Chapter 2: Being Single Together

Ye Yao When I open my eyes in the morning, the first thing that catches my eye is a familiar handsome face.

Lu Xun had already woken up and was looking at him fixedly with deep eyes.

"What are you looking at," Ye Yao pushed the man away from her, calming her heart which had begun to beat wildly early in the morning, "Weirdly scary, what horror movie did you learn how to wake up from?"

Lu Xun lifted his lips in a smile, "I feel like your eyelashes are zero point two millimeters longer than they were in high school."

"......" Ye Yao straightened up while kicking Lu Xun, who was still lying in bed, "Don't be ridiculous, I'm going to class, shrink your legs and let me out of bed."

Lu Xun hooked Ye Yao's ankle with his foot: "What's the rush, come along."

*

Ye Yao and Lu Xun did not major in the same field, Ye Yao in law and Lu Xun in finance.

Ye Yao also do not know how Lu Xun specific operation, anyway, from the freshman enrollment, Lu Xun, the financier lived in their law dormitory, but also let them go to the university after still low head to see head.

Ye Yao steps into the classroom ten minutes before the start of class, followed by a Lu Xun.

After finding a seat and helping his roommate take it, Ye Yao heard the girl in the front row laughing and teasing him, "Ye Zi, bringing your family to the class again?"

"Yes," the 'family member' opened up self-consciously before Ye Yao could say anything at the mention of the topic about Ye Yao, "Isn't this a Siamese twins, it's hard to be separated."

Ye Yao glanced at Lu Xun, who smiled and closed his mouth, lying on the desktop to watch Ye Yao prepare for the next class.

Although Lu Xun is not a member of this class, Ye Yao's entire class is accustomed to his presence and presence in the classroom.

Whenever the Finance Department is closed and their class is open, Lu Xun, the campus god, will always be there to accompany Ye Yao to class.

The bell rings and the classroom quiets down as the sound of the veteran teacher's lecture blends with the sound of books being turned and notes being taken.

Ye Yao has always been serious about his studies, but even so, it's hard to concentrate when the person next to him is lying on the table doing nothing but staring at him.

Not to mention the fact that this person was his crush.

Ye Yao stretched out a hand to cover Lu Xun's eyes, and said in a lowered voice: "Don't look blindly, listen to the lesson well."

Lu Xun took Ye Yao's hand that was covering his eyes and put Ye Yao's hand on his lap before withdrawing his sight.

The bell rings and Lu Xun, who has a class next, stands up.

"I'm leaving, don't take advantage of my absence to secretly meet girls who like you ah, well at least wait until I'm present." Lu Xun said.

Ye Yao waves Lu Xun off, glancing up before Lu Xun's silhouette disappears through the doorway.

...... If Lu Xun knew who he liked, he certainly wouldn t be bugging him like this anymore.

Ye Yao smiled to himself, if only he really liked girls, he wouldn't have to be on edge all the time like he was now, afraid of being found out about his true feelings.

*

At the end of a smooth day of classes, Lu Xun went to the basketball court instead of looking for Ye Yao in the law school building.

During this time of the year, there are basketball matches between various faculties, and today it happens to be Finance versus Law School. Lu Xun and Ye Yao are both on the basketball team, so all Lu Xun has to do is wait at the court.

Lu Xun is sitting on the courtside bench tying his shoes when his teammate sits his ass down next to him.

"Lu, let me ask you something." The teammate's voice was mysterious, "I've searched around, and I feel that you're the only one who knows the most about this."

Lu Xun didn't even lift his head: "What is it."

The big guy teammate hemmed and hawed: "Lu, you're familiar with Ye Yao from the law school, I just want to ask ...... Ye Yao if he has a girlfriend?"

Lu Xun's movement of tying his shoes stopped as he turned his head to look at his teammate: "What's the point of asking this."

