under the filth

Spring and summer are good seasons for love. You can often see wild ducks traveling together in the lake at the University of Bath.Among the students, not only did they form a new couple, but also a scandal began to spread quietly.

On the grass by the lake, four white girls sat together and chatted about the latest gossip.

After a burst of wanton laughter, the curly-haired girl with freckles sitting on the far left suddenly raised her head and looked around. After making sure that no one was passing by, she lowered her voice and spoke cautiously to her three friends. Said: "Have you heard? Lu from the School of Management is chasing Tang from the same school."

"Is it those two Chinese?" The girl with soft blond hair in the middle asked in surprise.

The girl next to her who was touching up her makeup was obviously so frightened by the news that she even put on her lipstick crookedly, but she couldn't care about her makeup now, rolled her eyes exaggeratedly, and wailed: "Oh my god, why do handsome guys like handsome guys?" ? I still want to date Don."

"Ai Li, are you sure?" The brown-haired girl on the far right asked with a frown, she has never liked such groundless rumors, "I heard that Lu is gay, but Tang seems to have never said what type he likes , and have never been ambiguous with anyone."

"I also heard from a friend in the School of Management that she and Lu are in the same department. She said that Lu used to sit with the Nat brothers in class, and now as long as Tang is around, he will sit behind Tang or sit directly side by side. Recently The number of times the two of them meet is more than the total before, and sometimes they even have dinner together, I think there must be something tricky!" Ellie said confidently.

"What's the matter with meeting so many times? Don't you often stay with Andy Bryan and Lily Johnson, two American students studying abroad?" The girl said while wiping her crooked lipstick, "By the way, Louis, I remember you In the same dormitory as Johnson? Ask her for me to see if I still have a chance."

Louis frowned, obviously not wanting to get involved in the topic.She lowered her head and brushed her brown hair behind her ears: "I don't know her very well."

"Don't even think about it. Compared with Lu, you may have nothing at all. You don't even have the opportunity to sit behind Tang Cen in class." The blonde girl saw Louis' displeasure, and she took out a wet wipe from her bag to replace it. The friend wiped the lipstick on his lips, and said mockingly, "You can't even use chopsticks, and you're not a student of the School of Management. What do you have in common with Tang Neng?"

Ellie, on the other hand, looked like she didn't think it was a big deal: "Don't give up so early, it's not certain whether Lu can catch up with him. If Tang doesn't like men, it won't matter how long Lu chases them."

"But first, you have to learn to use chopsticks." Louis added coldly, "Otherwise, it will be a problem for you to even eat together."

There are a lot of gossip conversations like this on campus, and not only the girls talk, but even the boys can't help asking whether the high-quality resources of the School of Management are intended to be digested internally.

A figure ran quickly in the corridor, and rushed straight to the person in front.

"Andy!" With a shout, the figure stopped before bumping into that person, and asked out of breath, "Is Lu from your academy chasing Tang recently? It's those two Chinese."

That Andy who is always smiling is like a dynamite bag today, and anyone who comes will be ignited immediately.He now growls in a grumpy manner, "I don't know! Why do you all come to ask me? Why don't you ask Tang or Lu!"

"That's not because you have a good relationship with him..." The boy who was spit on by Andy shrank his neck in fright, and he whispered, "We talked all night and no one dared to ask, you know , the Chinese are more reserved, so you can’t just ask them: ‘Hey, are you dating?’”

Andy choked on his words, opened his mouth, and couldn't say a word for a long time.After a while, under the hopeful eyes of the boy, Andy asked with a headache: "Forget about Tang, the news that Lu is gay has spread a long time ago, why haven't you seen any of you chasing Lu before?"

"Oh!" The boy obviously didn't expect Andy to say such a thing, he muttered, "I prefer Tang's..."

The boy's voice was not loud, but Andy could hear clearly: "Hey, I'm still here."

At this time, another boy joined their topic: "Okay Andy, you don't understand their thoughts."

Andy was about to refute him, but found that the person who came was a senior from his club.He could only ask back with a headache: "What do you think?"

Before the senior could speak, the boy who had been pestering Andy before answered him first: "Which gay doesn't want to have a romantic relationship with a beautiful oriental man! Lu was also chased before, and there are too many people who have been rejected. No one dares to make a move."

Then he hooked Andy's shoulders again, and sneaked up to him and said, "I heard they kissed under the cherry blossom trees in Victoria Park before."

