A cat's-eye snail suddenly began to spray water, wetting the old captain's logbook.

"It's great to be young." He wiped the ink on the notebook, "My wife hit me on the head with a shell."

On the return voyage, Hannah hung glow sticks on the side of the ship, attracting groups of glowing Noctiluca scintillans.

When Lu Yong was collecting shells, he found something strange - there was a note hidden in a giant clam shell, with the hotel housekeeper's handwriting on it: "Congratulations for triggering the hidden mission, dinner will be upgraded to Michelin on the beach!"

As the tide swallowed up the last rays of sunlight, the beach lit up with circles of sparks.

Hannah held up a grilled squid skewer as a microphone: "Mr. Lu, please explain the blonde beauty on the life raft this morning!" The flames illuminated Lu Yong's ears transparently: "That was a Norwegian tourist asking for directions... She praised your fluorescent green flippers for being fashionable."

The waiter pushed over the flaming ice cream cart, and Hannah grabbed the blowtorch to make him a "volcanic lava version".

The flames shot up too high and burned the ends of her hair. Lu Yong took the opportunity to braid her hair into a pigtail. "You lose!" She pointed at the burnt ends of her hair and said, "I'll punish you by telling me something I don't know."

Lu Yong took out the soaked compass from his trouser pocket and said, "Actually, I stuffed the pearls in there this morning."

While Hannah was stunned, he had already been pulled away by three Li girls to dance the bamboo pole dance.

The figures in the moonlight became a mess like a pot of glutinous rice balls sprinkled with silver powder, until Hannah joined the battle on her stilt-like coconut shoes. Her heels flew off and hit the barbecue grill, sending sparks into a miniature meteor shower.

While packing up her beach blanket, Hannah came across a message in a bottle.

There was a childish handwriting on the note: "Marry the man who helps you catch crabs - the hermit crabs in Yalong Bay." Lu Yong pulled out the cork and poured out a glass of sea glass. The sound of the waves was mixed with the song "Marry Me Today" from a wedding party in the distance.

On the return shuttle bus, Hannah leaned on Lu Yong's shoulder and counted the stars.

"Guess what surprise the butler will arrange tomorrow?" She drew coral patterns on his palm with her fingertips.

The car suddenly turned sharply to avoid a peacock crossing the road. As the two rolled into a ball, Lu Yong touched something hidden on her lower back - it was the Michelin invitation in the giant clam shell, with a cartoon octopus in a wedding dress drawn on the back with sauce.

The moonlight turned the road into a river of milk, and Hannah secretly pressed her sunburned nose against his shoulder.

The car radio suddenly switched to "Elope to the Moon" and the driver hummed the off-tune high note. Their intertwined fingers were reflected in the rearview mirror, like two seaweeds that had just learned to entwine themselves.

When Hannah was mixing mineral water into the sunscreen spray, Lu Yong was touching his forehead in front of the mirror and asked, "Will the Nanhai Guanyin think I'm too bright?"

His newly shaved head was blue in the morning light, like a peeled boiled egg. The sun hat given by the hotel was too small and stuck to the tips of his ears, making them look like rabbit ears.

The taxi driver acted as a tour guide in Hainanese Mandarin: "The Guanyin of the Sea is 108 meters high, and the planes have to fly around her!" Hannah leaned against the car window and counted the areca palm trees on the roadside. Suddenly, she pointed to the sky and shouted: "Look! Guanyin's finger has poked into the clouds!" Lu Yong looked in the direction of her fingertips and saw white sleeves looming in the clouds, just like a fairy waving her sleeves.

As soon as the shuttle stopped, Hannah was staggered by the heat wave.

The marble floor was hot enough to fry an egg on. She jumped into the shadow of the incense burner, and the gold foil stickers stuck to her collarbone sparkled.

"Want some ice cream to cool down?" Lu Yong pointed at the price list of the convenience store and gasped - an ordinary ice cream cone costs 68 yuan.

"This is a blessed ice cream!" Hannah gritted her teeth and scanned the code to pay. The moment the chocolate crust cracked, the cream flowed all over her hands in the same gesture as the Guanyin statue.

