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With no one to help him finish the remaining bun, Lu Shangyan sighed and tossed it back onto the table in front of him. He then swallowed the bun he had been chewing for a long time with difficulty before asking, "What's wrong?"
After swallowing, his stomach started to feel sour. He pressed his stomach and felt that his body had been acting strangely these past few days.
After eating the spicy hot pot before, he would have digested it by walking back to school. But yesterday, he couldn't digest it at all. He used to be able to swallow these two small buns in two or three bites, but this time he couldn't eat them no matter how hard he tried.
He even began to lose his senses, wondering if he was just starving or overeating. He even thought that his stomach had lost its function and was dead.
Xia Li was about to speak, but seeing him lower his eyes after asking the question, looking as if he had something on his mind, the words that came out were: "Did you have a fight with your boyfriend?"
Lu Shangyan frowned, unable to understand why Xia Li would suddenly say such a thing.
Xia Li stared at him intently, as if she was determined to get an answer from him.
He shook his head: "He's not my boyfriend."
Xia Li glanced around and noticed that quite a few people were secretly watching them. Her doubts vanished instantly. She winked at him, giving a knowing, unspoken reply: "I understand."
"In public, you should say we're roommates," she silently added to herself.
"We didn't argue." Lu Shangyan had no more questions now, and asked her again, "Did you want to see me about something?"
Xia Li said, "Are you looking for part-time work? My friend needs a few models recently, but she's not very famous and can't find any professional models, so she asked me to help her find a few handsome guys to help her make a good impression."
Lu Shangyan took a deep breath. This was a part-time job he had never done before: "What are the job details?"
Xia Li took out her phone and forwarded him all the instructions: "The job is basically to wear the clothes she designed, take a few photos, and then sell the clothes at the booth. You will get a commission on the clothes sold. It will start from the first of next month and will last for ten days."
Lu Shangyan hesitated: "I can't free up that much time; I have other part-time jobs."
Xia Li immediately said, "Don't worry, the models she finds are mostly college students. She takes into account that they have classes, so you only need to work half a day each day. However, you need to decide three days in advance whether this half day is in the morning or afternoon. She needs to plan your work schedule in advance, and you can't change it arbitrarily afterwards."
Lu Shangyan thought about his class schedule and part-time job. If he squeezed in a little more time, he could find the time, but his body was acting strangely right now, and he wasn't sure if he could keep it up. He was afraid of holding others back.
Xia Li added, "I showed her your photo, and she said you're very handsome and she's willing to increase your part-time salary."
Lu Shangyan's pupils dilated slightly, and he quickly said, "Go."
Xia Li paused for a moment, then slowly added, "Eight hundred a day."
After saying that, fearing he might change his mind, I immediately added him to the part-time job group.
Lu Shangyan joined at least fifty or a hundred part-time job groups. Afraid of missing any messages, he pinned the group chat to the top after joining.
After doing all that, she lowered her voice and said very seriously, "You need to be careful of Chen Shuo lately. I overheard him talking on the phone with someone yesterday, saying that after a while, you won't be able to show up at Z University anymore. I suspect he's going to do something bad to you."
Chen Shuo has been up to something lately, often waiting for her downstairs where she has classes. Sometimes she sees him from afar and simply goes out of her way to avoid him.
When he couldn't avoid her, Chen Shuo would shamelessly ask to have dinner and watch a movie with her. She would usually pretend not to hear him or scold him. Chen Shuo would lose face and then stop going with her.
But he would appear in front of her on time the next day, which was completely unlike Chen Shuo's style. Xia Li couldn't help but suspect that Chen Shuo was plotting some bad idea again.
When she ran into Chen Shuo again yesterday afternoon, she originally intended to take a detour, but unexpectedly, she heard him mention Lu Shangyan's name. As she got closer, she could vaguely hear these words.
When she met Lu Shangyan yesterday, she originally wanted to tell him about it, but there were other people standing next to him at the time, so it was obviously not the time to talk about these things. She was also afraid that sending a message would affect Lu Shangyan's friendly communication with his "roommate" that night, so she came out early in the morning to find Lu Shangyan since she had no classes.
But before she could discuss a plan with Lu Shangyan, Chen Shuo came running over, drawn by the smell.
Seeing Xia Li and Lu Shangyan standing so close together, he felt a surge of anger. He ran over, punched the bun Lu Shangyan had left uneaten, flattened it, and threw it out the window: "You homosexual, have you no shame?! You clearly like men, yet you still waste Xia Xia's time! You're deceiving her feelings!"
Originally, photos and videos of Lu Shangyan were spreading like wildfire on campus, and many people were talking about them freely. But who knew that while the matter was making a big fuss, Lu Shangyan was completely unaffected. It was just that their gossip was completely banned from being brought into the open.
However, a large portion of these people are simply following the crowd in condemning the incident, and since almost a month has passed, most people have already been distracted by new gossip.
Now that Chen Shuo has once again openly shouted it out, bringing up the old matter again, some people belatedly let out short snickers.
Xia Li pursed her lips and smashed the flattened bun hard onto Chen Shuo, the juice from the bun staining his short-sleeved shirt, turning it red and yellow.
