Chapter 8: Xingqing Island Anchor Diary 2
After night fell, everyone returned to their respective rooms. I washed up early and lay down on the bed.
I don’t know if it was because it was my first time sleeping in an unfamiliar environment, but I tossed and turned for a long time and couldn’t fall asleep.
"Forget it, let's go to the living room and watch TV!"
When I walked downstairs, it was already one o'clock in the morning, but the lights in the living room were still on. Zeng Chen was wearing a khaki blanket and sitting cross-legged on the sofa with a laptop on his lap. At this moment, he was frowning and typing on the keyboard, so seriously that he didn't even hear my footsteps.
"Ka-ka!" I cleared my throat. "Are you still playing on the computer so late?"
Hearing the noise, he frowned, put away his computer, and said, "Well, I can't sleep."
What is this guy doing so mysteriously? But forget it, I'm not a gossipy person.
"Yeah, me too." I stretched and tried to find the remote control, "so I decided to come out and watch some TV."
"It's a rare opportunity to come to the beach, why are you watching TV!" Zeng Chen stood up and walked straight to the back door, "Come on, I'll take you to see something fun."
I followed him curiously.
Walking out of the small villa, I saw a row of tall palm trees. Under the blue-black sky, the tall trees stood quietly, like handsome guards. There were also net-like hammocks hanging between the trees. Zeng Chen walked to two adjacent hammocks, turned around and waved to me.
"come over."
The climate of Xingqing Island is humid, and it is not very cold even outside. I lay down on the hammock curiously, and Zeng Chen covered me with a blanket and went to lie down on another hammock.
The blanket carried his body temperature and his unique fragrance. Although the spring sea breeze was still a little chilly, with his caring care, I felt warmer than ever.
"Look here." Zeng Chen pointed to where the sea and the sky meet.
Late at night, the beach was pitch black, with only the faint light coming from the villa and the starlight from the sky.
The moon had disappeared somewhere, the stars in the sky shone brightly like diamonds, and the deep blue sea in the distance was closely connected to the sky.
Under the starlight, the sea surface was sparkling, and the Milky Way seemed to have sunk into the sea, yet it also seemed to be hanging high in the sky, making it difficult to tell the difference.
"It's so beautiful!" I looked at the scene in front of me with fascination and couldn't help but sigh, "The pollution in the city is too serious. I haven't seen so many stars in the sky for a long time."
"Yeah." Zeng Chen put his hands under his head, turned his face away, and stared at me deeply, "Not to mention the opportunity for the two of us to watch the stars together, which is even more rare."
His gaze, brighter than the stars, seemed to penetrate my eyes and see into my heart. The atmosphere suddenly became a little subtle. The sea breeze swirling around us seemed to be filled a creamy sweet fragrance.
"Do you see the brightest star?" Just when I was at a loss, Zeng Chen suddenly spoke, breaking the silence again.
“Yes.”
"Do you know what its appearance means?"
"What?"
"It means you will win this game."
“Hahahaha…” I held my stomach and laughed, “Zeng Chen, you’re terrible at talking nonsense , did you know that?”
Zeng Chen looked at me who was laughing uncontrollably and started laughing too. His eyes were curved and seemed to contain a mysterious ocean, shining with light.
He and I chatted casually, and the squeaking sound of the hammock swaying gently beneath me seemed to be a lullaby. As we chatted, I felt sleepy and my eyelids became heavier and heavier...
“Crash…crash…”
I don’t know when, the sound of waves in my ears gradually became clearer, and there was a faint white light shining.
I opened my eyes and closed them again. After struggling for several rounds, I was finally awakened by a terrified roar.
"You...you two!" As soon as I opened my eyes, Lin Tong's hideous face enlarged in front of me, and his voice made my ears buzz.
"How can you two sleep together!" Lin Tong grabbed her hair and asked loudly.
We? I rubbed my eyes and looked around blankly, only to see Zeng Chen sitting up from the hammock with sleepy eyes.
etc……
Oh my god, did we both sleep in the hammock all night? Although he slept in the hammock next to me, we were so close...
When I thought of this, my face immediately started burning and I didn’t know how to face Zeng Chen for a moment.
"Hey, it's time for a mission." Mi Lu walked up to me with her arms folded, rolling her eyes impatiently, "The director said that today our two groups have to search for a treasure chest on the island. The treasure chest contains the dress we will wear for tomorrow's promotional photo shoot. Whoever finds the treasure chest first will get the dress."
After she finished speaking, she immediately pulled Lin Tong's sleeve and pulled him away. At this moment, I have never been so grateful to Mi Lu. Fortunately, she eased the embarrassment.
Zeng Chen and I searched the villa thoroughly but found nothing, so we went around to the woods surrounding the villa and continued searching.
When we walked under an unknown big tree, we suddenly found that many leaves were falling down and the branches were shaking slightly.
Zeng Chen and I looked at each other in confusion, then raised our heads and saw Mi Lu sitting on a tree branch, holding the trunk tightly with her hands like a koala.
"Milu, what are you doing hiding in the tree?" I looked at her curiously.
Mi Lu put aside her usual arrogance, timidly stretched out her hand and pointed to a place under the tree.
"Oh my god, you are here!" At this time, Lin Tong came over from not far away and shouted in dissatisfaction, "How can there be such a stupid person? We were walking together, but she could still get lost!"
"Hurry...quickly get this thing away from me!" Mi Lu shouted, trembling.
I looked in the direction of her finger and saw a little squirrel crunching on a pine cone under the tree.
It turns out that Milu is afraid of squirrels.
"How cute!" I walked over and held the little squirrel in my arms, looking up, and asked helplessly, "Can you come down now?"
"No." Mi Lu shook her head. She looked at me and suddenly raised a strange smile. "I want you to come up and pick me up, or I will jump down directly."
"I'll pick you up." Zeng Chen and Lin Tong said in unison, and then glanced at each other with disdain.
"Don't come up, or I'll jump down right away." Mi Lu warned them, "Anyway, if something happens to me, the competition will be delayed indefinitely, and none of us will get the prize money."
After all, she just wanted to embarrass me.
Isn't it just climbing a tree? It's not difficult for me, and the branch where Milu is standing is not high from the ground.
"Okay, okay." I let the squirrel go and said in a compromising tone, "I'll go pick you up."
"Be careful." Lin Tong looked at me worriedly, and I made an "OK" gesture to him.
Zeng Chen walked silently under the tree, ready to catch me at any time. Seeing his actions, my heart seemed to be filled with warmth and I felt unusually at ease.
I crawled to Mi Lu's side in no time, but just as I reached out my hand to pull her down, she suddenly stretched out her hand and pushed me away forcefully.
"ah!"
My feet slipped, I lost my balance and fell.
