Chapter 60: He will never get married in his life

Married to Ye Yao.

Lu Xun had never imagined linking Ye Yao with the word marriage, and today is the first time he has done so.

And the impact of these two words together is huge.

He is not three years old and although he knows he will never get married in his life, he still has a clear idea of what he can do when he does.

You can kiss the person you are married to as often as you like, and you can hold them in your arms and kiss them every day before you get up, as you did this morning.

Ye Yao in his arms this morning, Ye Yao's body smells nice and soft, her mouth is nice and soft too ......

Lu Xun's mind drifts further and further away from the various details of Ye Yao that he woke up with this morning, bringing heat to his entire being.

Seeing that Lu Xun could not recover from the shock, Ye Yao patted Lu Xun's arm and interrupted Lu Xun's thoughts: "Just kidding, we are not going to get married, so if you don't like me, don't say anything."

Ye Yao watched as Lu Xun recovered from his dazed state. Lu Xun did not smile and say he knew it was a joke, but slowly gathered all the expressions on his face.

This expression rarely appears on Lu Xun's face, but Ye Yao is reminded of a moment long, long ago.

At that time, he confessed to Lu Xun under the guise of Truth or Dare, and afterwards told Lu Xun that it was just a dare, and that's how Lu Xun went from looking shocked to looking expressionless and desperate for a drink.

The hot air balloon that had lifted the emotions high burst, so the whole thing dropped abruptly, sinking low to a low point.

Lu Xun's parents were not intimidated by Lu Xun's cold face, and Lu Xun's father let out a laugh: "Don't you want to get married and have your assets divided? Little Ye won't marry you if you're a penny pincher."

Lu Xun's brow furrowed heavily.

That was what he had said just two minutes ago, and he hadn't seen any problem with it then, but now he wanted to add an exception to the argument.

If Ye Yao had asked him for money, then of course he would have given it, as much as Ye Yao wanted.

No, he should not wait for Ye Yao to ask for the money, he should secretly transfer all the money from the card to Ye Yao's card before Ye Yao opens his mouth, so that Ye Yao will have to find a way to pay him back the money one day when he doesn't want him to be his best friend anymore, which will kill a lot of time.

Ye Yao rounded up Lu Xun, who was not thinking straight: "We are best buddies even if we don't get married, and we are living together now. It's the same."

Of course it's not the same.

Lu Xun's heart is filled with an indefinable irritation as he drinks a few more cups of tea and gets up to go to the toilet.

Ye Yao and Lu Xun's parents continue to sit and drink tea.

"When I asked him if he liked you when you were sophomores, he told me not to tarnish your pure friendship." Lu Xun's mother reminisced, "I wasn't surprised to find out you were together later.

The only straight man in the room, Lu Xun's father, heavily affirmed, "Yes."

Ye Yao gives Lu Xun's parents a new cup of tea and reminisces about the old days.

He used to be very slow on the uptake and didn't see anything wrong with Lu Xun's behaviour, thinking that this was the way good brothers and friends should behave.

Thanks to his experience over the past decade or so, he was able to find so many things strange when he confronted Lu Xun, the straight man from high school, again.

* The family had lunch at Lu Xun's parents' place.

After lunch at Lu Xun's parents' place, they drove home without disturbing the older generation's lunch break.

It was a breezy and cloudless day, which would make it a very nice afternoon to steal away.

Inside the villa is quiet and has a different coolness to the outside.

Lu Xun followed Ye Yao inside, his mood still not exactly high, and said in a muffled voice, "Do we usually come back together for naps?"

"Not usually." Ye Yao says, "We both work a lot and have short lunch breaks, so we each make do with a nap at the office, but we'll have a phone call before we go to bed."

With modern communications, it's easy to do this. But when making video calls, there is no need to talk to the current Lu Xun about the various video kisses he wants.

Ye Yao is not sleepy yet and neither is Lu Xun, so Ye Yao takes Lu Xun to the study.

This study they do not use only for reading and working, but will also rest together afterwards, so there is a small balcony at the back of the study that is comfortably furnished.

Ye Yao took a book from the bookcase and Lu Xun followed him with a book, and together they went out onto the small balcony and sat down on the double lounger.

Listening to the cicadas outside and the wind rustling the trees, everything becomes peaceful and warm.

The double lounger is big enough for two people to lie on without being cramped, but Lu Xun has his shoulder pressed up against Ye Yao, not trying to pull away at all.

Ye Yao stretched his legs out straight and the sun shone on his little white and pink toes, blinding him.

Lu Xun opens the book he is holding in his hand, glances at Ye Yao's sunlit toes and quickly withdraws his gaze as if his eyes have been burned.

He returns his gaze to the book he has opened, and after a moment it drifts back to Ye Yao's toes.

For ten minutes, the first page of the geography magazine was not turned over by Lu Xun to the second page.

