Chapter 139: Haircut

This place is packed…

Let’s try another one.

At the barbershop entrance, Bai Yao casually walked past with an air of nonchalance, peeked inside, then hurried back to Qiu Ye’s side, keeping a cold expression while saying the most cowardly words.

“It’ll be a long wait.”

“Unless we skip class to get a haircut, isn’t it always a long wait?”

Qiu Ye didn’t seem too concerned, though.

He grabbed Bai Yao and pushed open the barbershop door.

The employees inside and the students waiting for haircuts all turned to look.

Even though Bai Yao wore women’s clothes to class every day and was long used to being stared at, he still instinctively felt timid and put on an even colder face.

When he wasn’t talking, he was practically an aloof goddess.

Unfortunately, he often stuttered when flustered.

“Boss, haircut, two people, h-how long is the wait?”

Qiu Ye called out casually, then pulled Bai Yao over to sit on the sofa.

“About half an hour.”

Actually, the shop looked busy, but several people weren’t there for haircuts—they were just accompanying friends.

Bai Yao sat stiffly beside Qiu Ye and asked in a low voice:

“What kind of hairstyle are you planning to get?”

Qiu Ye’s hair was also on the longer side.

It wasn’t bad overall, but the hair on the sides was a bit frizzy, looking unkempt.

“Just the usual—shaved short on the sides?”

Qiu Ye didn’t have many opinions about hairstyles.

“What about you?”

“I’ll just get a trim.”

“I want to grow my hair out a bit longer.”

Bai Yao had always liked long hair.

He used to think the fish-head samurai cut was cool and had a certain androgynous beauty, but now he wanted to grow straight, long black hair.

Once it was long, it would be easy to style it in all sorts of pretty ways.

But growing out your hair didn’t mean you could just ignore it for a year or two.

You still needed regular trims.

With nothing else to do, Bai Yao glanced up at the busy barber, then pulled out his phone and started reading a novel.

Qiu Ye crossed his legs and leaned over.

“What are you reading?”

“Don’t sit so close to me.”

Bai Yao reminded him quietly.

He had thin skin and didn’t like looking too intimate with Qiu Ye in front of others.

No worries—Qiu Ye took out his phone too.

“Come on! Let’s take a selfie to send my mom.”

“Can we not?”

Bai Yao turned his head away.

He still wasn’t used to taking photos, only occasionally snapping a few to tease Qiu Ye.

Plus, he felt he wasn’t photogenic.

He was already quite slim, and looking in the mirror, his face was an oval shape, but in photos it always came out round like a steamed bun.

“Come on~”

Qiu Ye scooted even closer and casually wrapped an arm around Bai Yao’s waist.

“Smile.”

Seeing that Qiu Ye was determined to take the photo, Bai Yao flashed a sweet smile at Qiu Ye’s phone in the last second of the countdown.

The moment the photo was taken, Bai Yao’s smile immediately vanished, and he let out a grumble of dissatisfaction.

“Doesn’t this look pretty good?”

“Where?”

Bai Yao leaned over to look at the photo too.

“The smile is so ugly.”

“Is my face a bit asymmetrical?”

“It looks weird.”

Qiu Ye casually flipped the photo.

“Not weird now, is it?”

“I guess not.”

“Boss, how long is the wait for a haircut!”

Another person walked into the barbershop.

Bai Yao instinctively looked up and saw Chen Zhilong push open the glass door and step inside.

He spotted Bai Yao and Qiu Ye at once.

“What a coincidence?”

As soon as Chen Zhilong finished speaking, his gaze landed on the hand wrapped around Bai Yao’s waist.

Bai Yao followed his gaze, swatted Qiu Ye’s paw away, and awkwardly shuffled his butt to the edge of the sofa, putting half a meter of distance between them.

Qiu Ye, however, shamelessly greeted him:

“Long Ge, come sit over here.”

Chen Zhilong didn’t even know what expression to make.

