World One
The cigarette in his hand was half burned, and Luan Ye remained leaning against the wall without moving.
The smoke drifted out from the bathroom exhaust vent, scattering ashes all over the floor.
Forty minutes had passed since Luan Ye sent that text message.
When they first started dating, Gao Yuan sent Luan Ye the training schedule of the Sports Institute.
At this time, the training at the sports school had already ended, but the other party had not replied to his text messages.
Don’t you know how to reply, or don’t you want to reply after seeing it?
Although he knew Gao Yuan had this kind of personality and knew that he might not reply to him, Luan Ye still felt very annoyed.
Yes, irritable.
He didn't expect Gao Yuan to be so tolerant. Even after he sent several photos of himself and the girls in his class, Gao Yuan was still able to hold back his anger.
But it could also be because I know that if I lose my temper, I'll be asked, "When can we talk about this openly?", so I've been holding back.
——Thinking about it this way makes me even more annoyed.
Luan Ye's irritable mood successfully reached its peak when the old professor walked into the bathroom.
The people at the music conservatory have always looked down upon cigarettes, let alone those from senior professors.
Luan Ye was prepared to be scolded, but the old professor just looked at him and sighed softly.
Luan Ye put out the cigarette in silence.
The old professor has always been very good to him. He always gives him any opportunities for study, often talks to him in private, and sometimes asks him if he needs any help in life.
It can be said that the other party has fulfilled all the responsibilities that a teacher should fulfill, including those that are not necessary.
"Have you encountered anything unhappy recently?" the old professor asked, his voice deliberately low, as if he was afraid to disturb anyone. "Did Yu Xiaoni make you unhappy again?"
When he said this, the look he gave Luan Ye was still the kind of kind look that the older generation would use when looking at the younger generation.
"Aren't you guys boyfriend and girlfriend? Continuing in a cold war isn't a solution. If you have any complaints, you need to speak up."
No, we're just acting.
We were never boyfriend and girlfriend.
Luan Ye suddenly felt a little itchy at the corner of his eye.
In his heart, the old professor was much more important than other teachers. Every time the old professor looked at him like that, Luan Ye would have an urge to tell him the whole truth.
But Luan Ye still managed to resist the urge.
He no longer had the courage to gamble on whether his close ones would choose to accept him or turn their backs on him after he confessed his sexual orientation.
So Luan Ye looked at the old professor, threw the cigarette in his hand into the trash can beside him, and bent down to wrap the ashes in paper. His tone was still as calm as always: "Don't worry about anything that happens between us."
Yu Xiaoni's real name is Yu Xiaoduo. She is from the orchestral department and studies classical guitar.
This is a little girl who 'looks' carefree and very warm-hearted.
The school's toilets are all located on the far right, so if Luan Ye wants to go back to the classroom, he has to pass through the orchestra department's performance room.
Luan Ye put on his headphones, turned up the volume to the maximum, and walked out.
As for why Yu Xiaoduo is said to be a girl who "looks" particularly carefree and warm-hearted? That's because when facing Luan Ye, her personality is completely opposite to those described above. It can be said that they are completely different people.
His recent intentional distancing himself from Yu Xiaoduo was to tell those who did not know the truth: the two of them were about to 'break up'.
But when they were halfway there, Luan Ye's headphones were roughly pulled off and thrown to the ground.
The other party used a lot of force this time.
When the earphones were pulled off, Luan Ye felt a sharp pain in his ear and wondered if it was bleeding.
Luan Ye looked coldly at the broken earphones on the ground, then turned to look at Yu Xiaoduo who was standing next to him, without saying anything.
There's nothing much to say, this is all trouble he brought upon himself.
Before his mother divorced his father, she had taught him that he shouldn't be as careless with girls as he is with boys, because girls are much more sensitive than boys. But she didn't tell him how he could get out of this if the other party wanted to make it real after they had already agreed.
"I just called you a few times." Yu Xiaoduo picked up the 'wreckage' of the headphones and handed them to Luan Ye. "I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to be so engrossed in listening."
Luan Ye didn't reply.
He could tell that there was no apology in Yu Xiaoduo's apology at all. He could also see someone in the concert room coming over here, with a mischievous smile on his face, as if he had just seen a 'young couple quarrel'.
Luan Ye was not used to being a monkey in the zoo. He took the 'wreckage' of the headphones and turned to leave.
But Yu Xiaoduo grabbed him, shook his sleeve, and said to him coquettishly, "I'm sorry."
Luan Ye just felt irritated at the moment.
Can't you see what he's planning?
Why did Yu Xiaoduo still talk to herself with this attitude of "we just had a fight"?
"--Let go." Luan Ye frowned. He turned his back to the window and emphasized to her for the umpteenth time, "We agreed before, it's just a show."
They were just putting on a show, that's all.
