Chapter 34: How Great It Is for Two Men to Be Together
Being asked so suddenly by him, Qiao Yubai didn’t know how to answer.
Because he always thought that if he said publicly that he liked men, many people would look at him with strange eyes.
He hid this little thought in the bottom of his heart, not daring to let anyone find out.
But how did his brother know he liked men and even spoke Ye Muqing’s name?
He didn’t know if Ye Ran would stand up and oppose him liking men, but Qiao Yubai still planned to tell the truth.
“There should be a little bit, I don’t know either. I do like men, and Muqing-ge is very good to me.”
Ye Ran had a look of understanding. That meant Ye Tingyun hadn’t started acting yet. If Qiao Yubai fell in love with Ye Muqing at this time, there wouldn’t be anything for Ye Tingyun to do later.
Currently, Qiao Yubai’s feeling for Ye Muqing stayed at the level of having a good impression.
Qiao Yubai observed Ye Ran’s reaction. He didn’t have much of a reaction to him liking men; it seemed his level of acceptance was quite high.
It couldn’t help but make him wonder if Ye Ran was the same as him.
He asked tentatively, “Ge, can you accept two men being together?”
Ye Ran blurted out, “Accept, of course I can accept.”
In this danmei novel, the author wished for all the males to be together. Except for the male dog raised by the Ye family, almost everyone who could be paired up was paired up.
In other words, he wasn’t given any space not to accept.
“How great it is for two men to be together. If you win an argument, you’re still a couple; if you lose, you’re roommates in the next room. Sleeping together is common, and so is being unable to get out of bed. If you have insomnia, your roommate is also the best person to treat your insomnia…”
To stand from the same perspective as Qiao Yubai, Ye Ran spoke a lot. By the end, he felt like he was almost convincing himself. Being together as two men seemed indeed pretty good.
Qiao Yubai listened to what Ye Ran said and felt his brother really understood. Analyzing it so thoroughly was as if he had personally experienced it.
As they chatted, they returned to today’s events. “Who did you learn cheating from?”
“Movies. I followed and studied it for a long time back then.”
“What movie?”
“I’ll find it for you.”
Ye Ran opened Chi Yuheng’s computer in the study, wanting to find the movie he often watched before.
A long list of movies unfolded, and the two suddenly discovered a good-looking horror movie, so they temporarily decided to watch it.
The player opened, and with a burst of low background music, the originally quiet study was instantly filled with eerie sound effects.
At first, it was just the sound of doors and windows creaking, but before ten minutes had passed, a long-haired black shadow suddenly sprang out on the screen, a sharp shriek exploding right in the ear.
Qiao Yubai was almost scared to death. Ye Ran was fine, purely holding on for the sake of his “face.”
At this moment, Chi Yuheng downstairs had already strode toward the upstairs.
It had been almost half an hour since Ye Ran went to the study; he should have reflected enough.
Today he was indeed worried sick. To think that Ye Ran went to find Fang Yuan alone—although he had told Xin Yu where he was going before leaving, what if Xin Yu hadn’t understood the meaning behind his words?
Fortunately, Fang Yuan was stupid and was played around by Ye Ran, but what if he was sharp and ruthless? He might have detained him and taken him away, and he might not even be able to find him now.
Chi Yuheng felt a bit of lingering fear, his fingertips unconsciously tightening.
He opened the study door a crack, wanting to see what Ye Ran was doing inside, and as it turned out, Ye Ran truly “didn’t disappoint him at all.”
He only heard bursts of horror sound effects from the study, simultaneously mixed with the discussion between Ye Ran and Qiao Yubai.
“No, no, I feel that little boy is about to come out.”
“Which little boy?”
“The one from just now, the one whose whole body is almost painted like a white wall.”
“Surely not…”
“I feel he can. Do you think he will come out from under the bed?”
“I feel he can come out from above the head.”
As soon as the words fell, a sinister voice appeared from above their heads. “Is it good?”
At this exact moment, the little boy’s figure surfaced on the screen. He truly appeared from above the head, his pitch-black, sightless eyes filling the screen.
The two were almost scared out of their wits. With a howl, Ye Ran instinctively threw the book he was holding in his hand toward his head and stood up, dragging Qiao Yubai.
“Thud…” It was the muffled sound of the hardcover book hitting the head, making Chi Yuheng frown even before the sound effects of the horror movie.
The book slid down his shoulder to the floor, cover facing up. Chi Yuheng raised his eyes and scanned it, his gaze staying for a moment on the title: Psychological Analysis of Flirting with Men.
After reading the title, Chi Yuheng’s eyebrows twitched slightly, and his originally tight mouth slightly curved up.
At this time, the other two people in the study were like they had been paused, their eyes widened, as if they were trying hard to distinguish if the person in front of them was human or a ghost.
Until Chi Yuheng’s scrutinizing gaze looked over, Ye Ran also came back to his senses and exploded in the first instance, “Holy shit! Why are you here?!”
Chi Yuheng: “It’s my study. Why can’t I be here?”
The person watching a horror movie in someone else’s study didn’t feel in the wrong at all; instead, he was self-righteous. “Can’t you make a sound when you come in? Don’t you know that people scaring people can scare them to death?”
As soon as the words fell, “Squeak…”
The study door wasn’t closed in the first place, so Xin Yu simply walked in. “Eldest Young Master, the person you asked to be sent has been sent to the Fang residence. Just now, Fang Yichuan was also taken away for investigation…”
He.
Xin Yu didn’t finish his words before discovering that everyone’s gaze looking at him seemed not quite right.
Ye Ran had a look of being about to explode and treating him as a new fuse. Chi Yuheng’s expression didn’t change much—was it just a bit more disgust than usual?
Qiao Yubai’s expression was even simpler; he was already scared silly and hadn’t recovered.
When these expressions were piled together, it was very abnormal.
“Uh… it seems I entered the wrong room… I’ll go down and walk in again…”
Xin Yu quickly retreated. Qiao Yubai finally had a reaction, but he felt that Chi Yuheng seemed to have something to say to Ye Ran, and his being here was a bit of an eyesore.
Finally, even Qiao Yubai found a reason to retreat, leaving only Chi Yuheng and Ye Ran in the study.
Everyone had left. Seeing Chi Yuheng’s half-smiling expression, Ye Ran couldn’t run, and he couldn’t stay.
He was afraid of being caught back if he ran, but if he didn’t run, wasn’t he just waiting to be pinned down?
Consequently, Ye Ran stood three meters away from Chi Yuheng, arguing with a reason.
“Is this how you reflect?”
Ye Ran pouted. “You scared me.”
“And you even brought Qiao Yubai to the study to watch a horror movie.”
Ye Ran: “You scared me.”
“Why are you standing so far away? Afraid I’ll kiss you?”
Ye Ran: “You sca—Huh?”
Translator’s Note:
- Danmei (耽美): A genre of literature focusing on male-male romance.
- Psychological Analysis of Flirting with Men: Ye Ran’s reading material is quite… specific. No wonder Chi Yuheng found it funny!
- A pig’s head (猪头): A common Chinese slang for someone whose face is swollen from a beating.
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