Chapter 44

<details><summary>Characters List</summary></details>

<details>Le Han – Main Character</details>

<details>Gua Gua Gu – In-game main character’s name Daji / Enchanting Imperial Concubine – In-game alternate character’s name</details>

<details>Qi Xun – Male Lead</details>

<details>Mu Yi Cheng Zhou / Mu God – In-game main character Zhan Ge – In-game trumpet’s name Spark’s singer</details>

<details>Zhou Yao – Qi Xun’s best friend</details>

<details>Meng Bu Meng – In-game main character’s name Spark’s member</details>

<details>Luo Yan – Zhou Yao’s husband</details>

<details>Lu Jiao (Emperor of Qi) – In-game main character’s name Spark’s drummer</details>

<details>Qin Yuyuan (Princess Qin) – Qi Xun’s pursuer</details>

<details>Axue – In-game main character’s name</details>

<details>Zhang Yang (Prince Tang) – Le Han’s pursuer</details>

<details>Qiao Rui – Le Han’s roommate and friend</details>

<details>Spark’s bassist</details>

<details>He Yiming – Le Han’s previous crush and senior student</details>

<details>Zhao Yifei – Le Han’s high school classmate</details>

<details>Yu Manman – Le Han’s high school classmate and He Yiming’s ex-girlfriend</details>

Edited by Bubbles

Qiao Rui’s head was now full of question marks.

Who could tell him when exactly the leader of his band and his roommate got together???

At this time, Qi Xun was walking on the street. As the night breeze blew on his face, he smiled, and the girls passing him by in groups of twos and threes couldn’t help but secretly look at him.

Looking at Qiao Rui’s questions one by one, Qi Xun patiently responded. His mood was beautiful.

And Qiao Rui, who knew the whole story through Qi Xun, felt numb.

Although he usually admired Brother Qi, he still couldn’t help but feel that his little cabbage… No, what was going on?

For a moment, he didn’t know what to feel, then he typed: “So, if I didn’t discover it, would I have had to wait until you showed off your love at the fan meeting before knowing you were actually going to meet your online partner that day?!”

He sent another message: “Do Zhou Yao and Luo Yan know?!”

Qi Xun recalled something.

Yesterday, Zhou Yao had come to see him.

Zhou Yao was aware of his appointment with Gua Gua, and he and Lu Jiao had also discussed the topic at some point. Zhou Yao had told him with mixed feelings of hesitation and expectation, “Lu Jiao turned out to be a fan of our band. He asked me to meet him at our fans’ meeting. I was shocked…”

Qi Xun at that time: “…” It was the same routine as his.

Zhou Yao scratched his head and said, “Lu Jiao and I have agreed on a secret code. There are only two words…”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yao blushed and whispered, “It is ‘lovely you’, but he didn’t say how to reply to the code. I wouldn’t have to ask one by one, right?”

Knowing what that ‘lovely you’ meant, Qi Xun said calmly, “Since he has made such an agreement with you, then he must have a way to find you. Don’t overthink it.”

That’s what he’d said, but Zhou Yao was still nervous. Maybe it was because he was going to meet the person he liked.

Yesterday, Zhou Yao sat in his apartment for a long time. He was in a daze, and after struggling for a while, he finally said, “I was thinking, should I also make a secret code for Lu Jiao! I told you two days ago that I was going to sing a song I wrote by myself. I named the song ‘Why did you sleep on your back again today?’ Do you think I should use the name of the song as a secret code? At that time, I’ll say the name of the song on the stage, and Lu Jiao will know who I am, ah !”

The more Zhou Yao thought about it, the more he felt it was a good idea. He was elated. “Damn, it will be so romantic. How can I be so smart!”

In addition to the band singing a few songs, the four would also have time to sing solo at the fans’ meeting event. Everyone could decide what to sing. It’s just that they haven’t talked about it yet. The title of the song ‘Why did you sleep on your back again today?’ was naturally Zhou Yao’s own idea, and it really was too stupid. When Qi Xun heard it, he almost couldn’t help laughing.