"You probably don't want everyone to know that you are gay, right?" Yu Xiaoduo looked at Luan Ye with a smile.
Luan Ye closed his eyes. He really felt a headache now.
Of course he is not afraid of people knowing that he is gay, but he doesn't want to be misunderstood as a fool who would deceive girls' feelings.
So Luan Ye had to put his arm around Yu Xiaoduo's shoulders. Even though his hand was not completely on her shoulder, he still heard a cry of surprise from behind that she had never thought of restraining.
"Look, look!"
"I told you they would make peace!"
They have attracted a lot of attention since they started performing this play.
Yu Xiaoduo is the heroine of this romantic drama, who is cheerful and likable. Luan Ye is the hero of this romantic drama, who looks cold and gloomy, but always lends a hand when he finds others in need.
In addition, because both of them had good grades, even if the teacher thought they were in a relationship, at most they would just advise them not to neglect their studies while dating. So they successfully became the most openly affectionate couple in the school.
Luan Ye, the male protagonist of their melodrama, looked at Yu Xiaoduo and asked her word by word, "What do you want to do?"
Amidst the chattering sounds, Yu Xiaoduo looked up at Luan Ye and tilted her head to lean on his shoulder.
Luan Ye suppressed the urge to avoid her and asked again, "...What exactly do you want? We clearly agreed on this before."
"I don't want to do anything." Yu Xiaoduo twisted her hair with her fingers and curled a small tuft. "You want to stop performing, but I don't want to."
Luan Ye felt that he really couldn't bear it anymore.
We agreed from the beginning that it was just acting.
Yu Xiaoduo had promised him that when he decided to end the play, the two of them would act out a 'breakup' scene again.
What does it mean to say you are not happy now?
He didn't want to continue chatting with Yu Xiaoduo, so he avoided her and walked towards his classroom with the pile of "debris" of headphones.
Yu Xiaoduo stood there, looking at his leaving back somewhat helplessly, but after a while she adjusted her mentality and a smile appeared on her face again.
She turned and walked into the performance room.
When he walked into the classroom, Luan Ye still had anger on his face, and his earphones were hanging outside his pocket, looking miserable.
Luan Ye is the type of person who will proactively help others when they need it, but his personality is definitely not what you would call cheerful.
He usually prefers to stay in his own corner, which is why everyone is so excited to support this young couple - don't cheerful personalities and cool personalities complement each other perfectly?!
It was a rare occasion for him to show his emotions so openly. The originally noisy classroom lowered the volume bar to the lowest level the moment Luan Ye pushed open the door. Only after Luan Ye sat down in his seat did the sounds begin to cautiously emerge again.
Guo Jie, who sat in front of him, turned around and hesitated for a moment before asking him in a low voice, "...did something happen to you?"
She always spoke in a low voice, like a mosquito's hum. Some teachers even teased her about this, saying that Guo Jie was more suited to the conducting department than the composition department.
Luan Ye pinched the earphone sticking out of his pocket, not knowing whether he should answer this question.
Guo Jie wasn't a talkative person to begin with, usually unable to utter a single word until her face flushed red. The reason she spoke to Luan Ye wasn't out of curiosity, but because he had helped her.
Now that she had finally mustered up the courage to ask this question, Luan Ye still hadn't answered. Her face had already begun to turn red. "I'm... I'm sorry, it's me..."
Luan Ye couldn't bear to see her face turn into a tomato, so he looked up at her: "No, I just met Yu Xiaoduo."
"Ah." Guo Jie paused, then showed an expression of 'you are so miserable'.
Luan Ye suddenly found it a little funny.
It's strange that Guo Jie doesn't interact with others much and doesn't like to participate in group activities, but Luan Ye likes to be with her very much.
Perhaps it was because only with Guo Jie could he find a moment of peace. Perhaps it was because whenever Luan Ye mentioned Yu Xiaoduo's name, no matter what the reason, whether intentional or not, most people would give him a teasing look. Only Guo Jie would give him this incomparably strange expression, one that felt less like teasing and more like mourning for him.
Luan Ye took a deep breath.
He looked at Guo Jie, who didn't show any teasing expression, and said to her inexplicably: "I have decided to break up with him."
Thanks to the difference between Chinese and English, he can say "he" without being heard by others.
After saying this, Luan Ye felt a lot lighter.
In order to get Gao Yuan to come out to him, he even came up with this stupid idea of having someone act out a play with him. In the end, the real boyfriend stayed in the closet as usual and refused to come out, while the fake girlfriend who agreed to act out the play did not agree to him quitting the show so easily at this time.
This is probably what it means to try to steal a chicken but end up losing the rice.
And now, he finally decided to cut his losses in time: first break up with Gao Yuan, and then break up with Yu Xiaoduo.
