TRMLCM Chapter 21

Chapter 21: He Knows the Answer

“How did you know Cheng Yi and I are friends?”

He Zhou held his phone, looking at Shen Chang’an, who was particularly curious and eager to know the answer.

He thought he had disguised himself pretty well, how could he be exposed in less than a day?

Shen Chang’an, unaware of his inner thoughts, truthfully replied, “You sent me gifts today. When I was thanking you after the stream, I realized you were among the people Cheng Yi called to help me with the PK. I figured you guys knew each other. And today you joined my membership group, so I found your contact information in the group.”

He Zhou: 6

So, he tripped over the private message for sending gifts.

He had given gifts to many female streamers who seemed interesting, and those female streamers would often send him messages afterwards, hinting that he should check out their streams again. Some viewers in the streams would also come and harass him with private messages. He Zhou got so annoyed that he stopped checking private messages.

He didn’t expect… he was indeed careless.

…

After briefly explaining to He Zhou, Shen Chang’an hung up the phone. After plugging in his phone, which was about to run out of battery, Shen Chang’an walked to the cat nest, looking at Berber, who was already sleeping soundly.

His eyes softened, and he gently stroked Berber’s head, his eyebrows curved, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously turned upwards.

Perhaps he was eager to see Cheng Yi the moment the light turned on. He wanted to know what Cheng Yi looked like. When he saw the plain white ceiling, the emotions in his eyes were complex, with both disappointment and relief.

Disappointed that he still hadn’t seen Cheng Yi’s appearance, but relieved that he really hadn’t seen Cheng Yi.

Their first meeting shouldn’t be him taking advantage of the situation.

At least… it should be when Cheng Yi was sober.

Berber groggily opened its eyes, glaring at the two-legged creature who was disturbing it and waking it up from its sleep, with what it considered a fierce but actually soft and adorable expression.

The other party’s hand, which was kneading its little head, didn’t panic at all. Fine, Berber gave up. It was already used to it anyway.

This two-legged creature would come and bother it whenever it was in a good mood or a bad mood.

Who knows what this two-legged creature was up to today.

Alas…

Berber felt bitter, but Berber couldn’t speak.

…

He Zhou saw that the other party had hung up the phone, so he didn’t say anything more. He squatted down in front of Cheng Yi, just about to lift Cheng Yi’s pants leg to check the injury, but unexpectedly, a hand reached out and stopped him.

He Zhou turned his head to look and was instantly pleasantly surprised, “Cy, you’re awake?”

He scratched his head, a little embarrassed, and said, “Did our chatting just now wake you up?”

Cheng Yi had slept for a while and was now awake. He shook his head, frowning and trying to stand up. He Zhou quickly stepped forward to help support him.

Cheng Yi got up and endured the pain from his calf, limping to the sofa and sitting down. He pointed to the cabinet not far away, “The first aid kit is in that cabinet over there. Can you get it for me, please?”

He Zhou followed the direction he was pointing, found the first aid kit, and brought it back to the sofa. Seeing Cheng Yi’s forehead covered in sweat from the pain, he said anxiously, “Bro, should we go to the hospital?”

When he came in just now and saw Cheng Yi’s painful expression, he thought it was just because he was feeling unwell from being drunk. Now he realized that he had been hit.

Cheng Yi shook his head, gesturing for him to hand over the first aid kit. “It’s nothing, it’s not to the point of going to the hospital. I just walked too fast and hit the corner of this coffee table.”

He casually rolled up the pants leg of his left leg, revealing a bruise below the knee that was larger than a coin. Because so much time had passed, the center of the bruise had already turned purplish-blue.

Seeing this, He Zhou didn’t say anything more. He put the first aid kit on the coffee table in front of the sofa, opened it, looked around, took out a bottle of medicinal wine and handed it to Cheng Yi, and also took out a separately sealed cotton swab and handed it over.

Cheng Yi took it and slowly applied the medicine to the wound himself. He Zhou stood by the side with nothing to do, just watching him.

Looking at Cheng Yi’s silent and quiet appearance, the more he looked, the more he felt that something was wrong. Would his Cy be so quiet when he was injured before? Even if he accidentally bumped into the corner of the coffee table, he would kick it a few times first, and then curse and demand that people quickly replace the coffee table.

When Cy was drunk, his temper was even more fiery. It wouldn’t be enough if he didn’t have people directly dismantle the coffee table and burn it to ashes. Now he was actually quietly applying medicine himself?

Sure enough, the power of love was too great, it had smoothed out Cy’s grumpy personality.

He Zhou tentatively asked, “Cy, do you want to send a message to that streamer? He seemed pretty worried about you just now.”

He must have been so anxious that he followed that clue to find him, He Zhou thought to himself.

But to his surprise, after he asked Cheng Yi, the other party didn’t seem to hear him, still lowering his head and quietly applying the medicine.

“Cy? Cy?”

He Zhou walked over, puzzled, and waved his hand in front of him.

“Hmm?” Cheng Yi looked up at him, then frowned.

“Cy, were you spacing out just now?”

The medicine was even applied to his knee.

No way, no way, did he start missing his love interest right after hanging up the phone?

Cheng Yi threw the cotton swab into the trash can not far away, his eyes tangled. Then he looked at He Zhou standing beside him and hesitantly asked:

“That… He Zhou, if one of your brothers, a friend you get along with very well… he liked… men, what would you do?”

He Zhou frowned, then suddenly widened his eyes.

… Did Cy want to confess to him???

Afraid that he wouldn’t accept it, so he wanted to test him first?

Looking at Cheng Yi’s dodging eyes and careful questioning, as if he was very afraid to hear him say something unacceptable, He Zhou instantly felt distressed.

Look how scared his Cy was, he had become so sensitive.

So what if he was gay?

It’s okay, don’t panic, he knows the answer to this question!!

He Zhou’s expression quickly calmed down, and then he said casually and indifferently:

“So what if he likes men? His sexual orientation is his own business. What era is this? Now we advocate freedom of love, and I’ll protect my brother. If anyone dares to say anything about him, scold him for anything, I will definitely beat him to the ground, crying and calling for his mom.”

Cheng Yi lowered his eyes and thought for a moment after hearing these words, then asked again, “Then what if the man he likes is you?”

He Zhou widened his eyes with a puzzled expression, wondering if he had misheard. He quickly poked at his ears.

He Zhou: “…What?”