The Class Genius Sitting Next to Me Is Always Trying To Flirt With Me

“Class is starting soon, don’t delay it. Dad won’t bother you anymore; they said that you don’t have evening self study on Friday so I’ll pick you up from school in the evening and we can all have a meal together.” Ye Gaoyang stepped forward to give his son an awkward pat on the shoulder before turning away.

Ye Cheng watched him leave, turning to walk into the classroom once he could no longer be seen.

As soon as he entered the door he found that the seating change was completed.

He had been transferred to the second row of the class; Lu Xiao was in his original row, but he was on the aisle seat instead of the window seat.
Jiang Jin was moved to the third row of the class, the three of them forming a diagonal line.

Ye Cheng’s new desk-mate was a boy called Ye Kun, a top scoring student. He was currently sitting and packing his things, without looking in the direction of the back row, his shoulders slightly tense.

Ye Cheng took his new seat, pulling out the phone that had started vibrating as soon as he walked in the door.

Jiang Jin: [Brother Cheng, did you quarrel with Brother Xiao? Why don’t you speak? {pity}]

Ye Cheng glanced at Hua Wangchun on the podium and typed quickly: [There is nothing to say.]

After sending it, he stopped looking at his phone.

Satisfied with the changes he saw, Hua Wangchun surveyed the brand new classroom and began to teach.

At noon that day, gossip was flying around the forum.

Hot post: [Shocked! XiaoCheng is separated? ? 】
Landlord: According to information, the seating plan for class 20 has been changed. XiaoCheng, the desperate mandarin duck, was unfortunately beaten and warned, and the two are now no longer who they are.
1L: ? ? ?
2L: Eating melons, why does Class 20 have such bad Feng shui for couples every time?
3L: Sister Rong, it wasn’t your post?
4L: Fuck it, I didn’t post it, I’m shocked, okay?
……
23L: Woohoo, I’m from class 20. I testify that they haven’t spoken for an afternoon.
24L: I cried hard watching this!
25L: It seems that sister Ye’s father has gone to school. Ahem, I said they can’t be real, right? No, if they are not really dating why are their parents involved?
26L: Upstairs… not really, let’s go to hell. Just like the look on the stage, it’s obvious that we’re stuck in it.
……
38L: This building is poisonous.
39L: A group of idiots, I’m a straight man of steel thank you.
40L: The one upstairs {vomit} you know that the first brother is a straight man? What age still discriminates against gays, don’t you know that the same-sex marriage law will be passed soon?
41L: Don’t quarrel…
42L: I don’t know if the first brother is straight or not. If sister Ye is willing to be straight, hehe, if he betrays the first brother, I will go after him.
43L: Help, when did this forum become like this!

Tan Xiaoqi was unable to put her phone down, her eyes were red.
She looked at Ye Cheng, who was doing his homework indifferently, then to Lu Xiao, who was drawing circles on his paper, only to feel that her fragile heart was hit hard.
The two really didn’t look at each other again.
They are like strangers.
Did the CP break!?

Hua Wangchun observed for a while through the slit of the back door, satisfied with the atmosphere, then turned and left with a smile.

He called Ye Gaoyang and reported enthusiastically, “Yes, he is studying now. They are just children, they don’t know what’s best. It’s fine to sit separately.”
“Okay, don’t worry about it… You don’t need to invite me to dinner, I really don’t need to, this is what I should do.”

******

‌As soon as the class bell rang, Ye Cheng packed up his bag and left without saying anything extra. Not sparing a look at Lu Xiao when he passed by the back door.

Jiang Jin was in a hurry, grabbed his schoolbag and rushed to Lu Xiao’s side.
“Brother Xiao, what’s the matter with you two? Weren’t you both okay this morning?” He asked in a panic.
Lu Xiao leisurely stuffed his game console into his bag, replying without lifting his head, “It’s okay, if you can play together, just play, if you can’t play together, forget it.”

