Chapter 15: Why do you feel confident and think you are the exception to the rule?

Fall is short-lived, and soon it will be winter.

Lu Xun's injury wasn't too serious in the first place, and after some time has passed, he's almost recovered.

After the last incident, Ye Yao was dragged by Lu Xun, who was very anxious for some reason, to study a "Guide to Identifying Gay".

"Look carefully." Lu Xun sat next to Ye Yao with his arms crossed and said in a serious tone, "This is the beginner's version, and it's a bit shallow, but at least recognize the ones that aren't too deeply hidden, and be careful to keep your distance from them."

Deeply hidden Ye Yao felt a twinge of weakness, but on his face he still retorted in waves, "There's no need, is there, to learn such things."

"How is it unnecessary?" Lu Xun glared up at Ye Yao, "You don't even pay attention to this, be careful of being surrounded by gay men one day without even realizing it!"

Lu Xun said, clicking on the video of the identification gay guide.

A thick male voice rang out: [If your male friend's cell phone, downloads a certain blue xxx software, and xxx software, don't doubt it, he's gay nine times out of ten].

What is blue software?

Ye Yao was a bit curious, so he went to the app store and searched for it, and found that it was a dating app.

Lu Xun gave some serious instructions, "They love to find fuck buddies on this, almost all of them have one. If you find a man who wants to get close to you, pretend that your phone is out of battery, borrow their phone to make a call, and then see if there is any such software in their phone."

He only had to think about it to realize that Ye Yao would be in demand. With the percentage of homosexuals in the population, there were a lot of people in this school who were eyeing Ye Yao!

"It's not very polite to go through other people's cell phones, is it?" Ye Yao said.

"It's not like we're looking at their private information, just look at the software, what's the point." Lu Xun pulled out his own cell phone from his pocket and handed it to Ye Yao, "You try it first, and map out all the software in half a minute."

Ye Yao unlocked Lu Xun's cell phone with his fingerprint and casually flipped through it. The content of Lu Xun's cell phone was quite simple, as a person with a very full real life, there were only a few commonly used software in his cell phone, no weird stuff.

Lu Xun didn't ask for his cell phone back, and continued to lead Ye Yao to watch videos on his computer; after watching one, he pulled out another document.

Just after clicking on it, Ye Yao was shocked to see the big red letters at the beginning of the document.

[How can you tell if someone close to you likes you?]

Before Ye Yao could take a closer look, Lu Xun closed the document.

"I'll pack up these documents and send them to you, remember to read them when you're free." Lu Xun grabbed Ye Yao and urged, "Make sure you remember to read them, I'll examine them when the time comes!"

"Does this kind of ...... thing really work?" Ye Yao asked in a muffled voice.

"It works, I wasn't this perceptive before." Lu Xun frowned, "Then after some research, I found out that a hairy boy next to me had a crush on me."

Ye Yao didn't realize that Lu Xun had such a past, for this Lu Xun crush, Ye Yao didn't feel jealous, on the contrary, he heard his heart jumping: "...... Then what?"

"Of course I told him to get lost," Lu Xun frowned deeper, as if he didn't understand why Ye Yao asked, "Should I continue to be friends with him?"

At this time, Lu Xun's face was Ye Yao's familiar despair, and this matter seemed to have no exception in Lu Xun's case.

Lu Xun went on to add, "Luckily I didn't see him too well before and didn't pay much attention to him, or else I'm sure I'd be so disgusted looking back on the various interactions now that I wouldn't be able to sleep."

So sick you can't sleep?

Ye Yao lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes twitching as he gripped Lu Xun's cell phone in his hand, "Okay, I'll watch it carefully."

*

Lying alone on the bed, Ye Yao clicked on the document sent by Lu Xun.

The wording inside the document is not rigorous, like someone's randomly written essays that have been consolidated into a single document.

Ye Yao first clicked on the article [How to tell if the people around you like you].

Does he always want to stick to you at all times? And uses the fact that you have a good relationship as an excuse to not let you hang out more with new people or even make new friends. When a large group of friends are together, he will always try to find ways to highlight the specialness of your relationship, such as only serving you food, remembering what you like to eat, and saying it in public. When others make jokes about your relationship with him, he won't retort, he'll just laugh and pretend to be embarrassed.]

[Taste carefully, are these behaviors really okay? It's a coincidence that you won one, but it's also a coincidence that you won many?

