Wen Ke didn't even bother to look over, Xiao Pang was singing in the toilet and Ye Yao was the only one looking at himself in the mirror.
A familiar self, a strange self.
Faced with the sudden appearance of the marks on his body, Ye Yao had a moment of creepiness as he slowly put his clothes down.
"Wen Ke ." Ye Yao stood silently in front of the mirror for a moment before suddenly speaking, "Please do one thing."
"What is it? Ah I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything, I forgot all about it right away!" Wen Ke, still with his back to Ye Yao, was close to swearing to heaven.
Ye Yao didn't want to scare Wen Ke and tried to tone it down, "It's okay, I just want to ask you not to talk to Lu Xun about this."
"Don't worry, don't worry, how can I mention it in front of Brother Lu, I haven't lived long enough." Wen Ke poured himself another mouthful of water.
Letting Lu Xun know that he had seen the hickey on Ye Yao's back, he really wasn't that lacking in heart, wasn't that something that he knew would make Lu Xun furious the moment he heard it!
Ye Yao put his mind at ease and within minutes of his conversation with Wen Ke, Lu Xun returned to the dormitory.
Lu Xun is still Ye Yao's most familiar face, the tall, handsome schoolboy with a smile that is not clouded by the sight of him.
"Have you eaten yet, are you going to the dining hall with me?" Lu Xun said.
"Yeah." Ye Yao tried to keep his voice steady and replied as usual, "It's hot outside, do you want to change into something else too?"
"I'll just take off a jacket, no need to change." Lu Xun took off his jacket and hooked it around Ye Yao's shoulders.
Lu Xun asked Wen Ke and Xiao Pang what they would like to eat and he could help pack it back.
This is what Ye Yao knows Lu Xun to be like. To his own people, Lu Xun is a good friend and a good brother, although he is often full of rants.
They had been close before and Lu Xun was close enough to him to have pictures of him next to the bed and to help each other with their friendship.
But in any case, all of these actions were open and honest, certain things were infrequent, and they were normal behavior between friends. All in all there is a definite difference between that and sneaking around in the middle of the night and leaving marks on him.
The latter is more or less ...... strange.
Ye Yao, who still can't quite believe what happened last night, clears his head as he heads to the dining hall with Lu Xun.
"Didn't I tell you yesterday about renting a room outside, I know a few suitable ones, will you come with me tonight and have a look?" Lu Xun said.
"You found the right one so quickly?" Ye Yao was surprised, "I thought it would take a while to find."
"Where is it fast, it's not fast at all." Lu Xun tightened his arm around Ye Yao's shoulders, a smile lifting the corners of his mouth, "I can't wait."
Ye Yao saw it this time.
Lu Xun is really impatient.
*
When he returned to his dormitory after dinner, Ye Yao was just about to take a break when a man climbed into his bed with a bottle of plaster in his hand.
"Doing what?" Ye Yao asked softly.
"You were bitten by a mosquito yesterday, didn't we say this morning that we would put anti-itch cream on you at noon?" Lu Xun shook the stuff in his hand, "Rub this on and it will heal faster."
But there are clearly no mosquitoes.
He didn't get bitten by mosquitoes either.
Ye Yao did not say a word as he gave Lu Xun a place to rub his medicine.
The itch-relieving ointment is gently cool, melted away by warm fingers and suffused with the smell of herbs.
Ye Yao spoke tentatively, "Are the mosquito bites still bad? I don't feel itchy anymore."
Will Lu Xun be honest with him and tell him that it's not actually a mosquito bag, but something else, and that he was just joking with him in the morning?
"It's not serious, it's fading fast." Lu Xun replied.
Ye Yao pursed his lips, but Lu Xun did not tell him the truth.
It was as if the ointment could not be finished, after that there was an area here and there, Ye Yao Yao clearly remembered that there were no red marks, but the ointment was still smeared on.
"It's fading too fast," Lu Xun's voice gradually becomes lighter and slower, "Ye Yao is so beautiful even with the mosquito bites."
What kind of strange compliment is that?
Ye Yao, who had never heard such a compliment before, felt really strange and turned around to see the expression on Lu Xun's face.
Lu Xun's eyes are focused and delighted, as if he is looking at something he likes best, the corners of his lips slightly curled.
Normal joy is not enough to describe this look, which should ...... be obsessed.
Seeing Ye Yao turn around, Lu Xun's face returned to normal and he raised an eyebrow: "Why do you suddenly turn around, you can't see me and miss me and want to come over for a kiss?"
Ye Yao sulked, "I want to see how you're so slow in scrubbing, you've been scrubbing for half a day and you're still not done."
Lu Xun patted Ye Yao on the back: "What's the hurry, it'll be ready soon."
So Ye Yao turned back once more to contemplate.
It wasn't quite what he had expected.
Once together, Lu Xun couldn't wait to make out with him, couldn't wait to come out of the closet with him, and everything moved so fast that he couldn't imagine.
Last night, after he had fallen asleep, Lu Xun did not sleep at all, and in the dimly lit room, Lu Xun lowered his head and kissed the unconscious man.
Would this be the first time, or had there been many times when Lu Xun stood silently by his bedside watching him after he had fallen asleep?
Ye Yao is a little creeped out just imagining that scene.
