2-in-1

With the sun still shining, Lu Xun tries to turn the mood back on.

"I didn't get sand in my eyes, it's because I saw this scene and wanted to recite a poem." Lu Xun mused.

Ye Yao listened quietly, Lu Xun held his tongue for half a day, silent.

He is now full of verses of drunkenness, but also on the straight man into gay. But can you say that? No.

But at least being a person with nine years of compulsory education, Lu Xun temporarily held back a sentence: "The lotus leaves in the sky are infinitely blue, and the lotus blossoms in the sun are differently red."

Lu Xun's eyes shifted to the delicate petals in the pool, the lotus flowers were nice, but not as nice as Ye Yao.

"Good poem." Ye Yao applauded facetiously, "Lu's senior year essay scores will definitely improve greatly."

Lu Xun: "......"

Is it normal that after a few minutes of conversation the whole atmosphere is actually more wholesome?

Who wants such a righteous and friendly relationship!

Seeing that Lu Xun didn't want to talk about studying, Ye Yao immediately patted Lu Xun's shoulder, took out his cell phone and turned on the photo function.

"Come on, take a picture." Ye Yao said.

Ye Yao is not very good at taking photos, as long as his face and the view behind him are in the frame, he thinks it's a good photo. Luckily, both he and Lu Xun have very good facial features, so the photo doesn't turn out too ugly.

Lu Xun looked at the picture of Ye Yao's head on his cell phone, and then looked at Ye Yao himself, and sighed silently in his heart.

It's over, taking pictures of Ye Yao at the angle of death, and he thinks it's so cute too.

...... It wasn't just a thought that came to him now, he thought the same thing once upon a time. Sure enough, he used to be so gay when it came to Ye Yao!

He'd wasted so much time liking people without realizing it, but it wasn't too late. Ye Yao didn't fall in love with anyone else, and he didn't get into trouble with Ye Yao and do anything wrong because of it.

Great, thankfully he realized he was gay in time.

*

Returning to Lu Xun's home from the university, Ye Yao finally met Lu Xun's family. He had never met Lu Xun's parents before, since they had gone on a field trip.

It would be a lie to say that Ye Yao wasn't nervous about meeting the owner of the mansion. But when he looked at Lu Xun, he realized that Lu Xun's expression was equally tense.

Ye Yao's heart tightened and held down Lu Xun's hand, "Is your family not allowing you to bring your classmates over to play? Then I'll go out now, don't be afraid."

Lu Xun held Ye Yao's hand back, "Where to? I certainly told them you were coming over a long time ago."

Lu Xun looked into Ye Yao's eyes, his deep brows slightly pressed, his expression incomparably serious: "You are an honored guest of our entire family, even if they sweep me off my feet, they will still entertain you with hospitality."

Ye Yao was touched but at the same time realized that Lu Xun was nervous because his family was too strict, it was really hard to be born in such a big family.

Lu Xun didn't know what Ye Yao was brainstorming, he was thinking about something else.

He pondered how he should react if his parents saw his feelings for Ye Yao.

Whichever way you go, the only way to give up is the absolute dead end.

*

Ye Yao was warmly and thoughtfully received.

The man at the helm of the powerful family wasn't as overbearing as he thought he would be, just like an ordinary couple receiving a friend brought by their son.

No, there are also things that are not quite the same as regular parents.

For example, Lu Xun poured a cup of tea for Lu's father, which was obviously a very common thing, as he had seen Lu Xun pouring tea and water for his parents every day when he was at his home. But Lu's father seemed to have seen something strange, staring at Lu Xun from left to right.

Finally, Lu Xun's father said to Lu Xun's mother, "What year is it now that simulated robots can be made so realistic? It even poured tea for me."

Ye Yao :"......?"

How it didn't seem to go together the way he thought it would.

Lu Xun maintained his usual friendly and new age good young man attitude in front of Ye Yao and smiled harmoniously at his dad : "What did you say, I was unintelligent in the past, you're so old, don't take it out on me."

Lu Xun Dad:"......"

Half a son, pissed off old man, he's obviously in his prime!

Lu Xun's mom was quite giving Lu Xun face, she didn't say anything about Lu Xun's behavior, but only moved her eyes back and forth between Ye Yao and Lu Xun from time to time.

The meal was a joyous one, and when Ye Yao went to the guest room to rest, the mood changed subtly.

Lu Xun's mother's expression is soft, but the content of her speech is quite scary: "Ye Yao is a good kid, did you specially bring someone home to show your mom?"

"...... is not an object." Lu Xun lifted his thin eyelids, "He doesn't know yet."

The open public space was not suitable for conversation, Lu Xun's mom and dad looked at each other and Lu's dad stood up: "Come with me to the study."

