Chapter 36 We are all straight men, what's wrong with a kiss
The sound of rain stopped completely, the air was still a little humid, and the firewood in the house was burning slowly.
Li Ziyue was half lying on the bed with his head lowered, holding a pen in one hand and a warm yellow test paper in the other. The tip of the pen lightly moved across the test paper, leaving a long, thin black line.
I still have a low-grade fever and feel a little dizzy, but I am still conscious...
It's strange to be awake.
He saw the nonsense answer he had written: This poem expresses the poet's homesickness. The poet met his old friend in the garden. Here he used...
With a "swish" sound, Li Ziyue drew a long mark to completely erase the above.
He rarely gets distracted when doing homework, but now his mind is full of the scene just now...
He even remembered his own panting and the scorching heat from Zhang Lian's palm when he held the back of his head.
His panicked heartbeat was almost drowning him, and the tips of his ears, barely covered by his black hair, were still red.
Zhang Lian sat next to the firewood as if nothing had happened. Occasionally, when the fire died down, he would adjust the position of the firewood to leave enough space for air to circulate.
A faint rustling sound was heard in the quiet room.
Neither side spoke.
Once he calmed down, his mind would automatically start to think of all sorts of things. Li Ziyue was so annoyed that he picked up a physics textbook and did some exercises. He felt his restless mood gradually calm down, and his thoughts returned to normal.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Until he got to the momentum conservation plate.
"Two small balls collide, the mass of ball A is..."
collision……
Uncontrollably, his mind flashed back to the scene last night when he was pressed against the corner of the bed by Zhang Lian, their foreheads touching, and Zhang Lian's slightly rapid breathing lingering in his ears...
“Bang!”
The pen in his hand was almost broken by him, and Li Ziyue slammed the book shut.
It's really crazy.
He was clearly the leading party in the primary pseudo-human copy, so how come he became like this just because he had a fever?
The wooden strips tapped lightly against the ground twice, and he heard the sound of clothes rubbing against each other coming from Zhang Lian's side.
Zhang Lian called out to him.
"elder brother."
His tone was calm, his voice was gentle, and he had the same calmness that he always had.
Li Ziyue was stunned when he was called "brother".
It took him a long time to realize that Zhang Lian was 22 years old, four years younger than him, so it was reasonable to call him "brother".
Zhang Lian's voice seemed to be filled with worry. "Will you ignore me because of this?"
Li Ziyue turned his face away and pretended not to hear what he said.
"You obviously have many ways to make me drink..." He paused for a long time before gritting his teeth and speaking, "Instead of..."
It was really hard to say, Li Ziyue put his hand on his forehead to cover his slightly red cheeks.
His bitten lip below was still aching slightly, leaving an ambiguous redness and swelling.
Zhang Lian was unusually calm. He did not answer the question directly, but instead asked in a roundabout way: "Brother, are you gay?"
Li Ziyue opened his mouth to answer subconsciously, but fell silent the moment he realized what Zhang Lian meant.
In fact, he is very clear about his sexual orientation, and the answer to this question does not need to be hidden for him, but...
If the person who asked the question was Zhang Lian... Li Ziyue subconsciously pursed his lips, feeling the burning temperature coming from the other side.
He was awkward and didn't want to tell the truth.
"……no."
Zhang Lian laughed lightly. Li Ziyue still didn't dare to look at him, so naturally he couldn't notice the expression on Zhang Lian's face.
"What's there to be embarrassed about?" He spoke slowly, with a straight face, "You are straight, and I am also straight. Since we both like girls, then the kiss between us is just a simple rescue. There is nothing wrong with it."
Finally, he lowered his brows, seeming to be a little entangled: "And I am afraid that I will accidentally hurt you by using other methods."
Hearing this, Li Ziyue felt a surge of anger in his heart.
My mouth still hurts from the time you bit me, how come you didn’t hurt me?
But he was too embarrassed to bring it up again, so he could only seize on another logical flaw in Zhang Lian's argument and retort: "You told me before that you might be gay."
Li Ziyue suddenly came back to his senses and said in a much tougher tone: "Why are you a straight man again now?"
Then he saw Zhang Lian raise his eyebrows slightly.
A bad premonition emerged from the bottom of his heart...
Wait...it seems like he's been tricked.
This is what Zhang Lian was waiting for.
"Brother, that's not right."
The more Li Zi heard the repetition of words, the more uneasy he felt.
Zhang Lian shook his head. "Since you are a straight man, why do you care about my answer about sexual orientation? You won't like me anyway, so what does it have to do with you whether my answers are consistent?"
Li Ziyue frowned impatiently.
He just knew it.
Zhang Lian didn't intend to let him go just like that: "Or am I special in your heart? That's why you remember me so clearly?"
Li Ziyue didn't want to choose either option.
He tucked his head back into the quilt, his voice was suspiciously hazy through the quilt: "You..."
"You are not allowed to talk anymore."
This is cheating. Li Ziyue usually despises this kind of childish behavior of locking up others' right to speak just because you can't win the argument.
Li Ziyue huddled in the quilt and sulked himself. Relying on the fact that his fever had not yet completely subsided, he felt at ease and acted like a coward.
Until a long-lost system prompt sounded in his mind - [Dear anchor, someone has opened a guard channel in your live broadcast room and has now become a member of the "Li Family Army" and obtained the title of "Li Family Army"]
Li Ziyue felt his brain suddenly explode, and all his consciousness and reason were instantly blank.
He suddenly realized something even more terrifying than being forcefully kissed by Zhang Lian—he did not turn off the live broadcast.
What’s even more terrifying is that the main perspective of the live broadcast room is fixed on his face.
