"I can't change, I tried." Yihao lamented sadly as he stabbed at his noodles with his chopsticks, not wanting to lose Chenglei but hoping that he was just a bit nicer than the other boys he knew. Maybe he'd be more open to dealing with him? Even if he was a bit girly and weird. "I'm not good at being manly. Sports are exhausting, cars are boring and I tried to lift weights but I nearly died!"

And that basically excluded him from hanging out with most boys when he was in middle school. "... Can't game much either." And that isolated him from the nerdier boys. "But I can try again and learn. If you're into that stuff. I won't be boring, honest."