She chased Lu Yong with a melted ice cream in her hand. The two of them ran around the prayer wheel, startling the pigeons that were stealing the fruit offerings. In the midst of the flying feathers, Lu Yong's bald head was seen as a new landing point, and Hannah laughed so hard that her phone almost fell into the release pond.

When climbing the stairs, Hannah cheated and pushed the parasol to Lu Yong: "The reflection of your forehead can be used as a street lamp, light it up for me."

There were copper coin patterns embedded in the cracks of the stone steps, and she insisted on stepping on the "Fa" character to jump up. When she reached the foot of Guanyin, she found that the statue was frighteningly large. When Hannah looked up and stepped back, she knocked over the merit box, and the coins rolled into a galaxy.

"Make a wish quickly!" Lu Yong pressed her head and bowed.

Hannah squinted her eyes and glanced at the maintenance ladder under the lotus seat: "I hope there will be mango sticky rice in the buffet tonight..."

Before he finished speaking, the staff suddenly opened the fence and said, "You two are our 8888th visitors today. You can enter the inner hall and ring the bell!"

The bronze bell was much heavier than expected. Hannah grabbed the bell and poured it into Lu Yong's arms: "Is this for elephants?" The moment the bell rang, all the koi in the pond jumped out of the water at the same time, and the reflection of their scales was so dazzling that people couldn't open their eyes.

The old monk handed over a red ribbon with a smile: "Tie your wish on the Bodhi tree in the southeast corner, it will be most effective."

Hannah squatted by the pool picking turtles, her nail polish sticky from the sun.

"This carapace looks like a heart!" She picked up a red-eared slider and found a red thread wrapped around its claws. Lu Yong took out his Swiss Army knife to cut it, but the little turtle suddenly stretched its neck and bit his watch strap. "Is this sent by Yue Lao?" The aunt next to him laughed so hard that her dentures trembled.

It rained heavily before the release ceremony began, and Hannah's sun-proof jacket caught two escaped crabs.

Lu Yong tied the red ribbon under the bodhi tree into a bow, and turned around to find Hannah writing "Have a baby soon" on the turtle's back with lipstick. "I'm a monk turtle!" He picked up the turtle to wipe it, and was sprayed with water all over his face.

When the rain stopped, a rainbow crossed over the fingertips of Guanyin, and Hannah's straw bag suddenly trembled - the gold foil paper she bought in the morning turned into a butterfly and flew out, circling around them three times before rushing towards the release pond.

A string of bubbles floated on the surface of the pool, vaguely spelling out "happiness for a hundred years".

We had lunch at a vegetarian restaurant next to the Thirty-three Guanyin Hall. Hannah poked at the "braised pork" and exclaimed, "This tofu is more expensive than real meat!" She scooped a spoonful of chili sauce mixed with rice and choked on it until tears welled up in her eyes. Lu Yong pushed the coconut water over and said, "Guanyin is watching, so be careful about your image."

The child at the next table was crying and wanted to play with his cell phone, so Hannah took out the shells she had picked up in the morning to amuse him.

The child's mother suddenly came over and said, "Are you here to take wedding photos? There is a couple tree in Nanshan Temple..." Before she could finish her words, Lu Yong was choked by the chili sauce and started coughing violently. The sound of Hannah patting his back attracted the waiter: "Do you need to call an ambulance?"

The aroma of baking bread suddenly wafted out from the kitchen, and Hannah followed the smell to the bakery.

The old master was making a dough sculpture of Guanyin. She pestered him for dough and made Lu Yong's bald head, inserting toothpicks as earrings. When she returned to the table, she found a bowl of "longevity noodles" in front of Lu Yong, with "1314" carved out of carrots floating in the soup. The husband-and-wife tree was much shorter than she had imagined. Hannah touched the intertwined trunks and pouted: "It's not even as tall as the palm tree on our hotel balcony."

When she was hanging the wishing sign, she couldn't reach the branch, so she rode on Lu Yong's neck and swung. The red ribbon suddenly loosened, and the wishing sign hit the bald head of an old monk who was passing by.

"Your affinity is profound." The old monk rubbed his head and smiled, taking out a pair of wooden fish from his cassock pocket. "These are carved from twin bodhi seeds, they will bloom when soaked in water." Hannah unscrewed the mineral water bottle on the spot, and the two wooden fish popped open as soon as they entered the water, spitting out two red beans.