Lu Xun didn't say anything more and followed, standing up and heading upstairs to the study.

The study door closed and father and son sat down in front of and behind the wide desk.

Without Ye Yao by his side, Lu Xun reverted to his expressionless self.

Lu's father casually chatted with Lu Xun about lighter topics while sizing him up.

Lu Xun's behavior at the dinner table today surprised him, Lu Xun's character was clear in his heart, although there was no major problem in general, but good boy was never Lu Xun's label. The fact that he would do so today was obviously just to perform in front of his beloved.

The kid, though, didn't seem to have that in mind.

Lu Xun opened his mouth: "I know what you want to talk to me, my heart will not change, I can not go back to the girls together, bent is bent, you can not accept it is useless. The family has the throne inheritance you can have a second child before it's too late, anyway, now the policy is open. I won't grab it from him, I can net it out."

Lu Xun's father was about to be laughed at by this rebellious son, "Is that what I'm going to tell you? Nonsense."

Lu Xun raised an eyebrow, "So what are you trying to say?"

Lu Xun's father tapped his finger on the table, "What are you going to do if Ye Yao doesn't want to?"

"If he doesn't want to ......" Lu Xun's voice sank and the expression on his face faded.

As Lu Xun's father, Lu knows very well that Lu Xun has always had a paranoid part in his personality, and that he will never change his mind once he has decided to do something.

This trait makes it easier for Lu Xun to succeed in areas he's interested in and cares about, but this paranoia isn't always a good thing when Lu Xun's eyes are focused on one person.

Lu Xun remained silent for a moment, stood up, the corners of his lips slightly hooked up, and his gloomy expression disappeared, becoming the friendly and filial Lu Xun that Ye Yao was familiar with.

"What can I do, it's not like I can do anything to make him hate me." He turned and headed out the door, his voice light and insistent, "I'll keep pursuing until he wants to."

*

Ye Yao took a shower in his room, cleaned himself up and went back inside his bedroom to check his phone and realized that Lu Xun had messaged him while he was in the shower.

[Late*night*s*silent*lonesome? There*is*what*you*want*here*and*the*door*is*un*locked.]

Ye Yao: "......"

A simple text message can't stop Lu Xun's flirtatiousness.

Ye Yao replied with an emoticon of [Wash up and wait for me to come over], picking up his phone and heading towards Lu Xun's room next to him.

Lu Xun's door was really unlocked and opened with a gentle push.

Ye Yao closed the door behind him and looked around the room, seeing no one.

Instead of the brightest overhead lights, Lu Xun's room had ambient wall sconces, and the whole room was very cozy at first glance.

Ye Yao thought for a moment, walked into the room, and sat down on a chair in Lu Xun's room.

He didn't wait long before he heard a soft click, the bathroom door opened, and Lu Xun casually walked out of the bathroom wearing a towel.

The teenager had just the right amount of muscle tone on his body, not exaggerated or lean. Long legs and broad shoulders, neatly defined abs that weren't exaggerated, wet hair and a white towel resting on top of it, it all combined to make a mind-blowing character picture.

Ye Yao blinked in some surprise.

"...... forgot my clothes." Lu Xun said.

Ye Yao looked at Lu Xun from far and near, step by step to his side. He could see the water droplets rolling down Lu Xun's muscles, and the lines that changed slightly in angle as Lu Xun walked, but were pleasing to the eye no matter how they changed.

Lu Xun reached out with his arm and brushed past his shoulder, taking the shirt that was resting on the back of the chair.

Ye Yao tilted his head slightly, meeting Lu Xun's dark eyes.

Lu Xun had no particular expression on his face, just a knot in his throat that moved as he locked eyes with him.

"Nice figure." Ye Yao complimented matter-of-factly.

Lu Xun could barely control the expression on his face at that moment, and he barely managed to hold it together, showing Ye Yao a smile.

He goes to great lengths to figure out Ye Yao's course of action to show off his good qualities, hoping that Ye Yao will get the hang of it and realize that same-sex attraction is possible.

All that hard work for nothing, Ye Yao complimented him on his body, and isn't Ye Yao actually not that straight?

Lu Xun was in the process of organizing the next statement that would make the atmosphere less upright when he saw Ye Yao reach out and touch his arm, lamenting, "I'll have to work out too, and try to be on par with you."

Lu Xun, in an instant, felt his heart go cold.

Ye Yao felt that he had said something completely fine, but looking at Lu Xun's strange expression, he couldn't help but be a bit puzzled for a moment: "What, did I say something wrong?"

Lu Xun tried to put a smile back on his face, "Yeah, you're right about everything."

