Xu Shi sat back down.
Not wanting to look at that confident, disgusting face across from him, he turned to watch the people coming and going on the street outside the window.
He and Xia Shian had been assigned to the same class in their second year of high school.
Back then, his classmates had cheered that their dream guy was finally in their class, and Xu Shi had followed their gazes and taken a few extra looks.
Xia Shian was sunny and outgoing.
He was always there at soccer matches, basketball games, and all kinds of speeches. He was tall and handsome, and every time Xu Shi saw him, he was surrounded by people.
Xu Shi had always been used to wandering through every corner of campus with Xie Yanci's art book in his arms.
Sometimes, he envied how popular Xia Shian was.
Until later, when Xu Shi suddenly stumbled upon Xia Shian kissing a boy in the restroom.
He was so frightened that he turned and ran.
The art book fell at the restroom entrance, so he had to go back to look for it, only for the boy who had been forcibly kissed to suddenly accuse Xu Shi of doing it.
The first time he was no longer treated as invisible was when everyone bullied him.
Xia Shian remained the golden boy everyone admired and adored.
Xu Shi's sexual orientation was ripped into the open, laid bare before everyone, and he was falsely accused of forcing a kiss on someone.
"When did you come out?" Looking at the unruffled Xia Shian across from him, Xu Shi asked the question word by word.
"When I was doing my master's in the United Kingdom. Ages ago." Xia Shian said it with particular ease.
He took a sip of coffee