With the cheers of the group of girls in the audience, Lin Ze proudly hooked the corners of his lips.
He turned around and watched the boys still running on the track, making a supreme effort to sprint toward the finish line.
And the radiant smile Lin Ze displayed as he stood at the finish line was undoubtedly a charm-emitting gesture in the eyes of the girls.
Some girls could not hold back their agitated hearts, rushing down from the stands and heading straight toward Lin Ze.
“Junior Lin Ze, wipe your sweat.”
“Have some water. Our Zeze needs hydration the most right now!”
“Hey, make some room, why are you crowding so close? Junior Lin Ze needs to cool down. Can the guy even breathe with the two of you surrounding him so closely?”
The girl was severe in the previous second, only to become docile and cute in the next. “Right, Zeze?”
Lin Ze gave a dry cough and scratched the back of his head sheepishly.
Although he quite enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded and encircled by cute girls, this time they really were standing too close!
Some of them were practically plastered against his face!
“Everyone spread out a bit, haha.”
“No way, Zeze.” The girl’s spoiled, cutesy tone softened half of Lin Ze’s heart.
“Look at the water I brought you.” She said as she shoved the water into Lin Ze’s hands.
“Uh, thanks.”
Just as Lin Ze was about to say something, a tall figure walked toward him.
The man reached out and hauled the girl who had been clinging to Lin Ze away. “Step aside.”
“Yi Yan?” Lin Ze called out his name in astonishment.
The sounds of the girls discussing among themselves exploded in his ears.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa! This one’s so handsome too!”
“Oh my god, who is he?”
“Look at what he’s wearing, he doesn’t look like he’s from our school.”
“Quick, go find out!”
With a dark expression, Yi Yan pulled Lin Ze out from the pile of girls.
“Hey, where are you taking me?” Lin Ze asked.
Unfortunately, Yi Yan did not answer him, simply walking forward on his own.
Having suddenly seen two major handsome guys today, how could the girls possibly give up just like that?
They stirred restlessly, taking small, rapid steps to follow closely behind them.
Yi Yan stopped in his tracks, turned his head back, and gave them a forced smile. “If you guys follow any further, I’m going to rip up those pretty little faces of yours.”
Startled by Yi Yan’s half-smiling, half-threatening expression, the girls stopped in their tracks.
The kind of joke a handsome guy makes is just very cold, cold to the point where they didn’t know how to respond.
“Why did you scare them like that?” Lin Ze said.
“I was just joking with them.”
Yi Yan’s inexplicably icy tone left Lin Ze at a loss for a moment.
“Where are we going?” Lin Ze asked.
Yet Yi Yan just kept walking forward persistently without answering him.
“Yi Yan, Yi Yan? What is wrong with you? Where on earth are you taking me?”
Lin Ze was dragged along by him through the campus for goodness knows how long.
Finally, Yi Yan let go of him in the corner of a teaching building.
Lin Ze looked at Yi Yan’s slightly furrowed brow.
“What?” Lin Ze raised an eyebrow. “What’s wrong? You seem a bit unhappy today.”
Yi Yan let out a cold laugh. Thinking his words had cleared away the heavy atmosphere between the two of them just then, Lin Ze continued,
“Why did you come to our school today anyway? Oh right, right! Did you see the moment I took first championship place just now? Super man, right? Haha.”
“Just average. It’s only because they were too weak that they lost to you.”
Yi Yan leaned his back against the wall, his tone leisurely and brisk as he spoke, completely reversing his gloomy attitude from just a moment ago.
“Hmph! Looking down on your brother, are you? You definitely didn’t see the explosive power I had on the field just now!” Lin Ze raised his arm, flexing a bunch of muscles with a smug, pleased-with-himself posture.
“Doesn’t this crush that bunch of guys from the sports department?” Lin Ze rambled on to himself.
He wasn’t about to listen to Yi Yan pouring cold water on him as he always loved to do!
