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

Autumn was short-lived and winter soon set in.

Lu Xun's injury was not too serious and after some time had passed, he was almost recovered.

After what happened last time, Ye Yao was pulled in by Lu Xun who was somehow very anxious to learn a "Guide to Gay Identification".

"Look carefully." Lu Xun sat next to Ye Yao with his arms in his arms and said in a serious tone, "This is the beginner's version, it's rather superficial, but at least identify the ones that are not too well hidden and be careful to keep your distance from them."

Ye Yao, who hides it well, felt a twinge of weakness, but retorted without a ripple on his face, "There's no need, is there, to learn such things."

"Why is that not necessary?" Lu Xun glared at Ye Yao, "You don't even pay attention to this, you might get surrounded by gay men one day!"

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

The thick male voice rang out: [If your male friend's mobile phone, download a certain blue xxx software, and xxx software, do not suspect, he has eight out of ten is gay.

What is Blue Software?

Ye Yao was curious and went to the App Store to search for a dating app.

Lu Xun gave a long-winded instruction, "They like to find their friends on this app, almost all of them have one. If you find a guy who wants to get close to you, pretend your phone is dead and borrow their phone to make a call, then see if they have the app on their phone."

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

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

"It's not like we're looking at their personal information, just checking the software, what's the point." Lu Xun took his own phone out of his pocket and handed it to Ye Yao, "Try it out first, and figure out all the software in half a minute."

Ye Yao unlocked Lu Xun's phone with his own fingerprint and flicked through it. The contents of Lu Xun's phone were simple enough. As a man with a full real life, his phone only contained a few commonly used apps and no weird stuff.

Lu Xun didn't ask for his phone back and continued to lead Ye Yao through the videos on the computer, finishing one and pulling out another.

As soon as I clicked on it, Ye Yao was shocked to see the words in bright red at the beginning of the document.

[How can you tell if someone around you likes you?

Before Ye Yao could look at it, Lu Xun closed the document.

"I'll send you these documents in a package, remember to read them when you have time." Lu Xun grabbed Ye Yao and admonished, "Make sure you remember to read them, I will examine them then!"

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

"It works, I wasn't that perceptive before." Lu Xun frowned, "Then after some research, I found out that a hairdresser around me had a crush on me."

Ye Yao didn't expect Lu Xun to have such a past, and instead of feeling jealous of this Lu Xun crush, Ye Yao was shocked to hear, "...... and then what?"

"Of course I told him to get lost," Lu Xun's frown deepened, as if he didn't understand why Ye Yao was asking, "and to stay friends with him?"

At this time Lu Xun's face was the familiar desperation of Ye Yao, a matter that seems to have no exception in Lu Xun's case.

Lu Xun went on to add: "Luckily I didn't see eye to eye with him before and didn't pay much attention to him, otherwise I'd be too sick to sleep looking back on the various interactions now."

Too sick to sleep?

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

*

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

The wording in the document is not strict, it looks like someone's random writings that have been consolidated into a document.

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

[Does he always want to stick to you all the time? And uses the fact that you have a good relationship as an excuse to not let you hang out with new people more or even make new friends. When a large group of friends are together, he will always find ways to show how special your relationship is, such as only serving you food, remembering what you like to eat, and saying it in public. When people make jokes about your relationship with him, he doesn't retort, he just laughs and pretends to be embarrassed].

[Taste carefully, are these actions really okay? Is it a coincidence to win one, but also a coincidence to win several?

There were many more in the back, and Ye Yao was relieved to find that he couldn't get in.

Lu Xun's hairdresser was probably just the right type, so Lu Xun caught him red-handed.

He never restricted Lu Xun from making friends, except that Lu Xun himself had little interest in making new friends and was always with him.

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

As for the food, of course it does happen, but if you want to do the math, Lu Xun gives him more food than he does.

This experience does not hold true for him.

A relaxed Ye Yao moved on to the others, happy to find that none of them largely applied to him either.

Great, as long as there are no surprises, he can continue to keep it under wraps.

*

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

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

Lu Ming: [Brother, I'm going back to China, I heard that a new theme park is opening there, take me there to have some fun.

Lu Xun is not at all polite: [You're too old to get lost, can't you go play by yourself?

Lu Ming: [? No brotherly love?

Lu Ming ：【Ha, you're not going to be able to get away with it? If I hadn't worked so hard to write so many documents for you, you would have improved so fast and found out who had a crush on you?

Lu Xun This cousin is studying music, and I don't know if there are more gay people studying art, but every time this straight guy goes to a professional class, he feels like he is surrounded by a sea of gays.

Due to this unique environment, Lu Ming's gay identification skills have improved by leaps and bounds. Every time he finds something new, he shares it with Lu Xun, a homophobic straight man, so that Lu Xun can follow suit.

Lu Ming: [You can take me for a walk, maybe I can even catch you some friends who have a crush on you].

