World One
Luan Ye knew he was gay at a very young age. He didn't feel bothered by it, nor did he think there was anything wrong with wanting to be paired with a man in a society where most couples were male-female.
His only worry was how to tell his parents about this.
Luan Ye always felt that the pressure his parents put on him was out of love.
They enrolled him in various tutoring classes in the hope that he could make progress in his studies, and they didn't want him to go out and play with his friends because they were worried that he would become addicted to these things. They always broke their promises to go out on his birthday because they had to work hard to earn money to support the family.
He was too stubborn, so even though he knew clearly that they treated him like this not out of love but because they didn't take his feelings seriously, he still used the nonsense of love to convince himself.
He desperately needed a support point to stand up, even if the support point was shaky.
He doesn't think there's anything wrong with his sexual orientation, nor is he embarrassed about it; he just doesn't want his parents to be sad.
But Luan Ye stopped worrying about it later because his parents were getting a divorce and were kicking his ownership rights back and forth.
Luan Ye ripped up those drafts of his coming-out plan like they were tearing up their own music, all about gradual progress and using courtesy before force. He simply revealed the fact that he was gay, coming out to them out of a sense of revenge.
He never thought that these drafts he had torn up would come in handy one day. Thinking of this, Luan Ye gently squeezed Gao Yuan's hand.
Gao Yuan clenched his hand.
"Do you really understand what this kind of thing means?" Gao Yuan's father spoke first. "You don't know. You're just trying to feel something new right now. It doesn't represent love."
Luan Ye looked at him and said, "Uncle, if this was just for the sake of novelty, there's no need for me to come here with him. I could just break up with him. Why am I here? Looking for a fight?"
Gao Yuan's father obviously hadn't expected him to say such a refreshing and unconventional thing. He pointed at Gao Yuan, then at Luan Ye, his voice trembling: "You are... going to ruin my son's life!"
It’s okay, he has also thought about how to respond to this sentence.
Just as Luan Ye was about to speak, Gao Yuan spoke over him, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can you say you've ruined my life?"
As soon as they opened their mouths, the atmosphere was filled with tension.
"Why not?" Gao Yuan's father seemed to have found an outlet for his anger. He turned and glared at Gao Yuan, who was leaning against his elbow. "We were counting on you to marry a good wife and even thought of names for your grandchildren. And you, instead, bring back a boy?"
"What should we say when we visit relatives in the future? We'll tell them you've found a boyfriend. You're shameless, but we still want you!"
"I only see my relatives once a year, and when I do, I just ask about their recent situation. I'm happy when I know that others are not doing as well as they are. What's so special about these people's opinions?" Gao Yuan also glared at him.
Luan Ye wanted to speak, but he never found the chance to do so.
"You know shit!" Gao Yuan's father slapped his thigh hard. "Get married and have a big fat boy. That's what you should do!"
"I'm going to say this today," Gao Yuan said, his voice growing increasingly agitated, the veins popping out of his neck. "I was certain I was gay even before we were together! So even if I hadn't met him, I wouldn't have married or had children with a woman. At most, I'd be single because I couldn't find someone I liked!"
After saying this, Gao Yuan's father pointed at him and gasped, "Are you crazy? What's so good about being with a man?!"
Gao Yuan's mother also looked at him, her eyes full of disappointment: "Do you know how many people will scold you in the future? They will poke you in the spine and call you a pervert. We are doing this for your own good!"
"I've been scolded and had my spine poked by others." Gao Yuan squeezed Luan Ye's hand. "I don't care how they scold me or how they poke me in the back. What I care about is your opinion. I care about whose side you are on."
He has always been reluctant to come out to his parents because he was afraid that they would say that he should still live the life of the majority. He was afraid that they would say that he should find a wife and have a child.
"I actually didn't want to...come back at all." Gao Yuan closed his eyes tightly, then opened them again. He didn't care about his parents' disappointed looks when he said this. "I'm...very disappointed with what you did."
"Are you disappointed in us?" Dad looked at him. "Are we not good enough for you?"
"You told me to calm down, and then the next day you told me to break up right away and not let me leave the house," Gao Yuan said, pointing to the scar between his eyebrows. "And this... did I smash this myself?"
Dad didn't say anything.