"Kiss?! Oh my god, what a hell!" Andy quickly tore off the person who stuck to him like bubble gum, "Don't talk nonsense, Don never told me about it!"

The senior patted him on the shoulder, and said in a tone that seemed to be comforting him: "It doesn't mean that he didn't tell you. Will you tell Tang when you will kiss Johnson?"

"..." Oh damn, he really does.

Andy on this side was entangled by boys, but Lily on the other side was looking for Tang Cen secretly while hiding from the crowd.

After walking around half of the campus, she finally ran into Tang Cen on the path of the library.

"Tang, you are here." Lily called Tang Cen, and trotted all the way to him.

Tang Cen looked at Lily in surprise: "Lily? What's the matter, Andy isn't with me." In his impression, Lily rarely came to the library, and he thought she couldn't find Andy.

Lily stood in front of him and said with some embarrassment: "No, I'm here to find you."

"Looking for me? What happened?" Tang Cen was even more puzzled when he heard that Lily was looking for him. Most of the things between them were resolved by sending emails.

Lily looked down at her feet, her toes were just stepping on a leaf.She walked back and forth a few times before raising her head, and said uncomfortably, "I heard some rumors... I think I should tell you something."

Tang Cen had an intuition that what Lily was about to say would not be good news, but he still nodded: "Go ahead."

Lily's fingers grabbed her skirt uneasily: "You may not know that Lu from the Department of Business Administration is the one we met at afternoon tea last time."

"Huh?" Tang Cen raised his eyebrows, motioning for her to continue.

The girl took a deep breath, summoned up the courage to speak out what had been held in her heart for half a month: "He is gay."

Tang Cen frowned upon hearing this, and rarely looked at her seriously: "Lily, this is not a joke."

"I'm not joking! He admitted it himself. Many people know it, and Andy knows it too!" Lily had never seen Tang Cen with such a serious expression. She was a little worried that Tang Cen would be angry, but she continued, " During this time, you were relatively close, so many people in the school thought he was chasing you."

Lily's words completely stunned Tang Cen. He opened his mouth and asked Lili in a panicked tone after a long time: "Is he... chasing me?"

"I felt that something was wrong that day, but...but I didn't dare to tell you because I was not sure. During this time, many people have come to ask me if Lu is chasing you." Lily said indiscriminately, she had already been caught by those I'm so tired, now I don't know whether I'm justifying myself or explaining something to Tang Cen.

"Lu was very close to the Nat brothers before, but the Nat brothers all have fiancees, and some boys confessed to him but were rejected by him! So I thought... I wonder if he likes you." Lily worried Said, "I think you should know this, if not, it's better not to be misunderstood."

Tang Cen took a deep breath and rubbed between his brows irritably: "I will talk to him. Thank you, Lily, go back early."

Facing Lily, Tang Cen's tone was still gentle, but his expression was not very good-looking, and he walked past Lily with a stern face.

"Will you agree to him?" Lily couldn't help asking standing behind him, she could see the anger in his back.

Tang Cen did not speak, nor did he move forward, but just stood there silently.

Just when Lily thought he would not answer her, Tang Cen's voice came along the wind: "I don't know, maybe not." It was like a sigh, drifting a little bit in the wind mixed with the fragrance of flowers.

Tang Cen blew a cold wind all the way, and when he arrived at the dormitory, he had calmed down. He took out his phone, found the number in the address book, and pressed it.Like every time before, he was picked up not long after he dialed out.

Lu Sheng's voice sounded from the other end. I don't know where he is, and there is still electrical noise in his voice: "Tang Cen? What's wrong?"

"Lu Sheng." Tang Cen fell silent after calling his name. It took a while to organize his words, "I... heard some rumors today and want to talk to you face to face. Have you done anything this Saturday? time?"

"...Okay. Where are you meeting?" Lu Sheng didn't ask him what the rumor was, nor did he ask why he wanted to talk to him. Such a tacit action further confirmed what Lily said.

Tang Cen believed the rumor that Lu Sheng was pursuing him.But this matter has already been widely spread in the school, Tang Cen is not good to ask Lu Sheng to meet alone in school because of this matter.

When I was in the club before, I heard a Chinese restaurant with good reviews. Tang Cen thought about it and decided on it: "There is a Chinese restaurant in StJame's Parade, 'HoiFaan', if you know, it will be at noon on Saturday. Then meet."

Lu Sheng didn't shirk, and readily agreed to him: "Okay, then see you on Saturday."