What to do if you are spotted by the straight man next door

Su Bin remembered Yang Chengzhe's advice, and vowed never to mention this word in front of Ellen, and heard Yang Chengzhe ask him, "Where did you go for dinner tonight?"

"Ah, it's the steak restaurant where we had dinner together last time," Su Bin said with a sigh, "I don't know what's wrong, I don't think the steak tastes as good as the one we went together..."

Yang Chengzhe asked Su Bin: "Did you order filet? How familiar do you want it?"

Su Bin: "Seven points."

"That's no wonder," Yang Chengzhe said with a smile, "Last time you ate medium rare."

Su Bin was stunned: "Why, I remember that the last time I asked for medium-rare!"

"It was Ellen who ordered the dish that day, and he changed it for you. The best doneness of filet is medium rare, and Ellen is more particular about this." Yang Chengzhe glanced at Su Bin and said with a smile, "But I It's strange, he usually doesn't make decisions for others, even if you order rose wine for you, it seems that he is quite special to you."

Su Bin: "..." Yes, is it?

Thinking of Ellen treating him so well, he still suspected that the other party was a vampire, and even used garlic to guard against him... Woo~ Su Bin couldn't help but want to cover his face.

Before returning to the room, Su Bin saw that the door of Jin Fei's room was closed, and asked Yang Chengzhe, "Did Jin Fei come back?"

"Go out and have fun," Yang Chengzhe said with a helpless smile, "As soon as that guy comes back, he can't finish answering social calls."

Su Bin's eyes widened: "It's almost ten o'clock!"

Yang Chengzhe shrugged: "There is no two or three o'clock that I can't come back."

Su Bin went upstairs and stopped at the door of Ellen's room. Thinking of his previous "villain" behavior, he once again felt a deep sense of guilt...

Su Bin decided to put those two garlics back into the kitchen at night, and then take a good bath.

When he walked into the bathroom with a clean change of clothes, he found that the bathroom hadn't been used since it was cleaned in the morning.The tiled walls were also dry, without the usual post-bath moisture that Ellen used to have.

The reason why Su Bin is so careful is not because he has a good memory, but because of the sequelae of his cleaning at Ellen's request.Every time it is cleaned, everything is placed in a clear and orderly manner, so it is clear at a glance whether anyone has used it after cleaning.

Su Bin was a little puzzled, it was obviously past the time for Ellen to use the bathroom...

Before going to bed, Su Bin tangled up about Sun Yujie for a while, thinking of sending him a comforting text message, but didn't know what to say, so he finally gave up.

Early the next morning, Su Bin called Chen Xiaotian and poured out his thoughts to him.

"It is said that there are many homosexuals in country B. I didn't expect you to meet one so soon." Chen Xiaotian laughed when he heard this.

"Hey, I'm almost dying of worry. How do you think I can get along with him? I think I can't accept it, but I think he's so pitiful." The lonely Sun Yujie across the road appeared before Su Bin's eyes. The thin figure and lonely expression.

Chen Xiaotian asked: "You're not gay, what are you worrying about?"

Su Bin was speechless for a moment, Chen Xiaotian was right, Sun Yujie had confessed to him, he didn't think that way about him, he had nothing to worry about... But, Chen Xiaotian is his girlfriend, isn't she worried at all? ?Li Meihan was the same last time, and so is Sun Yujie this time, why is she so relieved of herself!

"Aren't you worried about me?" Su Bin's melancholy turned into resentment, "If I make friends with him, aren't you afraid that he will do something to me, and then I will become gay?"

"Hahaha..." Chen Xiaotian laughed out loud when he heard this, "You said that your classmate has a girlish personality. If that's the case, how could he like your type!"

Su Bin was anxious: "What's wrong with my type!?"

Chen Xiaotian: "You are so coquettish and clingy... I don't think it's possible for him to take a fancy to you. Even if I'm worried, I should be worried about your roommates... What are their names, Ellen? Jin Fei? If you tell me they're gay, I'd advise you to be careful."

Su Bin went crazy: "What do you mean! I'm acting coquettish and clingy only to you, not to everyone!"

"Okay, okay," Chen Xiaotian comforted him, "I'm just joking with you, after all, you don't need to think that way at all, I'm not worried."