“…You, do you have a fever?” Jiang Jin rolled his eyes, “How else could you say such a thing.”

Lu Xiao rolled his eyes, “Go away.”

As soon as Ye Cheng walked out of the school, he saw a familiar black Bentley parked at the door. Ye Gaoyang rolled the back window down and waved him over.

Except for the Spring Festival once a year, Ye Cheng has hardly seen this car at all.
Normally, Ye Gaoyang would need to drive for more than three hours to arrive, not that far but far enough.
Especially as it mostly depends on whether a person is willing to travel the distance or not.

Ye Gaoyang took him to Jiulong’s private kitchen for dinner, along with Gao Qiulan.

During the banquet, Gao Qiulan kept asking about Ye Gaoyang’s current situation. He shared stories about Qu Tian and what she has been up to, but he didn’t mention Qu Tian’s daughter at all.
Ye Gaoyang knew very well that the old woman only recognised Ye Cheng as her grandson. After Ye Qiaoqiao was born, she didn’t even hug her.

During dinner, Ye Gaoyang mentioned going to Shengzhou for a few days. Gao Qiulan agreed to take Ye Cheng to Shengzhou during the winter vacation, but they would live in a separate house, not with Qu Tian.

Ye Gaoyang agreed, knowing he couldn’t push his wife and mother together. His mother was set in her views.

Since he married Qu Tian, ​​Gao Qiulan never gave her daughter-in-law a good look.
Ye Cheng remembered when Qu Tian visited with a New Year’s gift and was thrown out directly by Gao Qiulan.

At that time, he was still young, and the sound of firecrackers during the New Year’s Eve was overwhelming. Gao Qiulan came into the room and hugged him, wiping away his tears.
“Don’t be afraid, grandma kicked that bad woman out, she won’t bully you. There, there”

Later, he learned that Ye Gaoyang had cheated on his mother before she died of cancer.
His mother was a rich young lady, she was arrogant and unwilling to reveal her scars. She only left him a letter and an inheritance, which he could legally inherit when he came of age.
‌But he didn’t see this letter before because it was taken by Qu Tian.

Not long after, his maternal grandparents passed away, he could only follow Gao Qiulan.

Ten years have passed, and Gao Qiulan has been taking good care of him since. There was still a year left until he was eighteen, and Qu Tian seemed to have started acting out around this time previously.

After their meal, the driver drove them home.

Ye Gaoyang was embarrassed to go to the hotel again, so he stayed at home.
He will be working at the branch office tomorrow so he will be staying at the house for the next few days.

Ye Cheng entered his room as soon as he got home, heading straight for the shower to get clean. After wearing a school uniform that was wet and then dry for half a day, he was finally able to take a good shower.

As he relaxed in the bathtub, he started thinking about how to make Ye Gaoyang get out of the way quickly.

****

As he dawdled in his room he would hear faint voices passing through the walls, he estimates that both Ye Gaoyang and Gao Qiulan should both be still awake.

Ye Cheng temporarily set aside his vicious thoughts so as not to frighten Gao Qiulan, and picked up the constantly vibrating mobile phone.

He had received several new messages in WeChat——
Suspect X: [Are you home? 】
Suspect X: [Do you want to eat barbecue on the weekend? I said I wanted to invite you last time, but I haven’t. 】
Suspect X: [Won’t you reply to my message? 】
Suspect X: [you’re not angry, are you?? ]

Suspect X: [Really angry? 】
The last one was sent twenty minutes ago. Ye Cheng was about to type his reply when a new message popped up on the screen.
Suspect X: [ Is that your room with the light on? With the wisteria in the window. ]

Ye Cheng was stunned, hurrying to the window to pull open the curtains.

As soon as the curtains were opened, he saw a shadow outside, normally such a scene would cause a shock but Ye Cheng’s heart was steady.

