42 How Do You Know About That? (1/2)

Not far from them, two girls were sitting on a bench. When they saw Nie Chang and Su Yan walking down the road arm in arm they had already started to look over. Now that Nie Chang suddenly stopped and extended his arms like that, they couldn't stop giggling and it got worse when Su Yan actually gave in.

”Look at that! Look at that! Do you think those two are a couple?”, the first one asked.

”Definitely! Look at how happy the tall guy seems! You can tell at one glance that he's head over heels.”

Excited as they were, their voices were loud enough to be heard by Su Yan and Nie Chang. Su Yan as an inherently curious person started to wriggle around in Nie Chang's embrace and looked around. After a while, he frowned.

”Eh, Ah Chang! Who do you think the two girls over there were talking about? I can't see any couple around us.”

Nie Chang wiped the satisfied grin from his face just in time before Su Yan looked up at him.

”You're taller than me. Have a look, too!”

Nie Chang gave him a wry smile. ”I don't need to look. I can tell you already who they were talking about.”

”Mn?” Su Yan was amazed. His friend was really efficient! This had to be the advantage of height. Otherwise, he'd have seen that couple, too. ”So, who is it?” He widened his eyes and looked around again.

Nie Chang grabbed his chin again and tilted his head up. ”Us. They were talking about us.”

”Huh?” Su Yan blinked before shaking his head in exasperation. ”You!” He slapped Nie Chang's chest. ”You're trying to trick me again!”

”I'm not. They're obviously rotten women.” Or we're just very much looking like a couple … He repressed the smirk that wanted to lift the corners of his mouth and tried to look normal.

Su Yan tilted his head and looked over at the two women. ”Rotten women? What's that?”

Nie Chang coughed. ”Why don't you know that? Didn't you look up gay porn on Baidu some days ago?”

”How do you know ab— No!” Su Yan pushed him away. ”What are you even talking about? I never looked at anything like that! Why would I?” Inwardly, he couldn't help but question how Nie Chang knew about that.

Nie Chang nearly laughed out loud. He once again put his arm around Su Yan's shoulder and started to lead him away. As much as he liked to be seen as a couple, he still didn't want some women drooling over his boyfriend. ”You used my notebook that day.”

Su Yan froze but was heartlessly pulled along.

”I was a little shocked, actually. I always thought you were more … conservative.”

”I … I'm not into men!”

Nie Chang gritted his teeth. ”That wasn't what I was talking about. I don't mind that you're into men. The thing I was actually shocked about was that you were watching porn.”