"..." Su Bin was really pissed off by her. Isn't his image in his girlfriend's heart not tall and mighty at all (...)?I am a handsome guy anyway, my girlfriend really doesn't have any sense of crisis!

"Your classmate named Sun Yujie, he will tell you his sexual orientation, he must have mustered a lot of courage." Chen Xiaotian said.

"Hmm..." That's right, Su Bin felt that it was not easy for Sun Yujie.

Chen Xiaotian said: "Although country B is much more open than China, homosexuals are still a disadvantaged group. If you can look at him with a normal perspective, then try to be more tolerant. You still can't accept Sun Yujie, and you have been entangled repeatedly. In fact, it is you who are uncomfortable. yourself, right?"

"Yes..." Su Bin knew that Chen Xiaotian was about to explain the truth to him again, so he listened obediently. The thing that attracted him most from Chen Xiaotian was the light of wisdom revealed from time to time.

Chen Xiaotian really said: "I read such a sentence in a book, 'tolerance' is to allow others to have their own actions and opinions, and to tolerate the existence of dissidents without prejudice. Only by being tolerant to others can we free ourselves. The tolerance of others will give you a little more space in your life. If you let go of your prejudice against Sun Yujie, you will have a friend like him. I think that when you encounter the same recent situation in the future and need someone to accompany and comfort you, he will also be there without hesitation. appear by your side."

When Su Bin heard this, he immediately figured it out...

... Teacher, teacher wife, can I kneel and lick you?

He simply fell in love with Chen Xiaotian, why would such a beautiful and intelligent goddess be chased by him?He must have accumulated virtue in his previous life!Oh no, it may be that I didn't get enough family warmth since I was a child, so God just compensated him with a perfect girlfriend... In this way, God is still very fair!

Su Bin also suddenly understood why Yang Chengzhe could mention homosexuality so lightly, because Dr. Yang is also very tolerant, and his realm is also very high!

Su Bin was in high spirits, feeling that his ideological realm had also risen to a higher level.

Hanging up the phone contentedly, Su Bin quickly sent a text message to Sun Yujie: "Jason, I'm done digesting it, I won't be prejudiced against you, let's continue to be friends: D"

Sun Yujie replied to him with a text message almost in seconds: "(T_T) Thank you ~ Shortbread!"

Su Bin: "..."

Three seconds later, Sun Yujie sent another message: "I'm sorry, I made a typo too fast, it's Su Bin: P"

Su Bin: "..."

Su Bin stayed on the bed for a while before going to wash up, only to find that the bathroom was still the same as it was after he cleaned up last night... Could it be that Ellen didn't come back yesterday?Didn't come home all night?

Hearing the sound of the vacuum cleaner downstairs, Su Bin hurried downstairs and asked Yang Chengzhe who was cleaning: "Brother Cheng, where did Ellen go? He didn't come back last night?"

Yang Chengzhe: "He went home."

Su Bin didn't understand: "Huh? Go home?"

Yang Chengzhe: "His home is in City D."

Wow, it's the capital of country B!Su Bin remembered that Ellen is a local, of course she has a home, just like a student who goes to a university in a foreign country, if her hometown is close to the university, she will go back on weekends.

The sound of the vacuum cleaner was booming, and Su Bin couldn't help but amplify his voice and said, "Then when will he come back?" Because he raised his voice, this sentence sounded a bit urgent.

Yang Chengzhe turned down the power of the vacuum cleaner, straightened his waist, and couldn't help making a joke: "I haven't seen anyone for a day, so you miss him so much!"

"..." The corner of Su Bin's mouth twitched.

Yang Chengzhe smiled: "I guess I'll be back tonight."

In order to save the embarrassment just now, Su Bin said in a hurry: "Didn't you two say you want to change rooms? When will you change?"

Yang Chengzhe was taken aback, and put the vacuum cleaner into the storage room: "I forgot about it, and Ellen didn't mention it...I'll ask him when he comes back."

"Oh..." Actually, he wasn't that anxious. Su Bin scratched his head, poured some water on the potted green onions, and asked Yang Chengzhe, "Is there anything else that needs to be cleaned? Let me do it."

Yang Chengzhe instructed: "If you have time, you can clean the bathroom downstairs, and then wipe the window sill next to the spinning bike." There is also a public washroom on the first floor, but there are no bathing facilities.

