Chapter 6: Pie in the Sky

When he returned from the bath, Ye Yao was in a trance, in contrast to Lu Xun, who was beside him, who was in high spirits.

"How does it feel to have a bath for the first time?" Lu Xun put an arm around Ye Yao's shoulders, "Is it still acceptable to take a bath in the north?"

Ye Yao pursed his lips and did not speak.

Lu Xun didn't care if Ye Yao didn't answer, he was now holding Ye Yao in his arms and his heart was full of satisfaction.

"When are we going next?" Lu Xun asks.

Ye Yao is silent for a moment, shaking his head.

He will probably never want to go to the bathhouse with Lu Xun again unless he asks for clarification about what happened today.

"Lu Xun, do you know what you are doing?" Ye Yao asked.

"What's wrong?" Lu Xun looked at Ye Yao's expression with an open face, and with a wicked smile, he changed from putting his arm around Ye Yao's shoulder to holding Ye Yao's hand, "What's wrong with that, we're best friends."

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Late at night, Ye Yao lies alone in bed, contemplating.

...... What a straight man theory this is.

He had heard this expression when he was a straight man too, but just scoffed at it at the time.

He couldn't care less what other people did, and he wouldn't do that with his friends anyway.

Now he's gone from straight to crooked, so he's accepted it with a smack in the face, but what about Lu Xun?

Lu Xun A super homophobic straight guy can also accept two guys doing that together, is it because he is too straight or is it because ...... homophobic deep closet?

He had been friends with Lu Xun for several years, but because his thinking was so different, he couldn't understand what was behind all of Lu Xun's actions.

Ye Yao thought about it, so he put his head under the covers and turned on his mobile phone, turning to the almighty Baidu.

Someone really did ask the same question Ye Yao was wondering: [My favorite homophobic straight boyfriend helped me ...... I'm sure everyone understands when I say it's subtle! I'm so happy, is it possible he's not that straight?

There were quite a few replies below:

If he knows you're curvy, he's hitting on you. If he thinks you're straight, then it's just normal friend behavior, so please don't think too much about it.

[pull a few down, just this is still homophobic straight, gay pretend straight, I a fist pound you and his face.

The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of these. For example, ask him to sit at a gay bar and see how he reacts.

[...... straight? Is there something I misunderstood about the term?

Ye Yao contemplates.

Taking Lu Xun to a gay bar is out of the question, he doesn't want to go himself and he doesn't want to take Lu Xun to such a place, it's too weird.

But there are other, softer ways of trying, that might be tried. For example, ask Lu Xun to see a recently released film that has a subtle subplot about a pair of male friends who like each other, only in the end the two don't get together and regretfully miss out.

I wonder how Lu Xun will take to such an obscure plot.

Ye Yao knows that Lu Xun has an aversion to men with a male sexual orientation, but in all the time he has known him, he has never seen Lu Xun's reaction when confronted with a same-sex couple.

The reason for this is simple: since we met, Lu Xun has been in contact with guys who like the same sex either because they like Lu Xun or because they like him, and none of these guys have ever gotten a good look from Lu Xun. The other same-sex couples don't come close to Lu Xun either.

Tomorrow we'll go to the movies with Lu Xun.

If Lu Xun is a deep cabinet, is he available ......

Ye Yao pursed his lips, turned off his phone screen, pulled the covers off his head - and saw a face hanging directly above him in the dimness.

Ye Yao Yao didn't even raise an eyebrow and reached out to push the face a little further away.

"Waiting here to scare me?" Ye Yao asked.

Lu Xun held Ye Yao's hand, "I'm not scaring you, you said you wanted to be alone tonight, so I didn't say anything."

Yes, Ye Yao is sleeping alone in a bed tonight because he told Lu Xun that the day was too exciting and he wanted to be alone to Jing Jing.

It's just that Lu Xun's bed ...... is right next to his, and he sleeps head to head, so even if Ye Yao sleeps alone, he's not more than a hand's reach away from Lu Xun.

Tomorrow weekend, Xiao Pang and Wen Wen went to a cyber cafe for a night of hacking together, and they didn't have any concerns about talking and disturbing others.

Lu Xun's teasing tone was withdrawn: "Don't look at your phone in the dark, it's bad for your eyes, I'll turn on the light if you want to play with it."

Ye Yao's hand was warmed and he whispered back, "No, I just wanted to search for some information."

Lu Xun, probably satisfied, puts his hand on Ye Yao's thin eyelids and gives Ye Yao an eye massage while he starts to curse.

"You don't think about it, what if you can't see faces when you're a hundred years old, and you recognise other old men as me, and take people home with you, and I go and fight with other old men? It's all so old, I'm afraid it's a bad influence."

"......" Ye Yao was speechless, "It's not Alzheimer's, how can I mistake your face, at most, I would mistake your son for you."

Lu Xun's hand paused before pinching the flesh of Ye Yao's cheek instead, and his tone, which had just been nice, turned cold again: "You don't have the chance."

Lu Xun stopped and got up, "I think you're just starting to talk nonsense when you don't sleep with me.

Ye Yao objected in vain and was forced to share a single bed with Lu Xun.

Ye Yao is once again in a familiar embrace, and everything is as normal as if this bed was meant to sleep two people.