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Hua cheng’s day was, as usual, boring lectures, stupid classmates, and totally-not-a-best friend he xuan his stupid seatmate while he xuan was thinking hard about something, hua cheng was just sketching some kind of bird he could see from his window seat when the student council president entered their class and was asking for shi qing xuan, he xuan had a scowl on his face and hua cheng found it very amusing,
“ Is this the senior you were talking about” he xuan got a bit distracted and wore a look like he had seen a ghost,
“since when did you listen to me”
“Isn’t this shi wudu” he xuan was totally invested now pulling his chair forward and leaning towards hua cheng’s face so he could hear every word,
“How do you know him, you hardly remember anyone’s name”,
“He’s friends with my bro”
“He has too many friends that you'll bother to remember”
“I remember him cause he is always giving financial advice to bingge, and bingge is not fond of a high school kid giving him advice so he told yingge not to bring him over, but I thought bingge needed it, so I found him cool, do you have some beef with this guy isn't he in the student council” he xuan was glaring in the direction of a girl’s back who was talking to shi wu du,
“He acts like such a know it all, and it's bigger than a beef”
“What did he do to a dumbass like you”
hua cheng asked even though he already knew the response,
“Why do you care”, he xuan pushed his chair to get up and strode out of the class second glancing at shi qing xuan who was going back to her seat,
Hua cheng just mentally noted that some shit load of drama was about to go down but he hardly cared he just wanted the day to end,
After the last lecture hua cheng went in the opposite direction from the grumbling he xuan,
hua cheng was just waiting for the side alleyway to come so he could run faster than the last time, and as soon as he saw the familiar green sweatshirt peeking from the wall he ran as fast as he could and did get successful in losing qi rong and company, it is not like he couldn’t fight he just didn’t have that much energy to waste on someone like that scumbag of a thing, one day he had given a black eye to qi rong when he was annoying him to take out some money after that qi rong always had been on his tail trying to get back at him but hua cheng didn't give him a chance, and it was more comedic this way,
He made his way to his new apartment which they had moved into recently, it was small but felt like a home rather than the enormous mansion that he and his brothers were used to since their birth,
it was six months ago when as soon as his elder brother graduated he packed the other two and just started living here, hua cheng didn’t see the issue as his father never really touched him or yingge but he was also aware of the fact that as the oldest the pressure and verbal abuses were directed at bingge and his brother did not want them to live in the toxic environment after he left so he took both of his younger brothers and just dashed off,
Their dad had tried several times trying to reach them but bingge just never listened,
And hua cheng never really showed it but he was proud of his older brother for standing up for himself and confronting their dad which was not usual behavior for his brother who always tried to put himself down,
Hua cheng entered their apartment and made his way to his shared room with his second elder brother,
The hallway smelled like chilly pepper he guessed it was probably his ge trying to cook his nasty recipes, he had to somehow convince yingge to stop cooking his weird inedible food which will probably be somebody's death cause
Hua cheng always thought he was asexual
Unlike his oldest brother who had been chasing his professor for a year now or unlike his second oldest brother who was flirting with every girl he saw, hua cheng knew that he wasn’t that old to be sure about his sexuality he was just 16 after all he had much time to be sure about it but he never really felt any kind of infatuation or attraction towards someone, until he opened his bedroom door,
There seemed to be a person sitting on his study chair when he made his way in hua cheng couldn’t take his eyes off him, unlike hua cheng he had long hair reaching his shoulder blades lose over a head supporter, and he had androgynous features, his long eyelashes resting over his face as he seemed to be sleeping soundly, he was wearing a white oversized sweatshirt which made his form look smaller, khaki shorts and checker vans on his legs he looked exhausted with his parted lips heaving small sighs and before he even knew what he was doing his phone camera was already open trying to click from every angle he could,
when he heard steps heading toward the room he pushed his phone inside his pockets as deep as he could as if it would burn away the creepiness he just displayed,
Was he gay now, is it this easy to get
attracted to someone, he didn’t know but he just wanted to feel this adrenaline rush again and again,
“Didi why are you ogling at my lian like he's a meat bun” wei ying made his way into the room with a tray carrying a bowl which smelled disgusting,
“Fuck off, are you going to feed him that thing”
“First of all ill gladly like to fuck off but I can’t, and second, this is not a thing it's food” at this hua cheng’s left eyebrow shot up in a questioning manner which was partially visible behind his eyepatch,
“It’s fine I don’t mind eating ur cooking wei xiong” when hua cheng heard the soft mid-pitch voice his head did a 180-degree locking with tawny-colored eyes and a smile stretching from ear to ear which was too much for the fragile heart of hua cheng seemed to be melting with all the heat gathering, he was glad he wasn't the blushing type his face seemed to grow paler in situations like these or else he would have been painted cherry red
“You must be hua cheng, I am xie lian I am attending martial arts class with wei ying”
And before he knew it he was vomiting words in a pick-me voice,
“Gege, ill prefer if u call me san lang”
Wei ying was choking on air, and hua cheng predicted the reason quite easily, as it was the fact that the last time he heard this name was before his mother died,
“Sure san lang as u wish, ah but san lang will you show me the pictures if u draw them, I heard from wei ying about your art skills”
Hua cheng was quiet at first but then he gave a slow nod, and in return, he got the most dazzling smile one could ever miss out on.