Chapter 2: Being Single Together

Ye Yao opens his eyes in the morning and the first thing that catches his eye is a familiar handsome face.

Lu Xun has woken up and is looking at him steadily, his eyes deep.

"What are you looking at," Ye Yao pushed the man away from his, calming his heart which had started beating wildly early in the morning, "It's weirdly scary, what horror movie did you learn to wake up from?"

Lu Xun raised his lips in a smile, "I feel like your eyelashes are 0.02mm longer than they were in high school."

"......" Ye Yao straightened up and kicked Lu Xun, who was still lying in bed, "Stop talking nonsense, I have to go to class, shrink your legs and let me out of bed."

Lu Xun hooked Ye Yao's ankle with his foot: "What's the hurry?

*

Ye Yao and Lu Xun did not study the same subject, Ye Yao studied law and Lu Xun studied finance.

Ye Yao doesn't know how Lu Xun operates, but the finance man has been living in their law dorm since they started their freshman year, and they still don't see each other after they go to university.

Ye Yao walked into the classroom ten minutes before class, followed by Lu Xun.

Ye Yao heard the girl in the front row teasing him with a smile: "Ye Yao, did you bring your family to the class again?"

"Yes," said the 'family' before Ye Yao could say anything on the subject of Ye Yao, "it's not conjoined, it's hard to be separated."

Ye Yao looks at Lu Xun, who smiles and shuts up, leaning over the desk to watch Ye Yao prep for the next lesson.

Although Lu Xun is not a member of the class, Ye Yao's entire class has become accustomed to his presence and spectatorship.

Whenever the finance department is not in session and their class is in session, Lu Xun, the campus hero, is always there to accompany Ye Yao in class.

The bell rings and the classroom falls silent as the sound of the old teacher's lecture blends with the sound of flipping books and notes.

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

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

Ye Yao put out a hand to cover Lu Xun's eyes and said in a lowered voice, "Don't look at anything, just listen to the lesson."

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

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

"I'm leaving, don't sneak around and meet girls who like you while I'm away, at least until I'm there." Lu Xun said.

Ye Yao waved Lu Xun to get lost and looked up before Lu Xun's figure disappeared through the doorway.

...... If Lu Xun knew who he liked, he would certainly not be bugging him like that again.

Ye Yao smiled to himself, if only he really liked girls, he wouldn't have to be in constant fear of his true feelings being discovered, as he was now.

*

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

There is a basketball match between the faculties and today it was Finance versus Law. Lu Xun and Ye Yao are both on the basketball team, so Lu Xun just needs to wait on the court.

Lu Xun was sitting on a bench on the sidelines tying his shoelaces when his teammate sat on his butt. He sat down next to him.

"Brother Lu, let me ask you something." My teammate's voice was mysterious, "I've been looking around and I feel like you're the only one who knows the most about this."

Lu Xun didn't even look up: "What is it."

The big teammate gave a heated smile:" Brother Lu, you are familiar with Ye Yao from the law school, I just want to ask ...... Ye Yao if he has a girlfriend?"

Lu Xun stopped tying his shoelaces and turned his head to his teammate: "Why are you asking that?"

"Here's the thing, I have a friend who likes Ye Yao and hasn't had much chance to get in touch with his, so she wants to take advantage of this game to give Ye Yao a drink. When the time comes Brother Lu can you help out and get them to talk a bit more?" The teammate asked.

Lu Xun didn't say anything, the corners of his lips skewed downwards in a small way, while his teammate who didn't feel anything wrong made further efforts to say, "My friend is pretty and has a good personality, it's not a bad idea to have a few more conversations."

"I don't think he's planning a relationship at this time." Lu Xun says.

"It's okay, women chase men, there's a veil between them." The team laughed and grinned widely.

"...... talk about it." Lu Xun stood up and walked towards the kiosk next to him.

Behind them, the teammates heckled and jostled.

"You asked Brother Lu to introduce his wife to a girlfriend, Da Zhuang, why are you so capable."

"Isn't that asking Brother Lu to cuckold himself!"

"You're finished, you won't even walk off this pitch 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 a straight man.

*

The game was fierce and the score was tight all the time, but the Finance basketball team, with all the taller guys in this year's class, still had the advantage. A last-minute three point play by Finance won the basketball game.

Ye Yao sat down on a bench at the edge of the field with a slight gasp and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his wrist guard.

His skin was white, and instead of looking dirty even when soaked with sweat, he had the strange beauty of alabaster soaked in water.

With the chaotic sound of celebratory talking in his ears, Ye Yao feels so thirsty that he used to go straight for Lu Xun's water, but since his friendship has turned sour, he has exercised restraint in his behaviour.

