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Ten o’clock in the morning was exactly the time when the students from all departments converged together from all directions, including from the sports field entrance. There was simply no need to spread the news: it attracted thousands of students to become enthusiastic spectators.
Originally thinking that Shang Jin holding a rabbit would be the protagonist of the BBS tonight,Ye Zhou never imagined that because of a sudden episode, he would suddenly become the person who stirred up winds and waves.
The fiery red roses were still held before him. Ye Zhou couldn’t help but take two steps back, unthinkingly bumping into Shang Jin’s body.
Shang Jin held Ye Zhou’s shoulder. Not looking at the unsightly roses, he said expressionlessly, “The game is about to start. Let’s go.”
Ye Zhou came back to his senses and said “oh”. He was thinking about taking a careful look at the appearance of the sender. In the end, Shang Jin changed positions with him, just blocking his sight.
“Senior Ye Zhou!” The boy was not to be outdone and came forward again, “Iー”
Shang Jin turned his head, swept him with an impatient gaze, and said, “Do you think it’s appropriate for a guy to do such a high-profile act to another guy in a public place?”
The boy choked and frantically tried to explain.
Shang Jin didn’t give him an opportunity to explain, and continued, “You’re an adult; please think twice before acting.” Afterwards, ignoring the crowd of onlookers, he pulled Ye Zhou out of the encirclement.
Wen Renxu and Liu Yutian were slower than them by a step and fell in behind them. The two ‘I look at you, you look at me’ and didn’t know how to break the suddenly impasse they’d sunken into.
Ye Zhou’s mind was still in chaos, several issues circling all along in his heart.
Why would that boy do that?
Playing a big prank?
From when that younger brother appeared until now, Ye Zhou hadn’t said anything. Shang Jin opened his mouth and asked, “What are you thinking about?”
“Ah? Nothing…” Ye Zhou smiled wryly, scratched his cheek and said, “I didn’t expect our school to be quite open. Although having a guy send flowers…gave me a scare.”
Shang Jin shot him a glance and said, “Looking at you, it’s terrified. Every time something happens, you don’t do anything and lose your mind first. Obviously, your brain isn’t bad, so why do you drop the ball at the critical moment?”
Ye Zhou turned his head. That man was holding the roses in his hand and his head was drooped low. The people around him were pointing at him, and he looked a bit pitiful. However, he had no extra compassion to sympathize with others. After all, he was the most pitiful.
In order to let Ye Zhou ease his heart, Liu Yutian consoled, “This is definitely playing a big prank. Zhou, don’t mind it.”
“Like Shang Jin said, when a guy gives another guy flowers in the public—also at the sports field entrance, the most crowded place—he’s not stupid: he’s super stupid!” Wen Renxu chimed in, “People with brains wouldn’t have done this kind of thing.”
Shang Jin sneered, “This school brother knows to wear a hat to conceal himself.”
This sentence once again made Ye Zhou feel sick at heart, and the goodwill he had for the boy dropped by another degree. “Indeed! He knew to wear a hat himself, and just let me, who was so completely unprepared, become the target.”
Shang Jin said, ” Let’s go back to our dorm after watching the other people’s game. What the eyes doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.”
Ye Zhou nodded and buried his head in the rabbit’s chest. He took a deep breath and said, “What the hell was that…”
There was no one they knew competing in the afternoon, so Ye Zhou simply nested in the dorm and didn’t go out.
In one noon, what happened in the morning fermented until the whole school were very clear on it.
After his meal, Ye Zhou habitually browsed through the forum. Sure enough, he saw a new post.
LZ: Rabbit or rose, it is not a question !
LZ: A lot of gaiety in the sports venue ~ Yesterday, the two test gods carried a fiercely cute little loli to tour around campus. Today, a young man staged a great event to fearlessly tear apart our National CP!1 At the sports field entrance, there’s the rabbit doll sent by Shang Jin before and there’s the delicate roses from a younger brother after. On the one hand, it’s the gay friendship of working hand-in-hand. On the other hand, it’s an unexpected ambush halfway out. As an eyewitness, I just want to say that the younger brother is too weak in front of the male god Shang. With two sentences, he was stopped, unable to say another word. PS. Male God GJ1!!! Finally, as a member of the Shang Ye religion, I just want to say: “Younger brother, you really have guts to think of tearing apart the Shang Ye!”
1L: Front row! Who dares to tear apart the Shang Ye, I’m the first to not let them off!
2L: Warrior~ do you still think you can pass the final exam!
3L: I hope that the feelings of the two people, Shang and Ye, won’t be shaken!! It’s almost the midterm, I especially don’t want them to quarrel!
4L: Actually rushing to tear apart the Shang Ye just at the exam…
5L: Five mao!2 Do him in!
6L: nonono , we’re good children of civilization. I think that he’d be redeemed after passing through one exam period! After all, reality teaches people!
7L: The younger brother had some matter and had to leave school for two months last year and just came back this year, so isn’t clear on many things! Everyone shouldn’t be too excited! The younger brother is really innocent! And to tell everyone the good news: he’s a studying dreg…after an exam, I reckon that any thoughts he has will be dispelled…
Ye Zhou pulled the corners of his mouth, hoping that this younger brother wouldn’t bother him again.
knock knock knock
“They didn’t bring their keys?” Ye Zhou stood up and thought of going to open the door.
