World One
After being frightened by the old professor, Luan Ye felt that his anticipation of "about to meet Gao Yuan" had diminished.
As he walked downstairs to the cafeteria, he sighed in his heart: I will never lie again, really.
One lie can lead to thousands of lies. After telling thousands of lies, you will have to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall. In the end, the whole house will be filled with wind. It is really painful.
The system patted Luan Ye's head, and Luan Ye asked, "What's wrong?"
It wasn't even two o'clock yet, and not many people came to the cafeteria, so it was okay for him to talk to the system without wearing headphones.
[The transformation progress has now reached 87%.] Maoqiu lay in the host's hair and whispered, [... Host, what do you think of my volume?]
Luan Ye knew that this was Maoqiu. He still remembered that he had been frightened by Maoqiu's loud voice many times before. He found it a little funny and walked to the second floor while explaining to Maoqiu, "When humans are concentrating on one thing, no matter how quiet the sound is, they will be frightened."
Although the system had scared him several times because of its loud voice and sudden actions, it was okay after he got used to it.
[Really?] Maoqiu asked softly, and then said with emotion, [Host, I am really happy now.]
The host has now completely gotten rid of the original terrible future, the future where he would deal with countless people and absorb their false warmth.
Their mindsets are also gradually changing, and they believe that it is only a matter of time before the transformation progress reaches 100%.
"Can the system also have emotions like happiness?" Luan Ye walked to the second floor.
[Of course there is!] Maoqiu said this with certainty.
It's just that the creator was afraid that it would be affected by these emotions, so he specially set its emotions to be 'turned off or on at any time'.
Luan Ye walked to the second floor. Gao Yuan was sitting near the door. After seeing Luan Ye, he waved to him.
This time they didn't meet at night, in a secluded place, with several seats between them, and they didn't have to pretend to be strangers to each other.
"That's good." Luan Ye said with a smile, "I'm very happy now too."
Luan Ye was shocked when Gao Yuan took out the thermal box.
Luan Ye was still shocked when Gao Yuan took out the steaming chicken leg from the thermal box.
When Gao Yuan took out a small box of sauce from the thermal box, Luan Ye felt that if he continued to be shocked, it would seem too fake.
He was no longer shocked. He used chopsticks to pull off the crispy shell of the fried chicken leg, then dipped it in ketchup and put it into his mouth.
"How's it?" Gao Yuan felt that he had never been as nervous as he was now when he watched his parents eat. He wished he could invent an emotion magnifying glass and point it at Luan Ye sitting across from him. "Is it delicious?"
"Delicious!" Luan Ye gave Gao Yuan a thumbs-up, then immediately put it down and continued to work on the chicken drumstick in front of him. "...Did you make all this?"
"Yeah." Gao Yuan was a little embarrassed and scratched his head. "This is my first time making it. If there's anything wrong with the taste, you can tell me directly so I can change it."
"Is this your first time making this?" Luan Ye dipped the chicken he had ripped apart with chopsticks into ketchup and put it into his mouth again. "It's really delicious!"
He was not lying, nor did he mean to flatter, he really thought Gao Yuan's level was good.
Gao Yuan stared at Luan Ye for a while, and when he was sure that Luan Ye had no intention of coaxing him, he finally let go of the worry he had been carrying. He cleared his throat and said, "I'll do it for you in the future!"
"Okay." Luan Ye nodded and pointed to another chicken drumstick in the thermos box, "You eat too."
"I'm not hungry." Gao Yuan shook his head and pointed at the chicken leg that Luan Ye was eating. "The one you're eating now was the first one I fished out."
To be honest, it should be considered as being picked out.
He found it difficult to pick up the food with chopsticks, and it took him a long time to pick one out. After picking one up, he remembered that there was a big colander hanging in the kitchen.
Luan Ye looked at Gao Yuan. Although he didn't quite understand what Gao Yuan meant by emphasizing this, he still nodded seriously.