On this warm, sunny afternoon, Ye Yao's eyes narrowed and the corners of her mouth lifted in a slight curve.

Ye Yao blew a gentle breath upwards, blowing her hair up in front of her forehead, and said to Lu Xun, "Do you think my hair is getting longer in the front and it's time for a cut?"

"Hmm?" Not being able to fully see Ye Yao and the length of her front hair while lying so side by side, Lu Xun straightened up from the recliner, poked his upper body over and put his face in front of Ye Yao's.

It is true that some of the fine strands are a little longer, but this does not make Ye Yao look messy, but rather adds a touch of melancholy to her look.

This hairstyle suits Ye Yao very well.

But other hairstyles also suit Ye Yao. He thinks Ye Yao looks good no matter what hairstyle she wears, but still looks good in different styles.

How come Ye Yao, no matter how old she is, always looks so good to him?

Lu Xun relaxed and answered Ye Yao's question, "You can cut it or not, if you like it, you don't have to cut it, if you don't like it, you can cut it."

"In that case, I'll leave it uncut for now." Ye Yao smiled.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Yao raised his right hand and flicked his fingertips through Lu Xun's hair above his ears.

The hair brushes against the ear under the fingers, bringing a tickle to the tip of the ear.

And the warmth of the fingers is also on the tip of the ear.

"Your hair is a bit long too." Ye Yao said softly, "It's covering her ears a bit."

The tickle traveled from the tip of his ear to his heart, and Lu Xun's throat knot twitched: "...... mmm."

The fingers leave the tip of the ear and come to the back of Lu Xun's neck.

"Let me see if your hair has grown in the back." Ye Yao continued.

In the past, Lu Xun would never have let anyone touch the back of his neck like that. But now he not only lets them touch him, he also lowers his head in response to the strength of that hand, so that it can touch him even more.

His face was right in front of Ye Yao's, and with his head so low, the two faces became even closer together.

The red lips he had touched only this morning were right in front of him, and he knew how soft they were and how comfortable they were when he touched them. But he had only felt them for a brief moment before the experience was over.

Lu Xun's throat moved up and down and Ye Yao withdrew her hand from the back of Lu Xun's neck.

"The length of hair in the back is okay, you can cut it with me after a while." Ye Yao said, "Let's get on with the book."

So Lu Xun's straightened upper body slowly returns to the recliner as he stares at the book in his hands.

The atmosphere is quiet and perfect for reading. After another ten minutes, Lu Xun is still on the first page of the book he is holding.

Ye Yao spoke slowly, "Why don't you turn the page, are you not interested in the book and can't read it?"

This silence was broken when Lu Xun sprang to his feet: "Yes, not interested, this is boring, I'll go and get another one."

Lu Xun strides into the inner study, while Ye Yao looks out at the bright sunshine and smiles softly.

*

Lu Xun shoves the book in his hand into the bookcase with ferocity.

Their villa is centrally air-conditioned and the temperature is always right, but Lu Xun still feels hot.

He went downstairs to bring up two cold drinks and after finishing half of his own in one gulp, he felt a little less hot and began to select books from the bookcase.

The bookcase over there by Ye Yao is full of specialist books. Lu Xun looks at it for a while and turns to the front of what is said to be his bookcase.

He still remembered the future him not putting a group photo on his bed and running off to exercise for a few hours every day before going to bed.

Inexcusable, that he's faded with Ye Yao, whose mind is on that?

He hadn't figured it out before, but now, looking at the bookcase, he suddenly had an idea.

Ye Yao wouldn't just go through his things, if he had secrets he couldn't tell Ye Yao ...... would they be hidden in his own bookcase?

Lu Xun opened the bookcase with a cold face and began to look at the books on the top shelf, at the very back.

Lu Xun pulls out the book in the far corner and opens it up, and a single glance makes his face hard.

This is a ...... juvenile atlas.

The picture above is not a real person, but a very simple sketch, without faces or various details, or even gender features, but still giving a glimpse of what they are doing and what pose they are adopting.

Very dry instructional schematics that give no pleasure at all to the reader, so there is only one reason to look at it - to read it and then go and practice it with someone.

Xiong Xiong's anger spread from the bottom of his heart, and Lu Xun's hand, holding the book, squeezed tighter, even as his fingertips trembled with anger.

That future him ...... out there doing this kind of stuff with other people?

So no more group photos above the bed, because it's someone else who's thinking about it.

So will go and exercise for two or three hours a night, heck, who knows if it's real exercise or if it's just to sneak off and do something unseen!

How dare he have someone outside, how dare he have someone outside!

Anger fills Lu Xun's entire body and makes him feel dirty even when he looks at his own body.

How can a man like that share a bed with Ye Yao every night?

He wants to completely replace that man, to make Ye Yao forget the future him completely, or be disgusted with him.

So that if one day he does leave suddenly, Ye Yao will take the big bucks and kick the scum out so hard that they never see each other again!

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