Eating at a restaurant in the summer was a bit hot.
Bai Chen pulled a tissue from his pocket, wiped his hands, and was about to get up to pay when laughter drifted over from the next table.
Originally, Bai Chen hadn't intended to listen, but as he prepared to leave, he heard what they were saying and felt slightly shocked, immediately sitting back down in a leisurely manner.
"Hey~ Do you think that kid Gu Yun has forgotten about us at G University!" one of the guys sitting with his back to Bai Chen asked.
The young man across from him shook his head, saying with a certain tone, "How could that be? He's our childhood friend, is the bond between us really that fragile?"
Childhood friend? Bai Chen felt a bit puzzled, casting a sidelong glance to steal a peek at the young man.
The other person looked rather good, his smooth, fair face exuding sharply angled coldness. His thin lips were slightly pursed, thick eyebrows raised upward just a bit, and his single-lidded eyes were so cold. Beneath long, slightly curled eyelashes, his dark and profound deep-black pupils appeared even more wild, unrestrained, and evil-charming.
As expected, anyone hanging out with the protagonist looked pretty decent.
Then, that wild boy said another sentence that made Bai Chen feel as though he had stumbled upon a heaven-shaking gossip.
"Brother Li, then you..." He stealthily glanced around to see if anyone was eavesdropping, acting as if what he was about to say was some great secret.
Scaring Bai Chen into hurriedly pulling his gaze back, he picked up the disposable plastic cup on the table and feigned pouring a cup of tea.
As the other person got ready to speak, Bai Chen pricked up his ears.
"Then you... then you..." The guy spoke and stopped, stopped and spoke.
The wild boy opposite him was amused into a laugh by his dawdling words.
"If you have something to say, just say it. Don't drag things out like a sissy." The other person's deep eyes gazed straight ahead.
"Alright, then... then I'm saying it. Have you confessed to Brother Gu Yun?" He looked nervously at the wild boy, cringing as if afraid the other might get angry.
In this era, the older generation still couldn't accept homosexuality, while the younger generation had slowly begun to accept it, though basically no one openly admitted to it.
Just when Bai Chen thought the other person would feel awkward, who knew the guy would just laugh and say, "I thought it was some big deal." He paused again, scratching the back of his head with a masculine boldness that felt a bit silly and goofy.
He said, "I haven't. I'm afraid he won't agree. If I don't say it, maybe we can still be friends. If I say it and he doesn't agree, we might not even be able to be friends anymore."
"Besides, you don't need to speak sneakily out of fear that others will know. I don't care about these things; who I like has nothing to do with their gender. I don't like men or women."
"I only like Gu Yun." The other person suddenly realized something, his face turning redder and redder the more he spoke.
The guy asked again, "Then doesn't Brother Gu Yun know that you saved him from the fire?"
"There's no need to tell him. I don't want him to accept me out of a sense of owing me."
He took a deep breath: "I want his heart to genuinely beat a few extra times for me. What I want is his real love."
From Bai Chen's perspective, this wild boy was quite interesting and man enough.
That's right, liking someone meant liking them, why bother caring so much about what others thought.
Besides, the other person admitted to it so bravely without any fear.
Mostly because he had also saved Gu Yun.
Especially that line he said: I don't like some man or some woman, I only like Gu Yun. Bai Chen suddenly felt that this guy was even better than Gu Cheng.
Although Bai Chen didn't know much about this young man, judging from his expression, the guy probably cared deeply about Gu Yun.
He suddenly really wanted to help this infatuated youth, whose passionate feelings had no outlet and who didn't dare to express them.
His emotions were so fervent that even Bai Chen felt the heat without delving deep.
Was Gu Cheng really the best choice? Could it be that everything truly had to follow the original plot?
Did childhood sweethearts always lose to someone who appeared out of nowhere?
Could all of this truly be unchangeable?
Bai Chen didn't know. The thoughts he originally intended to follow according to the original work had actually undergone a change today.
Was he really going to help this boy? Was this really the right thing to do?
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