he would unbutton it to the second button. But even with the second button, the neckline was so narrow that nothing could be seen.

That's for sure. What kind of guy is Ye Yao? He will fight for his goal, out of the mud, introverted and determined, completely different from those guys out there who like to show off their bodies.

All those sordid worldly desires are out of place in Ye Yao.

Ye Yao was a bit surprised after hearing Lu Xun's words, he looked down at himself, then looked up at Lu Xun, and couldn't help but laugh at the same time.

"Indeed it's not my style, you bought this for me." Ye Yao says, "Doesn't it look good?"

Eighteen year old memory of Lu Xun and thirty-something Lu Xun completely an aesthetic, Lu Xun muffled, "...... very good looking."

Ye Yao naturally put his hand on one of Lu Xun's shoulders, "It's good if it looks good, let's go, let's go eat with you first, then I'll show you this villa again and tell you what each of that room does."

Because Ye Yao and Lu Xun are both very busy with their work, meals at home are usually prepared by a highly paid chef. When they're done, they're brought to the dining room through the back door and placed on the table, and the villa's housekeeping staff doesn't interrupt their time together at all.

The food was delicious, and Lu Xun sat beside Ye Yao as he slowly ate, his mind finally cooling down from the shock of Ye Yao's housecoat.

That calmness made him realize something was wrong.

...... is weird.

Although Ye Yao looks good in that way, Ye Yao is not the type of person who likes to wear that type of clothes, so why did he buy it for Ye Yao?

They, as best friends, buy Ye Yao such ...... strange clothes just because he thinks they look good?

There's so much that can go deeper behind this kind of detail once you think about it.

Ye Yao took care of the patient and gave two shrimps to Lu Xun, who was only eating white rice: "Why are you just eating and not eating, are you not comfortable here? Tell me if you feel uncomfortable."

Lu Xun ate the shrimp Ye Yao had given him, and after a moment of silence asked, "Will you be sad when I come through to replace him?"

Ye Yao: "......"

Obviously it's a two-person episode, so why all the fixer-upper drama?

"You are Lu Xun, no one else." Ye Yao replied cautiously, "Have you ever thought that maybe it's not traveling, but just forgetting something for a while?"

Lu Xun silently took another bite of rice.

He knew Ye Yao wouldn't believe it. Ye Yao never believed in superstition, only in science.

You can't blame Ye Yao for that. After all, the fact that it's happening is amazing.

Not knowing what kind of person he had become after a decade or so made him feel out of place several times in just a short period of time.

Ye Yao wouldn't say, so he explored on his own.

*

After dinner, Ye Yao showed Lu Xun all the corners of the house.

Ye Yao was very glad that Lu Xun had gone around posing for wedding photos in the city center and not in this villa.

At first Lu Xun also wanted to set up here, in order to hang the area of several hundred square meters of the villa also specially printed countless large photos, but it is too much and too big, set up to make Ye Yao a bit of dense fear, and finally withdrawn again.

Every room was cleaned up and there were no strange things in it. Although Lu Xun liked to fool around in different places, Ye Yao always remembered to tell Lu Xun to put his things away and not to put them around, so that he wouldn't be embarrassed to see them when a guest came to visit.

Lu Xun calmly observed the furnishings in each room.

Many places have traces of two people living together, such as the study inside the double copy of the chair, a look is for two people to read together office desk, the back of the small terrace on the double copy of the lazy sofa.

He and Ye Yao did live together.

The villa was large and had a number of guest rooms, but none of the rooms showed signs of anyone living there year-round, making them slightly cold.

"Sometimes when your parents or my parents come over to visit us, we arrange for them to sleep in these guest rooms, and they're both in pretty good health now." Ye Yao says, "Why, is there a problem?"

Lu Xun followed Ye Yao to finish looking at the last guest room, pursing his lips slightly. When Ye Yao asked, he asked, "We're sleeping in the same room?"

"Yeah, just like in high school." Ye Yao, with a natural expression, blurted out the reason he had already thought of, "Usually I'm busy with work during the day, so I can just meet up at night to talk, so I just slept together, and it's not like we're both seeing anyone yet anyway."

Ye Yao added, "If you don't want to sleep like that, then I can go to the guest room."

This proposal was quickly objected to by Lu Xun with a frown, "The old me could sleep with you, but the new me can't sleep with you? There's no such thing."

Ye Yao expected Lu Xun to say this, and without any surprise, led Lu Xun to their bedroom.

As the sun went down and the sky turned dark, Ye Yao took the pajamas from the closet and gave them to Lu Xun, patting Lu Xun on the shoulder, "You just came back from the hospital, go take a shower and rest, we'll go to bed early tonight."

Lu Xun followed Ye Yao's orders and took his pajamas into the bathroom.

Waiting for the bathroom door to close with the sound of water, Ye Yao quickly picked up the jacket that Lu Xun had casually thrown onto the back of the chair and reached for the jacket pocket.

As luck would have it, he felt inside the ring that Lu Xun had taken off during his physical.

Ye Yao breathed a sigh of relief and opened the locked nightstand on Lu Xun's side of the bed, placing the ring in there along with his own.

Accompanying the two rings are various props they need to use on a regular basis that can't be seen by straight men.

This cabinet is really full of big heavy secrets.

Ye Yao locked the cabinet carefully and hid the key again.

It was great, everything was perfect, and for a while, he and Lu Xun were just the best friends in the world!

Eighteen year old Lu Xun, what a nostalgic memory.

*

With hot water pouring over his head, Lu Xun cleans himself and thinks.

