Damn it, I'm surrounded by childhood sweethearts-Chapter 375 - 272. Zhang Yiyi’s Wish_2

The sun was gradually setting in the west, and despite the heat, it was at a bearable level.

"I want to go there," Zhang Yiyi pointed toward a large stretch of beach below the railing.

Xu Qingfan looked around and didn’t see any signs prohibiting entry.

He nodded, smiling, "Okay, I’ll go down first, then you can step on my shoulder to come down."

"Yeah!" The young girl knew her brother could do anything, and she smiled sweetly.

Xu Qingfan climbed over the railing, gripping the edges of the stone wall as he slowly descended.

Once his legs were fully dangling, and there was only a little more than a meter to the ground, he let go of his hands and gently jumped, landing effortlessly on his feet.

"Come on, step on my shoulder first, then I’ll use my hands to support you down," Xu Qingfan called up to Zhang Yiyi, who was still above.

"Mm." The girl nodded, took off her sandals, and tossed them to Xu Qingfan.

Once her brother was in position, Zhang Yiyi, with utmost trust, stepped onto his shoulders and slowly squatted down.

The next second, the girl was steadily lowered down by Xu Qingfan.

"There we go," Xu Qingfan clapped his hands, indicating they were done.

"Brother, you’re awesome!" Zhang Yiyi looked down to straighten her skirt, secretly pulling out the parts that were sticking in, out of Xu Qingfan’s sight.

The sand, heated by the sun for a long time, was somewhat hot underfoot, but not intolerably so; walking barefoot was a painfully delightful sensation.

Seeing that Xu Qingfan was holding the sandals in his hands, Zhang Yiyi also walked on the beach barefoot.

She switched the shoes to her left hand and walked forward to take her brother’s hand again.

"Isn’t it hot for you?" Xu Qingfan’s rough skin was of course fine, but Zhang Yiyi’s skin was delicate and easily damaged.

"The same goes for you," she lifted her right foot and looked back, seeing her sole reddened by the heat like an apple, small grains of sand sticking to it, resembling white sugar sprinkled on a delicious apple pie.

Xu Qingfan had no desire to take a bite, no, he definitely did not!

The girl put her foot down and pulled her brother forward again.

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They stopped only when the ice-cold seawater covered their feet.

Suddenly, Xu Qingfan remembered a famous scene from a Zhou Xingchi movie—fighting, striving!

Could it be that it was filmed on the beach in front of them, he wondered.

Zhang Yiyi let go of his hand and returned to the shore, her delicate feet drawing on the soft sand.

Xu Qingfan then sat down too, watching the girl’s graceful dancing movements.

The sea breeze blew, her dress billowed, and the girl lightly pointed her toes, resembling a ballet-performing swan in daylight.

Soon, an outline of a person appeared on the ground, quite resembling the boy standing behind the girl if one looked closely.

After sketching the hair and ears, Zhang Yiyi looked at her creation, nodded, smiled, and squatted down to add the all-important facial features with her hands.

Seeing the girl suddenly squat down, Xu Qingfan stood to check and discovered that Zhang Yiyi was drawing him.

"Who is this handsome guy, it’s rare to see someone so handsome," Xu Qingfan pretended to not know and squatted down to ask.

Zhang Yiyi smiled and rolled her eyes at him, continuing to draw.

Eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth were quickly drawn. Seeing her brother so smug, the girl chuckled slyly and then smoothed out the perfectly drawn nose.

"Why did you smear it, wasn’t it quite like me?"

No sooner had he spoken than the girl turned the originally high bridge of the nose into an oval tip with two holes, clearly turning it into a pig’s nose!

This inexplicably hit Zhang Yiyi’s funny bone, and she collapsed on the ground, pointing at Xu Qingfan’s nose and laughing, "Hahaha~ Brother is a pig!"

"I think you’re more like a pig, you’re even laughing like one," Xu Qingfan reached out and tousled her hair.

"Not at all!"

