Ch 44

Ding Xuerun told him not to talk or make ambiguous actions at the dinner table.

“You can come out if you want, but it can’t be now.”

Lou Cheng said, “Oh, Why can’t it be now?”

Ding Xuerun: “You still have a year to go before the college entrance examination. Wait until the exam is over.  Let’s talk about it. You don’t want to transfer yourself, or do you want me to transfer? “

Lou Cheng anxiously: “That’s definitely not good!”

Lou Cheng’s parents are not easy to get in touch with, but they are actually very nice people. They are also quite attractive, and both parents appear to be quite young.

Yue Yun, his mother, is a powerful figure in the real estate industry. She has developed real estate in this city and other provinces, so she always gives his teachers a house as a gift. And, contrary to what Lou Cheng said, she is very talkative. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a master’s degree in marketing.

Lou Cheng’s father is also very calm, and he’s not sure if it’s because of an outsider like him. He asked him where he was from: “Is your family in D city?”

Ding Xuerun said no: “My family is in Guilin.”

“Will they not accompany you to the college entrance exam?”

Ding Xuerun shook his head.

“It’s the same with us. Cheng didn’t allow us to come. Come and eat more vegetables.” He turned the turntable to Ding Xuerun and said it was delicious.

Lou Cheng retorted, saying: “You obviously don’t have time. On the other hand, I’m not going to let you.”

“I will spend some time alone Your mother. You can’t say no.” He turned to Ding Xuerun again. “He said that he must study with you. He can only study if you accompany him. My son, I have a headache myself. Thank you for your kindness.”

“Dad.” Lou Cheng hit him on the arm under the table, “You used the wrong idiom.”

“Runrun also gives me make-up lessons every day and goes to bed late. My grades are steadily improving. In two days, I could get 400 points on the final exam.”

Lou Hongye didn’t seem to find anything wrong with Lou Cheng’s words. He simply assumed that Lou Cheng’s deskmate must be very good at learning and methodical in order for him to allow his stubborn son to begin learning.

Cheng said that he would go to Beijing for the university entrance exam. Naturally, your National People’s Congress score is too high for him to be admitted. If you hadn’t given him extra lessons, he would still have gotten a zero,” she said gratefully.

Lou Cheng lowered his head and did not refute. He is feeling more burdened, and he has been thinking a lot.

“So I’ve prepared an apartment near the National People’s Congress.” Yue Yun’s original intention was to give Ding Xuerun, but she couldn’t say it clearly, so she was very tactful. “So, when you’re in college, Lou Cheng can pay you a visit.”.

Ding Xuerun glanced at Lou Cheng. Before he could say his refusal, Lou Cheng said, “The house needs to be bigger so that two people can live together!” He secretly reached Ding Xuerun’s hand under the table and squeezed it a bit.

But Ding Xuerun ignored him and said with a smile: “Auntie, when I go to college, I will live in a dorm. On weekends, I can pay him a visit. Look into which university Lou Cheng will attend and plan a place for him nearby.”

The refusal’s meaning was obvious. That was heard by Yue Yun, but Lou Cheng only heard the “live in a dorm” part. He simply stood up and exclaimed, “Damn it! You’d like to live in a dorm? Do you not want to live with me?”

“When you go to college, do you want me to make-up lessons for you?”  Ding Xuerun stepped on his foot and immediately woke up Lou Cheng, only to realize that his mouth was moving too quickly.

Lou Cheng sat in a daze, staring at Ding Xuerun, obstinate and clear. Ding Xuerun also returned his gaze, as if to say, “We’ll talk later.”

Ordinary parents will not think too much when they see that their sons have a good relationship with other male classmates, not to mention Ding Xuerun’s perfect performance, courtesy and tutoring, and good study. However, Yue Yun has been paying attention to his deskmate since the last time Lou Cheng made such a joke.

She looked at Ding Xuerun with curiosity, then at her son, who was upset because of a sentence from his deskmate.

Yue Yun still had work after dinner. Her driver drove the two to school. Lou Cheng’s father was also in the car. Suddenly, he had a thought: “You have a make-up lesson and live together? What do you eat? You’ll have to hire an aunt to cook for you.”

“Well, you’ll need to hire an aunt who is skilled in cooking.”

Lou Hongye: “Hire someone who can prepare Northeast cuisine. You like it.”

“No, I want Guilin cuisine.”

Lou Hongye glanced at Ding Xuerun, a native of Guilin, in the rearview mirror. He was no longer able to comprehend his son’s personality. He rarely thought of others so much, and he was still meticulous—too strange.

Lou Cheng dared to ask after entering the school, “Do you want to live in the dorm?”

“You are required to live in the dorm in the first year.”

“You’ll have to live with me if you can’t pay the school fee.”

Ding Xuerun did not continue the topic, but instead said, “Lou Cheng, your parents have seen it.”

“…What???” Lou Cheng was shocked, “Why don’t I know? Didn’t I behave very well? I didn’t call you baby, nor did I hug or kiss you.”

“It was revealed right from the start.” When they got out of school, they crossed the street, and Lou Cheng was standing on the oncoming side of the car. If a driver with poor vision collided with them, he would be the first to fly.

“It’s the same in the car, and at the dinner table. You’re far too obvious.” To the back, it was obvious that Ding Xuerun didn’t bother to hint that Lou Cheng shouldn’t do this or that.