"...I didn't smash it myself, did I?" Gao Yuan put down his hand. "Let me be clear with you now. I'm absolutely certain I'm gay, not bisexual. You want me to marry a woman and have children with her, which would ruin her life."
After saying these words, he felt lighter all over.
"You..." Luan Ye finally found the opportunity to speak and turned to look at Gao Yuan. "Gao Yuan, please go to the bedroom first. I want to talk to them alone."
He really didn't expect that Gao Yuan, who was so nervous outside the door that he almost started tap dancing, could be so bold after entering.
"I'm not going in." Gao Yuan said without a second thought.
Luan Ye was even more shocked and turned to look at Gao Yuan: "I just want to talk to them alone, nothing will happen."
"I said I don't want to go in." Gao Yuan also looked at him, "What do you want to discuss alone? Is there anything that I, the other party involved, can't hear?"
Luan Ye sighed, gave up the idea of keeping Gao Yuan away from the battlefield, and turned to look at Gao Yuan's parents: "Uncle and Aunt."
"Have you told your parents that you're gay?" Gao Yuan's mother looked at him, lowered her head and wiped her tears. "Don't think our reaction is a big deal. All parents in the world are like this. They definitely can't accept—"
Yes, I understand your point of view.
There are very few parents in the world who can accept that their child is gay. Even my parents who don't care much about me but have received higher education said that I just needed Chinese medicine treatment after I told them about this.
Luan Ye had thought about these words thousands of times on the way here.
But Gao Yuan, who was so nervous that he almost tap danced in front of the door, has now made up his mind to fight all the way to the end. There is no need for him to play the "good cop and the bad cop" role here.
"They really can't accept this." So Luan Ye tore up the draft he had prepared earlier. "They cut off all ties with me a long time ago."
Gao Yuan held his hand tightly: "Damn it! When did this happen? Does it have anything to do with me? Is it my fault..."
"It has nothing to do with you," Luan Ye comforted him, "They just simply think I'm disgusting."
Gao Yuan felt that he was not comforted at all, and his heart was even more upset.
Gao Yuan's mother glanced at Luan Ye, then subconsciously glanced at her son: "It's not that serious..."
She thought the other party's parents just didn't understand, and she was planning to persuade them from that direction. How could she have imagined that the child's parents would directly cut off ties with him? She didn't want to cut off ties with her own son.
The topic was blocked and she didn't know how to continue.
Gao Yuan's father cleared his throat, signaling her not to panic, and then took over the conversation: "Have you...really thought it through? Have you really..."
"Think it through," Gao Yuan interrupted him. "I'll be a gym coach, and he'll be in charge of selling the songs. He's already sold one."
Gao Yuan's father originally wanted to know what their plans were for their future, but his silly son suddenly interrupted him, and he was completely stuck. After a while, he frowned and said, "Selling music? What kind of job is that?"
I don’t even know how to write a decent one!
"I'm a student in the composition department." Luan Ye looked at Gao Yuan and corrected him, "Also, more than one song was sold."
"Oh!" Gao Yuan scratched his head embarrassedly, "I thought there was only one song."
"How much did you sell?" Gao Yuan's mother asked from the side. "If you're just playing around, there's no need to make this a topic of conversation. My suggestion is that you..."
...Think it over carefully.
"Hundreds of thousands," Luan Ye took out his phone and pulled up the bank account balance for them to see. "See for yourselves."
Gao Yuan's father, who originally didn't want to watch, also came over, and the two of them sat next to Luan Ye and watched him record the income.
"If you don't believe me, I have the chat records here," Luan Ye added.
Their faces alternated between pale and red. The pale part was because they couldn't figure out how to keep them apart, the red part was because they hadn't imagined selling music could actually make money... What was this? People could never make money beyond their understanding?
Gao Yuan looked at the three of them and always felt that there was something wrong with the scene, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
In the end, Gao Yuan's parents did not make it clear whether they opposed or agreed with the two of them being together.
But when they said they were going out, Gao Yuan's father asked them to stay and have lunch before leaving.
Gao Yuan subconsciously glanced at Luan Ye, then at his father, feeling the pain in the wound between his eyebrows still throbbing: "Well, poisoning is against the law..."
"Thank you." Luan Ye covered Gao Yuan's mouth in time, preventing him from continuing to poke at his uncle's anger points. "Then we'll stay."
Dad glared at Gao Yuan, snorted, and turned to go to the kitchen.
