The secret that Su Yutang has hidden for five years is her unspoken love for her roommate Pei Hezhou.
However, after confirming that Pei Hezhou was a "straight man", he firmly felt that love in his heart. He spent four long years with her, and together they were admitted to the School of Computer Science as graduate students.
Pei Hezhou has always been carefree and always regarded Su Yutang as his best brother. From sharing snacks with each other's shoulders, to making fun of each other when he stayed up late to correct the code, he did not notice the red tips of the ears and evasive eyes of the people around him.
Su Yutang was greedy for the warmth of being close at hand, but he was afraid that if he got closer, his secret would be exposed. Until his forbearance was about to overflow, he finally chose to retreat: deliberately avoiding Pei Hezhou's invitation, hoping to use distance to cut off the thoughts that should not have grown so much.
But this hiding made Pei Hezhou completely panicked.
He stared at the empty desk in the apartment in a daze, looking through the photos on his phone from his freshman year to his first year of graduate school - the profile of Su Yutang wiping his sweat at the sports meeting, the selfie of the two of them hooking their shoulders after the final and weekly exams. His fingertips ran across the gentle smile of the man hidden in the corner in the photo, and only later did he realize that the care between those "brothers" had quietly crossed the line.
Pei Hezhou thought he was going crazy, until one day, he clutched his cell phone and chased him to the door of the apartment, blocking the person against the wall, his eyes so bright.
Su Yutang's eyes were red and she wanted to push him, her voice was trembling: "Pei Hezhou, you don't understand at all..." Before he could finish his words, Pei Hezhou pulled him into his arms, and held his waist with sweaty palms, and his hot breath fell against his ears: "A Tang, I love you!"
Intention: Loving someone regardless of gender