Lou Cheng scratched his head blankly: “Did they really see it? Then why didn’t they say anything?”

“They will ask you.”

“Then what should I do?” The two entered the classroom.

Ding Xuerun sat down and said, “You can say that you didn’t take it seriously, so your parents…” Before he could finish his sentence, Lou Cheng grabbed his hand and stared at him firmly: “Ding Xuerun, I take it seriously. “

He gripped it so tightly that Ding Xuerun’s wrist ached, but he just stared at him and didn’t say anything.

“I take it seriously, I can’t lie,” Lou Cheng insisted. He suddenly thought of the love letter that the next class flower gave Ding Xuerun, and he was deeply impressed, “There is no way to hide love.”

The original sentence should have been more poetic and artistic, but Lou Cheng can’t remember it clearly.

However, recently, in order to write a beautiful composition, he excerpted some famous sentences that can be used in the composition.

“I know, Lou Cheng.” Ding Xuerun motioned to him to let go of his hand: “You are too hard.” 

When the bell rang, Lou Cheng abruptly let go of him, then quickly stood up and strode out.

After a brief hesitation, Ding Xuerun stood up and went up to ask for a leave of absence when he noticed the English teacher who had just walked in. Because he did well in school and received an admission notice, the admission notice and the guarantee quota are still different, indicating that the National People’s Congress is willing to admit him in the second year of senior high school.

He is naturally different from others.

Ding Xuerun directly chased him. He had no idea where Lou Cheng was, but he had a sneaking suspicion that he was there.

He dashed over, Lou Cheng was climbing the wall, and the man was already squatting at the top.

Ding Xuerun: “You come down.”

“You come up,” Lou Cheng said, crouched on the wall like a mushroom.

“You come down.”

“I won’t, you come up.”

“I’ll leave if you don’t come down.”

Lou Cheng jumped down and felt that Ding Xuerun was really mean.

“…Why do you want me to lie and tell you not to take it seriously, you don’t like me?” Other than the dormitory, this is the area with the fewest people in the school and the only blind spot for surveillance. Lou Cheng does not mince words and asks a direct questions.

“How did your brain develop? Your parents will notice and ask you. I’m simply telling you with the solution.”

“Do you want me to lie to them and say I’m just playing?” Lou Cheng had a distressed expression on his face. Ding Xuerun suddenly grabbed and pressed Lou Cheng against the wall, frowning, “I’m not done yet.”

Ding Xuerun was not afraid of anyone seeing him in a surveillance blind spot. When he came here to smoke, there was no one around.

He trapped Lou Cheng between the wall and his arms and chest, and said in a calm tone: “You ran away awkwardly as soon as you listened to my method, do you want to listen to the second method?”

Lou Cheng nodded.

“You can also directly admit it if they disagree and believe this is wrong. You must consider the consequences of either you leave or me.”

“No.” Lou Cheng denied it subconsciously and think about it carefully. There is such a possibility, he admitted pessimistically, “but I definitely won’t go, and I don’t want you to go.”

Ding Xuerun smiled and hugged Lou Cheng and said, “It’s okay.” 

Ding Xuerun does not overthink things. Their child became gay all of sudden, and the first solution must be to separate them.

Lou Cheng had been waiting for the call, but it hadn’t arrived until late at night, leaving him confused: “Did they not see it? Did we overthink it?”

While reading a book, Ding Xuerun said, “It’s for the best.”

But after a while, there really was a call.

“Speak calmly, don’t get agitated,” Ding Xuerun advised.”

Lou Cheng picked it up nervously.

It was his mother who called, but Lou Cheng turned on the speakerphone in case his parents were together.

After a few daily questions such as “Have you had dinner?” “Why haven’t you gone to bed?” “Go to bed early” and “Don’t learn until late,” there was a hesitant: “Cheng, you and your deskmate…”

“What? No! There’s nothing!” Lou Cheng was too nervous and blurted out a negative sentence.

On the other side of the phone: “…”

Ding Xuerun: “…” He wrote on the paper: “Did what I just say go to your left ear and come out your right ear?”

Lou Hongye couldn’t help to say, “You take care of every single thing personally. Do you think we don’t see it?”

“Dad, please don’t use idioms.”

Lou Hongye was half angry: “I told you, you are all still students, and I don’t object to you being in love, but…”

“I will not study if you force me or him to transfer! I’m not going to take the exam, and I’m not going to college!” Lou Cheng read aloud under Ding Xuerun’s cautious expression of wanting to beat him: “I can’t leave him, just like birds can’t leave the sky and fish can’t leave the water!”

Lou Cheng has recently excerpted a large number of sentences that are extremely useful and come to mind when they are used.

“…Who forced you to transfer?” Lou Hongye, “I told you to learn from others and to set the others thing aside ahead of time. Don’t influence your classmates to learn bad things, hide a little when you fall in love, and avoid getting caught by the school.”

Lou Cheng was stunned and Ding Xuerun didn’t expect it to be like this.

“That child is better than you. Aren’t you the ones who make the other bend?” Lou Hongye’s tears burst out as he spoke. He’s a good boy who bends when he speaks. He guessed that it was mostly Lou Cheng who enjoys acting in his daily life. If he pretended to be gay too much, he would make his deskmate…

Lou Cheng sat foolishly at the other end of the phone. After a long time, he threw himself at Ding Xuerun and kissed him passionately on the lips: “Runrun baby, your husband is going to marry you and take you home.”