Chapter 21: He said I have a crush on you

Ye Yao wakes up and leaves the room to see Lu Xun setting up a plate with his dad, and the scene looks like a happy one.

When Ye Yao comes out, Lu Xun picks out one of the bowls of noodles and puts it in front of Ye Yao.

"You don't like undercooked, fully cooked eggs cooked especially for you." Lu Xun raised an eyebrow.

"Xiao Lu, this kid is sweet, which girl will marry you in the future, she's really blessed!" Ye Yao's father exclaimed.

"No, no," Lu Xun was modest on the lips, "I've just been gentle and considerate since I was a kid, I'm used to taking care of people."

Ye Yao: "......"

What's this all about?

Ye Yao didn't understand, but just thought that Lu Xun wanted to show off in front of his elders, so he didn't poke his nose in it.

Ye Yao sits down normally to eat his noodles, and Lu Xun observes his expression, knowing his behavior isn't working.

Ye Yao has been with him for a long time, so of course he knows what kind of person he is. Trying to change his image on the fly would be very sudden and unnatural.

Why would you want to portray yourself in the direction of Ye Yao's favorite type?

Of course, it's because he can't be outdone by Ye Yao's who-knows-when-it-will-appear date, and as long as he's doing better, the higher Ye Yao's sights will be set, and the greater the chance that he won't be able to find a date to grow old and lonely with.

The two of them were enough together, they didn't need to insert anyone else.

He needs to find a gentle way to fit his character, and there is one, and he's already halfway there - Ye Yao's birthday present.

After Ye Yao finishes his noodles, Lu Xun comes along.

"Brother Ye, come back to my side of the house with me in a few days? The birthday gift I gave you is still at home." Lu Xun thought about it and added, "If you really don't want to go, I'll have them send it over."

Ye Yao felt that this should be the last time he would go to Lu Xun's house to play, so he nodded his head : "Yes, it's not a bad thing to play around while you have time, accompany my parents to go over there after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year?"

Lu Xun quickly used his vip privilege to book two tickets for the eighth day of the Chinese New Year during the Spring Festival, and then joyfully wrapped his arms around Ye Yao's shoulders: "Guess what gift I've prepared for you this time?"

In light of Lu Xun's operations in previous years, Ye Yao speculates: "Did you personally design the spinning crystal ball? A wooden castle? Strawberry sauce made from strawberries you cultivated and raised?"

Lu Xun snorted lightly, "How can that be, who would give a gift that was given before again, am I such an insincere person in your heart?"

"There's no mystery in guessing." Ye Yao said.

That being said, Lu Xun stopped asking questions and instead fantasized in his head what Ye Yao would look like when he used the gift.

He, Lu Xun, a soft-spoken man, makes it a point to learn a new skill and knit Ye Yao a pink sweater for her birthday.

Before he came to Ye Yao's house after winter vacation, Lu Xun was busy with this very thing. At that time, his thoughts were simple: the thought of Ye Yao wearing his personally knitted sweater close to his body made him so happy that he couldn't sleep.

In retrospect, the act of many girls knitting sweaters to protect their loved ones from the cold is referred to as tenderness. His main purpose was not to keep Ye Yao warm, but the behavior was always the same.

After knitting a half of the sweater, he went back to finish the half, so that on the evening of Ye Yao's birthday, he could let Ye Yao wear his hand-knitted sweater, hold his hand, cut the birthday cake, and take lots and lots of pictures together.

The group photos are all saved so that when they are old, they can still turn them over and reminisce about their youth together.

Imagining such a picture, Lu Xun gave a smile of satisfaction.

*

After the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, when most of the office workers started to go to work, Ye Yao and Lu Xun took a flight to Lu Xun's home.

Lu Xun's car was waiting outside the airport and took Ye Yao and his family directly to Lu Xun's mid-level villa.

Lu Xun's mom and dad are both busy people, and have long since begun various work matters, so Lu Xun's family can't really see anyone else for a while, except for the staff responsible for cooking and cleaning.

Lu Xun's family has so many rooms that they don't have to struggle to squeeze into a bed. Ye Yao chose to stay in a guest room the first time he came to Lu Xun's house, and this time, he will do the same.

"Excessive, what kind of relationship do we have, but we still have to sleep in separate rooms." Lu Xun muttered a few times and brought Ye Yao to the door of the guest room closest to his room without any strong objection.

After all, he still had to secretly finish his sweater knitting at night, so he could only temporarily entrust Ye Yao to sleep alone during this time.

After helping Ye Yao put his luggage away, Lu Xun thought of something and said to Ye Yao, "My cousin may come to visit me during this period of time, so if you see him, you can pay attention to him, if you don't want to pay attention to him, you don't have to force him."

Ye Yao remembered Lu Ming and smiled.

"It's impossible to turn around and walk away when you do see him, otherwise it's too rude." Ye Yao asks, "Does he have any hobbies?"

Lu Xun frowned, for some small reason he didn't really want Ye Yao to very happily talk to someone else and forget all about him.

"He doesn't have many hobbies," Lu Xun said vaguely, "Just call me when you see him, and during the time you're waiting for me, you can talk to him casually. Did I tell you that he wrote all those identification gay guides I showed you earlier? You can talk to him about what he's learned in that regard."

Lu Xun said it casually, but Ye Yao, who heard it, was stunned.

"...... You mean he's good at identifying who isn't straight?" Ye Yao asked in a hushed voice.

"Well, I used to be around a hairy guy who pretended to be straight who had a crush on me, or he realized something was wrong first." Lu Xun replied.

Ye Yao frowned imperceptibly as he couldn't help but think back to the day he met Lu Ming, what he had done to Lu Xun, and that separate conversation with Lu Ming.

