Going home for Chinese New Year, I squeezed onto a bus with three energetic young women.

Thirty minutes later.

"Dinner's here!"

As soon as the kitchen door opened, An Yaoyao carried the plates to the dining room.

Her hair was tied back with a pink hair tie, her black and pink apron was pressing down on her skirt, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her nose.

The first dish was scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

The second dish was stir-fried green peppers and eggs.

The third dish was scrambled eggs with ham.

Chen Tingting stared at the table and raised her hand to count.

"A culinary genius with a knack for making mistakes, is he going head-to-head with eggs?"

"Anything else!" An Yaoyao turned and shouted towards the kitchen, "Help bring out the dishes!"

Zhang Qian, Li Jiaxin, and Lin Xiaoshuang got up and went into the kitchen.

Not long after, several people came out, each carrying a plate of food.

Garlic shrimp, braised pork ribs, spicy diced chicken, cold beef salad, and a bowl of pickled fish.

The table was quickly filled.

Xie Lingmo stood next to the dining chair, her pink hair falling over her shoulders.

She looked at the table full of food and then at An Yaoyao.

"Did you do these too?"

An Yaoyao's ears turned red, and she pointed to the kitchen.

"Yes... I made it all according to the recipe."

Then, she placed the last plate of sliced ​​watermelon in the middle and raised her hands upwards:

"Clang clang clang!"

She crouched down and pulled a case of beer from under the table:

"And watermelon and beer!"

Lin Xiaoshuang's eyes crinkled into a smile: "Wow! Yaoyao went to so much trouble!"

"It's so hot today." An Yaoyao sat down to Bai Li's right, holding onto the back of the chair.

"It's perfect for drinking beer."

Bai Li took the bottle opener and opened the beer bottles one by one.

"Yaoyao and Ruyue, one bottle at most."

"Okay." Jiang Ruyue raised her glass. "I can't hold my liquor, and I'll talk nonsense if I drink too much."

An Yaoyao nodded, "I don't usually drink it, just a taste is fine."

Xie Lingmo reached out and took away the beer Bai Li had just opened, glaring at him angrily.

Why didn't you remind me?

"Don't you feel sorry for me?"

Bai Li looked up: "Last time you drank almost a pound of baijiu before you passed out."

"Can beer get you drunk?"

Xie Lingmo recalled the time she drank with her friends and Bai Li, and the bottle in her hand wobbled slightly.

"Then you should have reminded them!"

Zhang Qian laughed out loud: "Little pink hair, when you're drunk you like to hug your big brother and talk nonsense."

Xie Lingmo immediately retorted, "Even if you don't drink, I'll still hug you."

Zhang Qian did not refute, but picked up a piece of pork rib and put it into Bai Li's bowl.

"Then I'm more stable than you."

Chen Tingting opened a bottle of wine and took two gulps.

She wiped the water droplets from her mouth, leaned back in her chair, and looked at the crowd.

"Seriously."

"The family circumstances of our group are quite different."

She pointed at An Yaoyao.

Yaoyao comes from an ordinary working-class family.

Then it pointed to Xie Lingmo.

"The little pink-haired girl's family drives a Rolls-Royce with a license plate that has eight eights on it."

"Kisaragi and Momo are also quite top-notch."

Xie Lingmo lowered her head and ate shrimp, without responding.

Chen Tingting turned her finger back, pointing to herself and Zhang Qian and the others.

"Qianqian, Xiaoshuang, Jiaxin, and I used to not even have twenty yuan in our pockets."

"From the bottom to the middle, from the rich to the top. After going around in circles, they all ended up eating at the eldest brother's house."

"They've become sisters."

The dining table fell silent for a moment.

Xie Lingmo picked up her beer and clinked it against Chen Tingting's:

"Love and fate are quite magical."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Bai Li.

Before she returned from Yunshi, she still felt a little uneasy.

Seeing An Yaoyao made me feel even more choked up.

But now that they've sat down to eat, An Yaoyao is busy serving them, showing no sign of treating her as an enemy.

Xie Lingmo couldn't keep up the act any longer.

The girls around Bai Li were a mess, and they couldn't keep their mouths shut.

But their protection of Bai Li is genuine.

Jiang Ruyue took a bite of the watermelon, her lips smeared with watermelon juice:

"Looking at it this way, it seems like only my parents were unkind to me in the past."