Zhou Yao’s face changed when he saw Qi Xun’s expression and a little annoyed, he asked, “What’s the matter? What are you laughing at?”

Qi Xun immediately held his laugh, waved his hand, and said vaguely, “It’s nothing. The title is very good.”

These two were indeed a good match.

Later, Luo Yan also spoke with Qi Xun in private.

After Qi Xun finished reminiscing, he said meaningfully: “They… also know it.”

Qiao Rui: “???” What was going on? Was he being excluded? Was he being pushed out?

Qi Xun insincerely added: “Well, I didn’t mean not to tell you.”

Qiao Rui angrily responded: “You… you are so annoying!!!”

Qi Xun felt refreshed even after being scolded.

As a result, he received retribution the next day—

He went home and had a good sleep, got up early the next day and took a bath. After blowing his hair, he used the hair gel his mother had bought for him for the first time.

With his hair done, he went to the wardrobe and tried several sets of clothes.

It was already two hours later by the time he was ready.

Qi Xun called Qiao Rui in high spirits and asked, “Where is Le Han? Trick him out. I want to go on a date with him.”

Qiao Rui replied coldly, “Oh, he went home.”

Qi Xun: “…”

Qi Xun was startled and remembered that today was the first day of the National Day of the Mid Autumn Festival. He swore. Yesterday, he’d thought he still had a lot of time to earn Le Han’s favor before they met. As a result, Le Han went home today?!

Qi Xun said, “Why didn’t you tell me yesterday!?”

Qiao Rui said with a strange smile, “Brother Qi, you told me such a story yesterday. How could I still say this?”

“…” Qi Xun squinted. “You’re jealous.”

His good roommate had become his good friend’s wife. There was nothing wrong with Qiao Rui’s naked, twisted possessiveness!

Qiao Rui said calmly, “I don’t know. Anyway, I wish you all the best.”

After speaking, he hung up the phone.

Qi Xun stared at the phone: “…”

After standing in silence for a moment, he sent a WeChat message to Le Han: “Are you home?”

Le Han, who was already on the bus and saw the message: “…”

Why did Qi Xun send him this kind of message? Was this man really interested in him? But he already had a boyfriend!

After a moment of fighting between angels and demons inside his mind, Le Han gritted his teeth and chose to put his mobile phone down as if he hadn’t seen it.

And Qi Xun, who had been waiting for a long time, wiped his face.

…He began to feel a little nervous.

Le Han didn’t know what Qi Xun had in mind. He didn’t know about some people fighting behind his back.

When he arrived home with his small luggage, his mother was preparing lunch.

There were many old people in this community. During the holidays, all of the children and grandchildren stayed at home. It was very lively. One by one, they came out with their kids to bask in the sun and chat. It was a happy atmosphere.

As soon as he entered the door, Le Han called out, “Mom, Dad”. Le Han’s mom walked out of the kitchen and said, “You’re back.” Meanwhile, Le Han’s dad was watering the flowers in front of the window and responded as well.

Le Han first put all of his dirty clothes into the washing machine, and then put all the hand-washed ones in the basin. After he finished, the meal was ready.

Father Le sat down at the table after watering the flowers. Mother Le brought the vegetables up, looked at Le Han, and said, “ Oh , after staying in school for a month, you became white again?”

During last summer, Le Han had wildly played with Zhao Yifei outside. His skin had become a lot darker, but now it was white and tender once more.

Le Han smiled, thinking it was okay to become white again. Otherwise, how ugly would it be to be seen by Zhan Ge with heavily tanned skin!

Father Le squinted at him. “I’m sure he hasn’t exercised much and stayed at the dormitory all day. Why do you say that our boy doesn’t play basketball or something—”

Speaking of this, Father Le cleared his throat and muttered a little awkwardly, “Can’t you get to know more boys by playing basketball?”

