SYU 23. Gotta Protect Wu Jinshan Properly

After that argument with Lin Lu, Chen Xiucheng stopped speaking to him altogether.

Lin Lu stayed mad for a while after going back, but probably got worn down by others. Most people liked Chen Xiucheng more, so everyone took his side. Eventually, Lin Lu came crawling back, shamelessly sucking up to him in every possible way.

Over the next few days, Chen Xiucheng kept an ear out for anyone still gossiping about Wu Jinshan. Whenever he heard something, he would cuss them out right there. Armed with his booming voice and endless stubborn energy, he launched into moral takedowns, righteously scolding people as if it were his job to carry out public re-education campaigns.

He warned them that spreading rumors was against the law. If it was minor, he accused them of stirring up trouble between classmates. He even quoted famous people from China and abroad, using phrases like “no can, no BB” as if it were a philosophical truth. After several days of this, all the idle talk about Wu Jinshan vanished completely within Chen Xiucheng’s hearing range. Now and then someone might bring it up, but others would immediately hush them, mostly out of respect for Brother Cheng.

At the same time, Chen Xiucheng was also obsessing over helping his male roommate Wu Jinshan find a boyfriend.

After he updated his own dating app profile to use Wu Jinshan’s info, setting the status to single top looking for a bottom and open to dating, people started liking the profile and adding him fast.

In gay circles, tops were always in short supply. With Wu Jinshan’s build and looks, of course people swarmed. As soon as his profile went live, the likes poured in and he landed right at the top of the local hot singles list.

At first, Chen Xiucheng was full of enthusiasm. He approved a bunch of match requests and started replying to them one by one. But soon he realized most of them were ugly as sin and completely ruined his mood.

The polite ones opened with, “Can I see your abs?”

But most were straight-up, “Big bro, I want to suck your huge cock.”

Tch. Chen Xiucheng hadn’t even gotten to suck Wu Jinshan’s cock himself, and these guys were already asking to eat it. Shameless.

Others messaged things like, “I wanna get fucked in the ass by you, bro.”

He cursed them out across the screen ten times over. They hadn’t even met and they were already begging to get fucked? Were they sizing people up by their assholes now? The eyes were supposed to be the windows to the soul, and now the asshole was the door?

Then there were the ones who skipped the small talk and just wrote, “Wanna hook up?” along with GPS coordinates to random alleys and stairwells.

Even worse, some just sent pictures of cum, asses, dicks, all kinds of junk.

Chen Xiucheng was trying to help Wu Jinshan find a proper boyfriend. This wasn’t a fucking hookup ad.

After scrolling through pages of bottoms and switches, Chen Xiucheng couldn’t help but sigh. No wonder Wu Jinshan hadn’t found a boyfriend. These people were a mess, and even the profile verification messages were horny beyond belief.

At least he had blurred out Wu Jinshan’s nose. But even without the full face, people were already going crazy. If he had posted the whole photo, would the entire city be lining up in heat, waiting for their turn to get fucked?

As more and more people flooded in to match, Chen Xiucheng finally lost it and hit “Reject All” in one swipe. He blamed himself for having no experience and quickly set filters for region, age range, personality tags, health status, job, and education. He applied each restriction one by one.

He filtered each photo carefully, strictly according to Wu Jinshan’s preferences. It was fine if the guy wasn’t especially handsome. What mattered more was whether he had a pleasant look and decent character.

He muttered to himself that it was a good thing he was the one screening them. He couldn’t just let one of these thirsty bastards lure Wu Jinshan away. As Wu Jinshan’s only good friend and best bro, it was his duty to protect him properly.

Suddenly, a familiar face appeared on the screen. Chen Xiucheng never thought he’d run into someone he knew on the app. He froze for several minutes, thinking maybe his eyes were playing tricks on him.

He cautiously tapped the profile, checked the photos and info to confirm, and then sent over a greeting…

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If Chen Xiucheng had picked a special date like May 20, May 21, or June 1 to ask him out, Wu Jinshan definitely would have suspected something.

But the day Chen Xiucheng chose was completely ordinary. Wu Jinshan figured maybe he really just wanted to hang out and have fun.

At first, Chen Xiucheng said he just wanted to grab a meal. Just the two of them.

Wu Jinshan said the dining hall would do and asked what was so special that they had to go out to eat.

Then Chen Xiucheng said they could see a movie after.

Wu Jinshan replied that everything showing lately was dumb as hell and insulting to his intelligence. He didn’t want to go.

So Chen Xiucheng made something up about taking Chengcheng out to play. He said the frog had been cooped up in the dorm for too long and needed some air. He suggested they meet at the stall where he had bought the frog plush.

Wu Jinshan hesitated for a second before agreeing.

He didn’t expect Chen Xiucheng to suddenly catch on and start liking him back, but this already felt like a big step forward. What really pushed him to say yes was the thought of the two of them walking their little frogs side by side. That image was just too cute to pass up.

After all, there was no crime in fantasizing. And since Chen Xiucheng always said he had no skill, Wu Jinshan had been secretly reading guides online about how to improve. He had never tasted Chen Xiucheng’s lips before, and he wanted to know what it would feel like to have their tongues tangled together.

While he was at it, he also looked up nearby hotels with decent hygiene. Booking a room was the easy part. The real challenge was how to coax Chen Xiucheng into bed.

He had even thought about how to confess, how to start officially dating, how they would get along afterward, and how he would take Chen Xiucheng to the ranch to play. They could spend the entire summer fucking nonstop.

But when the day finally came, and Wu Jinshan stood by the plush frog stall, heart racing with anticipation, it wasn’t Chen Xiucheng who showed up.

He had come full of hope like a love-struck idiot, only to have all his sweet fantasies stomped flat.