The fact that Ye Yao slept in the same room with him means that they are really quite close.

...... Could it be that he overthought it before, and that the future him and Ye Yao just had a change in aesthetics, or maybe they gradually started to prefer baggy styles as they got older?

Aesthetic and clothing trends evolve in ways that elude Lu Xun, an eighteen-year-old cognizant straight man, who showers and changes into pajamas and walks out.

It had been their tacit understanding since high school that one party would wash and the other would follow, Ye Yao smiled at Lu Xun and got up to walk to the bathroom.

Lu Xun was a little stunned.

...... Ye Yao looks so good when he smiles at him in a loungewear like this.

The future does have that little bit of vision for him.

It's really nice to show off Ye Yao's superbly shaped shoulders and neck, and with the curve of her mouth when she smiles ......

Lu Xun was so lost in thought that he froze until Ye Yao came out.

Ye Yao came out of the shower smelling good. It was obvious that they had the same body wash, but it just smelled better on Ye Yao. At least he wasn't interested in the smell of his own body wash, but he thought Ye Yao's smelled good.

...... really smells good.

Lu Xun licked his tiger teeth with the tip of his tongue as he kept himself from looking at Ye Yao's collar and lay down on the bed.

Ye Yao turned off the headlamp and lay down on the bed with Lu Xun.

"You usually sleep on that side," Ye Yao said, "That's a good guess."

"Uh-huh." Lu Xun's hand moves under the covers and touches Ye Yao's.

He was next to Ye Yao on the back of his hand, not moving.

The hustle and bustle of the day fades, and the quiet of the night brings certain emotions to the forefront of the mind.

A strange room, a strange bed, a strange quilt, only Ye Yao beside him can give him a sense of peace of mind.

"...... It wasn't long ago that you were tutoring me." Lu Xun turned to Ye Yao, "Did we get into the same college?"

The light from the bedside lamp was not harsh, and it spread softly on Ye Yao's face.

Ye Yao said softly, "Well, your efforts weren't in vain, the scores on the college entrance exam were quite high, and we got into the same university."

"What happened?" Lu Xun pressed, wanting to know everything that had happened between him and Ye Yao.

"We chose different majors but still lived in the same dorm," Ye Yao's slight adaptation of the truth, "and during our four years of college, we grew more and more attached and close, and just stayed that way to this day, and made a pact to be that way when we got older. "

"Does ...... that sound good." Lu Xun said softly.

It was the best process and ending he could have imagined.

"Go to bed early," Ye Yao wanted to touch Lu Xun's head, but restrained himself, "You need to rest more for the injuries you sustained today."

Lu Xun answered, and before he went to sleep, he subconsciously wanted to look at the photo of him and Ye Yao that was placed on the nightstand.

At this look, Lu Xun froze in place.

There were all sorts of small objects on the nightstand, but surprisingly, there was no photo of him and Ye Yao together!

Does that make sense? It doesn't make sense. How can you fall asleep without a picture to look at?

It's not right. It's very wrong.

...... future of him, should not be on Ye Yao fade?

Ye Yao kept an eye on Lu Xun at all times, and when he noticed Lu Xun's strange behavior, he immediately asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Xun's jawline tensed and he barely managed to conjure up a smile, "I used to have a picture of us next to the bed, how come I don't have that habit anymore?"

Ye Yao: "......"

How should I put it? Because Lu Xun sleeps with him in his arms every day after exercising with him and his head is facing his direction, so he doesn't have time to look at the group photo at all. Lu Xun said that it would be too cold for them to take a photo together, so he simply stopped posing?

Lu Xun in high school hadn't yet learned to sleep with him in his arms so he needed to be photographed together, but for Lu Xun, who was already with him, there were already other operations instead.

Ye Yao tried to be vague by saying, "I'm right next to you in person, just look at me when you want to, there's no need to look at a group photo."

Under the covers, Lu Xun clenched his fists.

...... Ye Yao is still speaking in his favor.

Ye Yao has no idea how serious this is.

Lu Xun began to initiate the inquiry, "What topics do you usually talk about before you go to bed?"

Ye Yao: "......"

What else is there to talk about, who does juvenile sports with a full chat and talk?

"...... You exercise at night before you go to bed to work out," Ye Yao says, "and when you come back from exercising, we'll talk about the day's work, or what you were thinking about when you exercised today."

Lu Xun clenched his fists tighter and tried his best to control the expression on his face as he continued to inquire, "Exercising in the middle of the night, for how long?"

Ye Yao noticed the subtle expression on Lu Xun's face, "Two or three hours."

The corners of Lu Xun's mouth drooped downward, proving that he was in an extremely bad mood.

Chillin' out on Ye Yao for two or three hours a day before bed?

You can fall asleep without even posing for a group photo.

What makes someone like that stay with Ye Yao for so long?

Ye Yao also spoke for him.

Ye Yao thought for a moment, "Do you want to exercise? The gym is upstairs, but you just got hurt, so don't move for a few days."

"Heh." Lu Xun gave a laugh, "Leaving you alone to exercise? It's not like I'm sick."

Ye Yao raised his eyebrows slightly, seeing a certain look on Lu Xun's face that he knew very well, one that represented jealousy.

Is this actually how the friendship of a straight man of steel works? Has he missed out on too much in the past?

Lu Xun moved a little closer to him and whispered, "How can he let you be bored alone, it's pretty bad, I'll stay with you."

Ye Yao: "......"

Nice guy, not only can he be jealous, he can stir up trouble.