Sadako Truly Truly Truly Truly single-handedly changed the entire thread's tone.
1321: What did you say?! Say that again?! Who was God Xie saying those things to?!
1322: I'm drawing my sword, fuck, fuck, fuck! Shouting this up front: fujoshi, get the hell out aaaaaah!
1323: Pfft hahahaha, the door to a new world has opened, and the back door's locked. None of you are leaving.
1324: Sister above, don't be mad. Having an online romance all by yourself is so painful, so why not ship them with us? Happiness! [Red panda holding a pinwheel]
1325: The future is as vast as the sea, and there are many days ahead. Ooooh~~~
1326: Remember what Brother Yu said in God Xie's face-worship thread last time? I can't imagine someone as low-key as Brother Yu actually revealing his identity as a hot guy for someone else [crying][crying]. What kind of earth-shattering brotherhood is this? Waaaaah, I don't believe you if you say there's nothing between them! [Heart][Heart][Rose]
1327: Do we know the same Brother Yu?
1328: ??? Hahahahaha okay, okay, badass, badass. Low-key Brother Yu, outing himself as a hot guy.
1329: Are you people sick? Can a class rep highlight the important parts?! Brother Sadako is Brother Yu's underling, and God Xie was looking in Brother Yu's direction. I want to see what my husband looks like aaaaaah!
1330: Shaking paws with you up there-aaaaaah, did anyone record it?! Is there a replay?! Let me find my husband aaaaaah! Brother Sadako, brother, brother, brother, look at me qwq.
1331: Brother Sadako, look at me qaq. Want to be friends? Brother Yu isn't important; the point is, I like how you look crawling out of the TV with your hair hanging loose.
1332: You there? Want to make a deal? Give me a photo, and you can crawl through my TV all, you, want!!!
1333: Daddy, brother, uncle, little brother Sadako, whatever your family needs, I can do it qaq.
Brother Sadako might become this forum thread's biggest winner.
Song Yu: "..."
If his identity got exposed, he was beating Ma Xiaoding up tonight.
To Song Yu, the only thing people on the forum knowing his identity would bring was trouble. He just wanted to attend high school and study in peace. Why was that so difficult?
"Your milk tea is ready."
The employee's words brought Song Yu back to his senses.
He pushed in the straw and took a sip of the warm, mildly sweet milk tea. The more Song Yu thought about it, the angrier he got. He simply stopped and sat down on a chair inside the milk tea shop. "Wait a second. I need to curse someone out."
"..." Xie Sui.
If he wasn't beating someone up, he was cursing them out. Why was this kid so wild?
There weren't many customers in the milk tea shop at this hour. It was just the two of them.
Afraid Xie Sui would get bored, Song Yu even considerately handed him the practice exercises he had casually brought to the auditorium without doing a single question. "If you've got nothing to do, you can work on some questions first."
Xie Sui smiled and declined with excellent manners. "I'll pass."
"Don't be shy," Song Yu mumbled around his straw.
Then he lowered his head, opened his chat with Ma Xiaoding, and typed rapidly.
[Your Husband Brother Yu: ? Got a death wish?!]
[Your Husband Brother Yu: If you expose my identity on the forum today, I'm telling you, you're finished.]
[Your Husband Brother Yu: Believe me when I say I'll go to your house and smash everything with a screen :)]
[Your Husband Brother Yu: Explain yourself properly, or I'll kill you within a day [smile]]
"Typing..." appeared and disappeared on the chat screen. Even through the phone screen, he could feel the other person's hesitation and trembling.
After a long time, Ma Xiaoding tentatively sent a reaction image.
[Sadako Never Forgets the Well Digger: [Have a beer, boss.jpg]]
[Your Husband Brother Yu: [Smile]]
Ma Xiaoding was scared to tears.
[Sadako Never Forgets the Well Digger: Waaaaaaaah, Brother Yu, I was wrong! Cue double-you cue! I'll apply to have the posts removed right now! I'll clear things up right now!]
Cue double-you cue? Qwq?!
Song Yu's mouth twitched. Had he just learned that? Was he using it randomly without even knowing what it meant?
He couldn't take it anymore.
[Your Husband Brother Yu: You look really stupid trying to act cute :)]
No longer daring to speak, Ma Xiaoding lost every trace of his smug delight at having fangirls chase him to be friends and shakily posted in the thread.