Zhang Qian stopped using her chopsticks.

She blinked: "What are Mom and Dad?"

Jiang Ruyue turned to look at her.

Lin Xiaoshuang bit the end of her chopsticks and whispered:

"We haven't seen it for tens of thousands of years."

Li Jiaxin raised her hand and patted Lin Xiaoshuang's shoulder without saying anything more.

Chen Tingting picked up the wine bottle and filled Zhang Qian and Lin Xiaoshuang's glasses.

"Jiaxin and I are in a similar situation, but now that we're all on the same side..."

"Let's not dwell on those old, messy accounts."

An Yaoyao held her beer glass, wanting to say a few words of comfort, but couldn't find the right words.

After hesitating for a long time, she blurted out a sentence.

"My parents even said I was picked up from a trash can."

Jiang Ruyue looked up: "You really are?"

"Of course not!" An Yaoyao slammed her hand on the table. "They were just kidding me."

Bai Li put down her chopsticks and looked at An Yaoyao:

"If I had known this would happen, I should have gone to walk around the trash cans."

"That way you'll be mine sooner."

An Yaoyao's cup stopped in mid-air.

She looked at Bai Li, her face turning red from her ears to her neck.

Two seconds later, she lowered her head, her fingers gripping the hem of her skirt:

"What nonsense are you talking about..."

[Target Person: An Yaoyao's affection level increased by 5 points.]

[Current Affection Level: 69 (Admiration)]

Bai Li picked up a beer and took a sip.

This little landmine is actually quite easy to tease...

An Yaoyao lowered her head, her heart pounding.

She muttered in a low voice, "I'm so happy I'm losing my mind, this is going to be a disaster..."

Jiang Ruyue sat next to her, her ears twitching.

"This isn't the end."

An Yaoyao looked up: "Then what counts?"

Jiang Ruyue put down the watermelon rind, her innocent face serious.

"When you hide under the covers watching porn, imagine yourself as the female lead, and then imagine the philanderer as the male lead, that's when you're truly doomed."

"Jiang Ruyue!"

An Yaoyao grabbed a tissue and was about to throw it at her.

Jiang Ruyue crossed her arms in front of her, saying, "I'm trying to help you mentally prepare."

The whole table was filled with laughter.

Bai Li leaned back in his chair, his eyes filled with indulgence and doting affection.

Watermelon, beer, and girls were all there.

The meal was enjoyable, but it felt like something was missing.

He glanced up.

There is a gym on the third floor.

Fourth floor...

Bai Li stopped.

Since the villa was purchased, the swimming pool on the fourth floor has been regularly cleaned of algae and the water changed by the property management, but no one has ever gone down into it.

He glanced at the girl at the table.

"Don't leave after you finish eating."

Chen Tingting asked, "What's wrong?"

Bai Li placed the wine bottle on the table.

"Let's go swimming on the fourth floor tonight."

"The pool has been empty, so this is a good opportunity to open for business."

Jiang Ruyue was the first to raise her hand: "Great! I can hold my breath!"

Chen Tingting perked up: "Yay, I can wear my swimsuit now!"

When An Yaoyao heard the word "swimsuit," she slowed down and her ears turned a little red.

She's never even worn a swimsuit... let alone in front of a man.

Zhang Qian took a sip of beer, her gaze shifting from Lin Xiaoshuang to An Yaoyao:

"Haha, Xiao Shuang, Yao Yao."

"Don't feel inferior then."

An Yaoyao raised her head: "Who's insecure?"

"I just haven't worn it."

Then, Zhang Qian glanced at Xie Lingmo, who was standing there in a daze. She wanted to tease her a bit, but she swallowed the words back.

She knew all too well that lies wouldn't hurt anyone, but the truth was the sharpest weapon.

Lin Xiaoshuang at least has a second-tier rating, and An Yaoyao is probably in the third tier, but Xie Lingmo is a solid A-cup and can't be matched...

But Zhang Qian didn't know that Xie Lingmo wasn't thinking about this at all.

She was holding a beer bottle, her pink hair covering half of her face.

[Swimming...?]

Let's wear swimsuits together...

Xie Lingmo raised her hand and touched her leg, glad that she had thought one step ahead before leaving the house.

Thankfully, just in case, I shaved everything clean, both the parts that needed shaving and the parts that shouldn't have been shaved...