Ye Yao found out that he was in love with his friend Lu Xun.
They ate and slept together, were almost inseparable, and were each other’s best friends.
From what he had learnt over the years, Lu Xun was a straight man of steel, and because of his good looks, he was very attractive to guys with a male sexual orientation.
Whenever such a person appeared, Lu Xun would mercilessly cut them off contact with him. Even if they were good friends before, he would still blackball them without any hesitation, keeping them completely out of his world.
This relationship that shouldn’t appear would be easy to discover. In order to preserve this friendship, Ye Yao minimized the time spent with Lu Xun as much as possible.
Lu Xun wanted to travel alone with him, but he refused.
Lu Xun wanted to take a bath with him, but he refused.
Lu Xun wanted to hold him to sleep, but he still refused.
……
Ye Yao successfully managed to reduce his contact with Lu Xun, but when he was alone at home one day, Lu Xun blocked the door.
The man who was always cheerful and sunny to him now had a terrifyingly dark face and pinned him against the wall.
“Hiding from me?” Lu Xun laughed coldly, “If you can’t give a proper reason …… you can’t blame me for following you all the time.”
Ye Yao made a partial confession.
He told Lu Xun that he liked men, but did not say that he liked Lu Xun.
Lu Xun, who shunned homosexuality like a snake, gave him exceptional treatment.
Not only did he not stay away from him, he took him to the movies and tried to straighten him out.
“What’s so great about a stinky and hard man? It’s disgusting.” Lu Xun put his arm around Ye Yao’s shoulders and pointed at the man working hard on the computer screen with one hand, saying to Ye Yao, “They’re hard and stinky, let’s not like men anymore, okay?”
Ye Yao was silent for a moment: “You’re right, but …… I’m the one below.”
Lu Xun was stunned, and then fled.
Ye Yao thought his friendship with Lu Xun was over, but at one of the social events, in the darkness, he was wrapped up in a familiar embrace.
The usually casual voice was now full of anger: “How dare you let another man touch you?”
**
Ye Yao finally understood.
The straight man of steel Lu Xun, had bent like a mosquito coil, without Lu Xun knowing it himself.