Luan Ye closed the door.
"Do you really want to stay for dinner?" Gao Yuan touched the scar on his brow. "They won't just overturn the table later, will they?"
He was already thinking about how he would prevent the soup from splashing onto Luan Ye if his father really overturned the table.
"No." Luan Ye noticed Gao Yuan's nervousness and squeezed his shoulders. "This is your home. Can you relax a little?"
"I—" Gao Yuan took a deep breath, glanced in the direction of the kitchen, and said to Luan Ye in a low voice, "I'm much more relaxed now. You have no idea how nervous I was just now!"
"I know." Luan Ye released his hand. He thought for a moment and decided to go to the kitchen to help. "I'm more nervous than you right now."
—You're even more nervous than me and you're still running to the kitchen? What kind of weird thing is it to say you're afraid of heights and then say, "Let's go skydiving later"?!
"Where are you going?" Gao Yuan grabbed Luan Ye's wrist and said, "Don't go to the kitchen. They must be chatting about Xiaotian. Let me take you to my bedroom."
Luan Ye didn't really want to go to Gao Yuan's bedroom at this time.
Having just come out, he had to show his affection to Gao Yuan's parents and try to improve their favorability. But Gao Yuan's grip was so strong, he couldn't break free.
The ball of fur that had not appeared just now finally appeared. This time it sat on Gao Yuan's hair, but the next second, the ball of fur bounced up because of the touch of Gao Yuan's hair.
Luan Ye didn't quite understand why Maoqiu didn't sit still with his own soft hair and insisted on challenging Gao Yuan's buzz cut.
[I was so nervous just now, I couldn't do anything.] Maoqiu flew to Luan Ye and said in a low voice, [I'm sorry, host.]
"It's okay. I have a task for you now." Luan Ye comforted it in his heart, "Can you help me check on their mood?"
The fur ball took on the task and flew away happily.
Gao Yuan also opened his bedroom door at this time and opened his arms: "Look——!"
Luan Ye looked inside.
The layout of Gao Yuan's room...how to put it, it was totally inconsistent with his 'stereotype' of Gao Yuan - too elegant.
There is a bookshelf on the computer desk, and next to the bed is a huge white bookshelf filled with all kinds of books.
The decoration of the entire bedroom was also very... Luan Ye found that he had no words to use except "elegant".
If you don't look at the huge black vertical sandbag next to the bed.
"Did you install this bookshelf yourself?" Luan Ye gently patted the white bookshelf filled with books. Most of the books on it were knowledge-based.
"Hmm!" Gao Yuan took down a thick book from the top. "But these books were bought for me. I'm only interested in assembling the bookshelves."
Luan Ye leaned over to take a look. It was a copy of Investiture of the Gods - no wonder it was so thick, almost as thick as a brick.
"Want to read it together?" Gao Yuan glanced at him and dusted off the book. "I don't really have the patience to read. My dad said at first he'd read it with me when he was free, but he forgot about it after a few days."
"Read." Luan Ye was quite interested in books.
The system came back slowly, bringing good news: [Host, they are in a good mood!]
Not only is it good, but I also feel that it seems that these two people can be together.
After confirming that their son really could not be brought back, they gave up the idea of persuading their son.
"Wait here for me," Gao Yuan pointed to the desk, "I'll go to the computer room and get a chair over."
Luan Ye hummed.
Is this Gao Yuan's bedroom? The returning furball looked around curiously, occasionally making "wow" sounds.
Ever since he knew that the system was an advanced life form, and an adult one at that, Luan Ye felt that something was wrong with it. It was hard to describe the feeling.
Seeing that the ball of fur was not even sparing the black and white wallpaper, Luan Ye was really speechless.
He took a look and opened the door a crack, then whispered to the system: "Haven't you seen a human room?" Why does it look like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden?
"I've never seen that. My creator's room layout is different from this... No, I don't think his can even be called a room." The fur ball flew into his palm. "That's right! Host, the transformation progress is now 97%!"
Luan Ye’s eyes widened: It was only 89% before, and now it’s 97%?
Did he do anything in between? Apparently not.
It seemed that he just helped Gao Yuan bandage his wound.
It seemed that after bandaging the wound, he persuaded Gao Yuan to take him back to his home.
