Under the silent threat of his penguin slave, Ning Guiqu was already contemplating going public.
If they were to go public, he’d first need to address the issue with Shi Wen. Suddenly announcing his relationship with Lu Yuan would shock Shi Wen.
“Ning Guiqu, how considerate of you,” came Lu Yuan’s sarcastic remark.
Pretending not to understand Lu Yuan’s mockery, Ning Guiqu proudly declared, “I’ve always been considerate.”
During the period when he knocked his head, he created an alt account. Why did he create it? It was because even when he was in a foul mood, he didn’t want to burden those around him with his negative emotions. So he’d quietly vent his feelings on his alt account.
Who would have thought he’d end up using the wrong account?
Of course, Ning Guiqu didn’t tell Lu Yuan about why he had an alt account. Because once he told Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan would expose him, revealing his true nature.
His true nature was something that the ill-mannered Ning Guiqu didn’t want to know himself. As long as he believed it, he was the considerate Genius Xiao Qu! Ning Guiqu reasoned righteously.
Moreover, he was now thinking about how to tell Shi Wen about his relationship with Lu Yuan to fulfill Lu Yuan’s wish. What a considerate boyfriend he was!
The considerate Ning Guiqu finally came up with an unreliable method.
On Friday night, Shi Wen returned to the dormitory. He thought there might be something wrong with his eyes. Because he saw his two roommates, Ning Guiqu and Lu Yuan, on the balcony, exchanging kisses. Due to their height difference, Ning Guiqu had to stand on his tiptoes slightly to kiss Lu Yuan, who obligingly leaned down.
Lu Yuan, head lowered, also kissed Ning Guiqu’s cheek.
Shi Wen slapped himself.
The crisp sound of the slap brought the strange dormitory back to normal. Hearing the noise, Ning Guiqu quickly ran over from the balcony. “Xiao Shi, what are you doing?”
Shi Wen lowered his hand and looked at the normal, concerned Ning Guiqu in front of him. He smiled, “It’s nothing. I just had a hallucination. I’m clear-headed now.”
As soon as Shi Wen finished speaking, Lu Yuan had already sauntered over, his arm naturally draping over Ning Guiqu’s shoulders.
Shi Wen: “……” He vaguely felt something was wrong.
Ning Guiqu didn’t care about Lu Yuan’s arm on his shoulders and sincerely said, “Was your hallucination of me kissing Lu Yuan? That wasn’t wrong, it was real. Xiao Shi, what do you think about that?”
Shi Wen took a deep breath, his pupils dilating. He wanted to escape, but both Ning Guiqu and Lu Yuan were staring at him.
Shi Wen’s scalp tingled, his feet refusing to move. Under their gazes, Shi Wen struggled to voice his thoughts, “Just fooling around?”
The foolish Ning Guiqu adopted a look of superiority to bully Shi Wen, pretending to be mature as he said, “If that’s what you want to think, that’s fine. Lu Yuan and I will be living together from now on.”
Shi Wen wasn’t bullied by Ning Guiqu at all. He still responded according to his own logic. “Two people sharing rent is convenient.”
Ning Guiqu: “…….”
Lu Yuan: “…….”
Lu Yuan pinched Ning Guiqu’s earlobe and whispered to him in front of Shi Wen.
“Let’s just tell him straight out. At this rate, he probably wouldn’t believe us even if we kissed right now.”
Shi Wen heard something incredible, but his brain automatically filtered it out. He didn’t hear a thing!
Ning Guiqu nodded solemnly.
“We have no choice.”
Ning Guiqu turned to Shi Wen again, his expression serious. “Xiao Shi, Lu Yuan and I are going to get a marriage certificate.”
Lu Yuan’s eyes flickered, his mood extremely pleased.
Shi Wen nodded, “Getting a marriage certificate means you can legally live together. Wait, what did you say? Marriage certificate??” Shi Wen’s brain finally failed to filter it out. He realized something was wrong, and his voice rose.
Ning Guiqu pointed at Lu Yuan, “He’s gay.” Then he pointed at himself, “I’m gay too. We’re together.”
Shi Wen was so shocked he unconsciously took several steps back. He looked at Lu Yuan, then at Ning Guiqu, and after a long while, he finally squeezed out a sentence: “April Fool’s?”
There wasn’t a hint of joking in Ning Guiqu’s eyes. “It’s true. We were afraid you’d be uncomfortable, so we didn’t dare tell you.”