Unlike the others, Guo Jie had no special expectations of him, and her impression of him was limited to "a good person." So when Luan Ye said this to her, he didn't feel any apologies for betraying her expectations; he simply felt relieved.
It may be because Guo Jie is not very familiar with him, or it may be because he knows that the other party is not the type who cares about these "gossips".
But the most likely possibility is that he has kept this sentence in his heart for a long time.
"You're not talking about breaking up with Yu Xiaoduo," Guo Jie spoke again. After meeting Luan Ye's surprised look, she lowered her voice, "Right?"
"Yes." Luan Ye did not deny it, nor did he ask Guo Jie how she knew about it.
He no longer cares about these things.
Luan Ye lowered his head and took out his cell phone.
If he were to break up with Gao Yuan now, it would not be because of Yu Xiaoduo, nor would it be because he was like Gao Yuan, afraid that other people would know that he was gay.
He initially let Yu Xiaoduo mess around because he wanted a definite answer from her boyfriend, whether it was coming out or breaking up, at least one of them. But after so much time, whether it was explicit or implicit, he didn't get any.
Rather than continue dragging it on like this, it’s better to just cut it off.
As long as he breaks up with Gao Yuan, he won't have to worry about whether Gao Yuan is willing to come out to him, and he won't have to be under the shackles of Yu Xiaoduo all the time.
Even if Yu Xiaoduo later claimed he was gay, so what? Human curiosity has a shelf life, and this kind of unsubstantiated gossip would eventually fade away—no one would ever know who his "boyfriend" was.
In this way, he can solve the current problem, and Gao Yuan won't have to worry about his partner always wanting him to come out with him. It's a win-win deal.
——Let’s break up.
Luan Ye typed these three words in the input box on his mobile phone, but just as he was about to press send.
Suddenly, a slight electric sound was heard from his forearm to his wrist, and then his hand completely froze on the phone.
Then, Luan Ye heard a sound, a bit like the sound of snow when there is no signal on the TV, which was not very real. But after three seconds, Luan Ye listened again and thought it sounded a bit like an electric current.
Electric current sound?
Why is there an electric current sound?
Is there a power leak somewhere?
【Start confirming host information.】
[Host information has been confirmed and meets the modification standards.]
[Renovation begins.]
After the electric sound in his ear ended, Luan Ye tried to move his wrist again, but it was no use.
Not only was it useless, his hand also deleted the three words he had just typed, right under his nose.
——was deleted.
After deleting it, he even deleted the made-up words he had just memorized through the input method, as if he was afraid he would do something else.
Luan Ye had never felt so speechless before, because his hand suddenly seemed to awaken its self-awareness and turned off the screen of his mobile phone.
——Great, Luan Ye thought to himself. In science fiction films, the protagonist whose companions are trapped in a slump and yet they're still alive should experience this kind of despair in the final moments. That would definitely do well at the box office.
So what is the situation now?
When Luan Ye's mind was flooded with countless question marks, the strange crackling sound, like an electric current passing through, rang in his ears again.
Sizzle.
——Sizzle.
【Host, please remain calm. 】
This time the sound was much clearer than before, and it was an electronic sound that was quite close to the human voice.
Luan Ye moved his wrist again, and this time it was successful.
Before he could be happy, Luan Ye saw a black ball of fur suddenly pop out next to Guo Jie, a ball of fur that appeared out of thin air.
A ball of fur that looks like a ball of black yarn but has strange eyes and is blinking at him.
It's over.
He is crazy.
Guo Jie watched all of Luan Ye's actions, but she didn't find it strange. She just nodded at Luan Ye and said, "Are you reluctant to let go?"
"Ah," Luan Ye just looked at the fur ball that kept flying around Guo Jie, listening to the fur ball repeatedly repeating "Host, please calm down first" in his ear, feeling that this was simply the most psychedelic day of his life, "...Yeah, I can't bear to leave."
The fur ball finally stopped spinning and making noise after Luan Ye said "I can't bear to do that".
[Hello host, I am the Normal Love Psychology Transformation System! You are my first host, and I hope we can get along happily in the future!]
This thing looks pretty lively.
……wrong.
wrong!
What the hell is this?
--ah? ?
Luan Ye glanced at the ball of fur flying around his head, then turned to look at Guo Jie who was facing him.
She didn't seem to see the ball, because she was just looking at him.
"I... although I've never been in a relationship, I can probably understand how you feel." Guo Jie continued, "Breaking up isn't easy. But it doesn't matter. As long as you muster up the courage...! You can definitely do it!"
But now it’s not a question of whether he can muster up the courage or not, it’s a question of whether he has encountered a ‘supernatural event’.
Luan Ye did not answer her words of encouragement, but looked around blankly.
The other students in the class did not turn around to look at him, which means
——Only he can see this ball of fur that suddenly appears.
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