Ye Yao can't be at fault. He's definitely at fault. Blame it on his lack of charisma!

This truth applies no matter what time of the day it is, when you encounter something, just say it in your mind ten times first!

*

Ye Yao was taken by Lu Xun to play a new game today, which is a very casual game where you just need to control the villain to build and decorate your own home. The furniture in the house can be interacted with, chairs can be sat on and beds can be reclined.

Lu Xun was mentally calculating his next plan.

He realized that a lot of his original contact with Ye Yao was very gay, and should have warned Ye Yao about it as well, to see how Ye Yao reacted when he realized that they were interacting and being gay.

Maybe ...... Ye Yao will realize, as he did, that he's not really that straight?

It's a game that he picked out on purpose, and it took him a long time to find a game where same-gender villains could make out.

Lu Xun controlled the little man in his cell phone to lie down on the bed, and then greeted Ye Yao, who also controlled the little man to lie up.

When the two little people were lying side by side on the bed, Lu Xun said meaningfully, "How like us to sleep together."

Ye Yao looked at the cell phone screen and nodded, and I don't know what kind of organ was triggered, but the two small people lying side by side suddenly hugged each other, and small pink hearts emerged from the top of their heads.

Ye Yao froze and subconsciously looked at Lu Xun, who resented homosexuality.

Lu Xun was also looking at him, and when their eyes met, Lu Xun's eyes fluttered for a moment.

"Are you okay?" Ye Yao asked.

Lu Xun's voice was light, but the tone of his voice did not see any revulsion: "What can I have, I said before that I learn from you, and now I am also open-minded, it's nothing."

Ye Yao put down his heart, he tapped the screen for a moment to watch the two little people friendly you kissed me and I kissed you.

After the kiss, the two little people's cheeks turned red, and the words, [You're the only person I'd ever want to share a bed with,] emerged from their heads.

When the time had come, Lu Xun opened his mouth, "I looked at them, why does it feel a bit wrong. We've always shared a bed before, isn't this behavior a bit gay?"

Ye Yao slowly looked up at his friend, who had just gotten over his homophobia, and softly said, "We're friends, isn't it normal to sleep in the same bed? How many brothers have grown up sleeping in the same bed since they were young, how come they are gay?"

Ye Yao thoughtfully added, "It's called sleeping against your feet."

Lu Xun : "...... Is this something I've said before."

"Yeah." Ye Yao replied painfully.

Lu Xun recalled what he had once very frankly said to Ye Yao when he had made various moves in the past.

What's wrong with sleeping in the same bed? Sympathetic friends have to sleep in the same bed, this is called sleep against the feet, in ancient times or a beautiful thing worth writing in the book.

What's wrong with drinking from the same bottle of water? This is not water, this is a man's blood and youth, good friends should drink the same bottle of water.

What's wrong with him holding Ye Yao's hand? Shaking hands is a way of expressing friendship. Why should holding hands between two girls be called being good friends and holding hands between two guys be called gay?

Ye Yao remembers and agrees with all of this.

Lu Xun was dumbfounded for a moment, unable to disprove the theory himself for a moment.

Ye Yao frowned slightly, he had been friends with Lu Xun for a long time, and he wouldn't think too much about playing together a lot of the time, but now there was clearly something wrong with Lu Xun.

Ye Yao's mind can be very delicate to people he cares about, as when he delivered medicine to Lu Xun in the middle of the night.

"...... You're not right, Lu Xun." Ye Yao said softly.

Lu Xun's heart thumped, and then began to beat wildly.

Ye Yao see that he's bent, or furthermore see that he's in love with him?

It is said that love and poverty cannot be hidden, and his means of concealment are even more clumsy, only cloaked in a shell of friendship, which possesses some confusion.

In the past, this shell has confused him as much as it has confused Ye Yao.

"I see." Ye Yao pondered a conclusion in this short period of time, and he patted Lu Xun on the shoulder, "Next time you have something to say you can say it directly to me without having to beat around the bush."

Lu Xun tensed his body, waiting for the next trial, "Uh-huh."

What would Ye Yao say to him, rejection, or something else?

Ye Yao smiled slightly, his smile as beautiful as ever, with a flavor that put Lu Xun at ease.

Under Lu Xun's nervous and expectant gaze, Ye Yao opened his mouth and said, "Are you worried that after I play this game, I'll get some bad ideas and misunderstand our relationship?"

Lu Xun: "......"

The deer in the headlights had hit the highway, and Lu Xun was touched on the shoulder by Ye Yao, and he heard Ye Yao's brotherly consolation--

"Don't worry, in my heart, you'll always be my best friend and that won't change."

