Chapter 43: Running away

Lu Xun pressed Ye Yao's hand, this time not through the plush leather cover, but in actual contact with Ye Yao's warm skin.

He locked eyes with Ye Yao and looked at Ye Yao's still slightly red eyes.

"...... still want my help?" Ye Yao asked softly.

Lu Xun replied in the affirmative: "I can't see if my neck is really clean because of the blind spot, you just wipe it and it's over, it's not clean at all, right?"

Ye Yao didn't say anything for a while, he looked at Lu Xun and finally smiled slowly, "Then don't move, let go first."

Lu Xun released his hand and Ye Yao, who had regained his freedom, moved his fingers and then placed his index finger against Lu Xun's jaw.

He didn't press hard, just gently against it, as if the person in front of him had consciously tilted his head up so that the neck could be more in his line of sight.

Ye Yao repositioned his hand.

Lu Xun has a long, slender neck and a clean top, where there is no dirt or oil stain.

The story has the Emperor's New Clothes, today it has his Ye Yao's sauce.

As a vital part of the body that can be life-threatening if injured, most people are cautious and will avoid being touched on the neck, and very few are willing to put their neck in the hands of others.

Not to mention that for a homophobic straight man, the odds of being willing to let a gay man touch his neck are almost zero.

Ye Yao watched Lu Xun's expression, his eyes narrowed, his face purely content, with no hint of reluctance to be found.

Ye Yao withdrew his hand and was pressed back down again the next second.

"Thank you Ye students for helping me out so much." Lu Xun's lips lifted slightly and he looked at Ye Yao with the aggressive eyes of an untamed wolf, but his words were polite, "Next time we eat together, if we get dirty, you have to remember to help me as well."

Ye Yao met such a glance with a friendly smile back, "Next time ...... then."

*

It was already Sunday evening, and after eating, they had to pack up and go back to the dormitory.

Ye Yao brought back the bear he got from the amusement park, after all, the dormitory was his real home for four years. He wanted to put the bear on the bed with him, but had just thrown it on the bed when he heard Lu Xun's strange voice.

"I thought Princess Xiong was sleeping on a desk, but it turns out he's actually sleeping on a bed, what a blessing."

Ye Yao: "......"

"I used to sleep there too," Lu Xun climbed onto the bed and spoke gloomily to Ye Yao through the curtain, "but now that Consort Xiong is on top, it's time for me to go, as I'm an old man.

Ye Yao lifts the curtain of the bed with a blank face and places the doll bear on Lu Xun's bed.

Lu Xun was making the duvet comfortable when suddenly something was placed on the bed, he looked at it, saw what it was and picked it up and threw it on the lower desk.

"Yo, what does His Holiness mean by this, testing me? I'm not the kind of random person who would share a bed with another bear." Lu Xun patted the pillow, "There is only one person who can sleep on this pillow other than me."

"Your son." Ye Yao said, "Gave you charge of his care."

With a twinkle in his eye, Lu Xun went back down and brought the doll bear up again.

"He's too young to sleep on his own, so his parents have to share his room." Lu Xun cupped the bear's face, "When will he be old enough to sleep in a bed by himself and not need his parents to take care of him?"

He didn't reply and laid himself down on the bed when he received a message from Lu Xun on his mobile phone.

Lu Xun first sent him an emoji [I'm at home with the baby, you're away working and don't worry about us], and then asked.

[How many points do I get for today and yesterday's date?

Ye Yao feels that a normal person would not ask if they are satisfied with the date after each outing when the relationship is not yet confirmed.

But Lu Xun is clearly outside this sphere of normality, and Lu Xun presses on, wanting to know all his thoughts.

Ye Yao rolled over in bed and replied, [Secret.

Ye Yao put the phone down and recalled the look on Lu Xun's face when he suddenly touched the knot in his throat during our meal.

He was sure that this move was so unexpected that Lu Xun's first expression was a little dumbfounded and disbelieving.

Then, that dumbfounded disbelief changed to surprise.

Did you enjoy being treated like this by him too?