Shang Jin rushed before him and said, “I’ll go.” Saying that, he walked a few steps to the doorway and pulled open the door.
“Hello! Is Ye Zhouー”
Not waiting for the other person to finish, Shang Jin slammed the door shut.
Ye Zhou: “???”
Shang Jin deadpanned, “Knocked on the wrong door.”
Soon, the sound of knocking echoed again. Accompanying the sound of knocking was the incessant voice that transmitted through.
“Senior Ye Zhou! I was wrong in the morning! I came to apologize to you!”
Upon hearing this voice, Ye Zhou became worried. “Quickly let him in. If he keeps knocking, the whole dorm would know!”
Shang Jin unlocked the door and the person outside pushed directly in.
He furiously glared at Shang Jin, walked in front of Ye Zhou and said like a docile cat: “Senior Ye Zhou, my name is Xie Shuhan. I’m a freshman in the Fine Arts Faculty. For what happened this morning, I express my profound apology.”
Xie Shuhan was about the same height as they were. At this time, his shoulders drooped and tried to huddled himself together. Ye Zhou wasn’t in a good mood because he’d just read the post, but thinking about quickly distancing himself from the other person, he only coldly said, “I accept your apology. You can leave.”
“Senior Ye Zhou, I was reckless in the morning, but I definitely didn’t say it in a casual mood! I am a timid person who can’t really speak, so I only dared to take roses to show you my feelings.”
Shang Jin leaned to the side and said coolly, “You absolutely have the wrong perception of yourself. Holding roses to confess in public is definitely not something that a timid person could do.”
Xie Shuhan ignored Shang Jin’s words and continued, “In yesterday’s 1000-meter race, you took the lead and rushed to the finish line! At that moment, you also rushed into my heart! When you were holding your sister to celebrate, I felt like I saw a light coming from you! You…”
“I’m sorry, I want to correct your mistake,” Shang Jin interrupted him, “The one who took the lead in yesterday’s 1000-meter was me. She’s also my little sister. But, I’m sorry that I can’t accept your feelings. I don’t like you, this kind of person who doesn’t have good brains. Please go back.”
“You, whyー” Xie Shuhan stared blankly for a moment and said in disbelief, “You’re the one who crossed the finish line yesterday???”
“You didn’t even see the person clearly, how can it be regarded as liking,” Shang Jin sneered. Taking advantage of the other being distracted, he planned to “invite” him out the door.
In the moment he went out the door, Xie Shuhan crowded into the crack in the doorway and solemnly declared, “Although the champion yesterday was you, but in my heart, the champion is Senior Ye Zhou. The reason why I didn’t see your result yesterday was because there was only one person in my eyes. I…”
Ye Zhou rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and said, “I understand already, but what Shang Jin said is what I want to say. Please go back.”
The main party had opened his mouth, and Xie Shuhan, like an eggplant hit by frost, wilted and walked away.
“Why are you so merciless today?” Although Shang Jin didn’t like Xie Shuhan, but in his impression, Ye Zhou had always been kind and polite. He may be hopping mad, or be angered until his face was full of vitality, but except for Christmas when he’d quarreled with him and started a cold war, he’d never seen him be so cold to someone…
Ye Zhou tsked and said, “It’s fine if he’d secretly said it in private. Who could accept it in public? Even if I like men, I also don’t want to let everyone know about it!”
The original point of entanglement was here. Shang Jin hesitantly said, “This, it also doesn’t matter. Aren’t we put together by everyone now?”
“You’re not the same.” Ye Zhou curled his lips. Everyone now put the two of them together more so because of the name of the test god, and he knew clearly that there weren’t any feelings beyond friendship between them. Even if they were misunderstood by the classmates, he and Shang Jin had explained it clearly and he was also magnanimous. But Xie Shuhan wasn’t the same. Obviously, he had planned to pursue him, and he also expressed himself in the most unacceptable way to Ye Zhou, making Ye Zhou only want to get far away from the other.
After hearing this sentence, Shang Jin stretched out his tightly knitted brows and said in relief, “I see that younger brother only has a child’s nature. After two days, he’d fall in love with someone else.”
Ye Zhou was baffled and said, “Did you change your personality today? Why so many words?”
Shang Jin didn’t change his face, sat in his seat and said, “Near ink is blackened.”3
“Who are you calling ink!”
“I’m calling the one who’s excited.”
The next day, Ye Zhou had a book he wanted to read and went to the library alone, while Shang Jin played on his computer in the dormitory.
A knock sounded on the door.
Shang Jin took off his headphones, leaned back against the chair and looked upwards and sighed. This man was really persistent enough.
Opening the door, he once again saw Xie Shuhan’s disgusting face.
Shang Jin wasn’t like Ye Zhou, who liked to maintain a composed outward appearance no matter the situation. He directly showed his dislike of Xie Shuhan, not even planning to let the other side enter, “Ye Zhou isn’t in.”
Xie Shuhan shamelessly squeezed in through the crack in the door, handed the fruit in his hand to Shang Jin, and said, “Brother Shang Jin, today, I came to see you.”
“See me?”
CP = couple; GJ = good job  mao: ~0.1 renminbi Near ink is blackened: He’s calling Ye Zhou a bad influence.