Chapter 12: The Cannon Fodder Roommate of the Unlimited Flow Male Lead (Part 12)
Jiang University, 12:05 AM. The hands on the dormitory wall clock ticked away.
The moment they logged out, two messages spammed the world chat in the Main God space.
『GM: Player 01, cleared the dungeon Ghost Internet Cafe, killed boss x1, dropped items: Black Skeleton, Blood-stained Talisman. Rating: S+. Reward: Advanced Medical Kit x1.』
『GM: Player Lin Yu, cleared the dungeon Ghost Internet Cafe, unlocked hidden achievement: A Dead Man’s Wish, unlocked hidden item: The Boss’s Gift. Rating: S+. Reward: Advanced Medical Kit x1.』
The two messages, flashing with golden light, scrolled across the world channel, instantly sparking a heated discussion in the Main God space.
But none of it disturbed the tranquility of the dormitory building.
Outside the window, a breeze suddenly rustled the leaves on the trees. Time ticked by, and the leaves swayed gently.
A midsummer night was composed of a cool breeze, dim yellow streetlights, and the occasional sound of a car horn from the road.
However, in the quiet campus of Jiang University, these sounds seemed to be divided into two by the tranquil moonlight. Amidst the rustling of leaves, each dormitory building became a separate scene.
When Yu Lin opened his eyes again, he was still sitting on the bed, hugging a clean and soft quilt. Above him was the quiet ceiling of the boys’ dormitory.
The moonlight entered with a few chirps of cicadas, breaking the silence of the night.
Boys’ Dormitory 513.
Yu Lin raised his eyes slightly and saw Su Huai bending down to stand up from the side of the bed, calmly retracting his hand.
He was tall, with slightly cold features, and his calm expression was particularly convincing. With the movement, the black hair on his forehead moved slightly.
Yu Lin sat on the bed, his eyelids involuntarily moving with his actions. It wasn’t until he stood up that his lips moved slightly, but he didn’t know what to say.
“…” How to say it, what to say? If it weren’t for accidentally entering a dungeon, in the plot setting, they had only just met for a day.
And he was the one who had failed to confess.
So when Su Huai looked up, he saw the person sitting on the bed looking at him, his lips slightly pursed, his ears quickly turning red.
He was silent for a moment, took a deep breath, resisted the urge to get closer, lowered his eyelids, and placed his hand on top of Yu Lin’s head, patting it lightly. He said calmly, “It’s fine. You go to sleep first.”
After a pause, he leaned against the bed, turned his head to look at Yu Lin, and said calmly, “You just came back. It’s normal not to be used to it. Don’t be afraid. I’m right here.”
“…” Yu Lin pressed his lips together, not knowing how to tell him that it wasn’t that kind of not being used to it.
“…”
After a while, seeing that he had no intention of leaving, Yu Lin’s fingers, which were propped on the bedsheet, paused. In the end, he didn’t say anything and just let out a soft “en.”
Su Huai’s words were actually nothing special, sounding very ordinary, but they seemed to instantly pull the two of them back to the intimate Main God dungeon.
Well… it’s not that different, is it?
Yu Lin hesitated for a moment, secretly glanced at him, and after a moment, lifted the quilt and slowly lay down. Then he looked up again at Su Huai sitting by the bed.
He thought for a moment, then reached out his arm, which was fair and delicate in the moonlight. He raised his hand and waved it gently in front of Su Huai’s eyes. “Then… good night.”
His eyelashes lifted slightly as he said, “01.”
Su Huai looked down at him, and after a while, the corners of his lips curled up almost imperceptibly. “En.”
***
Yu Lin slept particularly soundly this time. He was woken up in the morning by the steaming aroma of breakfast.
He sat up, his hair a messy tuft, and looked at the desk hesitantly.
The desk, which had been clean and tidy yesterday, was now completely new.
A low-key gray computer was placed on the desk. Next to the computer desk was a pile of steaming breakfast.
There was soy milk, fried dough sticks, and cheese and corn on the desk. There were even noodles and desserts.
They were arranged in categories, as if someone had summoned them for a morning meeting.
“…” Yu Lin’s expression was hesitant. He reached out, scratched his hair lightly, and slowly got out of bed, walking into the bathroom with sleepiness.
There was already someone in the bathroom. Su Huai had just finished showering, his hair dripping wet.
