We moved to Golden Courtyard

"..."

Both parties fell into a long silence before the other party spoke awkwardly.

"It's just...it's just that my voice sounds like a woman's, it's a voice changer! Yes, I used a voice changer."

Xu Qi took a deep breath.

"Theresa, do you think I'm stupid?"

"...It wasn't on purpose...These days, nobody believes me if I say I'm a girl online...I might as well just pretend to be a guy."

"Then send a voice message?"

I have social anxiety.

I'm fucking idiot!

"Don't blame me for not telling you, it's you who's always called me 'bro,' and I... I was too embarrassed to expose the truth, so I just let you call me that."

Now, all of Theresa's strange statements before and after arriving in Guangcheng can be explained...

So you're actually a girl!

Theresa! Give me back my buddy!

73. I knew you knew the Ballad of Mulan.

"Oh dear, what's wrong! You're upset because I'm a girl?"

Sitting on the wooden floor of the balcony, leaning against the railing, Xu Qi said with a regretful expression.

"Open the door to my east chamber, sit on my bed in the west chamber, take off my robe, and put on my old clothes. I comb my hair by the window and apply makeup in front of the mirror."

"Alright, alright, stop reciting. I know you know the Ballad of Mulan."

Xu Qi waved to the bright moon.

Goodbye, my good brother Theresa, may you rest in peace in heaven.

"There's no such person at all! I've been a woman from the very beginning!"

"But he's my good brother!"

"You're still my best friend!"

"Hmph! So you've finally revealed your true intentions, Theresa? If you want to take me to Thailand, just say so."

"No way! And how did you come up with such a terrible image! I don't want to take you to Thailand right now, I want to take you to Myanmar to have your kidneys cut off!"

"As expected, they still want to turn me into a woman."

"climb!!"

The little girl's exasperated voice finally made Xu Qi burst out laughing.

Theresa on the other end of the phone was also taken aback, followed by a wry laugh—she knew this guy was joking, but she just couldn't help taking it seriously.

"But Theresa, it's one thing for you to dress as a man, but how did you manage to tell me you were already working?"

"Huh? I did work."

"It is illegal to employ child labor."

Xu Qi! I'll kill you!

"Hahahaha!"

Only after Xu Qi finished laughing did Theresa say quietly, "Can you be serious for once? My voice just sounded a little soft."

"I know, I know, I was just kidding."

"You really enjoy making me angry, don't you?"

"Because it's fun."

"I!..." Theresa paused for a moment, then said as if she were yelling into the phone, "I'll have fun with you, you...!"

There's really no way to repeat what I just said.

After all, Theresa was so anxious that she started swearing in her native Cantonese, spewing out fluent profanities like "Pu gai a!" and "Diu lei lou mo a!"

Anyway, Xu Qi wouldn't understand it.

He only spoke after Theresa had finished her tirade.

"But I was genuinely surprised... especially the moment you opened your mouth. Are you kidding me? What Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai?"

"That's wrong. Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai ended up together, and you'd better get out of here."

"No, Theresa, I'll come to see you in a few days. Don't always make me climb all the way up."

But I'm okay with having sex.

"Not meeting up in person anymore?"

"If you give me back my Theresa buddy, I can still meet him in person."

"Tch! I'll give you the address tomorrow. It's too late tonight, I'm going to sleep!"

"Okay, okay~~ Goodnight, Theresa."

"Okay, goodnight. You should go to sleep early too, and don't play too wildly."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Qi smiled. The night in Guangzhou wasn't cool, but the sea breeze blowing across Xu Qi did bring him a slight chill.

He truly hadn't expected that Theresa would actually be... a girl.

Xu Qi came to Guangcheng with the intention of meeting up with netizens.

In our usual conversations, I always treated him like a buddy, but who would have thought...

Perhaps this is what is meant by life's twists and turns.

It always manages to surprise you at unexpected moments.

"Standing here in the wind so late at night?"

Xu Qi looked up in surprise and saw Alicia standing at the balcony door, wearing a light pink nightgown with her own cute chibi-style portrait on it—it really did have Alicia's style.

"Nothing much, I just got a call from a friend, and we were just reflecting on life."

"Your life is quite colorful."

Holding down her skirt, Alicia sat down close to Xu Qi.

Where's Mei?

"I fell asleep, so I went out for a walk, and that's how I ran into you."

"That's quite a coincidence."

"Who can argue with that?"

The soft moonlight shone down, falling on their shoulders, as if draping them in a hazy veil.

"You must be disappointed to see that it's not Mei."

How did you come to this conclusion?

"After all, she can do some risqué things with you."

Xu Qi let out a wry smile.

“I don’t think about these things all the time.”

"I know, I was just kidding."

Xu Qi turned to look at Aili beside him. The girl had her hands wrapped around her knees, her expression serene. Under the moonlight, the usually mischievous little devil seemed to have become a bit more docile.

He suddenly reached out and put his arm around Ellie's shoulder.

"Actually, you can give it a try too."

Ellie looked at Xu Qi in surprise, a slight blush rising on her cheeks, making her even more adorable.

Undoubtedly, Ellie recalled the scene at Xu Qi's house that day...

Do you want to?

Ellie turned her head away and said something she didn't mean, "If...you want it...I can't refuse."

Are you sure this is what I want?

"Yes! Is that not allowed?"

Xu Qi had a broad smile on his face.

He leaned close to Ellie's earlobe and breathed on her as she let out a cute "Ah!"

"Okay, then I'll take it as what I want."

"Xu Qi...bad..."

Yeah, I might be pretty bad, but there's no going back now...

"Well!"

Just as Alicia was about to make a sound, Xu Qi silenced her with a kiss.

The atmosphere was gradually heating up... to the point of being intoxicating.

Unbeknownst to them, their positions had changed.

"Don't...don't look..."

Ellie shyly covered her cheeks—she felt like she was covering the wrong place; was this just like burying one's head in the sand?

Xu Qi covered them all up and teased, "Well, you can't see them now."

"Huh? You...you're cheating..."

Is there even such a thing as cheating? So incredibly cute...

"Huh?!~~"

Ellie couldn't take it anymore. She instinctively grabbed Xu Qi's head and held it down tightly.

A short while later, his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Ellie actually... huh?

"Huh...huh..."

With her cheeks flushed, Alicia released Xu Qi, while Xu Qi... leaned back with a strange expression, saying with a wry smile, "You... are so sensitive?"

Alicia blushed even more. She quickly dressed, rolled off Xu Qi, and turned her head away, saying, "Is it not okay? That's really... really embarrassing..."

Xu Qi reached out and slapped Ai Li's face—this really was... a stunning beauty.

"Let's go back to our room and rest, it's getting late."

"Then... what will you do?"

"Do you really think I'm sexually frustrated?"

"Oh... then... then tomorrow night, still here, I... I'll help you?"

"it is good."

After Ai Li and Xu Qi left, in the living room on the second floor, Ying, who had been tightly covering her lips with her hands, dared to relax slightly.

Oh my god... what... what did she see?

74. To watch the game, or to watch the game? That is the question.

On the sunny beach, the occasional sound of girls' laughter could be heard.

Of course, there were also men's hearty laughter echoing across the sea and sky, mingling with the cries of seagulls.

This is the second day of the Golden Courtyard group's visit to the Nansha Beach.

In the end, Xu Qi joined the beach volleyball team that he had been eyeing since yesterday. To be honest, he had wanted to try it for a long time.

There are so many things to do at the beach, but group activities like this are definitely the most fun.