When the setting sun dyed the Guanyin statue golden, Hannah suddenly discovered small words engraved on the belly of the wooden fish.

Lu Yong narrowed his eyes to identify it: "This token can be exchanged for..."

The back half was soaked in water.

"It's definitely free tickets for life!" Hannah threaded the red beans into the necklace without noticing that Lu Yong's ears turned red - he had already seen clearly that the line of words read "This token can be exchanged for a marriage proposal once."

On the return ferry, Hannah counted the photos in the camera and smiled silly: "This one makes you and Guanyin look like brothers!" Lu Yong's bald head reflected in the photo to form a Buddha light effect. The driver suddenly braked, and the shells in Hannah's arms scattered all over the car. A conch suddenly made a buzzing sound.

"It's the echo of the conch!" Lu Yong put the conch close to her ear, and the sound of waves was mixed with the faint sound of bells.

Hannah's eyes suddenly widened: "Listen! Is that the one we rang this morning?" The driver began to hum the Great Compassion Mantra, and the car screen suddenly jumped to the scene of them ringing the bell - it turned out that the management office had made the lucky tourist's video into an electronic merit list.

When getting out of the car, Hannah's skirt caught on the door, tearing a three-inch long hole.

Lu Yong took out his sewing kit and used red thread to sew out a crooked silhouette of Guanyin.

"This is a limited edition." When he bit off the thread, Hannah suddenly pointed at the night sky and exclaimed - all the lights of the Guanyin statue were lit up, and moths gathered within a ten-mile radius, and the flapping sound of their wings sounded like a meteor shower.

The hotel front desk brought a coconut tied with red silk: "A special gift from Nanshan Temple." Hannah cracked the shell and found a note: "It takes a hundred years to be able to travel on the same boat." When Lu Yong was digging the coconut meat, he hit something hard and spat it out, which turned out to be a mini golden key.

"What lock can this open?" Hannah looked at it against the light.

Suddenly, a wedding march came from the next room. Lu Yong took out the red beans spit out by the wooden fish and said, "Maybe it's for this." He pressed the red bean into the keyhole, and the coconut shell "clicked" into two halves, revealing an electronic wedding banquet experience voucher - the validity period was written as "dependence".

Hannah put a coconut shell on Lu Yongguang's head as a helmet, and the two chased each other towards the beach.

Under the moonlight, the statue of Guanyin still looks down upon all living beings, while the red silk ribbon under a Bodhi tree is quietly unwinding, floating towards the deep blue sea with wishes.

Hannah smeared aloe vera gel on Lu Yong's bald head in front of the mirror: "I'll apply a reflective coating on you today, so that the guide flag won't look for you as a beacon."

Too much sunscreen was applied, and it dripped down his earlobe onto the hotel carpet, leaving a mini map of China. The taxi driver chewed betel nut and laughed, "There are free photos at the End of the Earth now, and we can print you on commemorative coins!"

When the car arrived at the entrance of the scenic spot, an old lady selling coconut shell jewelry stopped them and said, "Buy a couple's whistle, and blow it to wish you will never be separated no matter where you are!" When Hannah tried to blow it, she startled a parrot in the tree and the green feather fell right on Lu Yong's reflective forehead, just like a sprouted boiled egg.

The Tianya Stone is much more mottled than in the travel brochure. Hannah stood on tiptoe to feel the moss in the cracks: "Is this scratched by tourists' fingernails?" Lu Yong was thinking about how to avoid the crowds to take pictures, when he was suddenly pulled over by an old lady with a SLR camera: "Young man, be the foreground, and make a 'match made in heaven' for my daughter and the stone!"

Hannah rushed into the camera holding a coconut shell whistle and said, "Auntie, we look more like a couple than they do!" The auntie really pressed the shutter. In the photo, Lu Yong's bald head made Tianya Stone look like a coal ball.

The staff held up a loud speaker and shouted: "Scan the code to receive the commemorative coins!" Hannah pushed Lu Yong to the front of the machine, and the electronic screen suddenly popped up a prompt: "The reflection is too strong, please take off the light bulbs."

The reef area was full of puddles after the tide receded. Hannah was looking for starfish with a plastic bucket, and her flip-flops were scratched into split cheongsams by barnacles.

