CH 76.1

All of a sudden, the room became very quiet and only the rustling of soft fabric could be heard vaguely.

Fu Yuanzhou’s hands froze, and his pajama pants, which were half worn, almost fell to the ground. After a few seconds of blank mind, he quickly pulled up his pajama pants, and asked as calmly as possible: “What? I didn’t hear clearly.”

He actually heard Yuan Ye say that he liked men, which was impossible. He must have heard it wrong——

“You heard me right,” Yuan Ye said, “I like men.”

Fu Yuanzhou: “…”

…it’s gone.

Now he was completely frozen in place, unable to move. I was putting on my pants, but my good brother suddenly came out of the closet and admitted that he likes men, no matter how it sounds like…

Even though he had put on his pajama pants, Fu Yuanzhou suddenly felt that his butt was a little chilly, which was quite a dangerous feeling.

“…Are you kidding me?”

After an unknown amount of time, he recovered his voice and glanced at Yuan Ye.

“I’m serious.”

Yuan Ye sat with his back to him, and after turning off the computer, he pushed the keyboard back with his slender and beautiful hands, and said in a calm tone, “I think it’s time to tell you, so I told you, will you hate me?”

“No… no.”

Fu Yuanzhou shook his head in bewilderment at first, thinking that Yuan Ye couldn’t see his movements, he quickly added something.

He couldn’t understand Yuan Ye’s “it’s time”, did he mean the time was ripe? When the two of them were pretending to be lovers, he suddenly admitted that he liked men. Could it be that Yuan Ye meant…

Afterwards, the two of them didn’t communicate any more. Tossing and turning on the bed, Fu Yuanzhou could not sleep, and his heart could not calm down, but it was still a mess.

No matter how he thought about it, he felt that what Yuan Ye said had only one meaning: implying that he likes him.

But was it possible, to be a brother for several years, and suddenly fall in love with him one day?

——Fu Yuanzhou was confused, but suddenly a thought came to him—maybe Yuan Ye had a crush on him for a day or two, but he had never thought about it before. Just imagine, if Yuan Ye fell in love with him a long time ago, many questions that had not been answered before seemed to make sense, such as why Yuan Ye was so considerate to him, as if he was taking care of his girlfriend; or why Yuan Ye refused a girl’s confession saying he had someone he liked; and why did Yuan Ye drag him to play games when a girl showed affection to him…

——Is this because he was interested?

In the darkness, Fu Yuanzhou sat up from the bed suddenly, his face feeling inexplicably hot.

The next morning, when it was still early and there were not many people in the school, Yuan Ye and Fu Yuanzhou came to the parking lot with their suitcases. Yuan Ye was going to drive Fu Yuanzhou back. After they put the suitcase in the trunk, Fu Yuanzhou looked at Yuan Ye and showed a hesitant expression.

“What’s the matter?”

Yuan Ye opened the driver’s door, put one hand on the door, and took off his large sunglasses with the other hand, looking at Fu Yuanzhou, his pupils turned light brown in the sunlight.

“Last night…” Fu Yuanzhou said, “What do you mean?”

“What do you think I mean?” Yuan Ye asked back.

I think you like me…

This sentence rolled around Fu Yuanzhou’s mouth a few times, but he was very entangled in his heart. He felt that if he asked, some things seemed to be irreversible, so he still didn’t say it. Just asked: “Do you already have someone you like?”

“Yes.” Yuan Ye admitted generously.

Then who is your favorite person?

Fu Yuanzhou was about to ask this question, but quickly swallowed it back into his stomach. Yuan Ye smiled at him and got into the car, saying while closing the car door.

“I don’t know if I’m born gay, because I only like him, and he happens to be a man. Would you be disgusted?”

Fu Yuanzhou shook his head with complicated emotions, closed the trunk, and sat in the passenger seat. After going up, Yuan Ye in the driver’s seat naturally turned sideways, put his hands on his shoulders, and fastened his seat belt.

His warm breath sprayed over, making Fu Yuanzhou’s face itchy. Yuan Ye was very close, and Fu Yuanzhou subconsciously dodged back. Yuan Ye held him down to keep him from moving and helped him fasten his seat belt.

“Don’t hide from me.” Yuan Ye pinched his ears, “Can I eat you?”

He could still laugh, but Fu Yuanzhou couldn’t. It was obvious that the car had just started and it wasn’t too warm, but he couldn’t understand why he felt that the car was very hot, so he rolled down the windows to let the air in.