1429: Sadako Truly Truly Truly Truly: Stop guessing. I lied. I just couldn't stand watching you cheat on my Brother Yu. [Lights cigarette]
1430: Sadako Truly Truly Truly Truly: I don't know Brother Yu, but I just like him, in the wanting-to-be-his-brother way.
1431: ??? I'm fucking bawling, waaaaaah!! Waaaaah, I knew there was nothing between God Xie and Brother Yu. I can't accept my two husbands getting together behind my back, waaaaaah.
1432: Brother Sadako, did Brother Yu threaten you?!
1433: Look at this gay-ass statement. I don't know Brother Yu either, but I just like him, in the wanting-to-date-him way.
1434: If you're being threatened, change your name to Sadako Truly Truly Truly Truly.
1435: Can you shut the hell up?! He said there's nothing, so there's nothing! God Xie isn't involved with anyone! Can you fujoshi get out and ship somewhere else?
1436: Exactly. I recorded a video and watched it back. I think he said those last eight words to me :)
1437: 1436, keep dreaming. I saw my own reflection in his eyes.
1438: Waaaaah, Brother Sadako, I love you. I knew it. I clearly remember that what made my heart flutter was how gentle he was when he looked into my eyes and said that to me.
1439: ??? Should all of you up there see an eye doctor?
1440: I think they need a brain specialist.
1441: A rational analysis: we can't find Brother Yu. Only the stage was lit in the auditorium then. God Xie only looked up once, and his gaze probably fell on the left side, but there were too many people. [Shrug][Shrug]
1442: I'm in Class Five, and we were sitting on the left. I fucking thought he'd suddenly fallen in love with me at first sight in the crowd! Don't sing "Time to Wake Up" at me. Do you people even believe in the Chinese Dream anymore?!
1443: Sister, did you get zero in politics? The Chinese Dream isn't your daydream.
1445: I reasonably suspect Brother Sadako told the truth, and Brother Yu got embarrassed and angry and forced him to clear things up.
1446: What the fuck? Just because your brain's full of gay porn doesn't mean you can see everyone as a couple, okay? I'm Brother Yu's wife fan :) The super-exclusive, super-toxic kind. Keep yapping, and I'll start cursing.
1447: Okay, okay, stop fighting. Whether Brother Sadako was telling the truth or not, whether God Xie and Brother Yu know each other or not, he really has opened a new door for me. Come on, sisters, let's start a shipping thread. I'm really looking forward to Brother Yu's expression when he sees it [Smirk][Smirk].
1448: Aaaaaah, sister above, take me with you!!
1449: Hahahahaha, Brother Yu's having such a fucking rough night, getting cheated on and made gay. What did he even do wrong? He hasn't said a single word.
1450: Brother Yu did nothing wrong, so, Brother Sadako, crawl out of the TV and take your beating.
1451: Brother Sadako, stick your head out.
1452: ...Fuck, don't do this at night. I'm actually pretty scared of ghosts.
1453: I started the thread! [The future is as vast as the sea, at peace with Sui and Yu]! Come on, let's move over!
1454: ????!!!! Coming!!!
1455: Aaaaaaaaaah! At peace with Sui and Yu!!! Sister, you're too good at this, waaaaah.
1456: Brother Yu, I'm finding you a husband, heeheeheeheeheehee.
1457: I can't out-curse you, so I'll find someone to fuck you :)
1458: Hahahahaha, Brother Yu is going to fucking make me laugh to death one day!
1459: Nobody's reversing them?? Brother Yu, if you see this comment, remember to reflect on whether your scumbag image has sunk in too deeply.
1460: Hurry over to the other thread!!!!
After watching God Xie's fangirls, Brother Yu's wife fans, and the shippers fight for ages, the No. 1 High School boys, who had been enjoying the show, finally began showing themselves.
1600: 666666666! What can I say besides awesome?
1601: Gay guys pair up, girls come with me [Picks nose][Picks nose].
1602: A six-foot-tall senior boy is here to take in little sisters whose hearts have been broken by two gay guys. I'll give you a shoulder and someone to lean on. Come cry in my arms. Gay guys aren't worth it.
1603: Xie Sui's got it rough. Fucking speechless. When's that troll Yu's identity getting exposed? I'm going to beat him up. I've been sick of him for ages.
1604: The dumbass straight guys are back? Only the brainless shippers left. We're still here :) Go ahead, curse. I'm used to dealing with you.