"It's like this, I have a friend who likes Ye Yao quite a bit and hasn't had much chance to get in touch, so she wants to take advantage of this ball game to give Ye Yao a watering hole. When the time comes, Brother Lu, can you help out and let them talk a little more?" The teammate asked.

Lu Xun didn't say anything, the corners of his lips skimmed downward in a small way, while his teammate who didn't feel anything wrong further endeavored to say, "That friend of mine is very pretty and has a good personality, so it wouldn't be a loss to have a few more conversations."

"I don't think he's planning on getting into a relationship this time." Lu Xun said.

"It's okay, a woman chasing a man is a veil." The teammates laughed with a big grin.

"...... Say it again." Lu Xun stood up and walked towards the kiosk next to him.

Behind him, his teammates heckled and joked.

"You asked Lu to introduce his wife to his girlfriend, Da Zhuang, how can you be so capable."

"Isn't this letting Lu cuckold himself!"

"You're done, you won't be able to walk off the field today without introducing me to a girlfriend too."

The straight men laughed, no one took the joke seriously, after all, they all knew that Lu Xun was an iron straight man.

*

The ball game went on fiercely and the scores stayed close, but the finance department basketball team, whose people in this class are all taller, still took advantage of the situation. At the last moment, Finance won the basketball game with a three-point shot.

Ye Yao sits down on the courtside bench with a slight gasp and wipes the sweat from his forehead with his wrist guard.

His skin was white, and he didn't look dirty when he was so drenched in sweat; instead, he had a strange beauty of alabaster that had been drenched.

With the chaotic sounds of celebration and talking in his ears, Ye Yao felt so thirsty that he would have gone straight for Lu Xun's water before, but since the friendship had soured, he had restrained himself.

A bottle of cool, icy water was handed to Ye Yao by a pretty hand, and Ye Yao looked upward to see a quiet-looking girl with black shaggy hair.

The girl smiled shyly: "This bottle of water is for you."

"......" Ye Yao swept around the side and realized that quite a few people were looking over, with a look of amusement on their faces. The girl had a fidgety look on her face, obviously she wasn't comfortable doing something like this.

Ye Yao took the water: "Thanks."

"You're welcome." The girl smiled, "Do you remember me, the last time I ran into trouble near the library, you were the one who helped me out."

"Just passing by, you don't have to take it to heart." Despite his thirst, Ye Yao took the water and didn't drink it.

"So, I wanted to thank you, are you ...... free ...... tonight?"

Before the girl could finish her sentence, the next second, a half-drunk bottle of sports drink was placed next to Ye Yao with the cap open.

Ye Yao's shoulder rested on a big hand, the owner of the big hand sat down against Ye Yao: "Bought it for you, your favorite flavor, brotherly enough."

Ye Yao was too lazy to talk to Lu Xun, he was dying of thirst, he picked up the water given by Lu Xun and was about to drink it, but before he drank it, a question suddenly flashed in his mind.

The bottle of water was obviously half drunk by Lu Xun, so wouldn't he be indirectly kissing Lu Xun by drinking it now, and would he not be able to control his expression well and look perverted when he drank it?

The thought caused Ye Yao to hesitate for a moment, and that hesitation was followed by Lu Xun's arm around his neck and pulling him closer.

"Sick of my spit? I can't remember how many of yours I've had." Lu Xun said in a hushed voice.

Lu Xun's voice wasn't too loud, but it was loud enough for the people standing in front of them to hear clearly. The girl's expression was a bit dumbfounded as she looked at Ye Yao, then at Lu Xun, and suddenly came to a realization, as if she understood something.

"Fighting, interrupting, and wishing you all happiness!"

The girl left quickly, and the corner of Lu Xun's mouth that had been hanging down finally curved up in an arc.

Ye Yao : "You're being misunderstood as gay again."

"Misunderstanding is misunderstanding, it's not like it can make me really gay." Lu Xun watched with satisfaction as Ye Yao drank half of the bottle of water and said with complete disinterest.

