As she spoke, there was a hint of humiliation in Qian Lili's tone as she asked the others, "Who among you is friends with Zhou Qianqian? Just send it to her directly."
The other three exchanged glances upon hearing Qian Lili's words. After a long silence, the class monitor looked at Zhou Qianqian awkwardly and showed her QR code. "Qianqian, I'm not friends with you either. Let's add each other first."
Since Zhou Qianqian was inconspicuous in the class, she had only joined the class group. Apart from adding friends when others asked her to, she had never taken the initiative to add anyone else.
Zhou Qianqian bit her lip lightly, nodded unhappily, scanned the class monitor's QR code wordlessly, and then lowered her head silently. The falling hair that covered her forehead blocked her resentful gaze.
While operating her phone, Zhou Qianqian secretly rolled her eyes at Qian Lili. That damned Qian Lili must have done it on purpose. She deliberately asked others if they were friends with her just to embarrass her!
Having achieved her goal, Qian Lili looked at Zhou Qianqian proudly, her eyes glinting with a malicious and self - satisfied light. She tilted her chin up and looked down on others. She thought that since Zhou Qianqian had shown off, she would expose her lies so that she couldn't show off anymore!
Li Jiayi sensed that the atmosphere had turned cold and forced a laugh. "Zhou Qianqian, take us to your home first. We're really looking forward to visiting your big villa."
Li Jiayi's words somewhat restored Zhou Qianqian's self - esteem. Zhou Qianqian put aside her hatred and nodded with a smile. "Okay, I'll take you there."
Xu Qingqing and the others followed Zhu Lulu to the yacht for diving. There they found some old acquaintances - the brat's family.
Whether it was the brat's grandparents or his parents, they were all wearing the blue work uniforms of the staff with a life - jacket vest over them. Whenever a tourist boarded the yacht, the whole family would scurry around, with forced smiles of service on their faces.
When they saw that it was Xu Qingqing's family and Zhu Lulu boarding, the brat's family's expressions turned extremely ugly. "I won't serve them," Lao Zhang said angrily and turned around to leave when he saw Xu Qingqing, who had won the pearl competition champion from him.
But the person who seemed to be a supervisor standing beside him immediately reached out his hand to stop Lao Zhang and forced him back to his post. "If you can't make up for your mistakes and treat the tourists well, you won't be allowed to come to Penglang Island for tourism in the future."
This was the punishment Manager Li had given to the brat's family. Because they had littered and even buried all kinds of sharp objects on the beach without following the rules of Penglang Island a few days ago. Although Manager Li had helped them retrieve the litter, he still announced that the brat's family was not allowed to come to Penglang Island anymore, unless they could make up for their mistakes by doing volunteer work on Penglang Island for five days.
Xiao Zhang was still thinking about participating in the pearl competition in the future, so he dragged his family members to stay and do volunteer work. Xiao Zhang had no choice but to suppress his anger and make a gesture of invitation. "Guests, please go inside. Have a nice trip."
Xu Qingqing glanced at them indifferently and then led the two children onto the yacht.
A young man with blond - dyed hair, wearing a white vest and a flowery shirt, waved in Xu Qingqing's direction. "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"Me?" Xu Qingqing was slightly stunned. She didn't know this man.
"No, he's my boyfriend," Zhu Lulu, the cool girl, gave Xu Qingqing a shy smile, then quickly ran to the young man's side and scolded him coquettishly. "Who told you to come and wait for me?"
The young man grinned, showing his snow - white teeth. He took off his sunglasses and put his arm around Zhu Lulu's waist. "I finally got a day off. Of course I want to spend more time with you."
Xu Qingqing squinted at the young man. His face seemed familiar. It took her a while to remember. He was the crew member who had changed seats for Zhu Lulu, who had been bullied by the brat on the boat. She never thought that these two were a couple.
"You two..." Xu Qingqing pointed at them in surprise.
Zhu Lulu nodded with a smile and hugged her boyfriend's arm tightly. "We've been dating for three years."
"Congratulations," Xu Qingqing said with a surprised laugh.
The brat's father, who was helping the tourists carry their bags, saw Zhu Lulu and the crew member hugging each other. He rushed up to Zhu Lulu angrily. His finger trembled as he pointed at the crew member, and the veins on his neck bulged with anger. "No wonder you took her side when we quarreled on the boat. It turns out you're her boyfriend. I'm going to file a complaint against you for abusing your power!"
Just thinking about the money he had lost for the broken cups on the boat made the brat's father burn with anger.
"If you dare to file a complaint against my boyfriend, I'll file a complaint against you right now for shouting at the guests!" Zhu Lulu directly confronted him and bent back the brat's father's finger.
There were requirements for doing volunteer work to make up for mistakes. They couldn't be complained about by the guests, or the volunteer work would be invalid. As a tour guide on this island, Zhu Lulu was well - aware of these rules.
The brat's father's face turned red with anger. There was a layer of sweat on his shiny forehead from the glaring sun. His lips trembled for a long time, but he couldn't say a word to refute. Finally, he turned away angrily. If he really messed things up, all their efforts in the previous few days would be in vain!
Seeing the brat's father leave with a hunched back dejectedly, there was a hint of mockery in Zhu Lulu's eyes. Such a person wanted to fight with her. Humph!
Zhu Lulu kissed her boyfriend boldly, then skipped up to Xu Qingqing. "I still have work to do. I'll take them diving. Let's have lunch together at noon."
"Sure," Xu Qingqing replied.
The crew member leaned on the railing of the yacht with both hands and nodded casually.
Zhu Lulu took Xu Qingqing and the others to put on their diving suits. A professional diving instructor was waiting for them under the sea. One by one, the tourists jumped into the blue sea like dumplings. Lu Chuanbai was the first to jump in. Floating on the sea, he opened his arms to catch Xu Qingqing and the two children who jumped in later.
After the diving instructor taught everyone various gestures, he led the way and dived into the deep sea.
The deep sea was like another world. The blue - black sea water enveloped their whole bodies, and groups of small fish swam in front of them. Xu Yiyi and Xu An'an looked at the underwater world in amazement. When they saw a huge sea turtle slowly swimming towards them, the two children quickly hid behind Lu Chuanbai.