What to Do if I Am Noticed by the Straight Guy Next Door?

That evening, while Su Bin was making seaweed rice balls in the kitchen, he reflected on his conversation with Allen. After Allen said those words, he used the excuse of going back to his room to read a book and left. Before leaving, he thanked Su Bin for the “story” and suggested chatting again another day.

Su Bin was at a loss for words. He really didn’t want to continue, okay!

The dark comments had scared him, and by the time he realized it, Allen had already left. Su Bin hadn’t even had a chance to ask Allen why he had a “Compendium of Poisons”… Who in their right mind would read such a book?!

However, tonight’s conversation was different from the last time because Allen finally said something at the end.

Yes, Allen expressed his own perspective on the story, revealing his view of love: domineering, passionate, possessive, and sinister… Uh, Su Bin couldn’t help but feel sorry for any girl he fell in love with. They wouldn’t even have a chance to move on to someone else because if there was even a suspicion of betrayal, Allen would “devour” them.

“Devour” meant literally eating, with no hidden meaning, absolutely…

Su Bin shuddered and found it a bit strange. Why did Allen automatically imagine himself as the White Snake?

For example, Su Bin himself had read the story from Xu Xian’s perspective. Although “Legend of the White Snake” was a tragic and beautiful story, if the same thing happened to him, marrying a snake demon and having his wife turn into a giant snake after drinking alcohol… Oh my god! Just thinking about it, Su Bin could empathize with Xu Xian’s experience. No matter how beautiful and divine White Snake appeared in human form, Su Bin would be scared out of his wits and want to become a monk!

Um, so Allen, as a man, imagining himself as a snake demon is quite peculiar…

Or maybe he wasn’t putting himself in a woman’s shoes but rather in the shoes of a monster or demon? QAQ

Su Bin quickly shook his head to dispel his fear and uneasiness. He thought, next time, he could test if Allen had a romantic partner. With Allen’s looks, there were probably plenty of people pursuing him… Well, several circles in the city, at least.

Su Bin spread plastic wrap on the kitchen countertop, neatly arranging the wrapped rice balls and sushi, planning to let them cool and then put them in the refrigerator.

Afterward, Su Bin went to the restroom for a moment, and when he returned, he noticed that several pieces of sushi were missing from the arrangement…

Su Bin quickly ran to Jin Fei’s room, pushed the door open, and sure enough, there he was, stuffing his mouth, happily eating!

“Hehe!” Jin Fei was caught red-handed but didn’t hide it. Instead, he proudly took out the other two rice balls from behind him and slowly ate them, bit by bit. “Mmm~ so delicious. Mac, you’re amazing! You’re so handsome (?)…”

Su Bin sighed, flipped Jin Fei off with his middle finger, and angrily said, “Could you please stop eating one thing after another? You ruined the perfect formation of my sushi!”

Jin Fei: …

It turns out that he wasn’t being questioned for stealing food but…

“Are you a Virgo?” Jin Fei asked.

“I’m a Cancer!” Su Bin replied irritably.

Jin Fei burst into laughter, grabbed Su Bin’s hand, and chatted for a while. Suddenly, Su Bin thought of something and asked Jin Fei, “Hey, do you know what Allen is studying?”

Jin Fei paused for a moment and said, “I actually don’t know. I haven’t asked, but I often smell disinfectant on him. Could he be studying medicine?”

Su Bin thought for a moment and found it possible. It would also explain the connection to the book “Compendium of Poisons”…

Su Bin asked Jin Fei, “What do you study?” Glancing at Jin Fei’s bookshelf, he saw a photo frame placed in the middle, containing a picture of Jin Fei with a girl. “Who is this? Your girlfriend?”

Jin Fei chuckled, “How is that possible? That’s my younger sister.”

“What the fuck?!” Su Bin took a closer look and saw the girl in the photo leaning against Jin Fei’s shoulder, her neck tilted. He exclaimed in amazement, “You weren’t lying. Your sister is really… really damn tall!”

Jin Fei replied, “Haha, she’s just a little taller than me. She’s about 177 or 178 centimeters.”

Su Bin: …

Jin Fei stood next to Su Bin, comparing their heights, and said, “She’s just slightly taller than you.”

Su Bin felt a bit defeated. “How old is your sister, and what’s her name?”