He was drying his hair. Hearing the movement, his dark eyes looked over. Seeing Yu Lin, the corners of his lips curled up slightly. “You’re awake.”
He had just finished showering and was covered in steam. He was wearing a black tank top. As he lowered his head, his movements revealed his strong and powerful arms.
When Yu Lin walked in and saw him, his gaze swept over him. He was stunned for a moment and looked away slightly.
Yu Lin turned his head and said softly, “En, I’m already awake.”
Su Huai grunted, “En.” Seeing his movement out of the corner of his eye, the towel in his hand suddenly paused.
After a long while, he looked up and stared at Yu Lin for a while, then suddenly turned his head to look at the mirror behind him.
The mirror reflected the scene in the bathroom clearly. When he saw the red tips of Yu Lin’s ears and his tightly pressed lips in the mirror, he looked up, and a barely perceptible laugh rolled out of his throat.
Yu Lin: “…”
Su Huai’s gaze softened. He walked over and didn’t continue to tease Yu Lin. He said calmly, “You wash up first. Come out for breakfast in a bit. After you’re done, I’ll take you to class.”
“…”
He walked out and thoughtfully closed the door.
The bathroom door closed with a click from the outside.
Yu Lin’s eyelashes lifted slightly as he looked at the mirror. The person in the mirror had a calm expression, but his ears were a little hot.
After a pause, Yu Lin pressed his lips together slightly, turned to look at the door, and after a moment, still said, “En.”
***
The breakfast Su Huai bought was all delicious. Yu Lin sat at the desk and ate a little of everything. His favorite was still the cheese and corn cup.
Su Huai took note of his preferences and found that he didn’t like spicy food and had a particular fondness for sweets.
After he finished eating, Su Huai got up and cleared away all the remaining breakfast. He glanced at the class schedule and reached for the book on the desk.
He glanced at the time and said, “There’s only one class in the morning. I’ll pick you up after it’s over. What do you want to eat for lunch?”
His expression was calm, his actions natural.
Yu Lin: “…”
Yu Lin looked at him, for the first time feeling that the plot was changing so fast that he couldn’t keep up.
Yu Lin was silent for a moment, then asked softly, “You… know my class schedule?”
Many people would print out their class schedules and stick them in their dorms to avoid forgetting, but there was none on Yu Lin’s desk.
Su Huai grunted, “En.” The knuckles of his fingers resting on the desk curled slightly. He lowered his head to recall. Yu Lin was a freshman studying finance. The business school’s classes were divided into large and small classes. The one this morning happened to be a small class, so he couldn’t go and sit in.
Su Huai pressed his lips together, a little disappointed. He had to settle for the next best thing. After a moment of thought, he said, “It’s crowded at noon, and the stairwell is packed. Don’t rush out when the time comes. Wait for the public class in the evening. I’ll go with you.”
“…” Yu Lin, who had been pretending to tidy up his desk, paused. After a moment of hesitation, he tilted his head slightly and glanced at Su Huai’s desk.
The phone on the desk happened to light up, and the lock screen flashed for a moment, revealing a page that Yu Lin was very familiar with.
His class schedule.
“…” When did he change it?
Yu Lin blinked in bewilderment.
He glanced at the class schedule, was silent for a moment, and then had to ask, “…Won’t it delay your work?”
“No.” Su Huai said casually. He lowered his eyes to look over and said, “Nothing major recently.”
Nothing major recently, because he was holding his book and was going to go to class with him.
With him doing this, even if Yu Lin were a block of wood, he should have realized.
Yu Lin lacked experience in dealing with such matters, and there was no such scene in the script. He could only go by his own thoughts.
He pressed his lips together, hesitated for a moment, and still asked, “…Why?”
He said, “You said yesterday… you don’t like boys.”
Although they had stayed in the dungeon for a while, in the real world, it had indeed only been a day.
After returning to reality, could one shamelessly admit that they liked the person they had rejected the day before, and admit the feelings that had arisen under stimulating circumstances?
Yu Lin was a little confused. He thought that denying one’s past self was a difficult thing to do.
Hearing this, Su Huai, standing in the dormitory with the book, was silent for a long time. His Adam’s apple bobbed as he said hoarsely, “En, I don’t like boys, but… I like you.”
He seemed not to know how to handle these words. After a moment of silence, he said, “I’m doing this… because I don’t want you to feel like you’re in limbo, and I don’t want… you to think I’m not serious.”
