Chapter 4: Bathhouse

After class that day, Ye Yao went back to the dormitory to do his homework, when he heard Xiao Pang, who was lying on the bed, excitedly slapping his thighs and letting out a loud pop.

Xiao Pang poked his head out of the bed, excitedly sharing the gossip he just learned: "Crap, there are two guys over at Mechanical, who were caught whoring by the school, and now they're going to be expelled! All the campus groups are going crazy!"

"There's such a thing?" Wen Ke, who was brushing short videos on the other side of the room, instantly perked up and opened the blocked campus group, "It's really true, the announcements have all been sent out. Tsk, tsk, knowing the law and breaking it, deserved it! Their family's face has been disgraced by them, right?"

Ye Yao spun his pen, and instead of taking out his cell phone to watch the action, he continued to look at the book on his desk. Usually, his attention is not distracted when he studies unless ......

Out of the corner of his eye, Ye Yao saw the bathroom door open a crack, white mist pouring out of it, and Lu Xun's voice appearing with it.

"Help me with my clothes, I forgot them." Lu Xun shouts from the bathroom.

Although he didn't specify, everyone else in the dorm knew who Lu Xun was yelling about.

Ye Yao put down his pen, got up and opened Lu Xun's closet, took the whole set of clothes and underwear without changing his face, and walked towards the bathroom.

The bathroom door remained open a small crack, seemingly reserved for him to pass his clothes.

A steady stream of hot air rose from the bathroom, separated by a door that housed Lu Xun.

The hot air hit Ye Yao's face, coloring his face with a bit of heat as well. Ye Yao inclined his head to the other side, making sure that he couldn't see anything he shouldn't see at all, and at the same time, he said to Lu Xun, "The clothes are here for you, take them."

The clothes on his hand were light, and Ye Yao was about to pull his hand back when, in the next instant, a large, wet and burning hand took his entire hand in its grasp.

"What's the point of leaving in such a hurry," Lu Xun said with a smile in his voice, "Thousands of miles to send clothes, the gift is light, which I shall not give you a back rub to thank you?"

"No, I have my own hands." Ye Yao refused without hesitation and was about to pull his hand out.

But Lu Xun's strength was stronger than he thought, and between the tugs, Ye Yao not only failed to pull his hand back, but allowed the bathroom door, which had been left open, to open from the inside-

Moisture washed over his face, and with it came Lu Xun, whom Ye Yao had been trying to avoid seeing.

Ye Yao didn't know what kind of expression he was wearing. It was as if he had locked eyes with Lu Xun, or as if he hadn't, and it all seemed like he was hallucinating.

In a flash of lightning, Ye Yao drew back his hand while his other hand snapped the door shut, blocking everything behind it.

With his heart beating like a drum, Ye Yao clenched his fists with a calm expression.

No good, he's overreacting.

Will Lu Xun find something?

In the midst of his thoughts, the closed bathroom door was opened once again by a not-so-small crack, and Lu Xun poked his head out.

The school boy, even with his hair wet and disheveled and without any styling to speak of, shone brightly, and with a smile in his dark, deep eyes, he said to Ye Yao, "Ye Yao, we've been friends for so many years, why are you still so shy?"

Good. Lu Xun didn't find anything.

"Cut the crap and get dressed." Ye Yao turned around with his face as usual, "Don't be a hooligan in broad daylight, let's go."

Sitting alone at his desk, Ye Yao let out a long breath.

He pulls out a tissue and wipes away liquid from his hand that he doesn't know if it's sweat or the water Lu Xun dipped him in.

The nerves in his brain recalled the image he had just seen against the will of its owner, Ye Yao picked up his pen and redirected his eyes to the Penal Law on his desktop, trying to use his professional power to drive away the impure thoughts in his mind.

With a click, the bathroom door opens and Lu Xun walks out of it.

Ye Yao did not turn his head, he tried to put all his mind on his books, intending to face Lu Xun when his condition was adjusted.

The sound of footsteps coming from the bathroom got closer and closer and didn't stop until they were behind him.

The man gripped the back of the computer chair Ye Yao was sitting on with one hand, and with a little force, Ye Yao, with the chair in tow, turned a hundred and eighty degrees, and came face to face with the man standing behind him.

Ye Yao just had time to see Lu Xun's bad smile before his whole face was pressed into Lu Xun's arms.

"What are Ye looking at, what book is better than me?" Lu Xun sounded sultry, "I'm jealous."

Ye Yao : "......"

Ye Yao couldn't care less about what Lu Xun was saying now.

Lu Xun, who has just finished his bath, still carries the fresh smell of shower gel, his favorite one, which Lu Xun has been using for a long time, and has not changed it even now.

Apparently, although he got Lu Xun a full set of clothes ...... Lu Xun didn t wear a top at all!

"......" Ye Yao felt the veins popping out of his head, "Didn't I get you a t-shirt?"

"Yes, if you take it, you have to wear it?" Lu Xun looked lazy, his arm wrapped around Ye Yao's shoulder and said with a smile, "How can I play hooligan with you if I wear it?"

Ye Yao felt like the pen in his hand was about to be crushed, and the temperature of his face, which was pressed against Lu Xun's body, was rising out of his control.

Calm down, Lu Xun is a straight man of steel with no self-consciousness whatsoever, and this is all just normal straight man trolling.

Lu Xun slutted at him the same way before his friendship went sour.

Ye Yao calmly analyzed, decisively pushed Lu Xun away with his hand against Lu Xun's abs, took a few deep breaths of fresh air, and preemptively said, "You're going to suffocate me, you don't want to live this life anymore so you're planning to murder me?"

