Sis, someone wants your WeChat..

Tang Qinqin soon returned with a plate piled high with food.

When it came to eating, she was leagues ahead of her older sister.

She could even go head-to-head with Lin Yu, the big eater.

She was the sort of person you could take to an all-you-can-eat buffet and never have to worry about losing money.

Before long, Tang Manman came downstairs as well.

After waking up and seeing the messages in the group chat, she had come over on her own.

She sat down beside Lin Yu, her eyes filled with resentment.

Clearly, she was still unhappy about someone’s behavior the night before.

Lin Yu casually opened his arms toward her.

Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating his slightly dark, smiling face—the face of a man who never bothered with skincare.

A rough, masculine handsomeness washed over her.

Tang Manman’s cheeks flushed faintly at the sight.

She pursed her lips, wearing an aggrieved expression that said she wasn’t going to forgive him so easily.

But her body was honest. She obediently nestled into Lin Yu’s arms and let him hold her.

Across the table, Tang Qinqin continued shoveling food into her mouth while taking in the whole scene.

*Big Sis has absolutely no dignity around Lin Yu, does she?*

Tang Qinqin silently complained to herself.

She felt that, in front of Lin Yu, her older sister was like a brand-new squishy toy.

No matter how he kneaded her, rolling her this way and squeezing her that way, she never resisted.

It looked as though she had absolutely no standing in the family.

How could that be allowed?

Tang Qinqin withdrew her gaze and lowered her head to continue eating.

But deep down, her eyes gradually hardened with resolve.

It was time to put her plan into action!

...

After breakfast, the three of them left the hotel and plunged back into the water park.

Unlike yesterday’s wild excitement, Lin Yu had already tried every attraction, and now he could barely muster any interest in the place.

On top of that, after working through the night without a break, Lin Yu felt limp and exhausted. Fatigue swept over him uncontrollably, making even walking feel like too much effort.

Tang Manman was in even worse shape.

In Lin Yu’s eyes, her retaliation the night before had been more like flirting.

But that had already been the result of her giving it everything she had.

After spending the entire day playing, she had then been played with for half the night.

The short remainder of the night had hardly given her any chance to rest.

So she, too, was now completely drained.

The two exchanged a glance and decisively chose two lounge chairs beneath the same sun umbrella beside the enormous pool. They decided to stop running around and simply take a proper break.

Lin Yu shifted around on the lounge chair like a bear rubbing its back against a tree. Once he found a comfortable position, he promptly lay down.

On the small table beside him sat two coconuts with their tops freshly cut open—bought by Tang Qinqin, the free laborer.

Cool air from the water drifted toward them on the breeze.

Lin Yu placed both hands behind his head.

As he watched the graceful young women in the pool, their long, shapely legs cutting through the water, Lin Yu felt that this trip to the water park had definitely been worth it.

Hmm?

Those legs were pretty nice.

A pair of slender, perfectly proportioned calves lightly swept past his eyes.

Like a white deer leaping across a stream in the forest.

Clear water droplets clung to skin so pale it seemed almost reflective.

When he saw such beautiful legs, Lin Yu instinctively raised his eyes and continued looking upward.

After a pair of smooth, gleaming knees came a set of well-proportioned thighs, their skin as soft and delicate as a blend of jelly and cotton, trembling ever so slightly with the girl's movements.

Lin Yu looked further up...

Huh?

Why was it you, Tang Qinqin?

Seeing features so strikingly similar to Tang Manman’s, Lin Yu rolled his eyes.

He might as well have written “unwelcome” all over his face.

Lin Yu didn’t like Tang Qinqin.

And Tang Qinqin wasn’t particularly fond of Lin Yu, either.

She simply walked right past him as though he didn’t exist.

Then she crouched beside her sister’s feet and said without the slightest attempt at discretion,

“Sis.”

“Just now, there was this handsome guy over there who wanted to ask for your contact info.”

“Do you think I should give it to him—”

“Ah!”

Before Tang Qinqin could finish, she let out a startled cry and toppled sideways into the water.

Tang Manman was so stunned by the sudden scene that her eyes went blank.

Instinctively, she turned to look at the culprit responsible for sending her sister into the pool.

There, she saw a face wearing an exceptionally broad smile—one utterly devoid of warmth.

“What?”

“You want to give it to him?”

Lin Yu asked with a smile.

Tang Manman, highly perceptive, immediately shook her head.

At that, Lin Yu’s expression instantly darkened. He rolled his eyes dramatically, wearing the kind of annoyed look that said, Fine. At least you know better.

Tang Manman lightly pressed her lips together as she looked at Lin Yu’s displeased profile.

Her cheeks puffed out adorably, while her exquisite peach-blossom eyes curved into crescents.

She didn’t quite dare to be happy, yet she couldn’t help feeling happy anyway.

So she could only be secretly happy like this.

She wasn’t happy because some supposedly handsome guy had tried to hit on her.

She was happy because she had seen Lin Yu being jealous.

Jealousy meant he cared, after all~

And being cared about by the person you liked...

There was simply nothing more wonderful in the world!

“Glug glug~”

“Glug glug~”

Beneath the water, where no one paid any attention to her...

Tang Qinqin swallowed several huge mouthfuls of pool water.

She struggled and flailed in the water, finally righting herself and planting her feet firmly on the bottom.

Her plan hadn’t failed.

Tang Qinqin’s original plan had been to let Lin Yu hear the made-up claim that “someone wanted to hit on her sister,” making him realize more clearly just how sought-after her sister was.

It was an open scheme.

As long as Lin Yu heard the news,

her goal would be achieved.

She just hadn’t expected Lin Yu’s retaliation to be so immediate—and so brutal.

That kick had made her kidneys hurt...

...

In the blink of an eye, half the vacation had passed.

After lingering in N City for over half a month, Tang Qinqin eventually couldn’t withstand her mother’s relentless nagging any longer.

Dejectedly dragging her suitcase behind her, she boarded a plane home.

Once that troublesome little livewire had finally been sent off,

Lin Yu and Tang Manman returned to the hotel and discussed things.

They decided that continuing to stay at a hotel like this wasn’t really a long-term solution.

So they rented a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment in a residential complex near Tang Manman’s school, making it their little love nest.

That way,

neither of them needed to arrange to live on campus anymore.

After class, they could head straight back to their little nest and do whatever they wanted!