give me straight man

Meng Ran once thought about the scene where someone found out that he liked Lu Ouxun one day.

That should be when he still liked Lu Ouxun.

It may be that he reveals too much and is discovered by those who care about him, or by people around him; or it may be that he secretly looked at Lu Ouxun one day with too focused eyes.

Definitely not now, to say such words from Gu Cen's mouth.

Meng Ran also admired himself.

Gu Cen found out and said it all. At this moment, he was so calm that he could not respond. The first thing he thought of was that he and Gu Cen had come to an end.

Meng Ran didn't say anything, didn't show any expression, just looked back at Gu Cen so calmly.

At this time, they were sitting in a coffee shop at the south gate outside the school.

Gu Cen ordered a glass of iced Americano, but didn't take a sip. Meng Ran ordered a cup of Forui Bai, and just took a sip, the latte art on the surface of the coffee was still there.

The atmosphere between the two was like hitting the tip of an iceberg, and the temperature dropped suddenly.

Meng Ran thought silently, wondering how Gu Cen could see it.

Gu Cen felt a little hurt because Meng Ran didn't deny it.

These are just his wild guesses. Before he said it, he hoped that Meng Ran would deny it immediately.

Now that he said it, even Gu Cen himself didn't know what to say.

In the end, it was Meng Ran who spoke first: "I don't like him now, and I won't like him."

Gu Cen was somewhat relieved.

But thinking of Lu Ou Xun...

Gu Cen: "Since that's the case, why don't you just tell him about you."

Meng Ran insisted: "I don't want to talk about it right now."

Gu Cen: "What about after that?"

Gu Cen asked directly: "When we are together in the future, in front of him, you and I will pretend to be just ordinary friends?"

Meng Ran was not asked this question.

He replied: "If we are really together, the relationship is very good, we are us, he is him, of course there is no need to deliberately avoid it."

Gu Cen asked: "What about now?"

Meng Ran was silent.

Gu Cen got the answer from this silence.

He couldn't understand: "What's the difference between now and later?"

Meng Ran was distracted and didn't quite hear what Gu Cen said.

He thought: tell Lu Ouxun that he is gay now?

Gu Cen suddenly said: "If I say that the premise of our being together is that you have to tell him."

Meng Ran froze for a moment, then raised his eyes.

It's not that he was surprised by what Gu Cen asked him to do, but that Gu Cen would say that.

Gu Cen looked firm: "I hope you can tell him now."

He also expressed his truest thoughts: "I also hope that you will try not to meet and get along with him in the future."

Meng Ran showed astonishment, and said slowly: "Senior, I have nothing to do with him, he is just my friend."

With unprecedented seriousness, Gu Cen stared into Meng Ran's eyes for a moment: "But you liked him."

Meng Ran gradually reacted: "Don't you believe me?"

Gu Cen asked back: "If I have a close friend by my side, an ex-boyfriend I liked before, can you do it too?"

Meng Ran blinked, yes, why not?The past is the past and the present is the present.

Gu Cen showed displeasure: "You think it's okay because I don't have such a person around me. This assumption is not valid, but you have one around you."

Meng Ran emphasized again: "He and I have always been just friends, and he is straight..."

Gu Cen interrupted him for the second time: "Meng Ran, if you want to be with me, there is only one choice."

Gu Cen's tone was firm, and his expression was as firm as his tone: "Tell him and stay away from him."

"Between me and him, you can only choose one."

Meng Ran: "..."

-

After breaking up with Gu Cen in the coffee shop, Meng Ran sat alone in the coffee shop for a while and drank the coffee.

Meng Ran was more surprised by Gu Cen's attitude than the choice Gu Cen asked him to make.

In my impression, the senior has never said serious words to him, and today is the first time.

Meng Ran recalled not long ago, he felt that this kind of Gu Cen was very strange, but at the same time he thought, did he really know Gu Cen after he had known him for less than a year and had been abroad for two years?

Tell Lu Ouxun that he is gay?

That's ok, let's talk about one sentence.

and then?

Then he can be with Gu Cen who made him choose?

no.

The point wasn't Lu Ouxun at all, it was him and Gu Cen, the two of them.

Meng Ran doesn't want to be alone now, and wants to find someone to talk to.

After looking through the phone, I finally chose Lin Niannian.

Lin Niannian was his friend in University A, that is, the one whose boyfriend was straight.