Jin Fei’s eyes lit up, “She’s two years younger than you. Her name is Jin Wu, but we call her Xiaowu. She just went to France to study fashion design. How about it? Are you interested in her?”

“No interest! I already have a girlfriend!” Su Bin firmly refused. “Your sister is so beautiful, she won’t have trouble finding a boyfriend. Can’t you stop worrying about her…”

“I’m not worried about her. I’m worried about you,” Jin Fei said.

“Get lost!” Su Bin swore in frustration. “Also, guys generally don’t choose taller girls as their girlfriends. When they stand together, they look like siblings!”

Jin Fei wagged his index finger left and right and said, “Height isn’t a problem, it’s the personality that matters.”

Su Bin really wanted to slap that annoying fly to death~ Ah…

“What do you study, anyway?” Su Bin put the photo back in its place.

“Guess,” Jin Fei said mischievously while sitting on his swivel chair. “If you guess correctly, I’ll give you a hundred bucks.”

Su Bin rolled his eyes. “I don’t want a hundred bucks. If I guess correctly, you have to spit out the rice balls.”

Jin Fei: …

Su Bin noticed that Jin Fei’s bookshelf hardly had any books. There was only one Chinese version of “The Interpretation of Dreams” by Freud, which Su Bin had seen Chen Xiaotian read before. He figured Jin Fei bought it just to show off.

Su Bin glanced at Jin Fei and thought, this guy is definitely not someone who enjoys reading!

Su Bin looked at his desk and saw a high-end desktop computer and an Asus laptop, as well as some other high-end electronic products…

“Are you studying computer science?” Su Bin asked, seeing Jin Fei shake his head. He then asked, “… Electronics?”

Jin Fei smiled and said, “Last chance.”

“Damn it, are you studying English?” Su Bin said, and Jin Fei made a vomiting gesture, indicating that he didn’t need to vomit.

Su Bin’s mouth twitched. “What is it then?”

Jin Fei pointed to his chest and then to the books on the shelf. “You didn’t guess such an obvious clue, you pig-headed fool.”

Su Bin’s eyes widened in disbelief. “No way, psychology?” – Seriously! Completely unexpected!

Jin Fei casually put his legs on the armrest of his chair and swayed them. “Do you want to take a psychological test? Or maybe I can interpret a dream for you? Jin Fei’s dream interpretation, one hundred percent accurate!”

Su Bin scoffed, “Forget it. I don’t think you’re reliable at all.”

Jin Fei laughed, “You haven’t tried it, so how do you know I’m unreliable?”

Su Bin couldn’t help but recall the nightmare he had about a “graveyard” before. He said, “Fine, I’ll give it a try once! I had a dream recently. I dreamt of a tombstone, and on it…”

Before Su Bin could finish, he saw Jin Fei quickly turn around and sit up straight…

Wow, he’s going to meditate? So professional? Su Bin was impressed but didn’t quite understand!

Then, he saw Jin Fei quickly… open Baidu and search: [Zhou Gong’s Dream Dictionary, tombstone].

Su Bin: …

Jin Fei solemnly recited, “Dreaming of a ‘tombstone’ signifies that a happy life is about to come.”

Su Bin: “…………” (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

Su Bin decided that he would buy a fly swatter on Amazon today and have it delivered tomorrow!

The next morning, Su Bin encountered Yang Chengzhe and gave him one rice ball, taking the rest to share with Sun Yujie at school.

As Sun Yujie ate the rice ball, he was so moved that he almost cried, “So delicious~~~ How did you make this?”

Su Bin replied, “It’s just seaweed-wrapped rice, fry an egg, and wrap it with shredded carrots and ham in the middle. Sprinkle some salt. It’s not that difficult to make.”

Sun Yujie admired, “I tried it before, but I messed it up completely. The rice either stuck together or completely fell apart… so I stopped making it.”

Su Bin said, “You probably didn’t cook the rice properly. Making sushi and rice balls requires a special type of rice, and you need to control the amount of water when cooking the rice. It can’t be too wet or too dry. After cooking, loosen the rice while it’s still hot, add some sushi vinegar, and let it cool slightly before rolling. Otherwise, it’ll burn your hands and ruin the nori and seaweed.”

Sun Yujie listened to Su Bin’s explanation and became even more admiring. “How do you know so much (_)?”

Su Bin replied, “I searched on Baidu!”