Lu Xun scoffed, he still had friends who had a crush on him, but only the kind who didn't say a few words a month and didn't even bother to give a glance.

But it's true that they haven't seen each other for quite a while and it's good to see them.

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

Lu Xun thought about it and agreed.

*

Ye Yao was a little surprised to receive an invitation from Lu Xun.

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

Lu Xun's response was natural: "Let him play on his own if he's not comfortable."

Ye Yao: "......"

"Just kidding." Lu Xun found an excuse to cover up his true feelings, "I asked him, he doesn't care about that, he quite likes to make friends."

As such, Ye Yao agreed to wait until the weekend to go with Lu Xun to meet his cousin who had flown back from abroad.

They agreed to meet at the entrance of the theme park and Ye Yao arrived first. After waiting for a minute, Lu Xun pointed in one direction: "Here he is, that's the one in leather on a cold day."

He thought Lu Xun, his music student cousin, was a gentle man, but once he met him, he realised how wrong he was.

Lu Ming wore a black leather jacket and trousers, black Martin boots, and long hair in a cool braid.

Even when not talking, he is still all pent up rock and roll.

Lu Ming noticed that they had arrived and ran over to them, "Are you all here? I'm late this time, my treat my treat."

"It doesn't matter if you're invited or not," Lu Xun put his arm around Ye Yao's shoulders and introduced him to the others, "Introducing, this is my cousin Lu Ming."

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

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

In fact, he had seen Lu Xun and Ye Yao from afar, but did not dare to confirm their presence.

The two were wearing the same red duvet, which at first glance looked like a couple's outfit, which is why he didn't dare to recognise them.

How can his maverick Lu Xun go out in the same style as everyone else?

It must be a very, very good relationship.

Lu Ming was thoughtful and extended his hand to shake Ye Yao's politely as they entered the theme park together.

Lu Ming smiled and opened the conversation, "When I didn't see you two clearly, I thought it was a couple from somewhere. I thought there were too many couples today, and I was a poor single dog in the middle, but it turned out not to be."

"It's not." Lu Xun snorted, "Aren't you a single dog caught in the middle now too."

Lu Ming: "......"

"Just three single dogs." Ye Yao matter-of-factly.

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

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

What had happened and why did he feel so strange with every line of conversation?

This newly opened theme park is so popular that there is one lane that is quite narrow and crowded, making it easy to get separated accidentally.

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

They hold hands and don't have to worry about getting separated due to the crowds. The slow walk reveals a different kind of warmth instead.

It is not accurate to say that Lu Xun is the only one who is open, Ye Yao is more or less unnatural. His eyes met Ye Yao's and Ye Yao smiled faintly at him, trying and failing to open Lu Xun's restraints.

Lu Ming, as an art creator, has been exposed to so many gays that he has become a gay connoisseur, but at this moment, he still feels a certain lack of understanding.

What a strange feeling.

He grew up with Lu Xun and knows him well. He knows Lu Xun is a 100% straight man, so why does he have such a gay headache?

Isn't this the kind of image that should be seen between young lovers?

In his gut, he felt that neither man was straight, but reason told him that Lu Xun must be. It would be odd then for such a situation to arise.

In the midst of the crowd, squeezed into a pie, Lu Ming struggled to think, and suddenly it dawned on him.

Yes, a very popular element right now.

The big, straight guy with his fishing bent boyfriend!

With just one troll, the overwhelmed and unresponsive straight man took the bait.

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

The last time he found out that Lu Xun's hairdresser seemed to like Lu Xun, he dared to make all kinds of direct advances to Lu Xun.

Lu Xun and Ye Yao's relationship was more than that of brothers, and if he guessed wrong it would be a case of sowing discord, and Lu Xun would probably beat him up for three days.

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

*

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

After ordering Lu Xun went to the toilet and gave Lu Ming a warning: "Don't bully people when I'm not around."

"What are you talking about, we rock musicians never do anything to bully people!" Lu Ming said seriously.

When Lu Xun left, Lu Ming, who was dressed in a cool outfit, poured Ye Yao a cup of tea and asked with a smile, "Brother Ye, are there any boys around Lu Xun who dare to confess their love to him now? He used to hate it when guys confessed to him, he was always very angry."

Ye Yao laughed, "Not much, everyone knows he doesn't like men."

"So that's how it is, everyone knows that." Lu Ming repeated what Ye Yao had said. He put the teapot down and lifted his eyes, "I'm actually quite 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 also a very clean-cut type. That hairdresser had a crush on him, and the longer he knew him, the more he couldn't control his mind. Because Lu Xun didn't have other friends of the same type around him, he felt he was special."

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

Lu Ming speaks slowly while observing the expressions of the people opposite.

When a crush hears the tragic news of his rival, he is somewhat saddened by the death of a rabbit, right?

Lu Ming saw Ye Yao's mouth curl, his face so carefree, as if he had heard a ridiculous story.

The red duvet set off his white and warm complexion, and there was no trace of sadness or grief on his face.

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