The story opens with a description of a thirty-year-old man who is a member of a "gay bachelor grace class" . The man is named "Cummins" and he is described as "neither the most handsome nor the most beautiful man" , but he is also described as being "so gay" that he "naturally did not like him yes, that was how he saw him at the time, much either ." Cummins tells the story of how he and his friend, "Yao jian," had a crush on each other during their senior year of high school, but they never spoke of it to each other because they were too busy trying to get into different schools. One day, while he was napping, he wanted to "sneak a kiss" into his friend's room, but the kiss was discovered and he was punished.