You're my wife, don't doubt it!

Lucia scrutinized her for a long time before saying, "She's alright, I guess... it's not very obvious?"

"Let's hurry back to the hotel." Shen Jie subconsciously raised one hand to cover her chest, mentally calculating her financial losses.

About two thousand?

Ugh, you spendthrift woman, I can't live like this anymore!

--split line--

Meanwhile, on the other side, at Evergrande Beach.

The ribbonfish were scooped out of the sea—or rather, carried out—by people sprawling out of the water.

"Brother Long, Brother Long, save me!" The ribbonfish struggled violently while casting pleading glances at Zhang Jialong.

Zhang Jialong, holding his muscular arm, shook his head and said, "You deserve it. I've already made an appointment for you at the hospital, so go ahead and relax."

"Which hospital still has appointments available at this time?" The ribbonfish was actually concerned about this.

"Barbie Animal Hospital, they offer 24-hour consultations and immediate veterinary interventions."

Xiao Yao held the fish's right arm, Chen Lu held the fish's left arm, while Zhao Xiaomei and Zhou Qi each lifted one of his legs, spreading his legs wide apart.

"Wake up!" Xiao Yao shouted. "One, two!"

"Help!"

The four of them worked together to gently but firmly slam the ribbonfish's crotch against the telephone pole.

"One, two!"

"Killing!"

After ramming him seven or eight times, the four men finally put him down, satisfied.

The ribbonfish, wearing swimming trunks, sat on the beach, groaning and looking utterly aggrieved.

"You guys are really ruthless," Yu Luying said with a smile.

"Damn it," Xiao Yao whispered to Yu Luying, "when he was dragging me to the bottom of the water just now, he almost pulled my swimming trunks off."

"Really?" Yu Luying covered her mouth and chuckled.

"Still cooking? What are you laughing at?" Xiao Yao said irritably.

The sun had already set, and Yu Luying's pure white cotton dress clung even more tightly to her body in the damp seawater. The hem, slightly heavy from absorbing water, clung to her legs and waist. The soaked dress revealed a faint transparency, subtly showing the outline of her legs. The wet dress felt even softer, and the light touch made her feel as if she were being gently enveloped by the sea.

The girl's simple white cotton socks were completely soaked, clinging tightly to her feet and slightly swollen from absorbing water. The damp socks emitted a faint moisture in the sunlight, and in Xiao Yao's imagination, they possessed a delicate fragrance. The socks' fine texture was even more apparent due to the moisture, with some loose wrinkles gathered around her ankles, hidden from Xiao Yao's view because of the part inside her sneakers.

Yu Luying knew that Xiao Yao was looking at her feet, so she deliberately moved her toes inside her sneakers, and a large amount of seawater seeped out from the toe of the canvas shoes.

Her wet sneakers were covered in seawater and fine sand, the fabric of the uppers damp and slightly dark. The soles were slippery from the moisture, but still provided stable support.

Yu Luying stood on the beach, her clothes and shoes soaked through. This sight made Xiao Yao's blood boil; he wished he could push her onto the sand right then and there. The damp sea breeze brushed against the girl's face, causing her hair to flutter slightly.

The girl gently brushed away her wet hair with her hand, then continued to admire the beautiful scenery of the sea.

"Come on," Yu Luying grabbed Xiao Yao's hand, "I want to eat takoyaki! It's your treat!"

“Let’s go,” Xiao Yao said, “where can we get takoyaki?”

“I saw it on my way here!” Yu Luying said.

“Okay,” Xiao Yao said.

The boy and girl walked side by side on the beach at sunset. At first, it was just a simple hand-holding, but Xiao Yao consciously turned it into interlocking their fingers.

With a gentle sea breeze blowing, as they walked, Xiao Yao couldn't help but turn his head to look at Yu Luying's rosy face, and then leaned in to give her a peck.

“There’s someone there,” Yu Luying always said, but she didn’t actually try to hide.

In this situation, we should raise a toast.

Yu Luying bought a serving of takoyaki, and reached out to take it, but Xiao Yao wouldn't give it to her.

"Ah—open your mouth." Xiao Yao handed over the bamboo skewer.

“No,” Yu Luying said, blushing as she looked around. “If you don’t give it to me, you can eat it yourself. I’ll taste it anyway.”

"Ah—" Xiao Yao persisted.

Yu Luying quickly stretched her head and bit into the takoyaki, then scalded herself so badly that she covered her mouth and jumped up and down.

Xiao Yao also covered his mouth and jumped up and down, attracting strange looks from a small group of passersby.

The two found a secluded spot on the beach, lay down on deck chairs under the umbrella, and leisurely finished the takoyaki, taking turns eating it.

Xiao Yao saw that many people were buried under the sand, with only their heads sticking out, and found it quite interesting. He also wanted to bury Yu Luying alive.

