"I wouldn't want one even if you found one for me."
"You don't fancy ordinary people? Makes sense. With your looks and your ability to make money, you wouldn't have to worry about finding any kind of partner you wanted."
"That's not it." Lu Ao spoke evenly. "I like men."
"Huh?!" Lin Gongshang's eyes widened. "Wait, what? You like men?!"
"Mm." Lu Ao said, "I'm gay. I'm not looking for a girlfriend, and I'm not getting married."
"That can't be!" Lin Gongshang refused to believe it. "You're joking, right?"
Qi Yan could not help saying, "Does he look like someone who would joke about that?"
"Wait, so you already knew? You only kept it from me? You two are really something."
"Not exactly." Qi Yan said, "I figured it out myself."
Lin Gongshang looked at Lu Ao, then at Qi Yan. It took him a long while to close his mouth. "Oh."
His eyes kept blinking, and he still found it hard to believe, but he did not say anything else.
Seeing him like that, Qi Yan dealt him another heavy blow. "Actually, so am I."
"So are you what?"
"I like men too."
"No way?!" Lin Gongshang looked from one to the other before asking, "Are you two together?"
Lu Ao: "..."
Qi Yan shot him a glare. "How can your imagination run that wild? What makes you think we're together?!"
"You're not together?" Lin Gongshang slapped his forehead. "Wait, let me sort this out. You both like men, and you're not together. So you're both single, or Lu Ao and Song Zhou are—"
Lu Ao cut him off. "We're both single. We're not looking for girlfriends or boyfriends, so don't set us up on blind dates in the future."
"Fine..." Lin Gongshang's feelings were complicated. "I really didn't