As the two men who stirred up the bloodiest storms on Jingcheng No. 1 High School's forum,
the thread's tone afterward naturally took the expected turn, with another three hundred posts of fighting.
Sadako's avatar flashed twice more on QQ.
[Sadako Never Forgets the Well Digger: Brother Yu [Pokes fingers together][Pitiful][Bites handkerchief]]
[Sadako Never Forgets the Well Digger: I cleared it up. They can't find you now, either.]
Song Yu ignored him. He finished his milk tea, tapped out, and saw a new thread marked [new][hot]. Within minutes, it was approaching five hundred posts.
[The future is as vast as the sea, at peace with Sui and Yu]
Original post: My husband Brother Yu, I found you a husband. Are you happy? [Grin][Grin][Laugh][Laugh]
Song Yu: "..."
Happy, my ass.
Now he really couldn't let them know who he was :)
The milk tea shop smelled sweet and fresh, while the walkway outside was quiet and empty, with only moonlight and lamplight. The forum was bustling, but reality was especially quiet and gentle.
He instinctively glanced at Xie Sui across from him.
Xie Sui had politely declined his invitation to do practice questions, but was looking with interest at the questions he had done before.
The boy's hand holding the pen was slender and fair, his nose high-bridged, his lips thin. His long eyelashes cast shadows, and he sat with his long legs stretched out, elegant and composed.
Seemingly sensing Song Yu's gaze, he looked up and smiled. "Finished?"
His dark eyes were cool and smiling, surpassing the shimmering moonlight.
Thinking of that "at peace with Sui and Yu," Song Yu couldn't help his mouth twitching. He quickly switched off his phone screen, thinking that he absolutely couldn't let Xie Sui see that.
"Yeah, let's go."
He couldn't visit the forum so often anymore. He would let the username Your Husband Brother Yu become a legend-and keep reminding himself that he was here to study!
He had practically bragged in front of his whole family earlier, even if it had only been something President Song said in anger.
But Song Yu still took getting full marks to heart.
There was still a semester before Gong One transferred here. He had nothing else to do and was reliving school life. Since he had already pretended to be a top student, he might as well make it real. Just as every student set themselves the ambitious goal of studying hard at the start of a new semester, Song Yu thought the same way.
He asked Xie Sui, "Do you think I could get full marks in math?"
Xie Sui said, "Yes."
Reassured, Song Yu asked, "Then how long will it take me to surpass you?"
Xie Sui lowered his eyes to look at him and smiled, a little lazily and perfunctorily. "Not long. You won't even need to work hard. If you want to surpass me, I'll just hand in a blank paper."
Song Yu: "???"
That wasn't what he meant!
All the enjoyment Xie Sui found in high school life lay with Song Yu. Tilting his head, he smiled again. "If you want to come first in the year, the person you need to surpass isn't me. It's whoever's second."
But with those baffling methods you're using for so many questions right now, surpass whoever's second from the bottom first, he thought.
Song Yu: "...Fine."
Really, it was only because Xie Sui had been a study god all along and had never had any contact with other people during his school days that he thought Song Yu's grades were bad. If his test paper were given to any math teacher, they would probably praise it. He couldn't be called an elite top student, but he could still count as a little top student.
Author's note: All right, the shipping thread is up, hahaha~ There won't be too much forum content later. This chapter was mainly about starting a thread.
Recommending a friend's novel.
"After Getting Locked into a Ship with the Top Student, Even Bricks Taste Like Lobster" by Fei Meng.
Si Ning, a wealthy young master with excellent grades and conduct, had never suffered in his life.
Yue Shi, a poor bottom-ranked student, fought as routinely as he ate.
Two people who seemed destined never to cross paths suddenly swapped their senses of taste and pain.
Si Ning, who was eating durian, suddenly felt as though someone had punched him in the stomach.
Yue Shi, who was fighting, suddenly tasted durian in his mouth.
Si Ning & Yue Shi: ...Urgh.
Later, Si Ning became a delicate young master whose whole body hurt at the slightest thing, yet examinations revealed no wounds.
Yue Shi became a school bully who never felt pain in a fight and could taste lobster even when eating bricks.
Until Si Ning saw Yue Shi fighting in the street.
Yue Shi: Come on! Come hit me!
Si Ning: ...Fuck, that hurts!
Pampered little young master shou × untamed little delinquent gong.
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