Some time ago, when Lin Nian claimed that he was bent, he often came to their school to find him for analysis. Now that he needs it, he naturally turned to Lin Nian.

Lin Nian was playing on the court when he received the call. Meng Ran said that he wanted to talk to him about something. Lin Nian said heartily on the other end of the phone: "Okay, should I go or you?"

Meng Ran: "I'll come over."

Lin Niannian: "Then you come to the cafeteria at the north gate of our school, I'm on the court here."

Meng Ran went to University A next door, and Lin Nian appeared sweating in a ball uniform, holding two freshly bought cold drinks in his hand.

Lin Niannian walked into the cafeteria, handed one of them to Meng Ran, and sat down at the dining table with a ceiling fan above his head. While removing the wrapping paper of the cold drink, he tilted his head and wiped the sweat on his forehead on the cuff of his ball jersey, and asked : "What's wrong?"

Meng Ran sat opposite him, biting a cold drink: "Tell you something, and help me analyze it."

Lin Nian bit off a third of the ice cream in one bite: "Okay, let's talk."

Meng Ran: "I have a friend..."

Lin Niannian: "Meng Ran?"

Meng Ran was speechless, and made a gesture to get up: "Why don't I go."

Lin Nian smiled: "Okay, okay, you have a friend, I'm listening, you continue."

Meng Ran: "I have a friend, let's call him A."

Lin Nian nodded: "Yes."

Meng Ran: "A used to like B, but B was a straight man, and he didn't know that A was gay, so he and B were just friends. Now A has a development partner, C. After C knows that A has liked B, he must love A. Tell B that he is gay, and ask A to try not to communicate with B in the future, and propose that only by doing these two things can he be with B."

Lin Niannian is worthy of being a high-achieving student in University A. After listening to the questions orally, he understood clearly, and said very quickly and decisively: "You are not enough. Did A do something, or the relationship between B and A is already good?" Does it make C jealous? Does C want to "eliminate" B from A's side so much? "

Meng Ran thought for a while: "How many times did B interfere with AC's dates? Unintentionally."

Lin Nian immediately said: "It seems that AB has a good relationship."

Lin Niannian: "Isn't it simple? C is jealous, and C thinks B is a threat."

Meng Ran: "B is straight."

Lin Nian smiled: "What's wrong with the straight man? Bian Yue and I used to be straight."

It's okay not to mention this, but Meng Ran is speechless when he mentions this: he has worked hard in college for three full years and is still a dog, and straight men have already begun to internalize it.

I can't mention it, if I mention it too much, I will cry.

Lin Niannian began to focus on the key points: "So you are talking about ABC with me, what do you want to talk about. A doesn't know what to do?"

Meng Ran thought for a while and asked, "What do you think A should do?"

Lin Nian snorted, with a relaxed expression on his face, "See if A likes C, and how much he likes C."

"I like C, the one I like very much, B is the floating cloud, what's not to discuss between AC?"

"If you don't like it that much, or don't like it at all..."

Meng Ran went back to school soon and went to the library.

He didn't read the book, and his mind was full of Lin Nian's phrase "see if A likes C".

Does he like Gu Cen?

Meng Ran recalled two years ago.

At that time, he had a crush on Gu Cen, there were many sparks between them, and there were countless moments of ambiguity and warmth.

Later, when Gu Cen got the exchange student quota and wanted to go abroad, he also felt sad for a while.

and after?

Meng Ran thought, he is really a decisive and realistic person——

Gu Cen went abroad, so he didn't have any contact with Gu Cen, and he didn't even think about maintaining the relationship at a long distance, waiting for Gu Cen to come back.

So later when Gu Cen came back and they met again, how deep was the relationship between the two?

In the end, it was just that there was an inexplicable ambiguity between them. After the reunion, Gu Cen acted very straightforwardly and boldly. He himself wanted to give the two of them a chance.

Do you have deep feelings?

absolutely not.

Do you like Gu Cen?

Such a short time, of course not.

What about Gu Cen to him?

The answer is self-evident.

After thinking it through thoroughly, Meng Ran leaned against the back of his chair and took a deep breath silently.

So there was no need to wait until the next day. In the evening, Meng Ran took a leave of absence instead of working part-time.

It was the same coffee shop outside the campus, where they sat during the day, Meng Ran even ordered a glass of iced Americano and a glass of flat white, and the two of them sat facing each other...

