World One
When the system banged drums and gongs in his ears, saying that the transformation progress had reached 89%, Luan Ye thought he was dreaming.
The system anxiously shouted at the host to get up quickly, saying something was wrong. Luan Ye's eyelids finally moved. He forced himself not to be overwhelmed by sleepiness and struggled to open his eyes.
Although he said last time that there was no need to change it and that the system should continue to maintain the original volume, it seemed that this was not what he meant.
Luan Ye sat up, feeling his mind was still a little dazed.
There was thunderous snoring in the dormitory, and he was the only one who sat up. In front of him was a ball of fur that kept jumping around - it looked really miserable.
"What's going on?" Seeing the miserable Luan Ye, he looked around and subconsciously lowered his voice, "...Tell me, what happened?"
[The transformation progress has now reached 89%!] The system said to him loudly.
Just because of this?
Luan Ye fell back down: good news, to celebrate, he decided to sleep a little longer.
[Host!] The fur ball immediately flew to his face and shouted, [But Gao Yuan's parents found out that he's gay!]
Luan Ye sat up suddenly.
This time the noise was so loud that even the bed below him shook.
"Oh my god... was there an earthquake?" Xu Zhixin, who was in the lower bunk, tried hard to open his eyes. Seeing that no one answered him, he thought that the noise just now was a dream and closed his eyes again.
Luan Ye took out his phone and tried to check what time it was, but the screen was black.
He pressed the power button, but still nothing happened.
Last night the teacher asked them to create a pop music piece independently, but didn't give them any general direction, just told them to think about it themselves.
Luan Ye quickly confirmed his idea, and was then pulled over by other roommates to ask what they thought of this direction. After answering one question, he went on to answer another, helping them to sort out their thoughts one by one.
A lot of people first look for a direction, then think about what instruments to use in their songs and what kind of atmosphere they want to create. These people are not really incompetent, but they just want to find someone more reliable, hoping that the other person can make their work better.
The discussion lasted until three o'clock. If the dormitory aunt hadn't knocked on their door and asked why they weren't asleep yet, the neighbors would have complained. They probably would have discussed until four o'clock.
In the end, Luan Ye went straight to bed. He was so tired that he didn't even think about washing up, let alone charging his phone.
He plugged in his phone and waited for a while before the battery level went from 0% to 2%.
The system couldn't wait any longer and directly slapped Luan Ye's phone: [What a rubbish product! ]
Luan Ye was just about to say that he was responsible if the phone broke when he saw the battery level on the screen soar from 2% to 100%. He unplugged the charger and turned on the phone.
Wow, 100%.
[--Right!] He looked at the 100% battery indicator in the upper right corner of his phone and unlocked it. [What a piece of junk!]
Gao Yuan did not send a message to Luan Ye, nor did he call him.
The conversation between the two people even stopped at saying goodnight yesterday, without any difference.
Luan Ye flipped through his message log. Before saying goodnight, Gao Yuan had asked if he could come over. He replied that he probably didn't have time because his teacher had just assigned an assignment on Friday night that was a bit overwhelming. Gao Yuan agreed and said goodnight.
Luan Ye changed out of his pajamas, picked up his cell phone, and got out of bed to wash up.
He moved very quietly, and with the help of the system, he didn't make any noise.
——If the system hadn't notified him, he might have missed all of this.
[Please send a message to Gao Yuan. Tell him I miss him and hope he can come over.] Luan Ye mentally instructed the system while turning on the faucet and wiping his face with water.
Maoqiu immediately responded "yes" and started to operate.
After a while, its frustrated voice sounded again: "Gao Yuan said no."
[Send it to him again.] Luan Ye spat out the foam in his mouth and rinsed it out with water. [Just say... Is it really not possible? Remember to put an ellipsis before 'really not possible?']
The system continued to send messages as the host instructed. After a while, it continued in the same tone: [He still said no. He told the host to prepare your homework carefully.]
Luan Ye put the cup away, didn't even take the key, and left the dormitory with only his cell phone.
