Once the ingredients were prepared and the fish was marinated, the aloof young woman stood beside Cheng Fei, watching him drop the shrimp balls one by one into the oil.

"Want to learn?" The boy turned his head.

"I'm not interested. If Cheng Feiyu hadn't insisted on making it, I wouldn't have liked eating this kind of thing anyway." The girl turned and left.

After the shrimp balls were deep-fried at a low temperature in the pot, it was Shen Xi's turn to fry the fish.

The girl put on her apron and sleeves, tied her waist-length hair back, and stared intently at the rising oil pan, her face tense as if facing a formidable enemy.

“Teacher Shen, the fish has been dried, so it won’t splash. Don’t worry,” Cheng Fei said, watching her.

"I'm not afraid." The girl's brows were furrowed, her pure, dark eyes unblinking.

"Could you please not use the pot lid as a shield? You need to use both hands to put the fish in, otherwise it will be more dangerous." The boy said calmly.

"..." The girl reluctantly put the pot lid aside, took a deep breath, picked up the fish with both hands, and showed a look of resignation.

Then, she quickly stepped back as she put the fish into the pan, watching it sizzle calmly as it entered the oil. Her eyes widened slightly, a look of confusion on her face. "Why isn't it splattering? Last time I made sweet and sour pork ribs..."

"Everyone says that wiping it dry will prevent it from splashing, but even Her Majesty the Empress sometimes doesn't understand physics?" Cheng Fei patted her head, not without a hint of teasing.

Shen Xi opened her mouth.

Just then, a crackling sound came from the pot, and hot oil visibly splattered out, hitting the wall.

The girl trembled slightly, quickly grabbing the pot lid beside her for defense, then angrily kicked the boy through gritted teeth, "Liar, I knew it would splatter!"

"Well, fish does contain some water, doesn't it?" The boy smiled helplessly.

After finishing the meal, Cheng Fei poured a few glasses of the drinks that the four people had brought (the red wine and cocktails were supposedly bought by Asuna from Nagasaki), and took them all to the beach, placing them on the table next to the deck chairs.

Soon, the four of them, having had their fill of playing, jogged over to replenish their energy.

"It's so delicious! Cheng Fei is really good at cooking!" Zhou Han tasted a tomato shrimp ball and showed an incredulous expression.

This made Shen Xi, who was sitting next to her with several tomato and shrimp balls piled in her bowl, squint her eyes.

Asuna Nagasaki picked up a piece of sweet and sour fish and put it in her mouth. She glanced at it and said casually, "It's quite delicious. As expected of Her Majesty the Empress."

"After all, I've done a good job of teaching him." Cheng Fei sighed as he sipped his Want Want milk.

Shen Xi let out a cold laugh that was hard to decipher.

Ye Shuang also took a bite of the sweet and sour fish.

"This was actually made by Shen Xi? She never did this before..." The obedient girl looked surprised, but stopped speaking halfway through her sentence.

"Shuangshuang, this is the power of love. When will you feel this way too?" Nagasaki Asuna put her arm around her waist and smiled maliciously.

"Nana!" Ye Shuang's expression panicked for a moment, and she glared at the other person.

"What? Ye Shuang has someone she likes?" Zhou Han immediately revealed a gossipy expression.

"I didn't, don't listen to Nana's nonsense..." the obedient girl said with difficulty.

Ruan Jingyi silently poked away the third tomato shrimp ball.

As the orange-red sunset sank into the sea, Cheng Fei set up a charcoal stove on the beach and brought out a moon chair, and the six of them sat together.

Lamb chops wrapped in foil, oysters topped with garlic sauce, sausages slowly cracking open and dripping oil, mushrooms grilled to release their juices, and a comforting aroma of food wafting through the air.

"Um, actually, I have a question!" Zhou Han held a glass of Cheng Fei's specially mixed cocktail, biting the straw and refusing to let go.

"Please speak~" Nagasaki Asuna also held a cup.

"You vixen, please drink less, or you'll go on a drunken rampage again." Shen Xi stared at her from the side, not without disgust.

Incidentally, on the small table next to Shen Xi, there was a row of Want Want milk bottles, all with straws inserted, and a watermelon cut into neat squares and placed in a glass bowl, all of which were Cheng Fei's handiwork.

"No, Ms. Shen~" Nagasaki Asuna blinked her moist, bright eyes, shook her head from side to side, and her sideburns swayed along with her.