"This is..." Gao Yuan pointed to another chicken leg in the insulated box and said, "This is the last one I fished out... Doesn't it look a little burnt on the outside?"
Luan Ye stared at the chicken leg for a while, then turned it over with chopsticks, but couldn't see any burnt parts.
But he still nodded, indicating that he heard what Gao Yuan said.
"Both of these are yours," Gao Yuan said. "I'll make them for you later."
This is the second time Gao Yuan has said this.
Luan Ye looked at Gao Yuan for a while, then put down his chopsticks and took a deep breath: "...I have something to tell you."
When Luan Ye heard Gao Yuan say this for the first time, he just thought it was a joke, even though they had already talked about it.
He always felt that Gao Yuan would not change so easily. To put it in an analogy, it was probably like a person who had been deceived several times and no longer wanted to believe the child who cried "wolf" for the third time.
Since Gao Yuan has changed, he doesn't plan to stay where he is and wait for the other party to pull him forward.
Maoqiu began to pray: How could you say it so early, and when the atmosphere is so good!
After all, the system is not a real human being. Even though it is a creation of a higher civilization and can see the future of the humans it is bound to, it still does not understand Luan Ye's thoughts.
Luan Ye was thinking at the moment that the atmosphere was just right and he had just mustered up the courage, so he might as well just speak directly.
If he said this after eating these things, Gao Yuan might vomit out what he had eaten.
"What are you talking about?" Gao Yuan noticed Luan Ye's expression and instinctively knew that what he was going to say was not good. "Well, how about you first tell me what this matter is related to, okay?"
This way, he can be mentally prepared.
"Okay." Luan Ye nodded, "This matter is related to the school forum."
Gao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and then made a 'pause' gesture.
"If you're talking about the incident on your school forum, I... have seen it," Gao Yuan pointed at the two chicken legs, "I was very angry..."
Actually, I'm not that angry, I'm just mostly scared.
As for pointing at the chicken leg, it looked very similar to what he saw when he was making fried chicken legs for Luan Ye. He was just guiding Luan Ye to think in this direction.
"But I thought about it, and I think you said all this at that critical moment because you felt that things had already fermented... and you didn't want them to disturb my life anymore." Gao Yuan supported his chin, "So I have forgiven you."
In fact, he knew that Luan Ye posted that message more to completely draw a line between them, but since Luan Ye didn't say it explicitly, Gao Yuan didn't intend to say it explicitly.
It's not that he really knows nothing and understands nothing.
Luan Ye looked at Gao Yuan without saying anything.
"I'm not angry," Gao Yuan added, though it sounded unconvincing, like something someone in love would say. "Really."
"What's wrong with you? You have such a temperament and such a face..." Luan Ye looked at Gao Yuan, "Why aren't you angry?"
Is it that you have no temper at all?
"I do have a temper, and I get angry too." Gao Yuan said, looking at Luan Ye with a smile, "But whether I have a temper or not, whether I get angry or not, depends on who the other person is and what they have done."
If Luan Ye agreed to Xiaoduo's confession without her knowing his sexual orientation, and then used this to incite him to come out, he would be angry.
If Luan Ye hadn't posted a separate post distancing himself from him when the incident was brewing, but instead said, "Yes, that's just who I am." He wouldn't seem to be very... not that he wouldn't be angry, but the reason for his anger would be different from the one mentioned above.
So he was not angry because Luan Ye was the person he liked, and because in his opinion, the choice Luan Ye made was the best choice.
It’s just that everything Luan Ye has done so far seems to be a bit too self-disregarding.
Gao Yuan thought so and subconsciously looked at Luan Ye.
"What's wrong?" Luan Ye blinked, "Why are you suddenly looking at me like that?"
Could it be that after I said I wasn't angry, I felt a little angry again, so I wanted to beat him up?