He called Gao Yuan directly. The phone rang for a while before the call was connected.
Luan Ye sat down on a chair outside the dormitory and gathered his clothes: "Gao Yuan?"
"Yeah." The voice on the other end was very low. I don't know if Gao Yuan wanted to hide the fact that he had cried or simply didn't want him to hear any emotions. "Why, do you miss me suddenly?"
"Well, after thinking about it, I feel that doing homework is not as important as spending time with my boyfriend." Luan Ye said, "Why don't you come find me and we can go to the snack street we went to last time."
"No need," Gao Yuan on the other side subconsciously wanted to refuse, "You should——"
"The amusement park is fine, the bookstore is fine too." Luan Ye interrupted him, "If you don't come, I will go find you directly, understand?"
Gao Yuan on the other side didn't say anything, but he was still breathing heavily, but this time there seemed to be a hint of crying in his voice.
Luan Ye didn't say anything, but just counted down from ten in his heart.
Gao Yuan couldn't hide it for long.
This person could endure for so long just because he didn't want others to find out that they were a couple, and he could also tell him everything he wanted to say after they had reached an agreement.
Sure enough, just as Luan Ye counted down to two in his mind, Gao Yuan over there spoke.
"I've come out to my family," Gao Yuan said. "I kind of... I don't want to see you right now. I don't want you to see me like this."
"Then do you think I'll still leave you alone after you've told me this," Luan Ye cleared his throat.
Gao Yuan answered without even thinking: "No."
"That's right," Luan Ye said, "Where are we meeting later?"
"It's cold outside, you should stay in the dormitory first." Gao Yuan thought for a moment and said, "I'll call you when I get there, and you can come out then."
Luan Ye didn't say that he had already come out of the dormitory, nor did he say that he was just wearing a coat and felt quite cold, he just said okay.
There is no need to say anything about these things.
The school cafeteria was open as usual on weekends, but Luan Ye had no appetite at the moment, so he went straight to the piano room.
There weren't many people practicing piano at the moment, so he didn't need the system to help him find any empty rooms like last time.
Luan Ye turned up the volume of his cell phone to the maximum to ensure that he could hear Gao Yuan when he called.
He took a deep breath.
He had always hoped that Gao Yuan would come out with him, but this kind of "coming out" that could cause the system to wake him up early in the morning was definitely different from the good way he had imagined.
He began to play the piano.
I feel a little irritable.
He rarely felt regret. Even when he came out to his parents, or even when he came up with that awful idea of "acting," he never regretted it. Because, in Luan Ye's view, regret was the result of being unable to accept the consequences of one's choices.
But now he suddenly began to regret it.
He regretted coming up with such a bad idea.
He regretted not apologizing properly to Xiaoduo when she was irritated by him, and he also regretted leaving school under the pretext of relaxing after the incident escalated. He regretted even more that he had asked the system to post a sentence on the forum that seemed to add fuel to the fire, and he also regretted agreeing to the video call with Gao Yuan who wanted to meet his roommate.
The system looked at Luan Ye, who had been playing several songs in a row and had no intention of stopping, and then looked at the panel that only it could see. The green dot belonging to Gao Yuan was getting closer and closer.
Close enough to...
It couldn't help but look out.
The piano room was on the first floor, so Gao Yuan could see Luan Ye's back as he played through the window.
Intense emotions have always been the source of creative inspiration, so it is not surprising that Luan Ye played several originally gentle songs in succession with great passion.
It is difficult for people to notice the movements in the outside world when they are emotionally excited, so it is not surprising that Luan Ye did not notice her boyfriend standing outside the window.
The system withdrew its gaze and was thinking about reminding the host when it saw its host loosen his hands when playing the last note, get down from the chair, and open the window as if it had eyes on its back.
"How long have you been watching?" Luan Ye sighed as he looked at Gao Yuan, who had his hood pulled up to cover the upper half of his face. "Didn't I tell you to call me when you get here?"
"I thought I'd call you back after you finished playing," Gao Yuan explained to him, "...you played beautifully."