Sun Yujie: “…”

Su Bin smiled, shook his head, and said, “But you can’t rely solely on Baidu. Some practical experience is also necessary.”

The two of them chatted happily while eating the rice balls. Just at that moment, Su Bin suddenly felt a cold air approaching from around him… He instinctively straightened his back and saw a group of three or five Chinese people surrounding a tall guy in the distance.

Those people were the “kill mattes” and “rivet shoe girls” who had made derogatory gestures towards them outside Tiffany’s before, and the guy in the gray sweater among them was Cheng Ang, who had a cold and proud expression on his face.

Su Bin glanced at Sun Yujie beside him, who had practically disappeared…
Sigh, somehow Su Bin impulsively stood up and shouted Leo, Cheng Ang’s English name, towards the group of people. Cheng Ang stopped in his tracks, turned his head, and stared at him coldly. The “Sha Ma Te” gang also paused with mocking smiles. Su Bin suddenly felt a sense of… returning to his middle school days.

Back when he attended a boarding middle school, the class was deeply divided. The academically successful students formed one group, while the underachievers formed another. The former consisted mostly of class monitors, while the latter preferred getting into fights and causing trouble. The underachievers couldn’t tolerate the high-achievers and would always mock and provoke them, calling them nerds, teachers’ pets, and so on.

At that time, Su Bin, being the most handsome among the academically successful students, naturally became the recognized leader in his classmates’ eyes. He and several other boys with good grades became close friends, including Huang Zhengming, who bought instant noodles for him when they were abroad.

There were a few instances when Su Bin and his friends were provoked beyond tolerance and would fight back recklessly, throwing punches and kicks at each other. In reality, such scuffles between young boys were quite common in school, and the teachers would turn a blind eye.

Moreover, Su Bin was a bit rebellious back then. His rebellion stemmed from his parents’ lack of discipline and indifference towards him, as if they were letting him grow like a wild weed. In the long-term independent environment, it was already quite difficult for him to stay on the right path, but he was definitely not the kind of person who could be misunderstood, wronged, or provoked and still remain calm and submissive.

Therefore, this current scene triggered Su Bin’s memories. Although he wasn’t the competitive and eager-to-win child he used to be, he was still young, so he felt a surge of anger.

However, when that group of people looked over, Su Bin knew he had acted impulsively… because he didn’t have someone like Huang Zhengming to rely on anymore; he was alone.

You mentioned Sun Yujie? Haha, that “Number Zero” is useless.

Perhaps he had become accustomed to being overshadowed by Allen’s powerful presence, but Su Bin looked at the group of people in front of him and surprisingly didn’t feel scared or nervous.

He walked over and respectfully, yet confidently, said to Cheng Ang, “Senior, may I have a word with you?”

“Oh, not bad!” the girl with rivet shoes said flirtatiously as she looked at Su Bin, showing great interest. “Hey handsome, how can you hang out with someone like Jason? Aren’t you afraid of being influenced? Or maybe you’re ‘bad’ yourself?”

Upon hearing this, the others chuckled among themselves.

Cheng Ang glanced at the girl with rivet shoes, and she immediately fell silent.

He turned to Su Bin and said, “I don’t know you, and I don’t think we have anything to talk about.”

Su Bin couldn’t help but clench his fists and had no choice but to say in front of everyone, “I don’t know if you have misunderstood something about me. I have a legitimate friendship with Jason. I know about his sexual orientation, and I don’t discriminate against him, but I’m not gay either.”

These words were spoken with a sense of righteousness, causing Cheng Ang’s companions to withdraw their unfriendly smiles. Cheng Ang also looked at Su Bin thoughtfully.

“I’m done talking. Sorry for the interruption.” Su Bin breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, and saw Sun Yujie looking at him with a mix of gratitude and guilt, as if he was about to cry…

Helpless, Su Bin lifted his foot, but then he heard Cheng Ang coldly snort behind him and say, “Why do you need to explain this to me? Whether you’re gay or not, what does it have to do with me?”

Su Bin: “…”

After saying those words, Cheng Ang led his “Sha Ma Te” gang and walked away. Su Bin was left speechless, wondering what was wrong with this person. Is he even a man? Nothing he says makes any sense…

In the end, Su Bin couldn’t figure out what he had done to provoke him. Ah, ah, ah~~~

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