At that time, he didn't realize that something was wrong, but now that he knows Lu Ming's other identity, he can look back on the conversation and realize that there were traps almost everywhere.

Has he been discovered?

"I see." Ye Yao loosened his frown and smiled again, "I'll have a nice chat with him regarding that."

*

Ye Yao didn't expect to see Lu Ming again so soon.

It was an early morning, woken up by thirst, he went downstairs to look for water. Lu Xun was still awake in the morning, and only the chef in charge of breakfast was active downstairs.

On such a quiet morning, Ye Yao walked into the dining room and saw Lu Ming sitting at the table eating shrimp dumplings.

Lu Ming also froze when he saw him, his expression a bit surprised.

Ye Yao didn't go back to his room after receiving the water, but sat down across from Lu Ming, "It's been a long time."

"Indeed it's been a long time, haven't seen the last time we met was before vacation." Lu Ming still remembered his goal of trying to find out if Ye Yao was a straight man, he was vaguely skeptical the last time they met, and this time, he was even more stunned.

For no other reason than the fact that the pajamas Ye Yao was wearing were not well fitted, were a size too big, and looked like the Lu Xun pajamas ...... was wearing.

The loose clothing was worn by Ye Yao close to his body, somewhat loosely, making his figure even more slender and lean. A small section of his collarbone was uncovered and exposed, giving the pale skin a shadowy undulation of light and dark.

Lu Ming is a straight man, but when faced with such a beautiful temptation up close, he still doesn't know where to put his eyes.

"Your pajamas ...... seem a little big?" Lu Ming asked hesitantly.

Ye Yao picked up his cup and took a sip of water, his wide sleeves falling a fraction as he raised his hands, revealing his thin wrists.

"It's big." Ye Yao smiled slightly, "Because it's Lu Xun's pajamas. I'm too lazy to bring too much luggage back and forth, so I borrowed his clothes for the unimportant ones."

Ye Yao's reply was so frank that Lu Ming was at a loss for words.

Normally, would a male with a crush on Lu Xun find an excuse to wear Lu Xun's clothes and not be careful?

Seems like it would, if the person was confident, thought they were different from everyone else, and wanted to show off their possessiveness of Lu Xun.

Just like Lu Xun's old hairdresser.

Lu Ming paused for a moment, before replying, "You're on good terms with him, and he never lends his clothes to anyone else."

"I'm on better terms with him than your average friend, so he was willing to lend me." Ye Yao yoyo replied.

One word, and the alarm went off for Lu Ming straight away.

Showing off how different he is in all sorts of details and being smug that he has a good relationship with straight men is not something he has to intentionally think about more than he should, it's just that he's really seen too many of them like that.

There are some gay guys who fall in love with straight guys and just want to get together after bending the guy over. Many of them are such smug braggarts when they think they are about to succeed.

But ...... stories often do not end well, or the straight man did not bend at all, just when will people as a monkey. Or the straight man bent, after a period of time and straight back, get happy people just a minority of the minority.

There's no need to do that, not to mention Lu Xun doesn't like men.

It is precisely because there is no possibility that staying away earlier is the right thing to do.

"I heard Lu Xun say that you are very keen on whether a person is gay or not?" Ye Yao opened his mouth and said, "I've read your guide to identifying gay people, it's very well written."

"Huh?" Lu Ming froze, "You read it?"

Ye Yao propped up his face with one hand, slightly tilted his head to look at Lu Ming, his eyebrows, which appear a bit cold when he doesn't smile, slightly curved, his light red lips seemingly smiling, "Did you find anything out? For example, ...... is beside Lu Xun, secretly in love with Lu Xun's homosexuality?"

Lu Ming was so shocked that he accidentally poked one of the shrimp dumplings he was eating.

He picked up the shrimp dumplings that had fallen on the floor with his hands and his whole body was shocked.

This is ...... This is a werewolf blowing himself up with him?

There's absolutely no mistaking that statement combined with Ye Yao's expression, right?

"You ......" Lu Ming 欲言又止，欲止又言，最后压低声音道，"我不去跟 Lu Xun說，你看远离吧。 Lu Xun is not stupid, continue to be like now he will know sooner or later, when it is not good to deal with."

Ye Yao is happy, he also teased the cousin, the main purpose is to clear his own suspicion. Now that he's done teasing, he's going to get right to the point.

"What makes you think I have other feelings for him beyond friendship?" Ye Yao was calm, "That's how we straight guys get along."

Lu Ming had an indescribable expression on his face, "What kind of straight guy gets along so well, you go out and see? The last time I went to a theme park with you guys, I felt something was very wrong!"

"Since you don't believe me, listen to you, I'll talk to him now?" Ye Yao picked up his cell phone.

Lu Ming: "?"

Ye Yao found Lu Xun's WeChat and slowly and methodically sent a voice: "Lu Xun, your cousin said that I like guys and have a crush on you because normal men don't get along with each other like that at all. I think he has a point, I will pack my bag and leave now."

Lu Ming: "??"

Lu Xun's message flew back, also a voice message. Ye Yao clicked on it, and Lu Xun's voice, so gentle that it could drip water, entered his ears, "He's just kidding, don't pay attention to him. I asked the chef last night to make your favorite wonton this morning, try it and see if it's to your liking."

Lu Ming was dumbfounded as his cell phone, which was sitting on the desktop, vibrated and he picked it up to see that Lu Xun had also sent him a message.

There were only a few short words, but each word was filled with a murderous aura, diametrically opposed to the gentleness he had just shown Ye Yao.

[You get your ass up here.