Chapter 7: Homophobic straight man

The next day was the weekend, and after waking up, Ye Yao sent an invitation to Lu Xun as planned.

Lu Xun happily agrees, and Ye Yao heads out for a walk, mapping out the day's itinerary as they go.

"Watch a movie, eat some more, and when the cold air comes in a few days, buy some thicker clothes on the way. It's time to update our same clothes, so you can see what kind of style you like then, I'll let you." Lu Xun said.

A couple of girls brushed past the two of them and after a few steps probably thought they couldn't hear them and started talking excitedly.

"Do you hear me? Do you hear me? I'm following you, so spoiled ahhhhh!"

"Oooh, full of old married couple feeling, privately actually this kind of get along mode, I kowtow pull!"

Vaguely audible Ye Yao : "......"

Faintly embarrassed.

Their friendship is knocked as love, and I wonder how Lu Xun feels when he hears about it.

Ye Yao was suddenly embraced, and Lu Xun leaned in to whisper in his ear.

"You heard it, we have quite a lot of cp fans." Lu Xun, the straight man, spoke without surprise, with a bad smile hanging at the corner of his mouth, "Not bad, discerning eyes can recognize true gold, we are so true, the public's eyes can really stand the test."

Ye Yao :"...... what are you talking about, what do you know about cp fans?"

"Of course I know." Lu Xun remembered the post he had read before and raised an eyebrow, "Look you don't surf online, you haven't heard of such a hot CP, obviously the forums are full of it. cp fans, that's the people who think we're a couple and like to see us together, get it Ye student?"

The girls' discussion was completely inaudible, but the cheerful scent they had left behind seemed to still float in the air.

The word together is uttered candidly by Lu Xun, in a natural tone of voice that doesn't seem to think there's anything wrong with it at all.

Ye Yao looked at Lu Xun's dark eyes and suddenly opened his mouth: "Actually, this kind of post ...... is not good for you. Although you have always emphasized that you don't like men, but with everyone knocking around so much, the atmosphere is such that it's inevitable that someone will subconsciously think that you like men, so they'll come over to pester you again."

Ye Yao paused for a moment and saw Lu Xun furrow his handsome eyebrows with an expression that seemed displeased, so he continued softly, "When the time comes, I'll go see if they have a group or something like that, and if they do, I'll tell the administrators so that they ...... don't talk about us so much on the open forums us anymore."

Ye Yao looked at Lu Xun's unruly frown.

For his own selfish reasons, he was actually happy to see people talking about him and Lu Xun that way, but in reality, it wasn't good for Lu Xun as a homophobe.

Lu Xun didn't answer immediately, he put his arm around Ye Yao's shoulder: "How do you feel?"

Ye Yao froze: "I don't feel anything."

"Then it's not over." Lu Xun's tone was relaxed, smoothing down Ye Yao's hair, lazily saying, "A great man once said, the people are happy to see it, you don't like it, who do you think you are? Determined not to dampen the enthusiasm of the masses, do you know that, Comrade Ye?"

The corners of Ye Yao's mouth quirk up for a moment, then compact again, expressionlessly slapping away Lu Xun's troublemaking hand.

Nonsense, that's clearly not how that phrase is used!

*

The streets of the center are busy with a variety of entertainment venues.

From upscale luxury stores to affordable quick-sale stores, we cater to the desires of consumers of all levels.

They walked past the window of a well-known luxury clothing store, which was brightly lit, illuminating the store's logo in all its glory.

Ye Yao remembers this brand, when he was in high school, many of Lu Xun's clothes were printed with this logo, Lu Xun should be very fond of this brand. It's just that later on, as their relationship got better and better, Lu Xun's style of dressing became more and more affordable, and there was no more luxury brands to be seen.

And as far as he knew, with Lu Xun's family's wealth, even if he bought ten pieces in one go, it would be as painless as using up a dollar.

Ye Yao stopped in front of the window and looked at Lu Xun : "Do you want to buy it, I can accompany you to take a look."

Lu Xun seemed to have long thought about how to answer this question, he skimmed the store with a disgusted expression and answered without hesitation: "A handsome man like me, wearing 20 cents a sack is also very handsome, and you have to rely on a name brand to increase your handsome value?"

Lu Xun blew his hair at the window that could reflect people's silhouettes, pulled Ye Yao's face over, and raised his eyebrows: "Handsome or not, did you charm our classmate Ye Yao?"

Ye Yao : "......"

Ye Yao no longer gave Lu Xun a chance to be flirty, dragging Lu Xun towards the normal priced clothing store next door.

*

With the dresses in hand, Ye Yao and Lu Xun walk to the fitting room.

The fitting rooms here are large, separate for men and women, and inside each large fitting room, there are many smaller fitting compartments.

The men's and women's fitting places were on the left and right, and the outermost doorway was separated by a thin curtain. Because of the poor soundproofing, they were at the doorway of the men's fitting room, and they could still faintly hear the voices inside the women's fitting room.

"Tina, are you done? Come in and help me with my clothes, this dress is so hard to wear."