Shi Wen: “…….”
Shi Wen rubbed his nose, then his mouth, then his head, his small movements ceaseless. Finally, with nowhere left to touch, he mumbled, “When did this start?”
Ning Guiqu vaguely replied, “Not long ago.”
Lu Yuan, who had been quiet, chimed in, “We flirted in October and officially got together last month.”
Shi Wen’s pupils dilated in shock.
Ning Guiqu hastily removed Lu Yuan’s arm from his shoulder and glared fiercely at him. “Don’t say anything!”
Lu Yuan looked innocent.
Shi Wen watched the two of them, his mouth moving faster than his brain, “Xiao Qu, don’t bully Lu Yuan.”
Ning Guiqu: “……”
Shi Wen: “……”
Lu Yuan, the beneficiary of the situation, couldn’t help but chuckle.
Ning Guiqu brought the topic back on track, “So, Lu Yuan and I really are both gay, and we’re together.”
Shi Wen felt slightly better than before but still couldn’t believe it. “How is that possible? Lu Yuan might be gay, but you and I are so close. How could I not know about you? When did you turn gay? Xiao Qu, you’re not playing with Lu Yuan’s feelings just to bully him, are you?”
Lu Yuan chuckled again from the side.
Ning Guiqu was rather exasperated. Where on earth had he given Shi Wen the wrong impression that he was straight?
Ning Guiqu: “So you suspect I’m playing with his feelings, but you don’t think I’m gay? Xiao Shi, ask yourself, am I that kind of person?”
Shi Wen thought, of course, Xiao Qu wasn’t that kind of person, but if it was Lu Yuan… Just a while ago, Xiao Qu had been using Lu Yuan’s weakness to make him run around. So, Shi Wen felt that if the person in question was Lu Yuan, he might actually play with his feelings.
Ning Guiqu narrowed his eyes, “Xiao Shi, you really think that way.”
Shi Wen avoided Ning Guiqu’s gaze, hastily waving his hands, “No, absolutely not! Does Jiang Xu know?”
Shi Wen quickly changed the subject.
Ning Guiqu didn’t press Shi Wen further. He just nodded, “He knows, but I didn’t tell him. He figured it out himself.”
Shi Wen was surprised. As expected of someone who’d had many girlfriends!
“What about Li Mu?”
Ning Guiqu answered honestly, “I’m not sure if he knows about me and Lu Yuan being together, but he noticed that I liked Lu Yuan.”
Shi Wen got goosebumps all over and started to question his life, “So I’m the only one who didn’t notice anything?”
Ning Guiqu reached out and patted Shi Wen’s shoulder, comforting him, “It’s not your fault. You’re too pure. It’s this society that’s too treacherous!”
Although he didn’t understand why this had anything to do with “society being treacherous,” Shi Wen still felt comforted. He looked at his two roommates in front of him, thought for a moment, and still accepted it graciously.
“Anyway, as long as you’re happy. Your interactions were already quite gay.”
Ning Guiqu’s eyes curved, and he asked very straightforwardly, “So, do you feel uncomfortable about it?”
Shi Wen rubbed the back of his head, smiling as he said, “I’m not uncomfortable, just quite shocked. But thinking about it, you two have always been quite close, close to the point where I thought it was a bit strange. If you’re actually together, it explains a lot.”
Ning Guiqu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Yuan spoke up again from the side, “Now we can do whatever we want in the dorm.”
Ning Guiqu quickly turned his head to stop him, “That’s immoral, we can’t!”
Shi Wen: “…….”
He felt that the Lu Yuan he knew wasn’t the real Lu Yuan at all.
Shi Wen wanted to say something more. After all, this was big news, and he still wanted to express his thoughts. But the two people in front of him seemed to have started arguing.
“To even think about such things in the dorm, Lu Yuan, how could you face Xiao Shi?” Ning Guiqu frowned.
Shi Wen hurriedly said, “I don’t mind!”
Lu Yuan replied good-naturedly, “So what do you want to do?”
Ning Guiqu tilted his chin up slightly, his voice soft, “The fish in the tank died. Come with me to scoop some new ones.”
“Let’s go,” Lu Yuan agreed.
The two left arm in arm, leaving Shi Wen alone in the dorm, bewildered. Was he just a part of their play?
Shi Wen went to find Jiang Xu.
Jiang Xu had become a homebody since breaking up with his last partner and hadn’t dated for a while.