Maoqiu tapped Luan Ye's hair silently without saying anything: I feel a little tired, even though the system has no heart.
"I just suddenly felt like you could easily...blow yourself up." Gao Yuan always felt that this description was a little wrong. He tried to describe it, "Not really, it's just...how should I put it. Everyone thought you were a dud, but when you threw it out, you almost deafened everyone's ears."
No, why does this description sound even more wrong than the previous one?
Luan Ye smiled and said, "It's okay. I know what you mean. So, are you just expressing your feelings to me?"
Or do you plan to say "I think there's something wrong with your view on love" like the system did when you first came here?
The ball, having been 'named', immediately retorted loudly: [The system didn't say that at the time! The system said that it believes the host should correct his attitude towards love as soon as possible!]
It doesn't say that the host's view on love is problematic!
[——It all means the same thing.] Luan Ye ignored the angry fur ball and looked at Gao Yuan while eating the chicken leg.
"If I were just an ordinary friend, classmate, or roommate, then this sentence would just be a simple sigh." Gao Yuan said without thinking, "But I'm your boyfriend now, so this sentence is not just a simple sigh."
Luan Ye looked at him without saying anything.
After they'd spoken, Gao Yuan's perception of this person was constantly being redefined. This feeling of meeting a brand new acquaintance every day was truly novel, something Luan Ye had never experienced before. And it was Gao Yuan who brought this feeling to him. This was the Gao Yuan he'd once considered giving up on, the Gao Yuan who'd always been on the other side of the conversation.
It's really amazing.
"Really?" Gao Yuan blushed slightly at Luan Ye's stare and coughed, "What do you mean by not speaking?"
"What do you mean?" Luan Ye still hadn't reacted.
"I'm your boyfriend, so I'm much more important than anyone else." Gao Yuan tapped the table lightly, "Isn't that right?"
"Yes." Luan Ye nodded and asked again, "By the way, did you climb over the wall again this time?"
Gao Yuan was a little annoyed that Luan Ye had to ruin the atmosphere at this critical moment, but he still chose to tell the truth: "Well, the wall in your school is really easy to climb over."
You don't even need a running start, you can turn over in one go.
Luan Ye wanted to say something that wasn't so easy to translate. For example, last time, someone got stuck while climbing over a wall and didn't dare to jump down. The dean of students, who was passing by, pulled them down. After being pulled down, they had to write a self-criticism in front of the entire school, and their face turned red as they read it. But then he thought about Gao Yuan's physique, how he could run thousands of meters without blushing or getting out of breath. He didn't say the words.
"There aren't many people in the cafeteria right now, but there are some people sitting here." Luan Ye pointed to a place where several people were sitting, all holding books. "...Come here and read."
Even when no meals are served, the cafeteria door remains open.
Therefore, for students who cannot get a seat in the study room or library, the closed cafeteria is an excellent place to review.
However, those people obviously didn't read the book carefully, otherwise they wouldn't have immediately covered their faces with the book when Luan Ye pointed at them.
…
"So everyone in our school should know that you're my boyfriend soon," Luan Ye concluded. "You'd better go back quickly."
"Hmm?" Gao Yuan looked at the people and only saw a few books covering their faces. "Does that mean they are gossipy?"
"It's not that they're gossiping. It's that after the forum talked about that incident, I'm now the focus of everyone's attention." Luan Ye rolled the last piece of chicken in ketchup. "You don't look like you're from our school, and now you're coming over with an insulated box that's obviously not takeout, and you seem so intimate with me... So after you leave today, they should spread the news."
Luan Ye didn't actually break up with her boyfriend or anything.
Luan Ye and his girlfriend seem to be quite close.
Balabala, all kinds of stuff that sound reasonable or not.
"What news?" Gao Yuan watched Luan Ye finish the last piece of chicken, then contentedly closed the thermos box. "No news of our breakup?"
"Yeah." Luan Ye nodded.