However, Lu Xun had already had a lot of contact with his hands and it was not difficult to understand why he did not resist being touched by them.

What if instead other parts of the body were touched, like ...... never touched Lu Xun's, his lips?

Ye Yao pursed his lips and pulled the whole quilt up over his head.

*

The school day was still busy, every classroom was full and everyone had to go downstairs crowded after class, unless they waited in the classroom for so many 10 or 20 minutes until everyone else had gone.

Ye Yao doesn't have a cleanliness fetish of not being touched, so he got used to it as he squeezed. He was about to leave after class when he took out his mobile phone to check it and found that Lu Xun had sent him a few messages more than twenty minutes ago.

I'm also in class today, I'm on the sixth floor, wait for me when you get down to the bottom of the building.

Ye Yao's classroom was on the fourth floor. He replied with a [yes] and walked out without hurry.

The staircase was indeed crowded, and most of those who did not bother to wait for the lift chose to take the stairs, which were so crowded that within a few steps Xiao Pang and Wen Ke, who had been next to him, were both squeezed out of sight.

It's perfectly normal for someone to rub their shoulder or touch their hand in such a situation, and Ye Yao doesn't think anything of it when his hand is touched.

Then his fingertips were touched, and then touched again.

It was either an inadvertent brush of intensity or a light touch, like a feather scratching lightly at his fingertips.

After being touched several times in a row, all with the same intensity, Ye Yao finally felt something was wrong and turned his head with a frown.

There was no one directly to his left; the man who had been touching his hand was a small step back, tall and distinguished in appearance, standing out in the crowd.

Seeing Ye Yao turn around, the man raised his eyebrows with an expression of surprise, "Huh, what a coincidence, isn't this Ye Yao's classmate?"

"Oh," Ye Yao's furrowed brow loosened, "a coincidence indeed."

Lu Xun, who is a small step behind him, steps forward and takes up a position directly to his left.

The hand that had only touched his fingertips every now and then was now pressed against the back of his hand and wrist against wrist because of the crowding.

If such contact had occurred between two strangers, surely one would have withdrawn their hand to their chest and hugged the book, or simply tucked their hand into their trouser pocket to avoid the same awkwardness again.

But now, no one is withdrawing their hand.

Ye Yao's index finger was gently hooked and the man's index finger was inserted between his fingers and wrapped around his knuckles. Seeing that he did not react with much resistance he slowly ventured and took hold of his index finger.

"It's so crowded here, I can't even put my hands down." Lu Xun leaned close to Ye Yao's ear, "Can I borrow a seat Ye students?"

Ye Yao glanced at Lu Xun without speaking and his hand was shaken directly.

The bad-hearted suitors didn't miss a chance to make contact, and they held hands in the midst of the crowds as if they were engaged in a secret deal.

*

They had no homework today and Xiao Pang and Wen Ke went out to play, leaving Ye Yao and Lu Xun in the dormitory.

Lu Xun is in the shower while Ye Yao sits at his desk looking at his hands.

The hand-holding in the staircase was like a dream, initiated by Lu Xun who attacked and held him together into the dreams of the past.

Lu Xun likes to hold his hand, but of course he doesn't hold hands with ordinary male friends, and he doesn't hold hands when he and Lu Xun are just ordinary friends.

At that time, Lu Xun was still a cool guy to him, but not as gooey as later. As a friend of the cool guy Lu Xun, and knowing that Lu Xun was homophobic, he would rarely have any physical contact with Lu Xun, even if he was on good terms with him.

The physical contact started to increase, as if he had given Lu Xun a hug after his class won a tough ball game in high school.

It was the first time they had ever been in such close physical contact. Lu Xun was frozen in his arms, and when he reacted, he released Lu Xun, who did not say anything.

After the game was over, he and Lu Xun went back to the dormitory together, and Lu Xun, who had showered, suddenly said to him with an unhappy face, "I didn't even react, I haven't even responded to you and celebrated with you, why did you let go?"

Ye Yao at the time asked inexplicably, "What else, I'll hug you again?"

"It's not a no-no." Lu Xun says.

So he hugged Lu Xun once more, and this time Lu Xun responded.