Their house has a small yard, all Lu Xiao had to do was turn directly from outside the fence to enter. He was standing at the window with a fretful expression, moonlight shining down through the branches.

“Bad influence…Why are you here?” Ye Cheng scolded him through the window in a bad tone.
“Damn it. Why are you so upset? ” Lu Xiao cursed irritatedly, shaking the anti theft window before him. “Can you fucking tear this down? How can I get in? No, wait, why do you have this installed in your house? ”

Ye Cheng scoffed, “Are you stupid? Don’t you have an anti-theft window on the first floor of your house?”

“Fuck, I’m just standing outside to feed the mosquitoes!” Lu Xiao was annoyed, “Your neighbourhood is full of trees, and I was bitten multiple times.”

Ye Cheng really wanted to punch him in the face: “Can you fucking yell any louder?! My dad is in the living room!”

Involuntarily, he was led to scold people, he reached out and took out a small key from the bottom of the window, and opened the anti-theft window.
Lu Xiao was agile and jumped through the window, stretching out his hand to scratch at the mosquito bites on his skin as he complained,

“Is there any water, give me a spray.”

Ye Cheng turned to find water for him. As he moved he glanced back mockingly and said, “You’re so good, you’ve only been here once, and you can still find your way.”

The design of this neighbourhood is complicated and Ye Cheng’s house is close to the centre. He didn’t know how Lu Xiao had such a good recollection of the route considering he came here drunk last time.
Lu Xiao touched his nose and didn’t say anything.

After spraying some water to ease the itchiness, he asked, “Aren’t you mad at me?”

Ye Cheng squinted at him.

Lu Xiao explained, “I’m just fooling the teacher and your dad so I didn’t talk to you.”

“So what?”

Lu Xiao coughed and said, “You said to ignore your dad so I thought of a solution to get him to leave. I’d just make them think we understood their reasoning. Doesn’t it make sense?”
Ye Cheng watched him silently.

“I’ll treat you to dinner, okay?” He offered.

“The barbecue was promised to me before already.”

“Tsk, then I’ll treat you to another meal.”

“You think I can be bribed with two meals?”

“Fuck, ten times, ten times if two times are not enough!”

Ye Cheng finally couldn’t help it, bursting out in laughter.
Lu Xiao blinked, then reacted immediately: “Are you kidding me? You’re not angry at all!”

“Hahahaha, are you out of your mind? You even specifically came to my house.” Ye Cheng laughed happily, the unhappiness of the day was swept away.

Lu Xiao’s face turned red, he approached the laughing Ye Cheng threateningly, “You didn’t reply when I sent you a message, I really thought you had misunderstood! ”

He got closer and closer, with an air of settling accounts.

Ye Cheng sensed something was wrong, so he quickly retreated to the bedside, holding up the water in his hand to ward him off: “Don’t come any closer, be careful or I’ll spray you!”

“You give it a try.” Lu Xiao, with a gloomy expression, jumped towards him.

“Don’t force me, ah…” Ye Cheng stumbled on the blanket at his heels, and he fell back unsteadily.

Lu Xiao quickly wrapped his arms around his waist, but was pulled forward by inertia, the both of them falling onto the bed.

Lu Xiao had his hands on the sides of Ye Cheng’s face, supporting himself up so they didn’t collide.

The tip of their noses almost touched, their breaths mingled together with every exhale.

Lu Xiao’s face flushed red, staring blankly at those light brown eyes. So clear and translucent, he could clearly see his own reflection.

Ye Cheng was dumbfounded, he didn’t expect this to happen at all.

This perspective… He had only had the pleasure of seeing Lu Xiao from this angle when they were in bed.

Fuck.

Suddenly, the door knob moved.

Knock, knock.

Someone knocked twice before pushing the door open and entering, “Xiao Cheng, Dad wants to talk to you about…”

Ye Gaoyang walked in with determination, but halfway through his words, his throat choked up, the words coming to an abrupt halt.

T/N: They got caught on bed-