“No way.”
He swallowed hard, feeling very conflicted as he wanted to take a step forward.
“Lin Ze!” Yi Yan grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
Within his muscular arms, Lin Ze’s waist was instantly pulled tight by an iron-like vice grip.
A dark shadow loomed over Lin Ze.
Lin Ze frowned as he looked at him, feeling an indescribable annoyance.
Being confessed to was something he had experienced before.
But being confessed to by a man.
This was a first for him!
Especially since this man was his best friend.
“Yi Yan, stop doing this.” Lin Ze pushed him away with force.
Lin Ze stumbled a step backward and crashed against the wall behind him.
He bit the bullet, patted his own chest, and stated frankly, “You know I am straight. I like women.”
“I know, I know. I have always known. But my feelings for you have been suppressed in my heart for a long time. Do you know what love at first sight is?” Yi Yan said.
Lin Ze raised his eyelids, his eyes revealing shock and a hint of awkwardness.
“I liked you the moment I saw you a long time ago! But, but I knew there was no way you could like someone of the same sex, so I didn’t dare to rashly and impulsively confess to you like this.”
Lin Ze pressed his lips together and awkwardly rubbed his nose.
“I always thought your sexual orientation was female.” Never did he expect that you bastard would even dare to target men!
“I thought so too, but until I met you, everything changed.” Yi Yan said.
He really couldn’t bear to hear Yi Yan spout such cheesy words to disgust him anymore.
“Hey, hey, stop right there.” Lin Ze’s eyes drifted aimlessly.
“I think your situation is mostly just being driven by physical attraction! You just think I’m handsome, which is why this kind of mistaken feeling was ignited in your heart. Can you understand?”
The more Lin Ze talked, the more energetic he got. He felt like he could transform into a mentor and guide Yi Yan back onto the right track!
“People have an aesthetic appreciation for beautiful things. You generate a pleasant emotion toward them, and then you produce a hazy train of thought, making you think you must like this thing.
“But in reality, no. If a better one comes along right now, your mind will change immediately. Can you understand?” Lin Ze used Yi Yan’s own tone to patiently guide him.
This was the first time things learned in class could be used to lecture someone else. Lin Ze felt pretty awesome about it.
“I don’t want to understand.” A single “I don’t want to understand” from Yi Yan shattered the admonishing words Lin Ze was about to organize.
“I like you. This has nothing to do with any bullshit aesthetics, alright?”
Yi Yan pinched Lin Ze’s arm, inching closer to him step by step.
“What kind of trash haven’t I seen around me since I was a kid? Lin Ze, listen up. I like you, and what I like is your entire being. Stop beating around the bush.”
Lin Ze swallowed, his scalp tingling slightly as he listened to Yi Yan express these romantic sentiments.
Don’t do this. Are you actually being serious, Yi Yan?
He maintained a stiff smile, trying several times to brush Yi Yan’s hand away, only to find he couldn’t shake it off.
Lin Ze suddenly wiped the smile off his face and coldly slapped Yi Yan’s hand away.
He took a deep breath. “Stop this. I already told you. Do you not understand that I don’t like men?”
“And just now, I was trying very hard to pull our relationship back to being friends, but are you really going to push this friendship further and further away?”
Seeing Yi Yan keep a gloomy face and stay silent for a long time, he continued, “We can’t be a couple. If you keep going like this, we might not even be able to be friends.”
“Can you really not give me even a tiny chance?” Yi Yan looked somewhat heartbroken.
“No.” Lin Ze decisively dropped those two words and walked away.
Leaving Yi Yan standing alone in place.
The pitiful, aggrieved expression he had while keeping his head down vanished instantly.
He walked out of the entrance of the teaching building, and a fresh wave of floral fragrance hit his nose.
Clusters of flowers in the flowerbed had their pink petals spreading outward toward the stamens, attracting a few butterflies fluttering around from time to time.
He lowered his body, opened his large palm to grip an entire flower, and separated the flower from the stem with a slight exertion of force.
In an instant, this flower was destroyed by external force, causing it to wither prematurely.
The petals fell haphazardly, landing in the pond enclosure, carrying an indescribable sense of beauty.
Yi Yan gently curved the corners of his lips.
“I haven’t had enough fun yet. I gave you a choice. You’re the one who wouldn’t cooperate.”
He stood up, patted his hands, took out his phone, and coldly spat out two words, “Begin.”