Le Han blushed and didn’t answer.

Mother Le was embarrassed of what Father Le had just said. She rolled her eyes and said, “What messy things are you talking about?”

Father Le scratched his hair, a bit flustered.

Le Han pursed his lips and couldn’t help smiling. “Dad…”

Father Le couldn’t stand it anymore. He waved his hand and said in embarrassment, “Okay, okay. I didn’t say anything. You are not allowed to mention it!”

Le Han laughed.

Le Han knew his father was trying hard to adapt. After all, his child had become a boy who liked boys.

In his third year of high school, Le Han had a hard time, but he felt fortunate to have such parents.

—Not everyone who didn’t understand homosexuality could admit the fact that their relatives had become gay. Therefore, although it took some time for his parents to accept it and made Le Han sad, he was still grateful to them.

He thanked them for their tolerance and support.

During the meal, Mother Le mentioned she had gone to Grandma Le’s house for dinner the last two days.

Mother Le’s parents had passed away while Father Le’s parents were still alive. A family reunion dinner was a must during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

—Fortunately, after Le Han’s parents had accepted his sexuality, the two had also gone to Le Han’s grandparents to do ideological construction. Le Han’s grandmother and grandfather liked him very much since childhood, so how could they have the heart to criticize him and force him? Naturally, they could only accept such a fact. Therefore, Le Han could still get along as usual with his family.

While talking, Mother Le remembered something.

“By the way, on the way back from your grandmother’s home, I ran into your high school head teacher, Teacher Lu.” Mother Le frowned. “I heard that your high school class is going to hold a classmate meeting? You’re not allowed to go, okay?”

Le Han was stunned and shook his head. “They didn’t notify me.”

“If there’s no notice, there will be no notice. Don’t go even if they invite you,” Father Le said unhappily. “What kind of people are they? I don’t want you to have any contact with them in the future!”

“Hey, not every classmate is like this, just…” Mother Le didn’t know what to say. She was distressed when she thought of what Le Han had suffered during his third year of high school and the unintentional worsening of the situation due to her and her husband.

At that time, they’d gotten a call from school because of the stolen phone. After solving the problem, the teacher had called them the next day, and this time, they received a bolt from the blue.

Le Han was a well-behaved child. He had never made them worry about anything since childhood.

He never fought, ran, or played around. He liked studying and had a conscious attitude. How could they think that their son, who was reassuring in everything, actually liked boys.

Both of them were very traditional. At that time, their first reaction was shock and incomprehension. Even after listening to Teacher Lu mention that this matter was spreading in the school, and they noticed that many students were eavesdropping and peeping outside the office, they just thought— no wonder it was like this!

Le Han was gay. No wonder the whole school was talking about him!

What a shame, ah !

…Now that they thought about it again, they naturally realized how grave the mistake they’d made was.

Le Han had suffered from personal attacks, rumors, and even campus bullying.

When their son began to suffer from all these, they should’ve transferred Le Han to another school because this was unbearable torture for anyone.

…But maybe Le Han was too strong and too well-behaved. When the couple quarreled at home about Le Han and scolded him for being gay, the child didn’t say anything, just quietly and finished his homework, studied seriously, and went to school punctually.

Le Han’s behavior was so lucid that the couple didn’t realize what they were supposed to do back then, and Le had thus Han survived a senior high school year like that.

But the fact was that even an adult would suffer from depression after experiencing those things.

Mother Le couldn’t help crying when she recalled that year.

Then for a long time, she thought about it every night. When Le Han was a little boy, he said that he would go to T University in the future. T University was the most famous university in C City. It also ranked at the forefront of the country. At that time, the adults had laughed at him. They thought it was long-term enough and wondered if he could really do it. Le Han had been full of anger.

Le Han liked mathematics. Although he wasn’t very talented in math and had a hard time learning, his dream was to grow up and be a math teacher. He thought that it was very fulfilling to help others overcome the matter of ‘I love you so much, but you don’t love me at all 1 He refers to his liking for mathematics and not being that good at it. ‘.