...You can't hear it clearly with the windows closed, right?
"Have you had breakfast before coming here?" Luan Ye didn't say that. As he asked, he directly pulled down Gao Yuan's hat that covered half of his face.
"I didn't eat, I..." Gao Yuan was about to answer that he was fine, but was forced to stop talking because of Luan Ye's actions.
Luan Ye looked at his face and gasped.
There was dried blood on the right side of Gao Yuan's eyebrow. Luan Ye reached out and gently wiped it off, then heard Gao Yuan hiss.
The bloodstains were wiped off, but the new scar between his eyebrows was not wiped off.
The school clinic was closed on weekends, so Luan Ye dragged Gao Yuan back to the dormitory. He wanted Gao Yuan to wait, but he didn't want him to wait outside alone, so he pulled him to the dormitory door.
Luan Ye touched his pocket: there was no key. It seemed that he forgot to bring the dormitory key because he was in a hurry to go out.
He was still hesitating whether to knock on the door or not, when the system had already flown into the dormitory and into his pocket.
There's one more thing there now.
Luan Ye took out the key from his pocket, thanked the system in his heart, and then opened the dormitory door.
There were bed curtains hanging in the dormitory, and the snoring was still as loud as before, but this time there was one less snorer. The blue light of Xu Zhixin's computer was flashing in the bed curtains.
Then Xu Zhixin poked his head out from behind the bed curtains and looked at the two of them.
"You just went out to buy breakfast..." Xu Zhixin said this when he noticed someone standing behind Luan Ye. Just as he was about to greet the other person, he noticed the hideous scar between Gao Yuan's eyebrows and almost couldn't control the volume of the second half of the sentence, "Damn..."
Luan Ye immediately raised his index finger to his lips.
Xu Zhixin covered his mouth and asked in a low voice: "...Fuck, what's going on?"
"It's okay," Luan Ye also whispered, "I just came to the dormitory to get some medicine, I'll be leaving soon."
"Okay," Xu Zhixin nodded, then turned to look at Gao Yuan and waved at him in a friendly manner, "Come, brother, sit here with me."
Sports students usually interacted like this. Gao Yuan didn't find this person too familiar and sat down on his bed without hesitation. However, his sitting posture was unusually reserved.
"What happened to you?" Xu Zhixin asked Gao Yuan quietly after he sat down. "Your injury looks a bit scary. Was it from a fight?"
Gao Yuan didn't know how to deal with this question and could only hum - he couldn't tell a stranger that the injury was caused by a family member throwing something, he couldn't open his mouth.
Luan Ye took out the medicines that Gao Yuan had brought for him, put the plastic bag with the medicines into his pocket, and then went downstairs.
"Let's go." Luan Ye whispered to Gao Yuan, who was sitting on Xu Zhixin's bed, "They're still sleeping. I'm afraid of waking them up."
Xu Zhixin originally wanted to say that it was okay to stay in the dormitory, as those people were not really asleep yet. Before he could say anything, he saw Luan Ye shook his head at him and pulled Gao Yuan out.
It wasn't until the dormitory door closed that Xu Zhixin realized what Luan Ye meant by that action. He said to the people in the bunks in a very unpleasant tone, "Has that been enough of pretending? Now that everyone's gone, isn't that enough?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the snoring in the dormitory stopped as if the pause button was pressed.
Liu Ting and Siyan both peeked out from behind the bed curtains and asked in unison, "What's going on?"
"Luan Ye just brought his boyfriend in." Xu Zhixin gesticulated and whispered, "Damn, his boyfriend has such a big cut on his eyebrow, it's so scary. Luan Ye went up to get medicine for his boyfriend, and then they both left."
"Is it serious?" Four Eyes asked immediately, "Why don't you let them apply the medicine here?"
Xu Zhixin's eyes widened: "He doesn't want to? It's obvious that Luan Ye is worried that his partner will be embarrassed, okay?!"
"Who told you to snore so loudly?" Xu Zhixin made up an excuse and took out his phone. "I'll send a message to Luan Ye later. I think he must have noticed something was wrong with your snoring."