"Okay!" Su Bin took two pairs of disposable rubber gloves from the bathroom upstairs, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to do a big job, to do something for this "family".

Affected by Ellen, Su Bin habitually wiped the toilet with disinfectant, as well as floor tiles, corners, marble countertops, mirrors... Half an hour later, the whole bathroom looked crystal clear. Shiny!Then there are the window sills in the living room, the glass windows...

After he finished cleaning, Yang Chengzhe was stunned: "Have you been infected by Ellen's cleanliness?"

"Hey..." Su Bin was praised, and his mood improved. It seems that doing deep cleaning occasionally is pretty good.

At noon, he and Yang Chengzhe ate something casually. Hearing that Jin Fei came back in the early morning and was still sleeping, they didn't wake him up.

It was approaching evening, before Jin Fei opened his eyes, he smelled a scent of vegetables coming in through the crack of the door... In a daze, he thought he was still in a mansion in China, and the nanny was preparing a sumptuous lunch... Noon, noon ……Depend on!It's almost five o'clock!

Jin Fei got up from the bed and opened the door. The smell outside was more intense, and he suddenly felt hungry.

Wow... Who hired the hourly worker?The house is so clean!

Jin Fei didn't wash his face or brush his teeth. He smelled the aroma and went to the kitchen first... It smells like braised pork!

Seeing the busy figures in the kitchen, Jin Fei couldn't believe it. This guy was a snail girl sent from heaven... Oh no, is it the "mud snail boy"?

"Are you awake?" Su Bin looked at Jin Fei with a smile, "After a whole day's sleep, I'm convinced."

Jin Fei's nose moved slightly, and he leaned over, bent down and lowered his head to eat a piece of braised pork from a bowl of braised pork: "Aww..."

Su Bin was speechless... Is this guy a dog?

Jin Fei blinked his dry eyes twice, trying to squeeze out a tear of emotion: "You are so virtuous!"

Su Bin asked, "Is it delicious?"

"Delicious!" Jin Fei looked at Su Bin cutting the cabbage with a curious face, and watched him skillfully raise and lower the knife, and couldn't help sighing, "Tsk tsk tsk, if anyone can marry you home, it's really... ..."

Su Bin corrected: "You should say, whoever can marry me must be very happy, right?"

"No no no, I mean... are you interested in being my Jin family's door-to-door son-in-law?" Jin Fei continued to blink his hungry eyes, "Hurry up and get rid of your 'British Sweet' Well, I can assure you, she is definitely not as good as my sister, my sister looks very childlike..."

Before the word "milk" was uttered, Jin Fei saw Su Bin holding up a kitchen knife and chopping vigorously... "Boom!" The last half of the cabbage on the cutting board was brutally chopped into pieces, followed by Su Bin's fierce eyes sweeping over :"What did you say?"

Jin Fei finally woke up from head to toe, inside and out, he took a step back carefully, and said in a deep voice: "Hero, put down the knife, we have something to talk about."

Su Bin snorted while holding the kitchen knife, and said arrogantly, "Don't curse my relationship with my girlfriend!"

At this moment, the two of them only heard the sound of the porch door, and turned their heads together to look—it was Ellen who had returned.

The author has something to say: [About the English name change to Chinese literal translation]

Dear readers:

Because of changing the name of the article (English translation) in the last chapter, I saw that many readers were discussing whether the English name or the Chinese name is better. I read everyone’s comments carefully. After the name change, many original readers raised Reading discomfort, I am really guilty and restless. I am very anxious to see such comments for two consecutive days. I can’t eat well, and I can’t sleep well...

To be honest, I (/_＼) was the one who struggled the most.

First of all, I would like to say a word for the editor. The editor's opinion is not mandatory, but just a suggestion, and I adopted her suggestion not because I let the editor's words go, but after careful consideration.The editor did not say this from her own point of view, but from the point of view of most readers, and felt that it was more appropriate to change it to Chinese.She has been in the industry for many years and has read countless articles in Jinjiang, so I respect her opinion very much.When I saw someone questioning the English ability of the editor, I also joked with her like this, but it is not... the editor itself is from the English department (/_＼). . .