"Teacher Shen, she's already started, there's no point in trying to persuade her." Cheng Fei was busy flipping the food while it was grilling.

"Tsk." Shen Xi turned her face away and peeled her own grilled shrimp.

"What I want to ask is how you found the corridor in the first place. Can you tell me that?" Zhou Han raised his hand.

"There's nothing I can't say, it's just really boring," Cheng Fei shrugged.

"I want to know, it seems quite interesting, right, Ruan Jingyi?" The petite girl pulled her best friend next to her.

"Leave it to me, I'll tell you!" Nagasaki Asuna raised one hand excitedly, thought for a moment, and then began in a serious tone, "The story begins at the end of last semester, when we were on Miriam's yacht, that one over there..."

"That yacht is huge," Zhou Han exclaimed, following her finger.

“We sailed to the South Pacific based on the coordinates calculated from the constellations in the corridor…” Nagasaki Asuna continued, her tone a little dazed.

"A hopeless vixen." Shen Xi took a deep breath and rubbed her temples.

After listening to Nagasaki Asuna's story in one go, Zhou Han took a bite of the chicken skewer Cheng Fei had grilled and asked, "And then what happened?"

"Well... I don't know what happened after that, hehehe~" Nagasaki Asuna tilted her head and smiled.

"Later, Xiao Yi appeared on Teacher Shen's tablet. I went to Tokyo at the time, so I don't know how they communicated." Cheng Fei squeezed lemon juice on the grilled lobster and placed it in front of Shen Xi.

The aloof young woman lowered her eyes and silently savored the shrimp with her chopsticks.

Zhou Han glanced at her, then looked at Cheng Fei, "Oh, so why did you go to Tokyo?"

"This has nothing to do with the corridor," the boy said casually, cutting the chicken wings.

"He went on a business trip with Miss." Ye Shuang recalled, subtly joining the conversation.

"Actually, Cheng Fei and I were secretly dating back then, hehehe~" Nagasaki Asuna raised her hand proudly.

"?" The obedient girl looked confused.

Shen Xi's eyes narrowed, then she gave a cold laugh, releasing a chilling aura from her body.

"What happened? What happened? Can you explain in detail?" Zhou Han shivered for no reason, and became even more excited.

"Cheng Fei, you were dating Nana back then? How come I didn't know?" Ye Shuang frowned slightly.

"We don't need to worry about such trivial details..." Cheng Fei pretended to be very busy flipping the ingredients.

"Who said that? This is very important!" Zhou Han's round eyes also became a little moist, clearly reflecting the firelight. She raised her voice, probably because the alcohol was taking effect.

“You scumbag, explain yourself.” Ye Shuang stared at him as well.

"Heh, Cheng Feiyu, feeling guilty." Shen Xi didn't even look up.

"Actually, it's nothing. If you really want to know..." The boy coughed lightly, carefully considering how to say it.

In the seaside villa under the cover of night, the boy's words were swallowed by the ceaseless crashing of the waves, and could only be heard by a few people present.

The first night of our vacation together was spent in this kind of situation. It wasn't until late at night, when we had finished chatting, that we went back to our room to wash up and rest.

Referring to the previous training camp, Cheng Fei assigned rooms to everyone.

Then the boy grabbed Nagasaki Asuna by the collar, who had become limp and delirious, and knocked on Ye Shuang's door.

"Cheng Fei, what's wrong?" The obedient girl, dressed in her pajamas, had a subtle expression.

"Master Ye, please keep an eye on her for me tonight. You can tie her up if you want, just don't let her run around." The boy stuffed Nagasaki Asuna inside.

"Cheng Fei, don't abandon me..." The sweet-smelling girl, her breath reeking of alcohol, tried to cling to him, but failed.

“You…” Ye Shuang caught Nagasaki Asuna, then hesitated.

"That's all, thank you for your hard work." The young man bowed respectfully and closed the door for her.

After finishing this task, Cheng Fei breathed a sigh of relief, put his hands in his pockets, and walked towards his room.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

A blonde, blue-eyed beauty tossed and turned in bed, biting her nails and staring at the ceiling in fear and unease.

"I have a physics exam tomorrow, what am I going to do... I really want to go to the villa and hang out with everyone... Wait, I have a physics exam tomorrow... I should have asked a junior to tutor me, sob sob sob...!"

748. Shen Xi carries out the punishment.

Cheng Fei returned to his room, opened the glass door to the balcony, and went through the connecting balcony to the next room to try and go in.

