After leaving the swimming pool, the two returned to the car.
Although the temperature in this country remained quite high at night, they were still wearing swimsuits. So it was better to change their clothes first.
“Don't peek!” Xia Sanghuan sat in the back seat of the car and said to Leng Chuanjin in the passenger seat menacingly.
“Got it,” the man replied, unable to hide the amusement in his voice.
“Swear?”
“I swear.”
Only after getting his promise did the girl start to put on her clothes.
Even though she was just putting on her clothes over her swimsuit, she still felt a strange sense of shame.
She put on her T - shirt and shorts as quickly as possible, then opened the car door and got out.
“I'll wait for you outside,” she said. “Call me when you're done changing.”
After saying that, she got out of the car.
Less than three minutes later, she heard someone knocking on the car window.
She looked back and saw that Leng Chuanjin had rolled down the window.
“Get in the car,” he said. “Let's find an interesting place to wait. Yun Ye is really slow.”
Maybe to make up for her regret of missing the pool party, he took her to the seaside.
The sea breeze here was more intense and pungent than that in Yuntan. Blown by the salty sea breeze, it was as if a seafood feast had been served right in front of them.
They didn't deliberately look for a place to sit. Instead, they started to take a walk on the beach.
Occasionally, a high wave would come, carrying sand and hitting their feet in the sandals.
Although the sea breeze was still warm, the sea water had cooled down. The girl felt as if she was soaking her feet in cold water in a sauna.
It was quite comfortable when the sea water washed over her feet, but it was extremely uncomfortable when the sand got stuck in her shoes.
But she was willing to stay for that momentary soft touch.
“Actually, Alia is just like someone walking on this beach right now,” Leng Chuanjin, who had been silent, suddenly said.
He turned his head to look at her. For a moment, his dark eyes were illuminated by the light from the lighthouse in the distance.
The girl was stunned for a moment. Just as she was about to ask why he said so, she let out a soft cry as a few grains of sand left by the sea water under her feet pricked her.
The man put his left hand on her waist and his right hand under her knees. With a slight exertion, he picked her up.
“Why didn't you say you were uncomfortable earlier?”
He carried her away from the water.
They sat down on the stone steps. Leng Chuanjin bent down and untied the straps of her sandals. Before she could react, he took off her sandals too.
“Don't move around,” he said.
Having her feet touched was a rather private thing for Xia Sanghuan. She subconsciously shrank her legs, but the man grabbed her ankle with an irresistible force and pulled it back.
He took out his phone from his pocket, turned on the flashlight, and shone it on the girl's fair soles.
“It's bleeding,” he frowned tightly, and his voice suddenly sank. “If it hurts, why don't you walk further away?”
He couldn't help scolding her.
“It's okay,” Xia Sanghuan quickly took out a bottle of alcohol from her coat pocket. “Just wash it with alcohol.”
As she spoke, she unscrewed the bottle cap under the man's shocked gaze, then slowly poured the alcohol on her soles to wash away the sand.
Just to be safe, she also washed her other foot and both shoes a little.
“Do you want this?” the man was brought back to reality by her voice.
“No,” he said. “I didn't cut my feet.”
Watching her put the alcohol away, he couldn't help asking, “Do you always carry this?”
“Most of the time,” the girl lowered her head and fumbled with her pocket. “Look, I also have these.”
The next second, she took out iodine, bandages, and even a bottle of medicine for bruises.
How afraid of getting injured was she?
“You...” Looking at her somewhat proud smile, he asked hoarsely, “Do you get injured often?”
“Not really,” the girl raised her head and recalled. “After all, I had to do farm work every day when I was a child, and I often went up the mountain to pick herbs. So getting scratched and bleeding was just a common occurrence.”
Seeing Leng Chuanjin's face getting worse and worse, although she didn't know what she had said wrong, she still subconsciously tried to comfort him quickly.
“But there are almost herbs everywhere on Qingshan Slope. So every time I just got scratched, I could pick the herbs to stop the bleeding immediately. It was very convenient!”
She answered seriously. The next second, she was pulled into the man's arms.
“Okay,” he said. “Don't talk anymore.”
His voice sounded a bit low.
Maybe it was just her illusion, but she felt that he was like a dejected big dog right now.
The kind that would bite anyone when it got angry.
She just let him hold her for a while, and during that time, she kept stroking his head.
To be honest, she really enjoyed this process.
Leng Chuanjin rarely showed his vulnerable side in front of her. At most, he would pester her occasionally.
Most of the time, he prepared everything for her to prevent her from getting hurt.
So she always cherished such opportunities especially.
After the man's mood stabilized, she continued the previous topic.
“Why do you say Alia is like walking by the sea now?”
What she did had nothing to do with walking on the beach.
“Then let me ask you,” he said. “Just now, the sand was already stuck under your feet. Why didn't you want to leave?”
“Because the feeling of the sea water washing over my feet is very comfortable...”
Halfway through this sentence, Xia Sanghuan suddenly widened her eyes.
“... I see.”
Because of the momentary comfort of the sea water washing over her feet, she was willing to bear the pain of the sand cutting her feet.
After the pain, she would need more comfort, so she would walk deeper into the sea.
By the time she realized it, the sea water had already swallowed her.
“After all,” she said in a low voice. “Alia is just a victim. If it weren't for Kevin...”
“It's not all his fault,” Leng Chuanjin interrupted her and tried to comfort her. “Otherwise, why did all her resumes from the previous three years disappear overnight?”
Hearing his words, she then realized that he had actually found out those things.
He just didn't show them to her.
“Let's go,” he took her hand, kissed it on his lips, and said. “It's time to go back to the hotel and meet Yun Ye. He must have found a lot of things that everyone will be 'interested' in.”
On the way back, Xia Sanghuan kept her head against the car window and stared blankly at the big and round moon outside.
Afraid that she was sleepy, Leng Chuanjin didn't talk to her anymore.
The two drove silently in the direction of the hotel.
“This country is actually quite interesting,” the girl suddenly said. “It's just that some things are buried as deep as the shells in the deep sea.”