Le Han wasn’t particularly smart, but he was very hard-working. Therefore, his grades had been ranked among the best from childhood to adulthood.

In his third year of high school, his dream had seemed so far away.

The third year of high school was also the most critical. Was there a child who could maintain his grades even after suffering such a thing?

When a friend of Mother Le divorced, the husband and wife had quarreled. Their child was ranked first in his class. However, his score in the high school entrance examination exam was only enough for a general school. The couple regretted it, but the child had become gloomy.

There were many cases like this.

What happened to Le Han was even more terrible than those children. Nowadays, Mother Le felt sour whenever she thought about it. How could this child stand it?

—Le Han did it, and he did it silently.

In the darkest and coldest moments, when even his parents didn’t stand beside him, Le Han survived everything alone, step by step, steadfast and determined to reach the goal he’d set for himself at the beginning.

He didn’t complain, and he didn’t give up on himself. Later, when his mother and father apologized to him, Le Han said he didn’t resent either of them.

He understood them and was grateful that they were able to support him in the end.

At that time, Mother Le couldn’t help thinking that she gave birth to a little sun.

Le Han was so positive, so sunny, and so full of brilliant energy.

Of course, this didn’t eliminate the couple’s guilt towards their child.

In fact, back then, Teacher Lu couldn’t bear to see Le Han suffering from these things. During the third year of high school, under the risk of being complained about by the husband and wife, he’d called Le Han’s parents several times and talked with them. Because of that, they were finally able to accept this incident.

Therefore, they were very grateful to Teacher Lu.

Mother Le sighed in a complicated mood, looked at Le Han, and said, “Teacher Lu is really a good man…”

“Yes.” Le Han nodded unambiguously.

Teacher Lu was truly a good man. He’d been the one who’d helped Le Han teach those students a lesson when they bullied him. He’d also been afraid his student couldn’t figure it out, so he talked to him and expressed his support for his sexuality. Finally, he’d decided to call Le Han’s parents regardless of the consequences, had persuaded them to reconcile with him, had spread knowledge, and had gotten them to accept their son’s sexuality.

As a role model, what Teacher Lu could do was limited. But what he had done was enough, and it was beneficial for Le Han’s whole life.

Father Le couldn’t eat anymore.

Although he’d reprimanded Le Han’s high school classmates just now, what had he done better at that time?

Every time he thought about this topic, he was remorseful.

Seeing that a good meal was about to change its taste, Le Han said, “Okay, I won’t go even if they tell me. Don’t worry.”

Not everyone in his high school class was like Yu Manman. But at the same time, the relationship between him and everyone in the class had became strange. When Le Han thought about it, he felt uncomfortable. How could he go to his class reunion? What’s more, he didn’t think those people would call him.

—But this time, Le Han was wrong.

After eating, he wanted to go to his room to play games (he’d taken the game helmet with him from the dormitory), but as soon as he stepped inside, his mobile phone vibrated.

Le Han glanced at it. It was a WeChat message from a group called ‘Class 12’.

Le Han was stunned. It took him a few seconds to remember that this was his high school class’ WeChat group. Not long after the incident had happened, he’d taken the initiative to withdraw from the group.

Le Han frowned and opened the chat. It was the class’ secretary who had added him to the group chat.

At this time, a person named ‘Mr. X’ @ed him, and asked, “Will you come to our classmates reunion on the 2nd?”

Half of the people in the group had changed their nicknames to their real names, while the other half didn’t. When Le Han was still in the group, he couldn’t tell these people apart, let alone now. He didn’t have this person on his friends’ list, so he couldn’t see his circle of friends.

He had no idea who this ‘Mr. X’ was.

Footnotes:

[1] He refers to his liking for mathematics and not being that good at it

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He refers to his liking for mathematics and not being that good at it.