To be fair, even though Lin Mingxin always teased things like “Go get your marriage certificate” or “Go get married,” Chen Zhilong had never actually thought in that direction.

After all, two men…

Even if Bai Yao did look completely natural in women’s clothes, pretty enough to compete for class beauty, and could probably star in the school’s promotional video with some makeup on, it was still hard to wrap his head around.

‘Am I just out of touch? Can’t keep up with the times?’

Chen Zhilong sat stiffly beside Qiu Ye, unable to say a word.

Qiu Ye, on the other hand, seemed shameless and unbothered, but he just stared at his phone, not knowing what to chat about with Long Ge either.

They were dormmates sitting right next to each other, yet the awkwardness was suffocating.

“Uh… you two, are you together?”

Chen Zhilong couldn’t hold back his curiosity and wanted to confirm.

“Yeah.”

Qiu Ye nodded without hesitation.

“She’s a girl, so it’s fine.”

A girl…

If you only looked at appearances, who wouldn’t believe it?

She really did look like a girl.

But she lived in the boys’ dormitory, for crying out loud!

Chen Zhilong quickly jumped to conclusions.

‘Bai Yao wants to be a girl?’

Qiu Ye didn’t know how to explain either.

Bai Yao received a phone call.

He glanced at the caller ID, stood up, and went outside the barbershop, pacing back and forth while talking.

Seeing him leave, Chen Zhilong couldn’t hold back anymore:

“So what stage are you two at now?”

“Just holding hands and stuff.”

Qiu Ye replied, forcing down his embarrassment.

“Oh…”

He wanted to ask if they’d gone further, but that seemed a bit too forward.

Chen Zhilong finally understood why, even though he had met Qiu Ye first, Qiu Ye had a closer relationship with Bai Yao, becoming as close as brothers in just a few weeks…

‘This pervert was eyeing his dormmate’s body!’

‘No wonder they were so close!’

‘He didn’t even spare another man!’

After chatting for a bit, Chen Zhilong loosened up a little and teased:

“Don’t worry.”

“If Bai Yao ever gets bullied by you, I, as your old dormitory head, will definitely stand up for him.”

“Right now it’s her bullying me, okay?”

Qiu Ye sighed helplessly and complained:

“I thought she had a good temper at first, but now she hits me and kicks me all the time.”

“How is that possible?”

“She has that kind of personality and hits people?”

Probably because Bai Yao was genuinely good-looking, Chen Zhilong accepted it pretty quickly, aside from not understanding it.

It was all in jest.

“I’m telling you…”

Before they could chat much more, Bai Yao ran back into the barbershop looking a bit flustered and pulled Qiu Ye aside.

Qiu Ye thought something big had happened and his face turned serious.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s my cousin!”

“Huh?”

“Something happened?”

“He actually succeeded at the matchmaking!”

“And he’s getting engaged during the New Year!”

“They want me to go back and attend!”

Bai Yao couldn’t believe it:

“My family made a huge scene—crying, yelling, even threatening suicide—and he told me before that he didn’t want to come back for matchmaking at all.”

“How did this happen so fast?”

“He wanted to get married, and only came back for matchmaking after his family made a scene?”

“That’s actually not so bad, right?”

Qiu Ye sighed in relief and teased:

“In the time he spent matchmaking, you could’ve found a boyfriend already.”

“No kidding?”

During the time his cousin was matchmaking, Bai Yao had turned into a girl, fallen into girlishness, become a cute little girl, and even found a partner.

But he still couldn’t quite accept it:

“My cousin must have been forced into this.”

“Who knows, maybe he just happened to find the right one?”

“Then it’s over.”

“Even if I say I’m working a winter vacation job, my family will definitely insist I go back for my cousin’s engagement.”

Bai Yao let out a pained groan.

He couldn’t imagine what his cousin’s reaction would be when he saw him like this.

He really didn’t want to go home!