A bottle of cool, ice-cold water is handed to Ye Yao by a pretty hand, and Ye Yao looks upwards to see a smart-looking girl with black shoulder-length hair.

The girl smiled shyly: "Here's a bottle of water for you."

"......" Ye Yao scanned around the side and noticed that quite a few people were looking over with a look of amusement on their faces. The girl looked shaky, clearly uncomfortable with doing such a thing.

Ye Yao took the water: "Thank you."

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

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

"That, I wanted to thank you, are you available tonight ...... ......?"

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

Ye Yao had a big hand on his shoulder, and the owner of the big hand sat down against Ye Yao: "Bought it for you, your favourite flavour, brother enough, right?"

Ye Yao didn't bother to talk to Lu Xun. He was so thirsty that he took the water Lu Xun gave him and was about to drink it.

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

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

"Dislike my spit? I can't even remember how many of yours I've eaten." Lu Xun said in a deep voice.

Lu Xun's voice was not too loud, but loud enough for the people standing in front of them to hear clearly. The girl's expression was slightly dumbfounded as she looked at Ye Yao and then at Lu Xun, and suddenly it dawned on her as if she understood something.

"Hit, bother, and good luck!"

Lu Xun's mouth, which had been hanging down, finally curved up in a curve.

Ye Yao: "You've been misunderstood as gay again."

"Misunderstandings are misunderstandings, it's not like I'm really gay." Lu Xun said with satisfaction as he watched Ye Yao drink half of his bottle of water, completely unconcerned.

*

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

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

Lu Xun was quiet in front of Ye Yao for the first time, and it wasn't until the bike reached a small, isolated road that Lu Xun finally opened his mouth.

"Ye students, confession is lenient, resistance is harsh." Lu Xun said, "If there is anything, I advise you to give a clear account here, or don't blame me for being unkind to you."

"Account for what?" Ye Yao Yao asked with downcast eyes.

Lu Xun said grimly, "How did you and that girl meet and learn to fall in love secretly behind my father's back?"

"No." Ye Yao replied, "Once before when you were in class, I went to the library to borrow a book and ran into that girl being harassed by a group of people from outside the school, so I stopped by to help."

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

"Hmm." Ye Yao admitted.

Once again Lu Xun was silent until he was about to ride out of this remote section of trail before he opened his mouth again.

Lu Xun's voice was subdued, "So do you like her?"

Hearing this, Ye Yao finally looked up at Lu Xun, who looked handsome even with his hair blowing in the wind at the back of his head.

The beloved, who knows nothing of his heart, is still asking him about his affection for other girls.

"No, don't be ridiculous." Ye Yao replied slowly, "I've done this to help you before... am I a couple with you?"

Lu Xun was relieved and joked again, "It's not that easy to be with me, how about a wedding tonight and sleeping in my bed at night?"

Lu Xun was given a few warning slaps on the back by Ye Yao, but he didn't care at all, he just felt the air was much fresher.

He used to be a rebellious teenager who could learn anything, but not the right things. The family had a headache and sent him to school in a small southern town, hoping that the hard life would rub off on him.

Ye Yao was the head of his class after he changed schools, when he saw Ye Yao as a simple, uninteresting, good student who he could kill with a finger.

One day he had a confrontation with a street bully, who was not a martial artist and had many people attacking him. When the situation became unpleasant, Ye Yao, who was riding his bicycle to his workplace, passed by and helped him and then left without giving him a chance to speak or even look at him.

Lu Xun has been alive for a long time, but this is the first time he has met someone who doesn't even bother to say hello after doing a good deed.

The level of familiarity went from speaking occasionally, to speaking every day, to Lu Xun feeling sick without seeing Ye Yao for a day.

In order to stay with his best friend, Lu Xun and Ye Yao went to the same university.

And now there is a certain pitfall in this good life.

In high school, Ye Yao studied hard and it was absolutely impossible to fall in love, but university was different and it was only natural to fall in love.

"Ye Yao ." Lu Xun said seriously, "Don't get into a relationship yet, you see I'm not in one either."

"Why," Ye Yao withdrew his hand from Lu Xun's waist, "Brother Lu hasn't talked, so I, the little brother, can't talk over you first?"

Lu Xun fetched Ye Yao's hand back to his waist: "You are not my little brother, you are my ancestor. If I don't talk about it, you don't talk about it. If you don't talk about it, I can't talk about it either.

Ye Yao closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the wind blowing in his ears, "Then you lose out, you're the school boy."

"What is it is, don't be ridiculous, just tell me if you'll say yes or no?" Lu Xun asked.

"Sure." Ye Yao said yes, but in his heart he did not take Lu Xun's words seriously.

After all, if it's as promised ...... Lu Xun will be following him as a single person for the rest of his life.