I don’t think he wasn’t nice honestly. Like he was just really rude (kind of the same thing) but I feel like that other lab dude was the mean one. I don’t see him as the homophobic one honestly. And Idk why he started treating xiao mu so coldly but I’m just glad he didn’t bully them.
And well yeah it’s kind of cat fishing and xiao mu is actually pretty brave to do all of what he does even though he’s never seen “Andrew” ya know ??
The author might have did something with this