Reborn to bury love, I can reach for the stars.

Shi Wanmeng's smile was somewhat forced: "I'm fine."

“?” It doesn’t seem like it,” Yuan Xin said, her face full of doubt.

"How was your time? Did you have fun?"

Huang Chen immediately changed the subject with great tact.

Yuan Xin's face immediately lit up with excitement, a stark contrast to her usual calm demeanor: "This is my first time playing this, and I didn't expect it to be so exciting. If there weren't restrictions, I would love to do it again."

“Then let’s go together sometime.” Shi Wanmeng smiled as well.

Seeing the faint blush on her face from excitement, my earlier restlessness was rekindled.

"Okay, okay, and Mu Qing too, let's do it together."

Seeing that he was excluded again, Huang Chen changed the subject: "Where's Li Zhao? I just saw him?"

Yuan Xin's smile visibly faded, and she said somewhat embarrassedly, "He seems to be feeling unwell. He didn't look too good after coming downstairs, and he just said he wanted to go back to his room."

Shi Wanmeng understood instantly.

"Wanmeng, aren't you going back?"

Seeing that she was still there, Yuan Xin finally asked, "Are you really alright? Aren't you going to leave?"

Shi Wanmeng chuckled twice, glanced at Huang Chen standing beside her, rolled her eyes a couple of times, and looked at Yuan Xin seriously, saying, "Da Huang said he wants to build sandcastles, so I'll play with him for a while."

Huang Chen: "Hmm?"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Xin looked at Huang Chen with a complex expression that was hard to decipher. After a long while, she said meaningfully, "I understand. You guys have fun. I'm leaving now."

Huang Chen: "..."

No, what do you know?

Receiving Huang Chen's bewildered look, Shi Wanmeng lowered her head guiltily: "Come on, let me build you a castle first."

Watching Yuan Xin's departing figure, Shi Wanmeng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's go too."

Once he fully realized what was happening, Huang Chen crossed his arms and smiled brightly: "I want you to help me build a castle."

Shi Wanmeng: "...Are you serious?"

"Yes, I'm serious." He said, squatting down and starting to dig in the sand.

"I told you I've been here before, right?" Huang Chen continued working on his sandcastle. "I was building sandcastles here last time too."

"what?"

"Isn't that a coincidence?"

Huang Chen laughed: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it."

Shi Wanmeng imagined little Huang Chen squatting on the beach building sandcastles, and immediately laughed at the image in her mind: "It seems many children like to build sandcastles on the beach."

"What, you've piled them up before?"

"Of course, I also have a childhood. So, did you manage to build it successfully?"

Huang Chen paused in his work, and after recalling for a while, he said, "I played by myself for a while, and then another child came, and the two of us built it together. But when we were almost finished, a wave came and the castle collapsed."

Shi Wanmeng also stopped what she was doing and asked incredulously, "What? It collapsed?"

Huang Chen's lips curled up, as if he had thought of something funny: "Yeah, it collapsed all at once, and then the child cried, cried so miserably, hahaha."

"Is it a boy or a girl?"

After thinking for a moment, Huang Chen said, "It's a girl. She has short hair, but she's wearing a pink swimsuit."

Shi Wanmeng froze, forced a smile, and said awkwardly, "Hehehe, you even remember such details."

"Is it difficult?" Huang Chen said dismissively, "Maybe I have a better memory."

"Hmm, really? You're really amazing."

Seeing her evasive eyes, Huang Chen became even more suspicious of the person opposite him and tentatively asked, "You said you've been here before and even built sandcastles. When exactly was that? Maybe we've even met."

"I don't quite remember the exact time, haha, but it was more than ten years ago."

"Really?" Huang Chen was even more suspicious: "Then what season is it?"

"Of course, we come to the beach in summer." Shi Wanmeng answered this question quite readily.

Huang Chen nodded thoughtfully: "Yeah, it was summer too, my brother was on summer vacation at that time."

[Help! Could these two have actually met when they were kids??]

【Fate is predetermined】

[Impossible! That's too exaggerated. What a coincidence!]

Could that crying child be Shi Wanmeng?

Now that you mention it, it does seem a bit suspicious, hahaha.

Do you guys remember Huang Chen saying that Shi Wanmeng looked familiar, like he'd seen her somewhere before?

Holy crap, this gives me goosebumps.

I've brought the Civil Affairs Bureau with me, please, just get married here!

[Are you guys being too hyped up? This kind of thing is practically impossible. If it were that coincidental, I'd do a handstand and have diarrhea.]

I've followed you, waiting for you to have diarrhea.

"Y-really?"

Seeing Shi Wanmeng looking a little nervous, Huang Chen suddenly had a mischievous urge and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, my brother took a picture of me back then. I wonder if it's still there."

"There are also photos?"

Shi Wanmeng felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

“Yes,” the smile on his lips deepened, “I’ll go look for it later, I really miss it.”

Shi Wanmeng: "..."

Even after returning to her room and lying on her bed, Shi Wanmeng was still somewhat dazed. Could it be? Could it be such a coincidence?

I tried hard to recall what that boy looked like, but I couldn't remember anything. I only remembered that he was more than half a head taller than me.

She cried so loudly that her parents, who were nearby, quickly took her to the other side to comfort her. By the time she calmed down, the little boy was no longer there. They had played together for a long time, but they hadn't had a proper goodbye, which she regretted.

Is it possible for such a coincidence to happen in the world?

But the world seems to be a book.

Would Su Muqing know about these things?

Shi Wanmeng felt like her brain was about to explode.

Huang Chen was making a loving lunch in the kitchen, looking very relaxed with a contented smile on his face.

Gu Ling, who came downstairs to get water, saw that he was alone in the kitchen, so she immediately put down her water glass and stood next to him: "Are you cooking? Is there anything I can help you with?"

Huang Chen glanced at her, unusually without a cold expression: "Then please help me kill those two fish."

The smile froze on Gu Ling's face. She thought she had misheard: "What did you say?"

"Fish," Huang Chen patiently repeated, "please kill it for me."

"Um, I don't know how to kill fish."

Just thinking about that scene made Gu Ling's hands tremble.

"You don't know how?" Huang Chen looked at her with a hint of disdain.

Gu Ling: "..."

Why do I need to know how to kill fish?

"Then there's nothing else I can help you with, thank you."

After saying that, he turned his head away and ignored her.

Gu Ling picked up her water glass listlessly and went upstairs with heavy steps.

Let whoever wants this man have him, she's going to take it easy for now.