Then it failed.

The door was locked from the inside.

The boy spoke into the room, and because the soundproofing was so good, it looked like he was performing a pantomime from inside. He then knocked again.

A cool, aloof girl with long, dark hair sat on the edge of the bed looking at her phone. Hearing a sound, she turned her head expressionlessly and saw a boy outside waving and smiling at her.

She acted as if she hadn't seen anything and shifted her gaze back to her phone.

Then I heard knocking on the glass again.

She frowned slightly and glared at him, but the boy still waved and smiled, pointing to the lock below.

The girl paused for a second, sighed, and got out of bed after lifting the covers.

She wore a short-sleeved pajama top, and with her waist-length black hair, her slender arms and legs looked even more delicate and snow-white, as pure and exquisite as a work of art that did not exist in this world.

The girl stood before the glass door, raised her beautiful yet cold face, and met the gaze of the boy outside.

The boy gave her a persistent smile.

The girl narrowed her eyes with disgust, unlocked the door, and slid it open.

Cheng Fei breathed a sigh of relief, "Teacher Shen, she was clearly looking forward to my arrival but still locked the door, that's so tsundere..."

"Fine, forget it. Please go back." Shen Xi's face turned displeased, and she slammed the door shut with both hands.

"Never mind, I didn't say anything about Teacher Shen!" Cheng Fei quickly covered the gap with his palm.

The girl tried hard but couldn't close it, so she gave up, turned her head coldly, and walked towards the bed.

The boy casually slipped into the room and followed behind.

Shen Xi got into bed first and returned to her original position. She looked at the boy who had pulled back the covers, her eyes narrowed, and she asked coldly, "What are you going to do?"

"Of course we'll sleep together, is that not allowed?" Cheng Fei paused, observing her little face.

The girl picked up her phone and glanced at it, her face cold. "Just a reminder, there's still an hour until midnight tomorrow. You shameless scoundrel who broke into a high school girl's room in the middle of the night and tried to climb into her bed with ulterior motives."

"Isn't it a bit too strict?" the boy asked, hesitating to finish his sentence.

The girl gave a cold laugh and turned her face away, refusing to look at him.

The air was quiet for a second.

"Then I'll go back and wait for an hour." Cheng Fei put his hands in his pockets, turned around, and left.

"Stop." The girl's emotionless voice rang out.

Cheng Fei smoothly turned around and came back, pulled back the covers, got into bed and sat down next to her, sighing comfortably, "Teacher Shen, I knew you were just being stubborn, you didn't really care about this hour at all."

Shen Xi frowned in confusion, staring at the boy who had moved with lightning speed and sat down next to her in the blink of an eye. She gritted her teeth and kicked him hard with her soft little foot under the covers. "Trash, I haven't finished speaking yet!"

"Okay, please go ahead." The young man made a gesture of invitation with great seriousness, and looked at her with his hands folded in front of him in a formal manner.

The girl stared at him silently for a moment, her flat chest heaving as she took a deep breath. She lowered her head and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Never mind, Cheng Feiyu is hopeless anyway, he'll always be like this. Never mind."

"Hypnotizing yourself?" The boy leaned closer to look at her.

Shen Xi raised her head, her pure, dark eyes meeting the boy's gaze. Seemingly displeased, she kicked him again in the blanket as if she couldn't contain her anger. "Shut up, trash."

"Okay." Cheng Fei zipped up his lip, waited a few seconds, then turned his head. "Teacher Shen, so can I hug you now?"

The girl stared at him with narrowed eyes, her stubborn lips tightly closed.

"Excuse me." The boy zipped his mouth up again.

"Cheng Fei, let me emphasize this again." Shen Xi frowned and stared at the wall, speaking with a serious expression.

The boy silently gazed at that exquisitely beautiful little face.

"There is no relationship between us that goes beyond friendship. It was only because of your shameless and endless harassment that I reluctantly agreed to let you hold hands and hug me freely during our regular meeting day. So, in principle, you have no right to touch me now." The girl glanced at him coldly.

The boy nodded quickly.

"However," the girl paused, "given that it's a holiday and the situation is special, I'm only granting you an extra hour of meeting time. This is a special measure for a special situation, and it absolutely does not mean that this can be done next time. All decisions are in my hands, and you are not allowed to push your luck under any circumstances. Do you understand, aquatic mammal brains?"

The girl raised her chin to look at him.

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