Because he had a fever before, the system automatically blocked the notification sound in the live broadcast room. Now that he has almost recovered to normal, the system continues to broadcast to him.
Having been working in the dungeon for nearly eight years, Li Ziyue had encountered all kinds of desperate situations, but he had never wanted to die as badly as he did now.
He would rather be bitten to death by zombies last night, or be hanged, or at worst die of a high fever from being caught in the rain, which is better than facing the live broadcast room now.
The restraint and calmness that I had maintained for six years were completely gone at this moment.
As his fingers slid across the system screen, Li Ziyue could even clearly see the trembling of his fingertips.
Suppressing the turbulent waves in his heart, he solemnly opened his live broadcast room.
Number of people online in the live broadcast room: 3089.
It is about thirty times the number of people online in his normal live broadcast room...
Crazy comments were piled up layer upon layer, and he took a look with difficulty.
[Oh my god! The host finally found us! ]
[I'm new here, if anyone has last night's video, can I buy it with my points? (drooling)]
[Hehe, I saw that Zhang something was having an affair with the anchor in the last instance, but I didn’t expect that in this instance… Tsk tsk, should I fast forward to the next instance directly…]
[Please also broadcast the entire next instance live! I really want to watch it (crazy)]
【Come on, the market is open, those who support Brother Li will deduct 1 if they support him, and those who support Zhang Lian will deduct pi if they support him! 】
Pi
【Π】
【3.1415926……】
Li Ziyue suppressed his anger and looked for the property manager among the online live broadcast audience.
Does this housing manager want to live? Why hasn’t he come out to maintain order yet? What’s the point of guessing who is 1 and who is 0? Is there any need to guess when it’s so obvious?
Li Ziyue quietly logged into his secondary account and tapped 1 on the barrage, even though basically no one tapped 1.
Thinking about it this way seems to make me even angrier.
When he scrolled to the top, he found that the property manager's avatar was lit. Li Ziyue was stunned. Just as he was about to click the small window to send a private message, he saw the property manager appear majestically in the live broadcast room.
[There was a loud bang in the sky, and your supreme VIP butler kindly appeared! (Housekeeper): Ahem, everyone please be patient, those who talk nonsense will be banned. ]
Li Ziyue felt a little more relieved.
It was a good decision to choose him as the property manager.
But the housing manager sent another comment:
【There was a loud bang in the sky, and your supreme VIP butler kindly appeared! (Housekeeper): Of course I recorded the video. I am Li Ge’s caring little cotton-padded jacket, the roundworm in his stomach, a loyal and caring capable subordinate. How could I not know what he likes and what he wants to commemorate? The video is very complete, 4K ultra-clear, just waiting for Li Ge to come to me for the video when he wants to review the ambiguous time in the future~】
Li Ziyue closed his eyes in despair.
The housing management is still recruiting enthusiastically.
[If you want the video, please join Li Ge’s fan club. I’ve put the video in the fan club group chat file. You can watch it anytime you want! ]
Seeing the continuous applications, the host was very proud. There is no other smarter host in the world who can help anchors accumulate points than him.
Li Ziyue had only one thought in his mind at the moment - after finishing this dungeon and settling accounts in the player lobby, he would immediately resign as the room manager.
He rubbed his swollen temples, took two deep breaths, and managed to calm himself down.
Now that it has happened, all we can do at this stage is to minimize the losses.
Li Ziyue opened the fan group with an expressionless face, then flipped through the group files and without hesitation deleted the weird video titled "College Entrance Examination Sprint Review Materials" which had a cover with ten layers of mosaics but still showed two people stuck together.
The audience in the live broadcast room typed a long string of question marks. Li Ziyue pretended not to see it and blocked the room manager who poked the small window at him.
【??? Why is the video gone? 】
[The anchor deleted it, why?]
This was the worst thing Li Ziyue had ever done in his life - he should have silenced the housing manager first and then blocked him.
I saw that the housing manager was still outputting.
[(Housekeeper): Humph, I can write ten analysis reports on any action of Brother Li, otherwise how could I get the VIP position of housekeeper. ]
[(Housekeeper): I could tell at a glance that Brother Li deleted the video because he was shy.]
[System reminder: You have been banned by the host]
The property manager didn't think a disaster was imminent, and was even more certain that he had guessed the host's thoughts correctly.
I am indeed a smart, sensitive and caring person.
Next second.
[System reminder: You have been kicked out of the live broadcast room by the anchor]
Housing manager: ???
This is not a solution.
Li Ziyue turned off the barrage function in the live broadcast room, and only then did he manage to calm himself down.
According to Zhang Lian's theory, since both of them are "straight men", it's no big deal if they kiss each other. His fever is indeed going to subside, and there is no point in being so shy.
After organizing the words in his mind, Li Ziyue called out calmly: "Zhang——"
Unexpectedly, he only called out half of the name. The next moment, Li Ziyue suppressed the sound in his throat with a cold expression.
The firewood was still jumping slowly. The morning after the heavy rain was particularly quiet, so the sound of sharp objects colliding outside the house seemed so harsh.
It seemed as if the tips of sharp knives were rubbing against each other, the sound of shoes pressing on the wet ground was so unbearable, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the rusty door lock made a violent and crisp knocking sound.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
There was a crack in the wooden door, and a sneaky eye was hidden in the crack. The eyeball was turning wildly, spying on everything in the room.
At the same time, the pungent smell of rotting meat quietly sneaked into the room through the cracks.
"come out."
The sound was like nails scratching on a blackboard.
Something outside violently rammed against the half-broken lock.
"come out."
Two "clang" sounds.
The lock broke and the broken pieces fell to the ground.
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