"Then I'll stay at your school for a while." Gao Yuan thought for a moment and asked, "By the way, your school won't just come and arrest me just because I look like I'm from another school, right?"
"No," Luan Ye replied, "Our school isn't that strict."
After saying this, he came back to his senses, glanced at Gao Yuan, and hesitated for a moment: "...What did you just say? Do you want to stay in our school a little longer?"
Are you afraid that there won't be enough to talk about the two of them?
"What's wrong?" Gao Yuan looked at Luan Ye with a puzzled look on his face. "Is it not possible?"
"It's not impossible...it's just..." Luan Ye wanted to explain to him what this meant, but looking at Gao Yuan like this, he felt that saying this would be a blow to him. In the end, he could only sigh, "Okay, you said it."
"Yeah, I said that," Gao Yuan said as he stood up. "By the way, I see there's a sink in your cafeteria, and I want to wash my thermal box. Can you join me?"
Since he'd already agreed to something he shouldn't have, it didn't matter if he agreed to another request that sounded particularly simple. So Luan Ye nodded, then after a moment, remembering that the cafeteria's washbasin only provided cold water, he quickly added, "Let me do it."
"No need," Gao Yuan refused without hesitation, "Don't use your hands for things like washing dishes."
——It feels like a waste.
"I asked you to make delicious food and wash the dishes?" Luan Ye snatched the thermos box. "I'm not a young master who can't do anything."
Gao Yuan wanted to say something more, like, "Your hand should be writing music, your hand shouldn't be doing this, that's not what I meant." But looking at Luan Ye, whose whole body was filled with the words "If you keep talking nonsense, you'll get beaten," he could only take back his words and followed Luan Ye to the sink.
He stopped beside Luan Ye and turned to look at the people Luan Ye had just pointed out to him.
At this moment, those people put down the books that were covering their faces and were holding up their mobile phones in the direction of him and Luan Ye.
If you were just playing with your phone, you wouldn't lift it so high, and your movements wouldn't be so consistent.
He doesn't care if they see it.
Gao Yuan took a small step to the side. He was about the same height as Luan Ye, but because he was always exercising, he looked much stronger than Luan Ye.
By moving to the side, he directly blocked half of Luan Ye's figure.
Gao Yuan took out his cell phone and took pictures of the people over there. He turned off the sound but not the flash.
——Don’t you love being photographed? Then you definitely don’t mind being photographed, right?
A few people were probably frightened by this sudden move. They looked at him for a few seconds and then started to put away their phones and notebooks.
They were in such a panic that they even went out through the back door which was closer to them.
——He slipped away quite quickly. Gao Yuan sneered in his heart and moved his fingers to delete the photo that was so blurry that it was actually not taken well at all.
"What's wrong?" Luan Ye shook out the water from the cleaned insulation box and then closed it. "Is there anything over there?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to take a look." Gao Yuan put away his phone and unfolded the cloth bag containing the thermal box. "By the way, Luan Ye, do you think I look scary?"
Luan Ye looked up at him, then carefully placed the thermal box into the cloth bag: "It's not scary."
Although Gao Yuan always likes to wear black.
Although Gao Yuan's face looked as if someone owed him more than 7 million and had no intention of paying it back.
Although Gao Yuan's temperament is like that of a gangster... in short, he is like that.
But how could Gao Yuan be associated with the word "scary"?
"Why do you ask this suddenly?" Luan Ye asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's just... those people you mentioned. I just glanced over there and they ran away. They almost left their things behind." Gao Yuan looked a little disappointed. "Did they think I looked too scary?"
"That's not the case." Luan Ye looked at him and shook his head. "How could you possibly scare someone away?"
After watching the whole process, I naturally saw Gao Yuan's fierce eyes looking at those people, and chose to pretend that I knew nothing.
It turned around to look at the structure of the cafeteria: Oh, this cafeteria looks so much like a cafeteria!
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