"It's okay." Lu Xun's voice rang out again and Ye Yao was hugged from behind.
Ye Yao's cheek was rubbed as Lu Xun said, "Are you free tonight, and if you are, come with me to see the properties? If you're not free, I'll rent them all first."
Ye Yao rubbed Lu Xun's cheek and said in a muffled voice, "We'll have to see if we're free tonight."
*
Because it was a promise and because he didn't want Lu Xun to waste extra money, Ye Yao went to see the house with Lu Xun in the evening.
Lu Xun saw a flat in the school and a few more near the school, none of which were far enough to walk to.
I don't know if it was because Lu Xun offered a good price or something else, but the landlord was very welcoming and the furniture was in perfect condition and showed no signs of being used by anyone else.
Personally, Ye Yao and Lu Xun chose the one with the coziest decor.
The contract was signed, the landlord handed them the keys and left them, leaving Ye Yao and Lu Xun alone in the small room.
Ye Yao is picked up and spun around by Lu Xun and placed on the bed.
The bed is large and soft, a world away from the single beds in the dormitory, and Ye Yao sinks down when he sits down.
He propped himself up on the bed with his hands and Lu Xun, who was standing beside it, bent down and pressed his hands against the side of his hands, his lips capturing his.
After a moment of kissing, Ye Yao moved his face away and said jokingly, "Why do you like relatives so much? Before we got together I thought you were so homophobic that you would only kiss me on occasions when the atmosphere was right, but it turns out you can kiss anytime and anywhere, that's amazing."
Lu Xun grunted as he cupped Ye Yao's chin with one hand and kissed him again.
Ye Yao tilted his head to face the direction of the lamp, which was a little blinding even with his eyes closed, and he reached up to shield his eyes.
Lu Xun then reached out and turned off the overhead light switch located next to the bed and darkness enveloped the room, the only thing so real was the heat on his lips.
Was Lu Xun like this last night in the darkness of the hotel?
This thought flashed through Ye Yao's mind and with a shudder, he pushed Lu Xun away.
"...... tongue numbing," Ye Yao explains, "is too much."
"You're getting tongue-tied so quickly, Ye students need more exercise." Lu Xun didn't doubt, but made a teasing noise.
They had no intention of staying here tonight, and they hadn't taken all their clothes or anything, so of course they had to go back to the hostel.
They returned to school from that room and Ye Yao was unsurprisingly shaken by Lu Xun.
Leaving the lift and moving away from the room where the two of us were alone, Ye Yao said softly, " Lu Xun ...... If I was busy with my studies, I might not want to come here as much, after all, the dormitory is closer and this is still relatively far away. "
"It's okay, just come back when you can." Lu Xun replied naturally, "It's all up to you."
Ye Yao: "...... hmmm."
"The decoration here is still relatively simple, but our wedding house must be a hundred times more beautiful." Lu Xun holds Ye Yao's hand and thinks about the future, "We'll buy a house by the sea, one near your workplace, and one in the mountains.
"What's the point of buying so many houses?" Ye Yao asks, "To facilitate separation?"
The air around his seemed to freeze for a moment, and Ye Yao's hands were squeezed tight.
"What nonsense, there is no possibility of separation." Lu Xun's voice was slightly deep, "Don't make jokes like that in the future."
Ye Yao responded and the two continued on their way.
They passed by a milk tea shop and Lu Xun looked at the design on the cups of that shop and saw the light.
Lu Xun stopped in his tracks: "Did I scare you by being too aggressive just now? Wait for me, I'll buy you a cup of milk tea to atone for your sins."
Ye Yao did not object and watched Lu Xun's back as he left in silence.
Lu Xun reacted strongly to the possibility that they would separate.
...... He probably knows what the problem is.
Lu Xun was able to study for the same university as him, to bend herself from a homophobic straight man for him, and now that they are a couple, Lu Xun, who is no longer homophobic, is even more so.
Lu Xun's emotions are so strong that a drop in the ocean can make it salty.
Lu Xun's reaction to his earlier unintentional comment about breaking up was unusually violent. Inevitably, he subconsciously worries whether Lu Xun will do something even crazier if he does break up one day.
Ye Yao has seen a lot of cases, and sensibly he is fully aware that this type of personality is dangerous and can lead to criminal cases. If it was a friend of his who had such a person, he would most likely side-step the break-up and tell his friend to try to adopt a softer approach to stay away from that person.
But now the man is him, and his subject is Lu Xun.
...... is moving away from Lu Xun again?
Lu Xun bought two cups of milk tea and Ye Yao noticed two small cartoon figures painted on the cups.
Ye Yao took one of the cups of milk tea and listened to Lu Xun start nostalgically, "Back in the days when I was not with you and could not touch you, I also bought two cups of milk tea like this. When I couldn't get close to you, I let the little man on top of the cup get close, and then I gave you the milk tea and pretended that I was close to you."
Ye Yao froze and looked at the cup in his hand.
When he didn't know it, Lu Xun used to do such childish things with two cups of milk tea, pretending to be closer to him.
With emotion and reason constantly pulling at each other, Ye Yao lifts his cup and lets the figurine on his cup touch the cheek of the figurine on Lu Xun's cup.
"Then let me take initiative to kiss you this time." Ye Yao said.