*

The stadium is a bit far from the dormitory building, so Ye Yao and Lu Xun, who are too lazy to walk, swiped the only shared bike.

On the way back, Ye Yao wrapped his arm around the waist of Lu Xun, who was driving him in front, and yawned.

Lu Xun kept quiet in front of Ye Yao, and it wasn't until the car rode down a remote and less traveled road that Lu Xun finally opened his mouth.

"Student Ye, confessing is lenient, resisting is strict." Lu Xun said, "There's something, I advise you to explain it clearly here, otherwise don't blame me for being rude to you."

"Explain what?" Ye Yao asked, eyes downcast.

Lu Xun shades: "How did you and that girl meet, and learn to secretly fall in love behind my dad's back?"

"No." Ye Yao replies, "I went to the library to check out a book once before when you were in class and I ran into that girl being harassed by a group of off-campus guys, so I stopped by to help."

Lu Xun was silent for a moment: "Once you had a bruise on your body, I asked you if that was the reason you lied to me and said you accidentally hit the corner of the table?"

"Uh-huh." Ye Yao admitted.

Lu Xun was silent again, and didn't open his mouth again until he was about to ride out of this remote trail.

Lu Xun's voice was pressed: "So do you like her?"

Hearing this, Ye Yao finally raised his eyes to look at Lu Xun, who was looking handsome even with his hair flowing in the wind at the back of his head.

His sweetheart, who had no knowledge of what was going on in his heart, was still inquiring about his favor with other girls.

"No, don't get any ideas." Ye Yao replies slowly, "I've even helped you out like this before... am I a match for you?"

Lu Xun was relieved and joked again: "It's not easy to become a couple with me, we'll get married tonight, how about sleeping in my bed at night."

Lu Xun's back was slapped a few times warningly by Ye Yao, he didn't care at all and only felt the air was quite fresh.

He used to be a rebellious teenager who could learn anything, just not good. His family had a headache watching him, so they threw him to a small town in the south to go to school, hoping that the hard life would rub off on him.

Ye Yao was the president of his class after he transferred to another school, and at that time Ye Yao was just a simple uninteresting good-for-nothing student in his eyes, the kind he could poke to death with one finger.

Until one day he had a conflict with a street bully, who was not a martial artist and got many people to attack him. When the situation got bad, Ye Yao, who was riding his bicycle to his workplace, passed by, helped him and then left, not even giving him a chance to talk, without even looking at him, in a very elegant manner.

Lu Xun has lived for so long, or the first time to meet such a good deed after even do not bother to greet the person, greatly curious, and slowly familiar with this good student.

The level of familiarity ranges from occasional words, to talking every day, to Lu Xun being uncomfortable if he doesn't see Ye Yao every day.

In order to stay together with his best friend, Lu Xun is so motivated that he and Ye Yao enter the same university.

And now there is some kind of hidden danger in this wonderful life.

In high school Ye Yao studied seriously and it was absolutely impossible to fall in love, but college was different, and falling in love was the order of the day.

"Ye Yao." Lu Xun said seriously, "Don't fall in love yet, you see I haven't either."

"Why," Ye Yao took his hand back from Lu Xun's waist, "if Lu didn't talk about it, can't I, the little brother, cross over and talk to you first?"

Lu Xun fished Ye Yao's hand back onto his waist: "You are not my little brother, you are my ancestor. If I don't talk, you don't talk. The same way, if you don't talk, I can't talk either. Anyway, let's work together, don't talk alone."

Ye Yao closes her eyes and listens to the wind blowing in her ears, "Then you're losing out, you're the school boy."

"What's yes, don't bullshit, just tell me if you're going to answer or not?" Lu Xun asked.

"Good." Ye Yao said yes on his lips, but in his heart he didn't take Lu Xun's words seriously.

After all, if it's true as promised ...... Lu Xun will have to follow him and be single for the rest of his life.