"Coming! Which cubicle are you in?"

Ye Yao didn't pay any attention to it, and walked into the men's fitting room, following Lu Xun into a small cubicle.

It was only after Ye Yao had changed and waited outside for a while that he realized something was wrong.

Lu Xun isn't out yet.

Does it take so long for Lu Xun to change his clothes?

As he was wondering, Lu Xun's voice came from the cubicle in front of him.

"Yao Yao, are you dressed?"

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

No, Lu Xun, this guy is definitely thinking of something bad again!

Without waiting for Ye Yao to say anything, Lu Xun spoke out for the second time, laughter in his voice: "Come help me with this, this dress is so hard to put on, I can't fit into it alone."

Ye Yao walked to the door of that cubicle and said coldly: "If it's hard to wear, don't wear it Seeking, your old clothes haven't got holes in them, you can still keep wearing them."

"...... Grass." Lu Xun smiled and poked his head out, grabbing Ye Yao's wrist with a large hand, "Come in you."

Ye Yao is yanked violently into the cubicle, the door slammed shut again by Lu Xun, who pushes Ye Yao against the wall with another thrust, while bracing one hand next to Ye Yao's head.

Trapping Ye Yao directly in front of himself.

Lu Xun smiled and came closer, probably lowering his voice because it was a public place.

"Other people's best friends help each other with their clothes, and you let me wear old clothes from a few years ago, how desperate, Yao Yao."

Lu Xun spoke slowly while slowly moving closer until their faces were close enough for Lu Xun to stop.

They were so close that Ye Yao could see Lu Xun's lips when he raised his eyes.

Ye Yao had once seen a hero wallop a heroine on TV, but never thought that she would one day be walloped.

Or being walloped by a straight guy with a crush.

Lu Xun's lips are very thin, the lip line is flat and straight, and can easily reveal a flavor of desperation. Only when facing him, this lips always with a smile, that kind of desperate flavor will completely dissipate.

If this were a TV show, the hero and heroine would be kissing by now.

Ye Yao shifted his gaze, not letting his eyes reveal his heart.

Lu Xun laughed, "I can't do the complicated act of putting on clothes by myself because of the crushed bones in my hands, can you bear to let me suffer?"

"...... I'm so sorry to hear this news." Ye Yao matched it by pulling out his cell phone, "The pain is in your hands, the pain is in my heart, I'm going to contact the funeral home for you okay."

"Then before you drag me to the crematorium you also help me put on my clothes." Lu Xun started to play it plainly, "Our relationship is no worse than anyone else's, if other friends can do it, so can we."

This is too gay, Ye Yao sighed very softly and pushed Lu Xun a little further away to try to reason: "It's normal for someone to be a girl and have clothes that are slimmer and harder to put on, or to need help with the zipper on their skirt. What do you need me to do to help you wear a sweater, and you don't have a zipper on your dress that you need to zip up ......."

Ye Yao closed his mouth, and it suddenly occurred to him that Lu Xun did have a zipper on this outfit - a pants zipper.

Lu Xun's thoughts quickly connected with Ye Yao's and his eyes moved down from Ye Yao's face, "You want us to help each other with this zipper? Good idea, how come I never thought of that."

Ye Yao : "......"

Ye Yao resolutely bent down to get out from under Lu Xun's arm and left the cubicle without looking back, and he even heard Lu Xun's soft laugh of satisfaction before he closed the door.

The damn straight man's daily actions kiriki-gas and is happy instead and has the nerve to do it again next time!

*

After clothes shopping and dinner, it was movie time.

Ye Yao booked the tickets in advance and sat with Lu Xun in the best seat in the house, waiting for the movie to start.

When the time came, the lights went out in the movie theater, and through the 3-D glasses issued by the theater, Ye Yao was able to observe Lu Xun's expression from time to time without being noticed.

The plot of this movie is simple, with the main line about how the two happy-go-lucky lovers, the hero and the heroine, go from looking at each other to ending up as a sweet couple with a little push from their friends.

The obscure subplot is that two male friends understand their feelings for each other when they set up the hero and heroine, but because of practical pressures and various reasons, even if neither of them is looking for a partner again, their eventual relationship stops at friends.

In the darkness, every time the two men had a rivalry scene, Ye Yao would look away from Lu Xun.

Ye Yao was more than a little apprehensive.

If Lu Xun is really homophobic, he should be disgusted by this kind of episode. And if it's just verbalized homophobia and not actually that repulsive in his heart, then there won't be much of a reaction, right?

To Ye Yao's relief, Lu Xun's expression never changed.

As time passed, the movie played to the end. The lights in the viewing room lit up again, Lu Xun took off the 3d glasses and took a sip of the Coke in his hand.

Ye Yao :"...... That's my coke."

"Oh?" Lu Xun holds his Coke a little farther away and looks at it, then takes another sip in front of Ye Yao.

Against Ye Yao's line of sight, Lu Xun slowly finished his Coke, and then shoved the Coke that was on the other side into Ye Yao's hand: "What's the difference between you and me in a Coke, really, I'll give you this cup."