Lu Yong was squatting and digging for sand crabs, and the reflection of his bald head scared away three nests of shrimps.

"Look! This crab is holding a couple's whistle!" Hannah rushed over and sprained her ankle, falling down and making a human-shaped hole in the wet sand.

The lifeguards drove over in a beach buggy and mistakenly thought they were doing performance art: "Young people should pay attention to safety when they are having fun with romance!" Hannah held up the broken whistle to claim compensation, and the administrator compensated them with two sets of sea-hunting tool kits. Lu Yong dug up a rusty love lock, and the keyhole could still turn. Hannah stuffed the broken whistle into it: "Now we are really locked at the end of the world."

The midday sun baked the beach into a tar smell, and Hannah ate a mango in the shadow of the "Southern Sky Pillar". Juice dripped onto the stone-carved "South", attracting a bunch of ants to form an "SOS" formation. The cold drink vendor took the opportunity to raise the price: "I'll sell you the last ice cream for fifty!"

While Lu Yong was bargaining, Hannah secretly used a straw to poke the edge of the freezer. The melted butter flowed to the vendor's feet, attracting two stray dogs to lick them crazily. The ice cream cone that was taken away melted halfway, and Hannah put the chocolate crisp on Lu Yong's bald head: "The latest iced helmet, physical sun protection!"

In the air-conditioned bookstore, Hannah was worrying about the postcard wall: "Which one is the most unethical to send to my ex-boyfriend?" Lu Yong drew a turtle on the blessing sign, and the tip of the pen pierced the paper. The clerk in Hanfu handed over a wax seal: "It will only work if you stamp it with the Tianya postmark!"

Hannah stuffed the postcard with the words "I wish you a bald head" into the mailbox, and turned around to find that Lu Yong had tied the prayer sign to the electric fan.

The pieces of paper turned into a pinwheel, and the top one, which read "I hope Hannah will not get into trouble," was directly pasted on the clerk's face. After paying three pottery cups as compensation, they were invited to the backyard to make handmade compensation.

The night tour guide waved a fluorescent stick to attract customers: "Let's take you to see the blue tears!" Hannah sprayed mosquito repellent into the shape of a fairy stick, and Lu Yong's bald head was covered with fluorescent paint. The Noctiluca scintillans on the beach was indeed as beautiful as the Milky Way, until Hannah stepped on a glowing jellyfish.

"This is an assassin sent by the jellyfish!" Lu Yong ran with her on his back, and the fluorescent footprints attracted a whole group of tourists to follow and take pictures. The old man at the lifeguard station handed over soapy water: "What blue tears? You stepped on jellyfish shit!" The cleaning fee cost 280 yuan, and he was given two rings made of luminous shells.

The smoke rising from the night market barbecue grill mixed with sea mist. Hannah held up the grilled squid and directed Lu Yong: "Quickly lend me your bald head to use as a reflector to take pictures of the food!" Too much chili powder was sprinkled on it, choking Lu Yong to tears, but the reflective effect did increase the brightness by three levels.

The drunk at the next table suddenly raised his glass and sang loudly. Hannah knocked over the grilled oysters while dodging. The scalding garlic sauce splashed on Lu Yong's thigh. The boss rushed over with a medical kit: "Apply coconut water for ice!" Hannah's hands were shaking and she tore the ice pack. The coconut juice flowed down his trouser legs into the sand, drawing a crooked heart.

When they waited until the early morning to watch the sunrise, Hannah used her fishing tool kit to dig a hole to bury Lu Yong: "I'll make a sand sculpture of you." The tide came and destroyed the work, but it pushed out a drifting bottle. The bottle was stuffed with the wicked postcard swallowed by the mailbox yesterday, and there was a line of unfamiliar handwriting on the back: "Forwarded to your current boyfriend - the postman at the end of the world."

Lu Yong took out the clay cup he had hidden in the bookstore, with the words "Returns please go to Haijiaoshi" engraved on the bottom of the cup.

As the morning glow dyed the sea red, Hannah noticed a small chip on the rim of the cup, just like the shape of the sun-peeled skin on the side of his bald head.

The old lady selling coconut shells appeared out of nowhere and stuffed new whistles into their hands: "Next time you come to hold a wedding, you can get 20% off!" (End of this chapter)

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