Su Huai pressed his lips together and said calmly, “After coming back, I also wanted to… take it slow, but… I found that I couldn’t control myself.”
His eyes were dark as they landed on Yu Lin. He said softly, “It’s the first time I’ve liked someone. I have no experience. I don’t know how to like someone well.”
He reached out, ruffled Yu Lin’s hair, and with his head lowered, said calmly, “For now, I can only think of giving you everything I can… you can pick and choose.”
Yu Lin sat at the desk, stunned, looking up at him, his cheeks hot enough to fry an egg.
Su Huai’s words were a little unfamiliar to him.
The scripts Yu Lin was best at were actually leveling-up types. He had once turned the tide as the senior brother of a sect, and he had also been a soldier on the battlefield.
It wasn’t that no one had confessed to him. There were many, but their faces were already very blurry because Yu Lin had never had such thoughts.
So in terms of relationships, he had no relevant experience. This was a completely unfamiliar field for him.
He only knew that facing such a Su Huai… he didn’t seem to reject it, but for a moment, he didn’t know how to respond.
Because he was so at a loss, for a moment, Yu Lin couldn’t even maintain his basic “deeply in love” persona.
He also couldn’t say the words “I like you” that were written in the previous script.
“…”
Just as he was thinking, a cool sensation touched the space between his eyebrows. Su Huai reached out his knuckle and gently rubbed it.
A low and deep voice fell. “…It’s not that you have to accept it immediately just because you like someone. No rush. You can take your time to think.”
After Su Huai finished speaking, his expression returned to calm. He stood up with the book and was about to ask Yu Lin something else when the phone on the desk suddenly vibrated.
He picked up the phone and swiped it open. Xu Zeze’s angry roar immediately came through.
“Ahhhhhhhhhh—”
Xu Zeze shouted, “My bro?? Where the hell did you go!! You just came back to the company this morning to fix a bug and told me you were going out to buy breakfast… Who buys breakfast for three hours? Where’s the breakfast?!?”
“…”
Su Huai frowned. “You’re not full?”
“This has nothing to do with whether I’m full or not…” Xu Zeze was shocked. “Is this about whether I’m full or not? What earth-shattering thing are you up to? You’ve been acting so weird these past two days…”
Su Huai hung up the phone.
9:40, twenty minutes before the second class of the morning.
The business school was far away. Walking from the dormitory building at this time would be just right.
Yu Lin pressed his lips together, silently glanced at the book in Su Huai’s hand, his ears turning red. He coughed lightly. “Then… see you at noon? You… go back to work first?”
Su Huai’s company was in its start-up phase, so he was usually nowhere to be seen on campus.
Although their relationship seemed to have changed a little… Yu Lin didn’t plan on occupying all of his time.
Su Huai grunted, “En.” He looked at him and didn’t refuse again. After a pause, he handed the book over and said, “Then I’ll go find you at noon.”
Yu Lin nodded silently, took the book, glanced at the class schedule on his phone screen again, looked away, and then silently pushed the door open and left.
Jiang University’s campus was very large, and the business school was on the far left.
During the second class, it was the peak of a new wave of foot traffic. Yu Lin followed the crowd upstairs, entered the classroom with his book, and was immediately surrounded by onlookers.
There were no secrets in a university. News spread quickly. Because of his outstanding appearance, Yu Lin had attracted a lot of attention as soon as he entered the school.
Many small things would be magnified. There were many people at the KTV yesterday, and the matter between him and Su Huai had been spread.
The young man was wearing a simple white T-shirt and light-colored jeans. His black hair fell over his forehead, his eyelashes were thick, and he looked like a beautiful oil painting when he was quiet.
He was a beauty, but not the aggressive type. His features were slightly cold, but his temperament made it easy for people to have a good impression of him.
Many people knew him and had admired his looks to varying degrees. When the people in his class heard the bad news, they all turned to look at him with sympathetic expressions.
Seeing that Yu Lin’s expression was calm, as if he didn’t care at all, their eyes became even more pitiful.
Of course, there were also those who looked down on him.
Xia Xin sat in the classroom, with a head of brilliant pink hair, wearing trendy clothes, his features flamboyant and delicate.
He was playing games with his legs crossed. Because he had seen through the hypocritical nature under the skin of this so-called business school beauty at a glance, he didn’t even lift his eyelids.