Seeing her fierce determination to rush up and hit someone, Chen Shuo recalled Xia Li's usual attitude towards him, which was completely different from when she was smiling and talking to Lu Shangyan just now.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. His face darkened, but he didn't dare to lose his temper with Xia Li. So he snatched the half-eaten bun from Lu Shangyan's hand and threw it at him in the same way.
The pure white short-sleeved shirt had an oil stain on the chest, which was definitely impossible to wash clean. Lu Shangyan stood up and looked at him: "Pay up."
The cold sweat on Chen Shuo's back instantly dried: "..."
"You not only seduced Xiaxia, but you also kept other girls on your toes. What? Do you enjoy being fawned over?"
Lu Shangyan remained expressionless: "So I'm that charming in your eyes."
Chen Shuo felt a chill run down his spine, witnessing once again just how disgusting Lu Shangyan could be: "Stop talking nonsense here!"
Lu Shangyan said, "I have never deceived anyone's feelings, and Xia Li and I are just ordinary friends."
“That’s right!” Xia Li glared at him: “Only someone with a filthy heart like you would see everything as dirty!”
It wasn't time for class yet, but many people heard the commotion and ran out of the classroom.
Lu Shangyan's morning classes are held in a large lecture hall, which is quite spacious, so more and more people gather around.
If it were just him, he wouldn't mind being watched, but Xia Li was standing next to him, and Chen Shuo was saying some crazy things. If the words got out and took a different turn, it might affect Xia Li.
Lu Shangyan came out first: "If there's anything, let's go outside and find a quiet place to settle it privately."
Chen Shuo finally found a way to save face and said with a sarcastic smile, "Want to talk to me alone? You wouldn't happen to have taken a fancy to me and want to seduce me, would you?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Shangyan gave him a serious once-over and once-over look: "No, because I have the right aesthetic sense and I would never fall for a man as ugly as you."
Chen Shuo's already fragile dignity was completely shattered, and the people in the room who were watching the show began to secretly laugh at him because of his words.
Just as class was about to start, Xia Li seized the opportunity to stomp on his foot in retaliation, then grabbed her bag and ran away.
Chen Shuo lost face and dared not stay there any longer. He pretended to chase after Xia Li and ran away with her. The rest of the people, having nothing to see, also scattered.
But the news reached Pei Yumin within an hour.
It was still gossip that Tang Suichen had heard from the little boy she had recently started pursuing. Because it concerned Lu Shangyan, she quickly called to tell him.
He originally wanted to skip work to go to Z University, but after learning that Chen Shuo hadn't gained any advantage, he gradually relaxed.
That evening, he used the same trick again, saying that he had to work overtime and could pick up Lu Shangyan from the hotel on his way home.
He was worried that Lu Shangyan was in a bad mood, so he planned to take him out for a late-night snack after work. But Lu Shangyan's eyes were bright after he got in the car, and he didn't seem angry at all.
Lu Shangyan didn't mention Chen Shuo causing trouble again, he only talked about the high-paying part-time model.
Pei Yumin was cautious and asked for the person in charge and the specific address, intending to find out more information first.
Since Lu Shangyan didn't mention Chen Shuo, Pei Yumin didn't want to bring it up again and upset him, so he could only pretend he didn't know anything and go along with what he said: "As expected of you, you're good at everything, and now you're even getting extra pay because of your pretty face."
Lu Shangyan narrowed his eyes involuntarily, but restrained himself from saying anything cold: "Stop flattering me."
Ever since Pei Yumin discovered that Lu Shangyan found this tactic very effective, he often watched kindergarten videos and always seized every opportunity to say nice things in a soft voice.
"It's not flattery, I genuinely think our little beauty is amazing."
Lu Shangyan sat up straight; this was a compliment he had never heard before in his entire life.
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The message came through my phone while I was waiting at a traffic light.
It was someone he didn't know; he messaged him asking:
[Do you really like men? I do too. I think you should be the top one, and I'm the bottom one. Shall we find a chance to get to know each other?]
Lu Shangyan stared at such a simple statement several times.
Pei Yumin's gaze was fixed on him for a few seconds, and he also peeked out slightly, taking the opportunity to see the message on the shattered screen that hurt his eyes just looking at it.
As Lu Shangyan looked at it, his brows furrowed: "I don't understand."
Pei Yumin pretended not to care and quickly turned around: "What?"
Lu Shangyan shoved the shattered screen in front of him: "Look. What does he mean by this?"
Pei Yumin gasped, then coughed lightly and said, "No, you two aren't a good match, you've got the same number."
Lu Shangyan had only recently come to the conclusion that he "might like men," and he didn't understand many things. Hearing this, he was even more confused. Looking at the smoothly moving traffic outside the window, he retorted, "There was no collision."
At this moment, Pei Yumin was completely absorbed in the panic of having many potential rivals in love, and did not hear what he said.
For safety's sake, Lu Shangyan didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he used his limited mobile data to painstakingly search for the knowledge he wanted to know.
Although the old phone was slow, Lu Shangyan learned quickly.
When the car was parked in the parking space, Lu Shangyan turned off his phone screen, took a deep breath, and then looked up again.
Pei Yumin noticed his face flushing red and then turning pale: "Are you feeling unwell?"
Lu Shangyan's gaze lingered on him, as if he had made up his mind, and slowly rolled up his shirt until it reached his chest.
"If you look at me like that, do you have feelings for me?"
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