Not long after, Gu Cen pushed open the door of the coffee shop with a sullen expression.

Not long after he left, it started to rain outside.

Meng Ran propped his chin, looking out of the floor-to-ceiling glass in a daze——

Just now, he and Gu Cen put aside everything and focused on discussing whether there is any relationship between the two of them.

The answer is self-explanatory: no.

Between them, there is only the remnant warmth left in the memory of the ambiguity more than two years ago, and the chance that two people who both wanted to leave the singles met at the right time.

Gu Cen also admitted that before returning to China, he had just broken up with his ex-boyfriend who decided to stay abroad. It was a window of time, and it was also the time of graduation. When he reunited with his junior who had been ambiguous, he subconsciously wanted to chase after him, which had nothing to do with love.

Gu Cen thinks there is no problem with this, "Emotions can be cultivated, can't they?"

He also said, "I've inquired about it. Although you haven't talked about it in the past few years, you have pursued several boys one after another."

"Since we are suitable and you want to get out of the singles, I also think, why don't you try to have a look together?"

Meng Ran: "The premise is to satisfy the choice you gave me?"

Gu Cen nodded, Meng Ran rejected him: "If I like you, you like me too, everything is negotiable, since neither of us likes the other, I don't think I should meet your request."

Gu Cen: "It's not a requirement, it's a prerequisite for being together."

Meng Ran: "Then don't be together."

Meng Ran remembered the few words Gu Cen said to him before he left.

He said: "Meng Ran, you are more cold than I thought."

"I went abroad two years ago. Not only did you not keep a word, you hardly contacted me."

Meng Ran replied to him: "The one you mentioned about going abroad, you were flirting with me while applying for an exchange without saying a word?"

Gu Cen's expression almost couldn't hold back, because Meng Ran didn't show mercy to him in return.

So the two of them stopped here.

The memory came to an abrupt end, Meng Ran looked out the window and sighed silently.

All right, another blow.

As expected of him.

Just as he was about to get up to leave the coffee shop and go back in the rain, he snapped his fingers twice in front of his eyes.

"What are you dazed for?"

Meng Ran regained his senses and raised his eyes, and suddenly saw Lu Ouxun standing in front of him holding a dripping umbrella.

Meng Ran paused and met him unexpectedly.

Lu Ouxun picked up his backpack hanging on the back of the chair: "If you hadn't just met me, you would have been a drowned chicken today."

Wondering: "Why are you here alone? What coffee do you drink at night?"

I didn't notice that there were two cups on the table.

Lu Ouxun: "Let's go."

Meng Ran was stunned: "Oh."

Pushing open the door and walking out of the coffee shop, Lu Ouxun held up the umbrella with the umbrella facing Meng Ran's side, and the two of them walked into the rain together.

As they walked, Lu Ouxun felt that the umbrella was too small to cover people, so he put his arm around Meng Ran's shoulder, and the umbrella tilted towards him at the same time.

Meng Ran turned his head and looked up, and saw that Lu Ouxun's outer shoulder was beyond the edge of the umbrella.

He pushed the umbrella towards Lu Ouxun, "It's all covered."

Lu Ouxun moved the umbrella back: "It's okay."

Meng Ran pushed the umbrella over again and asked, "How come you happen to be nearby."

Lu Ouxun moved the umbrella back again, and smiled: "It's not "just right", I think it's raining, so I'll go to Qing Bar to pick you up from get off work, Aqin said you were on leave today, and when I came back, I happened to see you in the coffee shop . "

Turning his head: "Why didn't you go to a part-time job today?"

Meng Ran continued to push the umbrella: "There is something."

Lu Ouxun didn't ask any more questions, and this time he didn't move the umbrella over. Instead, he moved closer to Meng Ran, almost holding the person in front of him, and walked forward together holding the umbrella.

Normally, Meng Ran would feel that it was too close, which is not good, but today, his attention was not on the distance between the two, but he looked back at Lu Ouxun, silently thinking in his heart:

Do you want to tell Lu Ouxun about him being gay?

Seeing Meng Ran looking back at him, Lu Ouxun said "Hmm?", thinking he was going to say something, and waited.

Meng Ran shook his head, turned his face away, Lu Ounxun didn't care, just took his shoulders and rubbed the back of Meng Ran's head naturally.