From then on he had more and more physical contact with Lu Xun and he became his best friend.

The last time they walked down the road holding hands directly was when they were friends, and now the two of them have a different relationship than before.

Lu Xun was testing him, and he was testing Lu Xun.

Ye Yao opened his laptop, picked a variety show to play and sat down at his desk to watch it.

Lu Xun came out of the shower and hung around behind Ye Yao, finally dragging a chair to sit next to Ye Yao: "What's the point of watching variety shows alone, I'll watch it with you."

Ye Yao pushes the computer between the two so that Lu Xun can also see it clearly.

It's a relationship variety show and it's now playing to the point where the female guest accidentally falls in a small dirt pit and is pulled to his feet by the male guest, who then just keeps holding the female guest's hand in case he falls again.

The camera switches to the interview with the female guest after the end of the show, who smiles with a big smile: "He just kept holding my hand, yeah, he really had a heartbeat."

"That's normal for people, they can blush when they hold hands. Ye Yao said, "The two of me hold hands, it's like holding the right hand with the left hand, I'm used to it."

Seeing that the conversation was about to lead to the difference between them and a normal couple, and then to friendship, Lu Xun quickly stopped it: "What are you talking about, I'm not holding my right hand, don't talk nonsense."

Lu Xun mimicked the tone of the female guest's speech: " When Ye Yao shook my hand, I had a heartbeat to."

Ye Yao did not say believe or disbelieve as the two of them continued to watch the variety show together.

The computer screen is littered with pink love bubbles, while beyond the screen, Lu Xun's fingertips once again touch Ye Yao's fingertips unnoticed.

Ye Yao's drunkenness is not the same as his drunkenness, but outwardly he pretends to be watching the variety show intently, pretending not to notice Lu Xun getting closer to him.

Closer, he needed to be closer, closer to a distance where he could give Lu Xun a kiss if he tilted his head.

Ye Yao It's the first time I've had to do something like this, and I'm not even as nervous as I am now about checking my GCSE scores.

What if Lu Xun is frightened and pushes him away?

How should Lu Xun look if he can't control his subconscious reaction to vomit?

What if Lu Xun is so frightened that he falls to the floor with his chair and the back of his head on the ground?

Ye Yao pursed his lips and quietly put one foot on Lu Xun's chair.

...... It's the first time he's done something like this.

Tension.

The male guest on screen is secretly preparing a surprise gift for the female guest, so he moves carefully and speaks in an airy tone.

Ye Yao, as if infected by the atmosphere on the screen, also said in an air tone, "Do you think that the male guest is quite handsome?"

Lu Xun didn't hear him and he leaned his head over, "What did you say?"

"I said ......" Ye Yao didn't notice Lu Xun had come up to as if he was this close to him, turning his head and sliding his lips from the corner of Lu Xun's lips all the way across his face, over his cheek and finally resting on his earlobe.

Lu Xun's earlobe is cold. Ye Yao tries his best to think calmly about a nonsense sentence.

To ensure that he was the first to see the expression on Lu Xun's face and his reaction, Ye Yao stepped back quickly and was met with a spectacle.

Lu Xun, who is very cheeky and thick-skinned at all times, and who doesn't even blush when he drinks, is strangely red in the face and ears.

His face was blank, as if he hadn't reacted to what was happening. Ye Yao Yao did a careful observation and also felt his face heating up a little.

Lu Xun jolted to his feet, his face even stranger.

As he stood up, Ye Yao immediately noticed that something was wrong.

Lu Xun takes a step closer to him, his dangerous aura instantly surging out, and Ye Yao rises from his chair and takes a step back.

The alarm was sounded and Ye Yao Yao gulped.

...... He feels that he should not remain here and should leave the space alone for Lu Xun.

He had made all sorts of speculations before, but none of them had developed in this way.

Lu Xun who turns gay is indeed different from Lu Xun who is straight, or at least completely different in terms of danger to him, and he hadn't, surprisingly, thought about it before.

He admits he panicked a little.

His direction was the direction of the door, and Ye Yao took two steps back and fled.