There were more bits and pieces in the back, and Ye Yao lassoed himself, relieved to find that it wouldn't fit.

Lu Xun's hair boy was probably of this type, so Lu Xun caught him in the act.

He never restricts Lu Xun from making friends, except that Lu Xun himself has little interest in making new friends and always stays with him.

It's true that most of the time when people make jokes about his relationship with Lu Xun, he doesn't retort, but that's because Lu Xun will be chiming in at that point, and he doesn't bother to retort.

As for pinching food during meals, that certainly happens, but if you really want to scrutinize it, Lu Xun pinches food for him more often than he does.

This experience does not hold true for him.

A relaxed Ye Yao moves on to the others, happy to find that they are all largely inapplicable to him as well.

Great, as long as there are no surprises, he can continue to hide it.

*

On the other hand, Lu Xun, who was in Civics class, received a message that he touched the fish brightly.

The person who sent the message was his cousin, and the two were of similar age and had always had an okay relationship.

Lu Ming: [Brother, I'm ready to go back to my country, I heard that a new theme park is opening in your area, take me there to have fun].

Lu Xun: [You're so old and can't get lost, won't you go play by yourself?

Lu Ming: [? You don't give a damn about your brother?

Lu Ming ：【Ha,crossing the river to tear down the bridge? If it wasn't for the fact that I, a gay-detecting expert, had worked so hard to write so many documents for you, you could have improved so much and found out who had a crush on you?

Lu Xun This cousin is studying music, and I don't know if it's because there are more homosexuals in the arts, but every time my cousin, a straight man, goes to a professional class, he feels like he's surrounded by a sea of gay people.

Because of this unique environment, Lu Ming's gay identification technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and every time he has any new discoveries, he will share them with Lu Xun, a homophobic straight man, so that Lu Xun will also follow along with the advancement of leaps and bounds.

Lu Ming : [You take me for a walk, maybe I'll catch you a couple of friends with crushes on you].

Lu Xun scoffed, he can still have any friends who have a crush on him now, there are just the kind who can't say a few words a month, and don't even bother to give a look.

But they really hadn't seen each other in quite a while, and it was good to see them.

And most importantly, he wants Ye Yao to meet more of his relatives and friends, and ideally, everyone around him will know Ye Yao.

Lu Xun thought about it and agreed.

*

Ye Yao was a bit surprised to receive Lu Xun's invitation.

"Won't your cousin be uncomfortable if I go when you and your cousin go to play?" Ye Yao asked.

Lu Xun replied naturally, "Let him play on his own side if he's not comfortable."

Ye Yao: "......"

"Just kidding." Lu Xun made an excuse to cover up the truthfulness, "I asked him, he doesn't care about that, he kinda likes making friends."

In that case, Ye Yao agreed to wait until the weekend and went with Lu Xun to meet this cousin who had flown back from abroad.

They agreed to meet at the entrance of the theme park, Ye Yao arrived first, and after waiting for less than a minute, Lu Xun pointed in one direction, "Here he is, that one over there in the cold wearing a leather jacket."

He thought that Lu Xun, his cousin who studied music, was a gentle man, but once he met him, he realized how wrong he was.

Lu Ming wears a black leather jacket and pants, black Martin boots, and keeps his hair long in a cool braid.

Even when he's not talking, he's all surging rock and roll.

Lu Ming realized that they had arrived and jogged over, "All here? I'm late this time, it's my treat."

"It doesn't matter if you're invited or not," Lu Xun put his arm on Ye Yao's shoulder and introduced him to Ye Yao, "Let me introduce you, this is my cousin Lu Ming."

"This is Ye Yao, remember it clearly so you don't forget next time." Lu Xun added.

The introduction was a bit vaguely grandiose, and Lu Ming raised an eyebrow in greeting as he swept his interested eyes over Ye Yao's body, and Lu Xun's hand as he cradled Ye Yao's shoulder.

In fact, he saw Lu Xun and Ye Yao's figures from afar, but he just didn't dare to confirm them.

These two people were wearing the same red down jacket, which at first glance looked like a couple's outfit, that's why he didn't dare to recognize them.

How could his maverick Seeker go out with others wearing the same style?

It's got to be a great, great relationship.

Lu Ming thoughtfully extended his hand to politely shake Ye Yao's, and together, several people entered the theme park.

