My Mr. Mermaid

Untitled Part 63

Chapter 63 by ryuxenji

That night, Tang Yi-Bai did not dare stay at home, hurrying back to the training base. When he returned, he asked Qi Rui-Feng and found out that Coach Wu had not come looking for him. Lucky, lucky.

Still, Tang Yi-Bai found that something was off with Qi Rui-Feng. Feng's strange behaviour was not a sudden thing. It was just over the last two days — as soon as Feng saw him, his mood would turn sour and he would be unresponsive towards him. During meal times, Feng would made absolutely sure he did not sit next to him, and if he had something to ask, he'd seek out Ming Tian or Zheng Ling-Ye and the others, even going so far as to seek out Xiang Yang-Yang to avoid him.

It was so strange. Tang Yi-Bai searched his memory and could not recall doing anything to offend Feng, so why then did it feel like Feng was... distancing himself from him?

Yes, distancing himself.

One could not beat around the bush when dealing with someone as straightforward as Qi Rui-Feng, so Tang Yi-Bai asked him directly, "Feng, are you mad at me?"

Qi Rui-Feng looked stunned. "Why would I be mad at you?"

"Then, are you still mad at Yun Duo?"

"Why would I be mad at her? Oh, she called me a mascot. Yes, I'm very angry about that. Hmph!"

So that wasn't it either? Tang Yi-Bai thought of the worst possibility. "Are you interested in my Yun Duo? Are you planning on fighting a brother over a girl?"

Qi Rui-Feng bristled in anger. "Tang Yi-Bai, are you mental?"

Tang Yi-Bai spread his palms. "Then why have you been keeping a distance from me recently? Are you planning to end our friendship next?"

"I..." Qi Rui-Feng deflated. "You absolutely do not want to know the real reason."

"No, I want to know. I can only resolve the issue once I know what it is."

Qi Rui-Feng used his phone to pull up a video and showed it to Tang Yi-Bai.

The video was a fanmade MV. The song and lyrics were haunting and sentimental, and then, the images in the video were all clips of Qi Rui-Feng and Tang Yi-Bai interacting with each other. Hugging each other, staring at each other, smiling at each other, and so on... This fan was truly a whiz at video editing. He strung together clips of ordinary innocuous interactions and made them extremely clingy and cringey — the two men felt like their world view was crumbling around them by the end of the video.

Tang Yi-Bai put a hand on his forehead. "This... just ignore it..." Honestly, it wasn't that easy to ignore it — this video had already inflicted some psychological trauma on him.

"There's also this." Qi Rui-Feng opened his Weibo and showed him some top comments.

Many of the hot comments were urging Qi Rui-Feng to become Tang Yi-Bai's bride.

Tang Yi-Bai: =?=

Qi Rui-Feng was sullen. "In fact, most of the comments were asking me to take you as my bride before, but after I became a mascot, now they're asking me to be the bride."

Tang Yi-Bai: =?=

He suddenly felt that he had made a wise decision to not check his Weibo. If there were new comments every day urging him to take Qi Rui-Feng as his bride, he would not be able to take it.

Qi Rui-Feng said anxiously, "I don't know how to face you anymore. What if the netizens manage to make me bent?"

Tang Yi-Bai wiped a drop of sweat from his temple. "Feng, you're thinking too much." And even if you become gay, I am absolutely loyal to Yun Duo...