"Kaka~ I wonder who was just laughing like that," he continued.

"I didn’t!"

"Kaka~" Xu Qingfan continued imitating a pig’s laughter.

"Ah~ Brother, you’re bullying me!" Zhang Yiyi playfully jumped onto his back and covered his mouth.

"Hmm~ addressing your own laugh and yet not letting others comment," Xu Qingfan muffled through his voice.

"No, no, no!"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"..."

The two of them seemed to have suddenly returned to their childhood, playfully bickering like silly schoolchildren.

The sun had unknowingly traveled far, its dazzling brilliance staining the horizon red, merging sea and sky in a single hue, as if it had stolen the sunset while the sky wasn’t watching.

Wave after wave crashed onto the shore, the interplay of light and shadow casting an unreal feeling.

Zhang Yiyi drew portraits in the sand with her foot—first Lin Wanning, then Xia Xiaoxiao, Wu Lingyu, and Xiao Ruawen.

Their oversized heads orbited around Xu Qingfan, as if to echo her recent remark, "Brother is the sun."

Zhang Yiyi suddenly recalled a popular lyric from years ago, "I shuttle through Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn in search of~ in search of you."

[My love is yours alone to possess, my soul eternally stationed at the doorway of your heart.] She hummed the climax of the song internally, suddenly realizing how much it resembled her own feelings.

Wasn’t her love for her brother just like that?

"Why do you surround me?" Xu Qingfan tapped her shoulder, pulling the girl back from her inner world.

Zhang Yiyi tilted her head, blinked, then tilted it to the other side before responding, "Because Brother is the sun."

"And then explode and kill everyone?" Xu Qingfan couldn’t help but laugh first.

"Not at all, it’s to warm everyone!" Zhang Yiyi bit her lower lip, a smile also adorning her face.

"No one dies then?"

"No one dies." She stepped forward and looped her arm through Xu Qingfan’s once more.

"Everyone has to be well!" she added.

"Okay, Yiyi and everyone must be well."

"To be well!" She gazed at Xu Qingfan, her eyes resolute as she repeated.

After leaving their well-wishing words in the sand, only half of the sun remained on the horizon.

"Let’s head back."

"Mm!"

Returning, they were still barefoot, walking a distance before Zhang Yiyi looked back at their sand drawings—not yet washed away by the sea, still intact.

The girl secretly resolved that no matter how the future changed, she, Zhang Yiyi, would always be with her brother, with Wanning, and forever well with everyone!

The return journey was simpler than the way there; Zhang Yiyi sat on his shoulders, and as he slowly rose, it was easy for him to lift the girl up.

Xu Qingfan himself took a short run-up, easily grabbed the railing above, and then leveraged himself up.

Perhaps because the sun had set, the journey back was filled with sightseers, the seaside sunset, the orange sea, very beautiful.

Zhang Yiyi’s mouth remained upturned in a smile, truly cherishing the rare opportunity to be alone with her brother for so long.

Although the answers she desired were unfulfilled, having no good outcomes means there were no bad outcomes, right?

In this world, being serious isn’t right, not taking things seriously isn’t right; being obstinate isn’t right, treating everything as void isn’t right either.

But as long as she knew that Yiyi couldn’t be away from her brother or Wanning, that was enough.

They walked a long way, still not seeing the buildings from their arrival. Zhang Yiyi gently tapped his arm, looking up to say, "Brother, I’m tired."

"Should I carry you?"

"Yes, please." The girl’s smile was radiant, outshining even the sunset at the horizon.

"Come on up." Xu Qingfan slightly bent down; his endurance was unbeatable, not feeling tired at all.

After Zhang Yiyi jumped up, she pointed in the direction they should head.

"Let’s go~"

Xu Qingfan did as suggested, running along the path with the girl on his back.

"Hahaha~"

In that moment, the evening breeze knew, the sunset glow knew, the waves knew, and even the setting sun knew.

Only the boy in front of her did not.

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