Chapter 233 Killing the Cuckoo (48)
Chapter 233 Killing the Cuckoo (48)
Yan Zhen frowned, seemingly worried, but in reality, he was indifferent and had no intention of interfering at all.
Gao Heng could only grit his teeth and say, "Even if... even so, I will not give up on Xu Chuan. You can't suppress my nature; that's immoral. Besides, I have the right to pursue happiness!"
"Screw your right to pursue happiness!!!" Mr. Gao's heart ached with anger. "Get out of here!"
Gao Heng felt embarrassed by being yelled at in public, so he simply pulled Xu Chuan and turned to leave.
When Gao's father saw that he had really fallen out with his family over a man, he was so angry that his blood rushed to his head and he trembled like a leaf. Then his eyes rolled back and he fainted.
Gao's mother's "birthday party" ended with Gao Heng running away from home and Gao's father fainting from anger.
The relatives rushed Mr. Gao to the hospital, and after emergency treatment, the doctor diagnosed him with high blood pressure.
Mr. Gao woke up quickly, but he was extremely dizzy. He lay on the hospital bed, unwilling to speak, looking listless and wilted like a frostbitten eggplant.
When Yan Zhen returned after completing the hospital admission procedures, she saw several relatives surrounding Gao's father in the ward, asking him about his well-being. Her cousin Yang Xiaolei, whom she had seen on the balcony earlier, was leaning against the ward door, arms crossed, looking inside with a hint of disdain.
"Xiaolei, you haven't gone back yet," Yan Zhen greeted her.
Yang Xiaolei turned around: "I'm waiting for my mom."
Yan Zhen nodded and was about to enter the ward when Yang Xiaolei called out to her, "Cousin."
Yan Zhen paused in his steps: "Hmm?"
"Um, do you have my cousin Aheng's WeChat? Could you send it to me?" Yang Xiaolei put her two index fingers together and looked at her expectantly. "I want to add my cousin as a WeChat friend."
Yan Zhen asked, puzzled, "Yes, why did you add him on WeChat?"
Gao Heng caused such a big commotion in front of his relatives today, even making his father sick with anger, yet Yang Xiaolei not only didn't avoid him, but actually wanted to add him on WeChat.
Yan Zhen recalled the BL comics Yang Xiaolei was reading on the balcony, and a vague guess formed in his mind.
“I didn’t do anything, I just wanted to be his friend on social media so I could peek at his posts and maybe even see him posting pictures of his relationship.” Yang Xiaolei’s face showed a hint of slyness and longing. “This is the first time I’ve ever seen a gay man in real life. My cousin is really brave.”
"brave?"
“Yeah, I’ve only ever seen people come out publicly in novels. You know how conservative and feudal people are in China. They see homosexuality as a monster and associate it with AIDS. They’re terrified of the topic. My cousin bravely came out to your parents under so much pressure. I declare that from today onwards, he’s my real-life idol!”
Yan Zhen: "..."
It's obvious that I've been reading too many BL novels and comics, bringing the two-dimensional world into reality and viewing the homosexual community through a biased lens.
If she were to tell Yang Xiaolei that her "idol" was a gay man who committed marriage fraud in his previous life, and was cowardly, incompetent, and so brain-dead that he was swindled out of hundreds of thousands of yuan by a "pig butchering scam," I wonder if it would shatter Yang Xiaolei's worldview.
But Yan Zhen had no interest in wasting his breath arguing with a teenage girl about these things; she probably wouldn't believe him anyway.
She'll grow up and see more of the world, and reality will teach her to reshape her values.
Urged by Yang Xiaolei, Yan Zhen took out his phone, added her as a friend, and then showed her Gao Heng's WeChat contact before preparing to enter the ward.
Yang Xiaolei grabbed her again: "Cousin, your dad is so angry, is he really going to sever his relationship with your cousin?"
After asking the question, without waiting for Yan Zhen's answer, she continued, "If you're going to sever the parent-child relationship, then sever the parent-child relationship. Your cousin can move out and live with his boyfriend. Once he earns money, he can have two children through surrogacy, and the four of them can come back happily together. He can use his actions to slap your father in the face and prove to him that homosexuals are no worse than heterosexuals, and that homosexuals can also live very happily."
Hearing her words, Yan Zhen couldn't help but ask, "Don't you know that surrogacy is illegal?"
Yang Xiaolei was taken aback, then said nonchalantly, "It's just illegal in China, but legal abroad. And what's wrong with same-sex surrogacy? Just because the person they like doesn't have a uterus doesn't mean they should be forced to have no offspring, right?"
"..." Yan Zhen's palms tingled slightly. She suppressed the urge to slap Yang Xiaolei across the face and said expressionlessly, "Your thought process is quite unique. Gao Heng and Xu Chuan will probably like you a lot."
Yang Xiaolei didn't understand her sarcasm, but was pleased by her "praise": "Really?"
"Seriously, with your personality, if you make more gay friends, you might just get lucky and be chosen as a wife of a gay man."
Yang Xiaolei's eyes lit up, and she hugged Yan Zhen's arm as if she had found a kindred spirit, and said in a low voice, "You know what, I had the same idea."
Yan Zhen: "?"
"Being a wife of a gay man is great! I just need to get a marriage certificate with one of them and become their legal spouse. I can watch them show their affection every day and enjoy watching this evenly matched gay couple. Isn't that much more interesting than reading BL novels!"
Yang Xiaolei looked on with longing, "And that way, I'll have two men earning money for me to spend, double the happiness!"
Yan Zhen's eyes twitched, and his face turned cold: "Are you sure that if you become a lesbian's wife, two men will earn money for you to spend, instead of two men teaming up to use your uterus to have children, drain your value, and then kick you out of the game?"
Yang Xiaolei paused, noticing Yan Zhen's unusual mood. She frowned and said, "Cousin, don't have such a strong prejudice against homosexuals. They're not like the people portrayed in the news reports..."
"Before becoming homosexual, they must first be human beings. As long as they are human beings, regardless of gender, they will have selfish desires."
Yan Zhen's voice turned cold. "What makes you think that two men would be happy to make money for you, a complete outsider? Just because you're willing to be their doormat? Since you're so naive, simple, cheap, and useful, why don't they make the most of you and treat you as a free nanny and a free womb, since you're willing, aren't you?"
Yang Xiaolei was taken aback by Yan Zhen's stern tone and realized that she was unhappy. She said with dissatisfaction, "Cousin, you are too malicious towards homosexuals. They already have a hard time in this society. Why can't you try to understand and sympathize with them... Besides, homosexuals are not as selfish as you say! They are all very brave and devoted people!"
"Oh? How do you know?"
"That's how it is in novels. Even if there are selfish and promiscuous villains, they are a minority."
Yan Zhen almost laughed out of anger: "The protagonists in literary works are all idealized. Are you out of your mind to bring novels into reality?"
"you……"
"Moreover, most BL works are created by female authors, and the male characters you admire are essentially the soul of female authors."
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