Ye Yao's expression was no different than usual, but his skin color had changed. His skin was already thin and white, and a little bit of redness would be obvious on his face.

Lu Xun quieted down, he looked at Ye Yao's reddened face for a moment, and hooked up a smile that couldn't be confused with innocence by any stretch of the imagination.

Ye Yao kept his face calm: "What are you laughing at?"

Lu Xun still thinks his blush is strange and realizes something is wrong?

"What holding my breath, I think Ye is blushing because he was mesmerized by my figure." Lu Xun said.

Ye Yao's heart thumped.

"As a courtesy, if you look at mine, I'll look at yours." Lu Xun continued.

Ye Yao : "......"

His earlier worry was idiotic fucking opening the door for idiots, idiotic as hell.

Lu Xun is a practical person, said he was about to make a move, but Ye Yao was quick to hold him down.

"You're not being reasonable," Lu Xun said at length, "You don't go to the bathhouse, you don't go to the bathhouse, and you don't want a back rub alone, so how are we going to improve our relationship?"

Ye Yao is a southerner and has a natural reverence for the big bathhouses of the north. After he and Lu Xun came to the city for college, they never went to a bathhouse, because each dormitory had its own bathroom.

At first, he refused Lu Xun's invitation to go to the bathhouse with him because he couldn't get used to it. Later, when his friendship deteriorated, it became even more impossible for him to go to the bathhouse with Lu Xun.

Ye Yao felt that there was no logic in Lu Xun's passage and frowned suspiciously, "What does this have to do with improving our relationship, I think our relationship is already quite good."

"How is it not relevant?" Lu Xun raised one eyebrow, "Is it like you're asking people to judge?"

Xiao Pang, who was lying on the bed eating melon, stupidly poked his head out and aggressively egged on, "No way, no way, Ye Zi, haven't you ever been to a bathhouse with Brother Lu? Going to rub baths together, isn't that something every brother does, we're all like that ah, don't be shy Ye Zi, washing in a bathhouse is really cleaner than washing by yourself."

Wen Ke nodded along, "How nice to be open and honest."

Ye Yao: "......"

Barely speaking, he was afraid that if he couldn't control himself to show his face, the friendship would be in ashes.

"It's fine if you don't go, well at least you give a reason." Lu Xun said.

Ye Yao cautiously replied, "Too many people, don't fit in, don't want to go."

Lu Xun hugged his arms: "You mean you're willing to go if no one else can see you?"

No one else can see it?

Ye Yao furrowed his brows, and with his misguided knowledge of bathhouses, thought that Lu Xun was referring to bathhouses with many single cubicles.

It doesn't matter if you go to that kind of cubicle, as long as you don't have to face Lu Xun directly. Even if Lu Xun wants to visit him in the middle of the wash, he can only see his back. He can face the wall three times, so that he can not see the heart is not disturbed.

Ye Yao thought so and nodded.

............

Ye Yao is going to crack.

Why hadn't anyone told him that the bathhouse also had double rooms?

Ye Yao took a step straight backward and crashed into Lu Xun, who was behind him.

Lu Xun took him by the shoulders, his dark and narrow eyes full of laughter: "So excited? No rush, let's take our time."

"Didn't we agree that there was no one else?" Ye Yao asked.

"Yeah, it's no one else." Lu Xun nodded his head, his face all right, "It's not like I'm your someone else."

Ye Yao : "......"

This ill-timed confidence sometimes made him want to punch Lu Xun in the face.

Lu Xun took the stiff Ye Yao inside and stopped in front of the small bath.

Ye Yao looked down at the water while Lu Xun finally did say something human:¡°Don't be nervous, it's not like I'm going to laugh at you ...... Or are you afraid I'm going to force you to do something like those perverts on the internet?"

Lu Xun paused and whispered, "Don't be afraid, it won't happen."

Ye Yao looked at Lu Xun and thought to himself that Lu Xun couldn't see at all who would be the pervert between the two of them.

It would be strange to dilly-dally any longer now that the words have been spoken.

Ye Yao observed the furnishings in this two-person bath, tugged on his top, and dryly removed it from his body. And then his dark and dense eyelashes lifted to look at Lu Xun who stood still and stared at him.

"What are you looking at, why aren't you moving, not soaking?" Ye Yao asked.

Lu Xun slowly starts to move after Ye Yao reminds him, and while Lu Xun is packing up, Ye Yao fires off the water, closing his eyes and pretending to rest.

Playing blind appropriately is conducive to a long-lasting friendship.

He waited until Lu Xun had entered the water before he opened his eyes, so that he could only clearly see the upper half of Lu Xun's body above the water surface, and he wouldn't lose his temper at the sight of Lu Xun's body.

Ye Yao was in the midst of a mental reckoning when his cheeks were clamped down by a pair of large hands.

The hands rubbed the flesh of Ye Yao's cheeks in circles and tried to press inward, making Ye Yao's lips curl up with the force.

Ye Yao couldn't pretend to be blind in this situation, he opened his eyes with a question mark on his head and saw Lu Xun standing next to the bath, leaning down and reaching out to rub his face.

Ye Yao feels that he's less of a law school student and more of a talented actor in the acting department in this moment.

Of course, Lu Xun's hands, which pressed on his face and made his expression contort directly, helped immensely.

Ye Yao pressed his voice and frowned: "What are you doing?"

Lu Xun gave a laugh.

"Didn't you always say I'm a hooligan," Lu Xun, the high-cool male god in the eyes of outsiders, winked at Ye Yao with an immodest face, "not taking this opportunity to take revenge by being a hooligan back at me?"