Yi Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, using one hand to pinch the muscle on Lin Ze’s arm, his thumb rubbing against it minutely.
“How is it? Super awesome, right? I worked out for a long time to get these!” Lin Ze confidently displayed his biceps.
Thinking Yi Yan was envious of his physique, he bantered happily, unaware that Yi Yan was actually stroking the exact spot on Lin Ze’s arm where that girl had touched him.
Yi Yan’s gaze darkened, his pupils constricting slightly as they flashed with an eerie luster.
He really wanted to take some soap and scrub this patch of Lin Ze’s skin thoroughly; it was all dirty.
His thumb kept rubbing heavily, as if trying to wear that patch of skin away.
Lin Ze also felt a slight stinging heat on his skin.
“Hey, hey, hey, if you’re envious, go work out yourself, haha. You won’t rub it flat just by grinding like that.”
Thinking Yi Yan was jealous of his muscles, Lin Ze joked cheerfully.
He opened a bottle of water and was about to take a drink.
When Yi Yan abruptly batted it out of his hand.
Watching a completely full bottle of water drop to the ground and spill more than half its contents, Lin Ze furrowed his brow slightly as he looked at Yi Yan.
“What are you doing, Yi Yan?” Lin Ze grew somewhat angry. “From the very beginning, you’ve been giving me a bad attitude. Why? I didn’t do anything to you! You’re always acting so inexplicable!”
“Xiao Zeze,” Yi Yan started.
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes again!
What Lin Ze found most annoying was this: whenever he shouted at Yi Yan in anger, Yi Yan would immediately swap to a pitiful, aggrieved expression to face him.
Every time he acted pitiful and weak, Lin Ze found it hard to lecture him any further.
Months!
During these few months of spending time together, Yi Yan had tirelessly used this trick.
He was truly sick of it!
“Stop right there, talk properly. You are not allowed to use that sissified attitude to speak to me.” Lin Ze put his hands on his hips firmly.
Yi Yan lowered his head and let out a soft “oh.”
“Zeze, don’t be mad. If you’re thirsty, I’ll go buy you water. Don’t drink water given by other women.”
“Huh? Are you alright? What difference does it make if I drink their water versus your water? Could water given by someone else possibly poison me to death?”
“Dirty.” He flatly retorted with this single harsh word.
“Dirty?” Lin Ze paused helplessly. “What’s dirty about it? They didn’t even open and drink that water themselves.”
He truly felt that Young Master Yi’s rich-kid pronouncements were simply impossible for a commoner like him to comprehend.
“I don’t want Zeze to drink their water. I’ll get angry,” Yi Yan said.
Lin Ze was still angry at this moment, and having just finished intense exercise, his brain was not clear and remained in a daze.
He hadn’t yet caught anything amiss in Yi Yan’s words, the hot and dry air causing Lin Ze’s irritation to intensify even further.
Lin Ze leaned his back against the wall, helplessly using his hand to fan himself.
Yi Yan clearly saw that Lin Ze was not properly listening to him, and he closed in on Lin Ze step by step.
“I can’t bear watching other girls approach you with hidden motives, I can’t bear watching you accept water handed over by others with a radiant smile. Lin Ze, can you understand?”
Dressed in a white shirt and black trousers, Yi Yan stood straight before Lin Ze, towering like a solitary pine, striking and bright as morning clouds.
“You, you are joking, right?” The corners of Lin Ze’s mouth twitched slightly.
Yi Yan looked at him with complete seriousness, that solemn expression looking nothing at all like a joke!
Without an answer from him, Lin Ze seemed to already know the outcome.
Lin Ze’s brain buzzed.
In an instant, his mind felt as though the world had stopped spinning, unable to turn.
Nothing much could be read from his calm complexion, but the trembling expression of his lips proved what kind of incredible news he had just heard.
Yi Yan’s lips were still moving, yet Lin Ze could no longer hear any external words.
The message echoing through his mind was, He was confessed to by a man? He was confessed to by a man?