Chapter 179: INVESTED

Chapter 179: 179: INVESTED

"I..." Nyx stuttered, searching for the right words. He looked away from what Ryan was reading and stared into his face. "I want you to help me with June."

He hesitated again, staring at Ryan.

Ryan raised an eyebrow. "How? What do you need help with? Confessing to him?"

Nyx stared at him. "I already did."

Ryan raised an eyebrow. "Oh... So did he reject you already?"

"..."

Nyx simply blinked.

Ryan slowly nodded. "I guess not yet... So what do you want help with?"

Nyx hesitated before finally saying, "I need your help with making him happy."

He added, "I need to know what he likes and everything, so I can be able to make him happy... Maybe then he can consider me more."

Ryan ran a hand through his chin as he shook his head. "Woah, this is more serious than I thought."

He bit his lower lip before casually saying, "Try asking him if you’re curious."

Nyx hesitated. "He hasn’t accepted my confession yet, and he hasn’t given me a response... I don’t think he would tell me."

Ryan found himself smiling as he shook his head. He could see the worry in Nyx’s expression. He was so worried about his confession being rejected that he was already trying to figure out how to work on it.

"Cute," Ryan sighed. "So... what to do now?"

He thought for a while before meeting Nyx’s eyes. He noticed that Nyx’s gaze kept falling toward his phone every now and then.

Then Ryan got an idea.

"I have an idea."

Nyx stared at him. "What idea?"

Ryan smiled. "June likes BL. And most especially, smutty ones..."

Nyx was quiet, standing there and staring at Ryan, who leaned closer with a mischievous smile on his face.

"So I think if you want to get to know him better, you should get into reading those too. BLs. Smutty fanfic-level BLs..."

Nyx hesitated, standing there with a slight bow as he stared at him. "BLs..." he muttered.

Ryan nodded with a smile. "Yes. But it’s okay if you don’t want to. It’s not for the weak."

He leaned backward.

But Nyx instantly agreed. "Okay, then..."

Ryan sighed. "Sure?"

Nyx nodded.

Ryan nodded back. "Okay, then. I’ll help with some recommendations."

And he did.

Ryan gave Nyx some recommendations to start with, and Nyx soon found himself sitting alone on the bed in his dorm room, staring at the tab open in front of him.

He was about to open the first Chapter of one of Ryan’s recommendations. He was skeptical and somewhat scared of what he would encounter, especially given Ryan’s mischievous smile.

Nyx slowly turned to the first page, and the first sentence immediately made him gag.

He instantly closed the tab and looked away, slowly panting as he shook his head. "What was that...?"

He muttered as he slowly stared down at the tab again. Hesitant, he opened it once more and skeptically read through half of the first page.

Then he closed the tab again, shutting his eyes while panting. "What the hell was that...?"

It was extremely smutty right off the bat—two strangers on a one-night stand getting increasingly naughty and wild. The language was rather descriptive, far more detailed than Nyx had expected, to the point that he could almost picture everything in his mind.

Nyx opened it again and managed to read through the first page. He didn’t even realize when his eyes moved to the second.

"This..." He blinked in disbelief at how detailed the content was. The characters and their actions were described with such clarity that Nyx could literally picture everything happening.

When he reached another particularly intense part, Nyx closed the tab again with a sharp gasp.

"What was that...?"

He blinked, his heart pounding and his cheeks flushed as he looked around to make sure he was alone while reading all this.

"How is this even a thing...?" he muttered in disbelief as he stared down at his tab. The scene was still clear and vivid in his mind.

"I have class tomorrow. I should stop now... Yes... I should..."

But Nyx got curious.

Too curious.

He found himself slowly opening the tab again to see what happened next, and before he knew it, he was completely absorbed in the story.

He read through the scene, his eyes moving from one paragraph to another. Every time he told himself he would stop, another detail caught his attention.

But the more he read, the more his imagination began to wander.

Nyx swallowed as he paused and stared down at himself, suddenly aware of the effect the story was having on him.

And then June’s image appeared in his mind, replacing the characters he had been reading about.

Because somehow, all he could picture was him and June.

"No, no, no..." Nyx muttered, gently slapping his own cheeks. "What the hell am I doing?"

He quickly tried to distract himself.

"I have to stop reading now... I have to go to sleep... Yes... I have to..." he told himself firmly.

But soon it was almost three in the morning, and Nyx was still reading.

He jumped from one recommendation Ryan had given him to another, telling himself each time that it would be the last. Yet every new story only made him more curious.

By the time he finally stopped, it was already daybreak.

He pushed aside the blanket he had hidden himself under and stared up at the sunlight coming through the window.

"..."

Nyx was speechless.

"It’s already daybreak?!"

He checked his watch, and the time was already 6 a.m. without him even noticing.

Nyx gasped.

And that was how it started for him.

The next day, he didn’t stop. He went back to Ryan for more recommendations and even searched for some online himself.

"I need to study more about June," he told himself as he went through the recommendations he discovered, binging them with utmost attention. "Yes, I have to. It’s all for study purposes..."

He nodded firmly, as though convincing himself.

It was definitely research.

At least, that’s what Nyx told himself.