"Right, right, right." Four Eyes said quickly, "Just say we were all playing with our phones and thought he was back, so we wanted to scare him. That's all."
When he said this, in order to prove the authenticity of his words, he turned his mobile phone over to show Xu Zhixin.
Xu Zhixin pointed at his phone screen: "...your character is dead."
"——Fuck!" Siyan quickly turned the phone towards himself and clicked on the voice call. "Sorry, my cousin was playing games just now."
"He was staring at his phone while washing up in the bathroom this morning, then he left the dorm straight away." The person whose bed was next to the bathroom wasn't playing games, just on their phone. "His boyfriend must have gotten into trouble, so he came to school to look for him."
"So they won't stay." The man continued to analyze, "Luan Ye will definitely have to ask his boyfriend in detail about what happened. After all, this kind of thing is his private life. How could we 'unrelated people' hear it?"
"How come you woke up at that time? You woke up earlier than me?" Xu Zhixin was shocked. "Holy crap?! Are you secretly doing your homework?"
"—How dare you say that?!" The other person flung aside the bed curtains. "You just said 'earthquake' and I woke up with a start! Earthquake, damn you!"
"Bullshit! When did I ever say that?" Xu Zhixin also pulled back the bed curtains and glared at him. "Frame-up, huh?"
Liu Ting pulled the bed curtain down again as usual, threw the mobile phone in his hand aside, and then opened the music score.
Everyone is rolling secretly, right? Then he has to roll secretly too.
Luan Ye had been applying medicine all this time, and his ear injury was almost healed, with most of the medicine already used up. However, he didn't throw away the medicine, and placed it all on the bed.
——It actually came in handy right now. Luan Ye rummaged through the plastic bag, took out a cotton swab, applied some medicine, and applied it to Gao Yuan.
Gao Yuan didn't say anything, nor did he put his hood back on.
"It should have been disinfected first." Luan Ye spread the medicine with a cotton swab, making sure it was applied thoroughly before tightening it again. "You got this injury today, right?"
"Yeah." Now that it's come to this, Gao Yuan doesn't plan to keep it a secret from Luan Ye any longer, "Because my dad doesn't want me to come out."
Luan Ye wrapped a few cotton swabs used for applying medicine in toilet paper and put them back into the plastic bag: "Did he do it?"
"No, he didn't hit me." Gao Yuan shook his head, "He just threw something at me, and it bounced off the sofa next to me..."
Luan Ye didn't ask what could have caused such a bounce, but put the plastic bag back into his pocket and asked, "What are you going to do next?"
"I haven't... I haven't figured out how to do it yet." Gao Yuan hesitated and looked at Luan Ye again. "Well, when you came out to them..."
Luan Ye knew Gao Yuan wanted to ask if the situation back then was just as intense, but he didn't want to answer that question right now. "You have to tell me first, under what circumstances did they find out about this?"
If I had known about this matter under particularly mild circumstances, I would never have stopped my son from going out.
There was no way the system would be so anxious that he couldn't even catch up on his sleep, wishing it could make him jump out of bed and go find Gao Yuan.
[I'm sorry, host.] The system flew down, gently nudged the host's finger in a flattering manner, and said to Luan Ye, [The system suddenly detected Gao Yuan's mood swings, so it turned the camera around and discovered that he had a huge argument with his parents, and it was quite fierce! He even had a new scar on his eyebrow... I really don't know what to do, and I don't know how humans will resolve this situation at this point.]
Luan Ye opened his hands and placed them on the furry ball. The fluffy touch slowly calmed his excitement from hearing that Gao Yuan had a big fight with his parents.
"It's okay. Gao Yuan's family background is different from his. If we talk to them properly, they might be able to accept this."
So he must stay calm now and must not panic.
Gao Yuan scratched his cheek and looked away: "It's not a big deal. Besides... the situation is really complicated."
This means I don't want to tell him.
"It's okay, you can talk slowly." Luan Ye looked at him and smiled, "We have plenty of time anyway."
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