The landlord has multiple personalities and wants everyone to pay him.

A long time ago, there was a rather old joke online about a person standing on the beach and shouting at the top of their lungs towards the sea:

"Oh, Mother Ocean!"

Then a wave crashed over him, drenching him completely. The man wiped the seawater from his face and added:

"Oh, the sea! My stepmother!"

Ye Shu's feelings towards the sea are almost like those of a stepmother; it's not that she has no interest in it at all, but she's certainly bored with it.

There's only one reason: he can't swim and he gets seasick.

Despite the fact that there's a river in Ye Shu's hometown, he never went down into it as a child. This was because he always heard his grandmother tell stories about water ghosts using substitutes, or his father would come home from get off work and say that so-and-so and a child had gone into the river and never came back up...

Ye Shu was indeed quite timid when he was a child, which made him not have a good impression of himself and the river next to him. At most, he would go to the riverbank with his father in the summer to stroll around, feel the breeze, and watch the sand-dredging boats pumping sand up with big pipes.

Because I've never been able to swim since I was a child, even after I went to university and came to Nancheng, I never thought of visiting the seaside.

Because he genuinely had no interest, to Ye Shu, the sea was just a bit wider than a river, with saltier water and bigger waves.

But since they were already here in the south of the city, they felt it would be a waste not to visit Boss Hai.

One summer, Ye Shu went to the beach in Nancheng with Han Yang and his three brothers.

Ye Shu's first impression upon arriving at the seaside was that it was vast, so vast that it seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.

Although he wasn't usually interested in this, the influence of the environment was still very important. Seeing the three of them having so much fun in the water made Ye Shu feel a little itchy to join in.

He took off his clothes and walked into the sea wearing only a pair of shorts.

This could be said to be his first real swim. He had just stepped into the cold water and thought it was really nice. The cool water and the waves washing over his calves felt really refreshing.

But as he continued walking, the water rose above his knees. Looking down, he saw waves crashing behind him, and the buoyancy of the water pulled his legs upwards. Ye Shu lost his balance and ended up lying in the water.

This dizziness isn't like the kind that comes after spinning around. It's not nauseating or that uncomfortable, but it's like your center of gravity is floating, and you're uncontrollably falling backward.

Before Ye Shu could react, she had already swallowed several mouthfuls of seawater.

This seawater is so salty and has a fishy smell. After drinking a couple of sips, I felt like I developed high blood pressure.

Fortunately, the water wasn't deep. Ye Shu sat up immediately; the water hadn't even reached her chest yet.

His feat of lying in the water was naturally seen by the three brothers not far away. From then on, the three brothers gave Ye Shu a nickname: White Streak in the Waves.

It means that when the three of them turned around, they saw a rather white thing lying in the waves...

Although the seawater was only so attractive to Ye Shu, after that day, whenever Han Yang and the others invited Ye Shu to come to the beach, Ye Shu would still come. As a result, the three of them would come almost every week without fail whenever they didn't have classes.

For no other reason than that Ye Shu discovered another great pleasure at the seaside besides the seawater: a feast for the eyes.

On the beach in the south of the city, there are always some wealthy and generous beautiful women playing in the water, wearing either daring or sexy swimsuits.

The water rippled, making the four brothers dizzy.

The four of them didn't care whether the beach was hot or the sun was blazing. They just sat in a row on the sand, each holding an old popsicle, squinting and seriously observing the grand story of beauty and the sea before them.

It's so big... Sometimes the four of them got so engrossed in looking at it that they forgot to eat their popsicles, and didn't even notice the syrup dripping down their hands.

However, the four of them were too embarrassed to make it too obvious, so they each used their own methods.

Ye Shu is a typical person who knows when to quit while he's ahead. He never fixates on one person and keeps looking around. He might glance at this or that, or look at the distant waves, or pretend to be blinded by the sea breeze. All of these are just feints.

But this is also the safest and most reliable method, mainly to confuse the enemy and prevent them from finding the right time to make a move.

By the time the young ladies looked at him, he had already gone to look at the seagulls in the sky.

Han Yang, on the other hand, is completely shameless.

He sat on the beach, popsicle stick dangling from his mouth, his eyes practically glued to the pretty girls. When Ye Shu told him to tone it down, he argued back.

"You don't know anything. That young lady spent several hours putting on makeup and wearing such a beautiful swimsuit. She looks gorgeous. If we don't look, wouldn't that be a waste of her hard work? I, Han Yang, can't stand the word 'waste.' Thrift and frugality are traditional virtues. I'm just promoting these fine traditions and allocating aesthetic resources reasonably."

After saying that, he grinned at a passing young lady, who politely rolled her eyes at him.

He didn't seem embarrassed at all, and even stared straight at her, while Ye Shu, who was standing next to him, was already prepared to run away at any moment if her boyfriend came over and started a fight.

Wang Yu, on the other hand, is an actor who focuses on acting skills; he falls somewhere between Ye Shu and Han Yang.

He was more lustful than Ye Shu, but less daring than Han Yang. He was reluctant to frequently change girls, but he also dared not stare at them directly for too long.

So she came up with her own solution: it's okay to watch, but it has to be done critically.

He never smiles at people; instead, he frowns, his lips turn down, and he looks bitter and resentful, as if his house has just caught fire.

Several times, the young lady felt someone was staring at her, but when she turned around, she saw Wang Yu's unmoving, resentful expression, which made her feel insecure. He didn't seem to be looking at her, so she ignored him.

The worst one was Zhang Xiaoqiang. This old guy originally planned to go for the props route, and somehow he got his hands on a pair of sunglasses and a white cane, intending to cosplay Daredevil.

That way he can get a close look, and who knows, if a girl isn't paying attention, she might even have an unexpected encounter with him. Wouldn't that be a win?

As soon as he told the three guys about the plan, he immediately met with strong opposition.

Although they are lewd, they have their limits when it comes to being lewd.

Admiring a beautiful woman is like appreciating flowers; you can admire her from afar but not touch her. If you look at her from a distance, no one will pay attention to you, but if you go up and touch her, that's being a pervert!

As a result, Zhang Xiaoqiang's Nightmare Adventure failed miserably; his staff was broken by Han Yang, and he could only obediently join the group of people who watched from afar.