*

If another person had told Lu Xun that he and Ye Yao were lifelong friends, Lu Xun would have instantly assumed that the person was cursing him and kicked the person out without mercy.

But now that it's Ye Yao who says it, then the words aren't a curse, they're evidence that Ye Yao is going to stay in touch with him forever.

It's all a testament to love.

Lu Xun lay alone on his bed, consoling himself while organizing his thoughts. Although he had clearly bent so obviously, Ye Yao didn't suspect that he was bent at all, nor did he feel that there was anything wrong with what they were doing to each other.

This is probably the legendary straight man who sees straight, Ye Yao is so straight that he sees everyone as straight.

Lu Xun rolled over in bed and looked over at his new photo of him and Ye Yao on his nightstand.

They are smiling in the photo, with a pool full of blooming lotus flowers behind them.

There's really nothing to analyze. At this point in time, there are two paths he can take.

Since Ye Yao is a straight guy who can't pick up on his hints, one way out is for him to try to slowly and subtly bend Ye Yao to his will and get Ye Yao to like him too, and then he'll be with Ye Yao as a matter of course.

This article has the advantage that he doesn't have to deal with Ye Yao's rejection when Ye Yao doesn't like men yet, and the relationship between him and Ye Yao will always be more moderate.

The downside, of course, is that if he doesn't catch Ye Yao getting bent in time, then Ye Yao may be stuck with the self-loathing of liking his best friend.

Ye Yao is not like him, Ye Yao has high morals, he can't bend himself to be happy and then also infer that Ye Yao will be happy when he does.

The other way is to make his feelings known to Ye Yao directly and pursue him. From Ye Yao's reluctance, he pursues until Ye Yao relents.

This approach might startle Ye Yao at first, and then reject him harshly.

He might reject him in front of his friends, he might reject him in private, and either kind of rejection is pretty humiliating and embarrassing for a normal person.

Lu Xun picked up the picture frame sitting beside the bed and ran his hand over Ye Yao's picture.

Luckily for him, it didn't matter at all, as long as he could chase Ye Yao, face was nothing.

The more precious the treasure, the more worthwhile it is to spend a long time digging and searching for it, and Ye Yao, is worth a quest so long that it has no end deadline.

*

The summer before sophomore to junior year of high school is short, and after shopping around for a few favorite colleges, it's almost like a blink of an eye and it's the start of the school year.

Ye Yao is still at the same table as Lu Xun, but this semester has a new twist: to save time on the road, Ye Yao is going to apply for housing.

After he told Lu Xun about this plan, Lu Xun immediately stopped it, "Why don't you and I rent a small house near the school, it's close by, and there's no time limit for lights out, it's much freer than the dormitory."

Ye Yao thought it made sense, he and Lu Xun shared the rent, which wasn't too expensive for one month, and now his family could afford the rent.

Lu Xun looked at Ye Yao grudgingly, "You won't even use my money."

"What am I going to do with your money." Ye Yao sobs, "You save it for your date later."

Isn't that where his date is?

Lu Xun didn't say the words out loud, although he decided to express his feelings to Ye Yao and didn't care about Ye Yao's rejection, the scene of the first confession had to be a little more elaborate.

If you are too casual, when you get old and take it out to remember, won't you become more and more dissatisfied and want to beat up this present self again?

Ye Yao has no idea what Lu Xun is thinking, and he and Lu Xun successfully rented an apartment and brought all the luggage they needed.

Ye Yao's luggage was simple, just a few pieces of clothes and school supplies. He was about to get his own luggage done when he saw Lu Xun walking over from the other room with something in his hand.

"I'll give you a small ornament, do you think it's appropriate where I'll place it for you?" Lu Xun said.

"Give me an ornament?" Ye Yao asked curiously, "What kind of ornament? Just put it wherever you want."

Lu Xun looked left and right, walked to Ye Yao's bedside, and put the things in his hand on Ye Yao's bed.

Ye Yao now saw what Lu Xun was holding, it was an amiable Buddha statue ornament with three red characters written on its stomach.

Ye Yao got close enough to bend down and see the three red letters on that belly - the bent Buddha.

Ye Yao : "......???"

Lu Xun hurriedly explained, "Harmonized wonderful, wishing Ye every exam result wonderful, representing my good wishes."

Ye Yao : "...... You're merging East and West here, aren't you?"

"And no one says you can't." Lu Xun shoves his hands in his pockets.

Ye Yao laughed as he straightened up and gently hammered Lu Xun on the shoulder.

"Good, then have a WONDERFUL new school year for both of us."

Lu Xun raised one eyebrow and laughed along, "Okay, bend, all of them."

God forbid he and Ye Yao, through and through, bend off!