The person next to him whispered to him, “Brother Xin, Yu Lin confessed to Su Huai from the computer science department yesterday and was actually rejected.”
This person stroked his chin, a little regretful. “Although he’s a boy, he’s really beautiful. Su Huai doesn’t even like him?”
Hearing this, Xia Xin immediately sneered, cast a skill with his finger, and said lazily, “Is that strange? Not everyone likes a vase.”
“…”
There were small discussions everywhere, whispers, with no malicious intent. You couldn’t even find the person if you looked, you could only feel the faint gazes.
Yu Lin ignored them, found an empty seat with no one next to it, sat down calmly, and opened his textbook.
The textbook was very thick. The original host had basically never read it, and there were no notes on it. Yu Lin flipped through it and simply started reading from the first page.
He read with great interest, his features quiet. It wasn’t until the class bell rang and the old professor came in with his computer and started lecturing that he regained his focus.
Yu Lin had a natural fondness for reading. After a class, he found it very interesting.
When the bell for the end of class rang, he packed up his textbook but didn’t rush to leave. He rested his arm on the desk, his eyes curving slightly.
At the door, Xia Xin was wearing headphones and listening to music. He happened to turn his head and unexpectedly saw him smile. He was stunned for a moment, then frowned and turned his head away.
The person next to him asked, “What’s wrong, Brother Xin?”
Xia Xin: “…Nothing.”
The teaching building for the last class was particularly crowded. Everyone was afraid of the crowds in the cafeteria, so as soon as the bell rang, they rushed out.
The people in the class left one after another.
The classroom suddenly became empty, but the corridor was very crowded, with people pushing and shoving.
Yu Lin remembered Su Huai’s words, thought for a moment, and chose to wait in the classroom.
A boy from another class passed by, looked at him through the window, and suddenly whistled loudly.
The boy leaned on the window, his teasing voice sounding out, “Hey, Yu Lin, Su Huai doesn’t want you, but I do. How about you come with me? I’ll definitely make you feel good—”
The surroundings were silent for a second. Someone opened their mouth to curse him, and someone else followed suit and jeered.
Xia Xin had just reached the back door when he suddenly turned his head. “Idiot—”
He paused and closed his mouth, because Yu Lin in the classroom had put down his textbook and also stood up.
Yu Lin frowned and looked up at the window. He didn’t look for trouble, but that didn’t mean he didn’t have a temper.
He pressed his lips together, didn’t try to smooth things over, but instead stood up with a placid expression and walked towards the window.
Facing the boy with a lewd smile and a few pimples on his face, he said calmly, “Apologize.”
The boy was stunned for a moment. He looked at his perfect features, his gentle eyes, and the straight, slender legs under his jeans. He was stunned for a moment, his eyes lewd.
He curled his lips. “I’m serious. If you come with me, I’ll—”
A crisp cracking sound.
He was kicked to his knees and then forcefully dragged back. The person dragging him was very strong. As he was held down, for a moment, he almost felt like he was being stared at by a wild beast, and the hair on his body stood on end.
This terror was without reason, as if it came from the depths of his soul, and he would be torn to shreds in the next second. The boy’s shoulder was in excruciating pain, his face pale, and he couldn’t help but shiver.
Su Huai lowered his eyes, pressed him down, his face directly against the cold wall, and said calmly, “Apologize.”
The boy paused, his face flushed, and he turned his head to shout, “Who are you… you, you, I was just—ah! Joking with him!”
“Not funny.” Su Huai said, “Apologize.”
The knuckles of his fingers, which were pinching the boy’s shoulder, almost made a cracking sound. He lowered his head, his voice icy. “…Can’t you keep your mouth clean? If not, I’ll help you wash it?”
“…”
The boy’s face was pressed against the wall, his whole body cold, and he was trembling with pain. He hurriedly begged for mercy, saying wretchedly, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I was wrong.”
Su Huai let go of his hand. He slid to the ground. The feeling of being stared at was still there, and his shoulder hurt as if it had been crushed.
He opened his eyes, panting as he lay on the wall outside the classroom, feeling as if he had almost died once.
Su Huai frowned, walked into the classroom, and reached for the book on Yu Lin’s desk.
He turned his head, his lips slightly pursed, looking annoyed. “Sorry, I’m late.”
The surrounding people: “…”
The surrounding people: “………………”
Didn’t he reject him?
Who started the rumor! Who started the rumor!!!