In the Same Boat

Dou Yucong was a smart person, but he was slow to realize that his brother was also gay all these years. This made him feel incredibly defeated.

If it wasn’t for the subtle atmosphere he felt between those two people at the door just now, he might have been fooled by them.

But his brother said it wasn’t like that.

As he settled his bill, he thought, “How can it not be that way, you two have it written all over your faces?

His brother ordered him to go out and buy groceries and cook dinner. He couldn’t run away and could only delay as much as possible, giving those two some alone time.

He is particularly regretful now. He was supposed to get off work at 6:30, but it’s almost 8:00 when he gets home. However, he came out for a meeting this afternoon, and after the meeting, his boss gave him half a day off to do as he pleased.

Since he could do as he pleased, of course, he went home to sleep.

And so, he disturbed his brother’s good time.

Dou Yucheng only hopes that his brother won’t hold it against him, and their beautiful brotherhood will last forever!

When Dou Yucheng returned home, Qu Yiheng and Yao Zhan had already cooked the rice and were waiting for the chef to come back to stir-fry the vegetables.

However, things don’t turn out the way they are supposed to.

Originally, Dou thought that the two would go to his brother’s room to make out, but instead it turns out that Qu Yiheng washes the vegetables and Yao Zhan cooks them, while he stands by feeling very necessary.

He said, “Can I go play by myself for a while since you guys have done all the work? Call me when it’s time to eat.”

“Wash your plate again,” Qu Yiheng was afraid that Dou Yucheng would think that he and Yao Zhan had something going on and insisted on keeping him there.

Dou Yucong wailed, thinking that his brother was hopeless.

A date for two turns into dinner for three.

During the meal, Qu Yiheng and Yao Zhan sat next to each other, while Dou Yucong sat on the other side by himself.

“It’s really rare,” Dou Yucheng said, “Yao brother, my brother hasn’t called anyone back for dinner in so many years.”

When Yao Zhan heard this, he felt extremely pleased with himself.

“Is that so,” he smiled and glanced at Qu Yiheng, who was eating his meal in silence, “I am honored then.”

Qu Yiheng paused in his movements and turned his head to look at him.

Meanwhile, Dou Yucong, who was still nursing his heartbreak across from them, silently rolled his eyes and decided that tonight, either he had to leave or these two had to go.

“Does Yao brothers’ family live out of town?” Dou Yucong began to make small talk with Yao Zhan.

It was too difficult to get any information out of Qu Yiheng. He either didn’t speak or pretended not to hear.

“Yeah, but it’s not too far away.” Yao Zhan replied.

“It’s not in C, is it?” Dou Yucong knew that his brother’s family used to be there, and since Yao Zhan was his brother’s old school friend, it was possible that he was still in C City.

“Yeah, C-city.”

Dou Yucong was shocked, “That’s not too far? Brother, it’s over a thousand kilometres away!”

He really wanted to say that the power of love was truly great, but he was afraid that his brother would get angry.

“But C-city is really nice,” Dou Yucong, “beautiful scenery and people, great mountains and water. If I didn’t have this job holding me back, I would resign and go there to enjoy life.”

These words struck a chord with Yao Chan. Compared to here, life in C City was indeed more comfortable, at least the temperature wasn’t so torturous.

“Then you are welcome to come over.” Yao Zhan said, “Many of our old classmates have stayed in C city. If you go there, you won’t have to worry about not having friends.”

Dou Yucong looked at his brother and smiled, “Okay, if I go there in the future, Yao brother will take care of me.”

As Yao Zhan had said, his cooking skills were really good.

A few years ago, Yao Zhan was the type of person who had nothing to do with cooking. He was busy with work and had a cafeteria in his workplace, so he didn’t need to bother with cooking for himself.

But one day, he had a whim to go to the gym. Since he was going to work out, he naturally had to pay attention to his diet, so he started learning from recipes.

He didn’t persist for long, however, because he was too busy with work to have time for exercise. His gym membership went to waste, but he found joy in cooking. As long as he wasn’t too busy or too tired, he tried to cook for himself.

But then again, he would never have imagined that the first time he cooked for someone else, it would be Qu Yiheng.

After dinner, Dou Yuchong didn’t want to stay at home and came up with eight hundred excuses to leave the house.

As soon as he left, he sent a message to Qu Yiheng: “Bro, I’m not coming back tonight. See you tomorrow!”

He didn’t say much, but he knew Qu Yiheng would understand.

Anyway, regardless of whether the two of them stayed at home at night or not, he definitely couldn’t stay.

His brother had been single for so long, like a withered rose. Now that someone had come to fertilize it, he had to create opportunities for him.

The third wheel left, leaving the two of them staring at each other.

If they were in a hotel, they would have taken off their clothes and jumped into bed without a second thought, but this was their home, and the atmosphere felt a bit strange.

“Well…” Qu Yiheng saw that it was still early, and it wasn’t very meaningful to just chat awkwardly, so he suggested, “Do you want to go for a walk?”

Although Yao Zhan wanted to complain about the temperature here at night, he had to comply with Qu Yiheng’s suggestion.

The two of them went downstairs and wandered casually around the area, talking about unimportant things, most time it was Yao Zhan who talked, about Shao Wei and the others after graduation, talking about his work, about his study trip, and then asked Qu Yiheng, “Why did your brother go?”

Qu Yiheng was stunned and replied, “His friends asked him for a drink and he won’t be back tonight.”

The phrase “not coming back tonight” immediately made Yao Zhan understand Qu Yiheng’s meaning, and he smiled and said, “Your brother is quite interesting.”

“He’s over thirty and still behaves like a child.”

“It’s good that you have someone to keep you company. I don’t think you’d talk to anyone if it weren’t for him.”

What Yao Zhan said was true, if it wasn’t for Dou Yucong, Qu Yiheng probably wouldn’t be able to say a word all day long.

The two of them went round twice and didn’t go home until it was dark.

After entering the house, Qu Yiheng walked in front and Yao Zhan followed behind him.

They were so close that Qu Yiheng could even feel the heat from Yao Zhan’s body.

He asked, “Did you sweat after walking around? Do you want to take a shower?”

Yao Zhan took a half step forward and wrapped his arms around Qu Yiheng from behind, resting his chin on the other’s shoulder and rubbing his lips against his ear, “Are you hot too? Shall we take a shower together?”

When they first arrived at the hotel, Yao Zhan had thought that they would take a bath together in the hotel bathtub, and that the scene would be quite romantic and erotic, but he didn’t expect that Qu Yiheng would not join him at the hotel, and that the first time they would be in the bathroom would be at Qu Yiheng’s home.

The water temperature was just right and so were they.

Qu Yiheng pressed against the tiled wall and said to him, “Take it slow…..”