He thought to himself, Yuan Ye must like him, if he liked someone else, why didn’t he pretend to be a couple and find that person? But since he was the one Yuan Ye liked, why didn’t he just confess his love to him?

Want to whet his appetite? Yuan Ye was not such a person. Maybe he didn’t confess directly, because he had the same concerns as him. Confessing to a friend could be very dangerous. If you are a little careless, you may even fail to stay as friends in the end. Because you value each other, you are more concerned about gains and losses.

There were slow-paced foreign songs playing in the car, and the heating was strong. Everything made people feel very relaxed. Fu Yuanzhou leaned on the back of the seat and turned his head to look at Yuan Ye while he was driving.

When he first met him, he was still a fresh and sunny boy. Now he had become more mature. His facial features were aggressive and handsome, with a sharp spirit. The same was true on the field. But his gentle side, Fu Yuanzhou knew this best.

As if the softest corner of his heart had been touched, Fu Yuanzhou withdrew his gaze and stared intently at the road ahead, thinking involuntarily, what would he do if Yuan Ye really confessed to him?

Before the answer to this question was answered, Fu Yuanzhou fell asleep while being blown by the heater. In his dream, he dreamed that Yuan Ye confessed to himself, and in his dream he happily agreed, and began to communicate, date, and even be with Yuan Ye. Kissing and…

“!” Fu Yuanzhou woke up with a flushed face. After waking up, the feeling of being extremely excited in the dream still remained in his heart, so that when he opened his eyes and found that Yuan Ye was not by his side, he felt very disappointed, and he subconsciously looked around the outside of the car, looking for traces of Yuan Ye.

He moved his body, and the coat that was covering him slipped off. Looking carefully, it wasn’t the one Yuan Ye was wearing. It should have been specially taken out by Yuan Ye from the trunk for him. Outside the car was his family’s villa. It turned out that they had already reached home, and Yuan Ye was standing behind the car to take his luggage down for him.

“Are you awake?”

Seeing Fu Yuanzhou get out of the car, Yuan Ye behind the car smiled at him: “We’re at your house, go back and sleep again.”

“Hmm…”

Seeing him smiling at him, it was obviously not the same as before, it was different, but because of the dream just now, Fu Yuanzhou actually felt a little shy, so he lowered his eyes and responded, then he pulled his suitcase and left, even forgetting to say goodbye to Yuan Ye.

“So indifferent?”

Yuan Ye took his hand from behind him, and said with a smile, “I will be sad if you leave like this.”

“Ah… goodbye, see you later.”

The grasped wrist passed with the constant heat, Fu Yuanzhou quickly pulled his hand out as if he had been scalded. He didn’t want Yuan Ye to see his blushing face, so he faltered and ran into the villa in a hurry.

“…”

Looking at the back of him leaving in a panic, Yuan Ye put away his empty hands little by little, with a hint of uneasiness in his eyes, and whispered to himself.

“… really hated by him?”

After returning home, Fu Yuanzhou was always in a listless state. He was not even interested in asking his friends to go out and play. In the end, his mother couldn’t stand it anymore and pulled him out to go shopping with her. The New Year was approaching, and the family needed to buy a lot of things.

Fu Yuanzhou had not been in touch with Yuan Ye for the past few days. He wanted to take the initiative to contact Yuan Ye, and he usually had a lot of topics, but now unexpectedly he didn’t know what to say, so he had to give up in the end. Yuan Ye didn’t even send him a message, which made Fu Yuanzhou even more confused, and he couldn’t help but wonder if he was thinking too much, and Yuan Ye didn’t like him at all.

The shopping mall was very lively, Fu Yuanzhou followed behind his mother, but showed a lack of interest in his expression, and at this moment, two familiar figures suddenly attracted his attention.

The two were a man and a woman, the girl was very beautiful, it was Meng Shiru, the young man was tall, although he was wearing a hat and sunglasses, but with his familiarity, Fu Yuanzhou recognized the young man as Yuan Ye at once.

Fu Yuanzhou stopped in his tracks, and was about to take another look, but the figures of Meng Shiru and Yuan Ye quickly merged into the crowd and disappeared.

He looked again, but he couldn’t find them.

How could the two of them be together? Was it a date? Could it be that Yuan Ye was lying when he said that he liked men, just to tease him, but in fact he still had an affair with Meng Shiru?

A series of thoughts flashed through his mind quickly, Fu Yuanzhou was shocked and angry, and there was a stream of vinegar filling his heart, even he himself couldn’t explain why he had such emotions.

He immediately sent a message to Yuan Ye: “Where are you?”