Lu Ming smiled and opened the topic, "When I didn't see clearly that it was you two, I thought it was a young couple from somewhere. I thought there are too many couples today, and it's sad that I'm a single dog in the middle, but it turns out that I'm not."

"Not really." Lu Xun snorted, "Aren't you a single dog caught in the middle right now."

Lu Ming: "......"

"Just three bachelors." Ye Yao Pragmatic.

Lu Xun frowned, "How can you curse yourself like that?"

Lu Ming : "......?"

What was happening and why did he feel so strange with every conversation?

This newly opened theme park is so popular that one of the passageways is narrow and crowded, making it easy to accidentally get separated.

Lu Ming turned back and was about to tell the other two to stay close and not to get separated when he saw the two holding hands.

They held hands and didn't have to worry about getting separated because of the crowd. Walking slowly instead revealed a different kind of warmth.

That wasn't exactly accurate, since Lu Xun was the only one who was open, and Ye Yao was more than a little unnatural. His eyes met Ye Yao's, who smiled weakly at him, trying and failing to break Lu Xun's hold.

Lu Ming, as an art creator, has come into contact with too many gay people, so much so that he has become a gay connoisseur, but at this moment, he still feels a certain incomprehension.

What a strange feeling.

He grew up with Lu Xun and knows him very well, Lu Xun is known to be a 100% straight man, why would he still have such a base picture that gives him a headache?

Shouldn't an image like this be between a young couple?

According to his intuition, he felt that neither of them were straight, but reason told him that Lu Xun must be. Then it was strange that such a situation had arisen.

In the midst of the crowd, Lu Ming, who was squeezed into a pie, thought hard and suddenly came to a realization.

Yes, an element that's very popular right now.

Big grinning straight guy with his trolling bent boyfriend!

It was just one troll after another, and the pressurized, unresponsive straight man took the bait.

Did he really catch another secret admirer lurking around Lu Xun?

The last time he found Lu Xun's hair seems to like Lu Xun, dared to directly with Lu Xun all kinds of side talk, this time is a bit wimpy.

Lu Xun and Ye Yao are closer than brothers at first glance, so if he guesses wrong, he'll be stirring up trouble, and Lu Xun can probably beat him up for three days before he can get out of bed.

In that case, he will first confirm it on his own, and then tell Lu Xun about it when he can ...... confirm it.

*

After playing for a little while, the hungry group entered the theme restaurant.

After ordering Lu Xun went to use the restroom and made a point of warning Lu Ming: "Don't bully people while I'm not around."

"What are you talking about, we rock musicians never do bullying!" Lu Ming said seriously.

Waiting for Lu Xun to leave, Lu Ming, who was dressed in an incredibly cool outfit, personally poured a cup of tea for Ye Yao, and at the same time asked with a smile, "Brother Ye, is there any boy around Lu Xun now who doesn't know how to die and dares to confess to him? He used to hate it when guys confessed to him, and he would get very angry every time."

Ye Yao smiled, "Haven't seen much of him, everyone knows he doesn't like guys."

"So that's how it is, everyone knows." Lu Ming repeated what Ye Yao said. He put the teapot down and raised his eyes, "I'm actually kinda surprised that he would be so close to you. Ever since that incident, I thought he wouldn't want to make friends."

"What is it?" Ye Yao asked.

"He used to have a hairdresser who wasn't as good-looking as you, but was the clean-cut type. That hairdresser had a crush on him, and the longer he knew him, the more he couldn't control himself. Because Lu Xun didn't have any other friends of the same type around him, he felt special."

"It turned out that Lu Xun found out later, Lu Xun didn't give him any bit of face, and just told him to take his stupid ideas and get lost, that there wouldn't be any bit of possibility between them."

Lu Ming spoke slowly while observing the expression of the person across from him.

A secret admirer hearing the sad news of a love rival is more than a little saddened by the death of a rabbit, isn't it?

Lu Ming saw Ye Yao hook up the corner of his mouth, his face expression is so careless, as if he heard a ridiculous story.

The red duffle coat was white and warm against his complexion, and no trace of sadness or grief was visible on his face.

"Too much greed, the moment you realize you can't control it, you should stay away." Ye Yao shook his teacup, "What makes you so confident that you can be the exception to the rule for a straight man?"