Secondly, my own writing experience is of course that I feel that English names are more convenient (old readers who have read "The Road to the Male God" [now renamed "Summer Leaf"] know that many English names appeared later in that article) , but the reason why I will change this time is because I sometimes review the text by myself. At first glance, Chinese names are mixed with English names, and I think it looks very messy.Although it is easy to write, I am a bit obsessive-compulsive. Looking at the full screen of Chinese mixed with a little English, I want to delete all those English words. . .

Later, the editor proposed to change it to a literal translation in Chinese, and I felt that it was awkward to read, so I struggled for a long time.Later, I also consulted several author friends, and their opinions were all changed to Chinese.

After that, I also checked some information on reading comfort by myself, and learned that if there are more than two languages ​​in an article (although the English names are very simple), readers will feel that switching languages ​​​​is difficult when they first read. Very tiring, unless you really like this story and have the desire to understand it, otherwise the average reader may not want to read it when they first see Chinese mixed with English...

Yes, I do see that English names can be better substituted into the foreign environment, and I also know that many readers can easily read English, but from the perspective of overall comfort, literal translation is better, otherwise why so many famous foreign works are translated into Chinese Will it be translated together with the English name later?For example, most people think of the little girl in Wonderland when they see "Alice". Hamlet (Hamlet's English name) My first reaction is "Ham+let" or "Halley's Comet (Halley, similar pronunciation)". However, if you read the original version, you will think that the name Hamlet is super handsome. But the translation of "Hamlet" is unbearable to look at - these are all because of "preconceived ideas".

Readers who leave a message will feel uncomfortable because you already have a slightly specific image of the character Allen.

A reader complained that when he saw Allen, he would automatically substitute into the tall and nobles, attacking the beauty and prosperity, etc., and suddenly saw that "Allen" was replaced by this cannon fodder male supporting passer-by who is not mainstream in the countryside... (←hhhh forgive me, I really can’t bear it. Can’t stop, I couldn’t stop laughing when I typed this paragraph 23333)

The image that the reader mentioned is the image I want to express for Xiaogong. Although I have only written fifteen chapters, the main characters have already come alive in my mind.Compared with the meaning of a name, Allen seems to represent Xiaogong’s current character image and personality traits in the minds of old readers, so it was suddenly changed to "Allen", and everyone felt uncomfortable (／_＼) ...I really feel very guilty for this, because I also feel very painful (cover my face).

But if you mention "Lense", "Lance", and "Li Yansi", who do you think these people are?

Yes, those names belong to Allen too.In fact, when I first saved the manuscript, Xiao Gong was not called Allen, I wrote him as "Lense".When I wrote about Chapter 5, I checked the relevant information on the names of nobles in country B, and learned that the middle name is mostly the surname of the mother’s family, and Lense is the English translation of Xiao Gong’s mother’s Chinese name "Li Yansi", so it is not suitable to use Lense It was used as Xiao Gong's usual address, and then I temporarily gave Xiao Gong a Christian name Allen.When I changed Lense to Allen to write, I also felt uncomfortable in various ways. Every time I wrote a sentence, I complained... What the hell is Allen, like a person I don’t know! (／_＼)

So, it’s not that I don’t consider everyone’s feelings, but I care too much about everyone’s feelings, not just one or two readers, but I hope that more new readers will like this story in the future, and I hope everyone can enjoy it .

Some readers also suggested that Allen's literal translation of "Allen" seems to be a bit taller, but "Allen" is the name of a protagonist in "Attack on Titan" (I am not a giant fan, but I have seen that animation and liked it), so If it is translated into Alan, it will be easy for me to make a play when I write...

To be precise, the pronunciation of Allen is closer to "Ai Leng" or "Ai Leng", but there are certain regulations on the translation of English names into Chinese, and they cannot be translated casually, so in the end, it was changed to "Ai Lun". It's not bad, it seems that I couldn't help but want to complain about the name "Gara" when I watched "Naruto" at the beginning, but in the end I couldn't help but fell in love with him.

I am writing with "Ellen" now, and I have gradually begun to accept this name, so I believe you will too. Repeated changes will only make more readers uncomfortable, so I really hope that the original readers can Get used to it, because I believe that no matter what the name is, as long as the characters I create have flesh and blood and soul, they will always go deep into your hearts :)

PS. I was very sad when I saw everyone dislike the literal translation T_T, please pay more attention to the plot, the story is more important, right?

——The bitter author who loves you very much and wrote this explanation sincerely (>_<)