Weekend Plans

Tao Yiyi had been laid off—a turn of events many people could have seen coming. After all, the foolish things she had done involved far more than just Bai Yuyou. Once all of her misdeeds were dug up, they became a barrage of lethal bullets. Sometimes, you really had no idea how much trouble you could cause until you put in the effort.

Tomorrow was the weekend, so Ye Shuang and the others decided to give themselves a day off. Since it was summer vacation, there was no better way to spend a sweltering day than playing in the water.

“I booked a hotel. Let’s go have some fun tomorrow.” Ye Shuang smiled. He had reserved a hotel suite with a private pool, where they could swim while enjoying good food and entertainment. It would be a nice way to relieve the fatigue that had built up over the past few days of work.

“Hooray!” Tang Keke immediately perked up at the prospect of a day off. Getting up early for work these past few days had been much harder than getting up early for school. At school, you could slack off a little, but you couldn’t do that at work—you had to earn your salary, after all. And with an intern’s pay being so limited, Keke felt guilty even slacking off for a single day.

Though if she learned a thing or two from An Shiyu and Anshi Yi, perhaps she could change her opinion of slacking off.

“A swimming pool? Wait—why didn’t you just move into a place with a pool? I remember your dowry included quite a few properties, didn’t it?” An Shiyu asked when she heard that Ye Shuang had booked a hotel with a pool.

“How do you know more about it than I do?” Ye Shuang said helplessly.

“Maybe I’ve even lived in one of them.”

“…”

“I’ve gotten used to living here, and if we had to move again…” Ye Shuang thought about it before finally saying, “Let’s forget it.”

They had moved out of their previous apartment because it was genuinely too small, and it wasn’t even convenient to cook there. That was why Ye Shuang and the others had moved to their current place. Moving again would serve no purpose at all.

Everything here was wonderful, whether it was the people or the things.

“Wow, you really are sentimental.”

“Maybe.”

“If we’re going swimming, we’ll need to buy swimsuits. My last one got ruined.” Anshi Yi raised her hand. “Is there a swimsuit allowance?”

“Do you need an allowance for a swimsuit?”

“Wow. You’re the one who still hasn’t paid us our salaries, and now you’re blaming us for needing an allowance just to buy a swimsuit.” Anshi Yi gave him a disdainful look. “What an unscrupulous capitalist. You only want us to work and never talk about compensation.”

“Exactly. You should be strung up from a lamppost,” An Shiyu agreed.

Ye Shuang: “…”

“All right, I get it. I’ll advance your salaries.” As he spoke, Ye Shuang took out his phone and transferred money to the two fishes.

“That’s more like it.” After checking that the money had arrived, Anshi Yi said, “But you still have to pay us this month’s salary as usual.”

“Why?”

“If you’re paying us in advance this month, then shouldn’t the following months be paid early too?”

Ye Shuang had the distinct feeling that Anshi Yi was treating him like an idiot and trying to fool him, all while putting on an innocent expression.

Forget it. He would just play the fool this once.

“All right, fine. I’ll pay it,” Ye Shuang said.

“That’s more like it.” Anshi Yi was so happy her tail nearly wagged.

While Ye Shuang was talking with the two fishes, Tang Keke said to Bai Yuyou beside her, “Yu You, I need to buy a new swimsuit too. The straps on the one I bought last time nearly snapped.”

“It was probably because it was carrying so much weight.” Bai Yuyou looked it over before saying, “How about we go shopping for one tonight?”

“Sure!” Tang Keke then asked Ye Shuang, “Brother, do you want to come pick out swimsuits with us tonight?”

“Hmm? Sure, no problem.”

…

Since everyone needed a new swimsuit, Ye Shuang took the girls to a nearby shopping mall. Besides Chen Qin, who was still overseas, he also had to bring his daughter Little Yezi and Duoduo along.

There weren’t many swimwear shops in the mall. Ye Shuang had actually searched for a shopping center specializing in swimming equipment on a map before he finally found one that sold swimsuits.

The store was quite large, but there weren’t many styles for men—most were simply trunks. The selection for women, on the other hand, was enormous. Even Tang Keke managed to find several styles she liked.

“Daddy, I want to wear this.” Ye Shuang was helping Yezi and Duoduo pick out children’s swimsuits when Yezi pointed at one. It was a fairly ordinary pink swimsuit with a little skirt.

“Good choice. It’ll suit you, Yezi.” It was a little plain, but Yezi was still just a child, so a swimsuit like that was perfectly appropriate.

“Hehe, Yezi, yours is way too childish. I’m wearing this one!” Duoduo picked up a black swimsuit with leopard-print patterns and flashed her pearly white teeth with a giggle.

“Yezi’s isn’t childish. Yours is way too mature, isn’t it?”

“Exactly, Duoduo. Children aren’t allowed to wear something like that,” Yezi added.

Duoduo thrust out her chest, revealing a small fang. “Who says I’m a child?”

“That is exactly what a child would say, isn’t it?”

While Yezi and Duoduo chattered away, the two fishes had disappeared without a trace. No one knew whether they had gone into the fitting rooms or wandered off to another section.

“Yu You, which one do you think I should wear? Do you think this one will come undone easily?” Tang Keke held up a white swimsuit, looking troubled.

Bai Yuyou glanced at it. “Keke, why not wear a one-piece?”

“Eh? One-pieces are uncomfortable.”

At that moment, Tang Keke noticed Bai Yuyou standing in front of a swimsuit rack. The swimsuit she was looking at was remarkably daring, covering only the most important areas while leaving much of her upper and lower curves exposed.

“Yu You, are you thinking of wearing this?” Tang Keke was stunned. Bai Yuyou’s swimsuit choices had always been relatively conservative, though that was of course partly because Ye Shuang was usually the one who bought her clothes.

“Would Ye Shuang like it?” Bai Yuyou asked.

“Yooooooo~” Tang Keke seemed to understand immediately. She placed a finger beneath her chin and grinned. “That’s true. There won’t be anyone else at the hotel, anyway. Oh, I see… You want something this daring?”

Tang Keke reached up, took the swimsuit off the rack, and shoved it into Bai Yuyou’s arms. “Come on, Yu You. Try it on.”

“Wait…” Bai Yuyou hadn’t even finished speaking before Keke pushed her into the fitting room.

Tang Keke stood outside. “Yu You, I’m going to help you pick out another one. I promise it’ll make someone’s heart pound!”

With that, Keke headed toward a nearby rack.

Just then, Ye Shuang arrived. There was a chair outside the fitting rooms, so he sat down to rest for a moment. But before long, he heard a voice coming from behind the curtain.

“Keke, are you there?”

Ye Shuang paused, then walked over. “Yu You, what’s wrong?”