Lu Xun is doing and saying everything the same as before, and doesn't look at all uncomfortable about having seen a same-sex love story.

Ye Yao was in no hurry to test the waters, and it wasn't until the two of them left the movie theater and hitchhiked back to campus, where Lu Xun began to try to take his hand again, that Ye Yao opened his mouth.

"What did you think of the movie today?"

"It's not bad, it's just a sweet love drama." Lu Xun was carrying a shopping bag in one hand and holding Ye Yao in the other, not knowing what came to his mind, his expression suddenly sharpened, "Why are you suddenly asking me for my opinion, you don't want to fall in love and find a girlfriend, so you're using this movie to test me?"

Ye Yao : "......"

What should be associated is not associated, and what should not be associated is blindly associated.

He did want to fall in love, but it certainly wasn't the one Lu Xun had in mind.

No, no, no, Lu Xun didn't see the homoeroticism in that movie at all!

Lu Xun let go of Ye Yao's hand, turned to use his elbow to clamp Ye Yao's neck, pulling the distance between the two closer, angry: "I have not even this idea, you are not allowed to talk about it, did not we agree to be together? You can't put your friends ahead of your sex!"

"I didn't think so." Ye Yao is really convinced, he thought for a second and took out his cell phone, "I just thought the male actors were too oily, so I wanted to hear what you thought. I'll see what the movie review others think."

There are a lot of reviews, Ye Yao pretended to have just found out, said to Lu Xun: "Many people think that those two male couples obviously love each other sincerely, but in the end, it's a pity that they can't get together, so abusive that they don't want to give a favorable review."

Lu Xun froze, his expression becoming grave in an instant.

"...... love each other?"

Concerning Lu Xun's minefield, Ye Yao was more careful with his words than usual: "Maybe it's because people like to bump into this kind of cp."

Lu Xun's expression slowly eased down: "Girls don't understand the expression of friendship between men, they think it's love, it's normal, just kowtow."

...... Lu Xun 居然真的没看出，觉得那一对只是朋友!

Ye Yao was in a complicated state of mind, a little unsure of how to proceed with the tryst, he pretended to walk forward as if nothing had happened. On the contrary, Lu Xun seemed to have some kind of interest because of this sentence of knocking cp, and pulled out his own cell phone with great interest.

Lu Xun looked at his phone while comparing: "The fans are quite a lot, when will the people who knock our cp be so many, there are so many who write novels for them, interesting."

Ye Yao helpless: "What are you doing envying people for having more cp fans, you want to read your own homo?"

"I'll watch if there is, it's not like there isn't--" Lu Xun jerked to a halt, his face grim.

Ye Yao was startled and while looking at Lu Xun, he also saw the content on Lu Xun's cell phone.

Lu Xun slid to a picture of a P, where the faces of the people had been replaced with those of the two male co-stars from the movie, who were kissing, one pinning the other to the bed, and the whole picture was bursting with sexual tension.

It's a p-out bed photo that foreshadows a sexual act between two men.

Ye Yao held Lu Xun's shoulder and said nervously, "What's wrong, where are you uncomfortable?"

"It's okay." Lu Xun closed his eyes and slowed down, returning his phone to the main page and pressing the screen out, "Seeing this kind of stuff is a little revolting, I'll slow down."

"......" Ye Yao's heart sank downward, and in this moment, he suspected he didn't look too good either.

Ye Yao steadied his voice, "You stay here and don't move. I'll go get you a glass of lemonade."

Without waiting for Lu Xun to reply, he strides towards the milk tea store not far away, hiding his emotions.

The night breeze carries a hint of early fall coolness that wakes Ye Yao up.

Lu Xun is really homophobic, and seeing intimate photos of two men makes her sick.

Ye Yao smiled to himself, all the expectations and temptations disappeared at this moment, but instead had a sense of relief.

Friend or not, what he wanted from the beginning was to be Lu Xun's friend for the rest of his life without revealing himself.

*

Ye Yao walked away, Lu Xun leaned against a tree and waited.

He still felt guilty of nausea, the kind of mental nausea that doesn't always go away with ten glasses of lemonade.

He needed something that was physically and mentally pleasurable just to look at.

Lu Xun once again pulled out his cell phone, and instead of looking at the food and beauty of the scenery, he tapped on his cell phone's photo album.

There weren't many pictures in Lu Xun's cell phone album, most of them were pictures of him and Ye Yao together, as well as a single picture of Ye Yao that he had scavenged from the forums the last time he was there, and a CP picture of the two of them.

Lu Xun casually clicked into one of the pictures to enlarge it, it was a picture of him leaving the stadium with his arm around Ye Yao, their heads were so close together that it was obvious they were kissing and talking. They're just leaving, and there's no third person in between, and there won't be.

Lu Xun looked at the picture, as in the middle of summer, drinking a glass of ice watermelon juice, the nausea that made him regurgitate gradually disappeared and became sweet.

Lu Xun touches Ye Yao's face on the screen and gives a satisfied smile.