Shi Wen asked Jiang Xu how he discovered the two’s relationship.
Hearing this, Jiang Xu knew Ning Guiqu planned to go public. While playing his game and offering Shi Wen a drink, he casually replied, “I could tell Xiao Qu wasn’t straight from the first time I saw him. So whenever those two acted odd, I suspected something was up.”
Shi Wen was shocked. “That early? Why didn’t you tell me? Even if you couldn’t say it outright, you could have given me a hint. I told Xiao Qu to his face that I was homophobic!”
Jiang Xu reminded him, “Once, when they went to the e-sports hotel, I suspected something was off, but you insisted they were just gaming. So even if I’d hinted, you were convinced Xiao Qu was straight.”
Shi Wen realized he was right. Leaning back on the sofa, he asked carefully, “So what did they do at the hotel?”
Jiang Xu raised an eyebrow. “Probably just played games.”
Shi Wen, who now understood everything, rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “Surely more than that.”
Jiang Xu shrugged. “But they really did just game. I observed Xiao Qu the next day, and he seemed fine.”
Shi Wen fell silent for so long that Jiang Xu finished an entire game. Finally, he said, “Could it be… Lu Yuan can’t perform?”
Jiang Xu was speechless. Talk about jumping to conclusions!
At the shopping street, Lu Yuan suddenly sneezed.
Ning Guiqu complained, “I almost caught one, but your sneeze scared it away.”
Lu Yuan retorted, “Did I sneeze in your direction?”
Ning Guiqu spent all twenty yuan without catching anything. So Lu Yuan’s claim of catching five fish with ten yuan was a lie! Ning Guiqu confronted him after spending his first ten yuan.
Lu Yuan admitted frankly, “I spent 100 yuan.”
Ning Guiqu was stunned. “100 yuan for just five fish?!” Was he really that bad?
Lu Yuan added salt to the wound, “Not just that. There’s a fish tank, too. The owner threw it in after seeing how much you spent.”
Ning Guiqu:!!!
So, Ning Guiqu decided to try once more with ten yuan, but failed again, blaming it on Lu Yuan’s sneeze.
The owner remembered Ning Guiqu and Lu Yuan. After all, both of them were very handsome. He gave Ning Guiqu a small fish as a gift, placing it in the tank Ning Guiqu had confidently brought along.
Ning Guiqu was overjoyed and thanked the owner profusely.
As Ning Guiqu was about to hand his fish tank to Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan sneezed again.
Ning Guiqu narrowed his eyes and didn’t let Lu Yuan take it.
“So even penguins catch colds when it’s chilly?” he teased.
Lu Yuan ruffled Ning Guiqu’s hair roughly. “Is this how you treat your boyfriend when he’s catching a cold?”
Ning Guiqu replied wickedly, “You’re just a slave.”
Lu Yuan smiled, walking alongside Ning Guiqu. “Really? After being a slave for so long, shouldn’t I get a chance to turn the tables?”
Ning Guiqu grew wary. “Didn’t you say you wouldn’t rebel against the landlord?”
“I’m not rebelling, just want to switch positions once.”
Ning Guiqu stopped in front of a shop and attempted to change the subject casually. “Let’s buy a scarf for the penguin.”
“In that case, we’ll continue this conversation when we get back. I’m all prepared. After all this time, you should be ready too, right?” Lu Yuan said lightly.
Ning Guiqu’s face turned bright red. “…No!”
He turned away, no longer interested in buying a scarf. This lustful penguin deserved to freeze!
Lu Yuan chuckled softly, naturally taking the fish tank from Ning Guiqu’s hands. “Then you should learn to delete your search history.”
Ning Guiqu froze.
He… he did search for some things he shouldn’t have.
The fish tank was taken to Lu Yuan’s home.
Ning Guiqu discovered that Lu Yuan really bought everything, clearly intending to take their relationship further.
Ning Guiqu crouched on the floor, contemplating.
Being with a lustful penguin like Lu Yuan, this was bound to happen sooner or later. He might as well take control of the situation! So Ning Guiqu decided to make the first move, kissing Lu Yuan as soon as he finished his shower.
Lu Yuan, who hadn’t planned for anything to happen that night, readily responded to Ning Guiqu’s unexpected initiative.
Ning Guiqu was thoroughly worn out all night, losing track of time in his daze. In the end, only one thought remained in his mind: This wasn’t bad at all!
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