It seemed that after Gao Yuan brought her home, she talked a lot to Gao Yuan's parents.
It seemed like she was just being kept by Gao Yuan's parents. She would have lunch with them soon, and now she had even walked into Gao Yuan's bedroom...
[Host, excessive modesty is the same as arrogance.] Maoqiu interrupted Luan Ye's thoughts and argued, [And haven't you noticed the changes in Gao Yuan and you?]
What changes? Luan Ye squeezed the fur ball in his palm. He didn't feel any changes.
Gao Yuan was previously unwilling to come out to the host. Even when he came to your school to find you, he would have chosen a place where no one would see him. Maoqiu said, "If he had any dissatisfaction or jealousy, he never dared to express it to the host."
Luan Ye hummed.
Now Gao Yuan will not stop because of other people's thoughts and words. Not only will he not be like usual, he will even grab Gao Yuan's hand and let him run forward with him because he thinks Gao Yuan is running too slowly.
——If there is no system.
There was the sound of wheels dragging the floor outside.
Luan Ye stood up and opened the door. Gao Yuan, who was about to pick up his computer chair, looked at him in surprise: "Why did you come out?"
——He and Gao Yuan definitely couldn’t go that far.
"Can't you just drag me in?" Luan Ye grabbed the handle of the computer chair, "Why do you have to carry me?"
"I just pushed it all the way here," Gao Yuan said, pushing the back of the computer chair. "I was thinking of hugging it, and then I just pushed the door open."
Luan Ye glanced at him, and out of the corner of his eye he saw two figures in the kitchen pressing themselves against the glass door. He took back the word "idiot" that he was about to say, and replaced it with a gentler one: "You can call me next time."
"When you come to my house, you're a guest." Gao Yuan waited for the computer chair to be pushed in, not forgetting to close the door again. "How can a host ask a guest for help?"
"Am I your guest?" Luan Ye said as he pushed the computer chair to the table.
This question stumped Gao Yuan. He looked at Luan Ye, opened his mouth, and then closed it. After a moment, he tried to open his mouth again, but closed it again, looking very conflicted.
The expression on his face was confused and bewildered.
Luan Ye couldn't help laughing: "Just say whatever comes to mind. This isn't some century-old problem."
"I feel like this question is like 'If your mother and I fell into the water, who would you save?'" Gao Yuan couldn't help but laugh, sitting down at the table with the Investiture of the Gods. "It's so hard to give a decent, perfect answer."
Luan Ye turned a page of the book. Gao Yuan's name was written on the first page, and above the name was written "Grade 4, Class 4" in a neat and square manner.
He turned and glanced at Gao Yuan: "Is this the book you bought?"
"No, it was a gift from my dad when I was in fourth grade. He always bought me a lot of books for my birthday. I wrote my name and class on each one." Gao Yuan said this, feeling a little embarrassed. "Oh, by the way, he also bought me the Tao Te Ching when I was in third grade. What kid could understand that?"
The slight depression Luan Ye felt when he thought of his father immediately dissipated because of the second half of Gao Yuan's sentence that ruined the atmosphere.
He continued on, past the table of contents.
Gao Yuan probably felt that he couldn't see clearly, so he moved his computer chair a little closer, and then a little closer...
Then Gao Yuan looked back, turned his head and kissed Luan Ye on the cheek.
Luan Ye looked at him in shock, covering his cheeks: "What?"
"They've never been very good at choosing gifts. They just buy me books and all sorts of gadgets that I don't need and have no interest in." Gao Yuan propped up his chin. "My gift-picking skills are different from theirs. The birthday present I buy you will definitely be your favorite."
"Okay," Luan Ye said with a smile, "—then I'll wait."
: Chaos was first divided by Pangu, Taiji two yin and yang four images were suspended. Zi, heaven, Chou, earth, and Yin appeared, avoiding the beast disaster and showing fruit and virtue.
Maoqiu looked at the panel showing the 100% progress of the transformation, then looked at the two young men whose heads were almost touching each other, and decided to wait a little longer, just a little longer...
"Can you please stay away from me?" Luan Ye was now muttering to Gao Yuan, who was getting closer and closer. "...Are you not nearsighted?"
He could hardly see the words.
"I think you have a nice voice," Gao Yuan replied, "I just want to hear it from closer."
When it finds the opportunity to say goodbye to its host, it will leave.
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