The girl refused outright: "No, if you're going to bury someone, let me bury you."

"Look, it's mostly the boys burying the girls..."

"You're only happy when you ruin my dress because of their swimsuits? I have nothing to wear."

"Um, shall I go buy you a swimsuit?"

"What time is it? It'll be dark soon."

"Or you could just take off your skirt... uh, never mind."

"Fine, if you don't care if I wear my underwear to show people, I don't care either." Yu Luying pretended to unbutton her collar sleeves.

"No, no, no, no, bury me, bury me!" Xiao Yao said quickly.

Twenty minutes later.

"How do you feel?" Yu Luying clapped the sand off her palms.

"How do you feel about it yourself?" Xiao Yao said.

“I feel pretty good. Next time, it’s your turn to bury me,” Yu Luying said.

“I also feel pretty good about it,” Xiao Yao said. “I told you from the beginning that I was coming to bury you.”

Yu Luying straightened her skirt and squatted down next to Xiao Yao's head, which was peeking out of the sand. She poked at the thick sand covering his body with a small twig: "You want me to make up with Shen Jie? That's fine. Anyway, with you in the middle, we'll have to make up whether we want to or not."

"He's reasonable and has a good sense of the big picture." Xiao Yao wanted to give a thumbs up or bow, but his head was buried from the neck down.

"But you want me to apologize to her first? I want to ask, why should I?" Yu Luying's tone was very calm.

The suggestion to make Yu Luying apologize first came from Xiao Yao, who took advantage of her good mood while she was burying him.

Xiao Yao felt that the fact that the girl did not fly into a rage as he had previously feared was already a victory.

“It’s not about what right I should,” Xiao Yao explained to her, “I just want to discuss this with you, to see if you can first show a… Christian attitude?”

"Should Christians be held at gunpoint?" Yu Luying's voice rose several octaves.

“Of course,” Xiao Yao said with a playful grin, “Doesn’t your scripture—our scripture—say that if someone slaps you on the left cheek, you should turn the other cheek to them?”

“Oh, right.” Yu Luying mimicked Xiao Yao’s tone, staring thoughtfully at Xiao Yao’s face.

Then he gently slapped Xiao Yao's left cheek.

Xiao Yao immediately pulled his left arm out of the sand and gently scraped it against Yu Luying's right cheek.

"You!" Yu Luying was stunned.

"The effect is the same for both of us," Xiao Yao explained with a grin.

"Ugh, you're driving me crazy!" Yu Luying suddenly stood up, wiping the sand off her right cheek as she said, "I'm going to stomp you flat."

As the girl spoke, she gently stepped on the sand covering Xiao Yao's neck and chest with the soles of her shoes.

Xiao Yao reached out his free, sand-covered left hand to grasp Yu Luying's right foot, immediately causing her socks to become even dirtier.

"Don't move, take your paws off, you're getting my socks dirty."

Xiao Yao obeyed, released his hand, and then opened his mouth to bite Yu Luying's left ankle.

The white socks there seemed relatively clean, except for looking wet. However, after taking a bite, the boy's mouth was immediately filled with the fishy smell of seawater, along with a rough, gritty texture. He immediately spat it out.

Yu Luying stuck out her tongue and laughed: "Keep licking, what, you don't like me anymore?"

"If you don't mind, come on, let's continue." Xiao Yao said, reaching out to take off Yu Luying's sneakers, but she quickly dodged away.

“You’re hopelessly perverted,” Yu Luying said. “Don’t make me suffer like this again—I’ll apologize first, but remember this, you owe me this.”

"I'll remember that." Xiao Yao was overjoyed and said very earnestly, "I'm sorry to have troubled you."

As darkness fell, Xiao Yao and Yu Luying went to the shower to rinse off. Xiao Yao put on his clothes, and the two headed towards the Sheng'ai Hotel.

Yu Luying said she was going to play the cello in the dining room for dinner, so she went back to her room on the 20th floor to shower and change, and said goodbye to Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao wandered around the hotel lobby twice, thinking about whether he should go to room 1503 to take a shower and change his underwear first, or go straight to the dining room.

Before I could make up my mind, I saw Shen Jie and Lu Jia enter from the entrance of the Saint Love Hotel.

She was still wearing that white shirt, her arms crossed over her chest, a gray pleated skirt, and blue Crocs, but her stockings were nowhere to be seen.

"Qingwei." Xiao Yao went to greet her.

Shen Jie acted as if she hadn't seen or heard anything. She turned her head to the side, lowered her arm that was covering her chest, pulled Lu Ziya along, and walked past Xiao Yao.

What are you doing?

Xiao Yao caught up with them and took the elevator up to the sixth floor.

"Qingwei, why aren't you talking to me?" In the elevator, Xiao Yao stood behind the two of them: "Are you free tonight? I have something to tell you."