I'm a web novelist, and you want me to work in the entertainment industry?

Since we've come all this way, we should at least go and see the beach and the sea.

Tian Xiwei and Cheng Che shared the same idea.

In the afternoon, Wang Zheng once again showed his humanity and did not arrange any other tasks or activities, leaving the time entirely to the guests to allocate as they wished.

Cheng Che stood at the entrance of the villa, holding a takeout bag in his hand.

Why did you specifically order takeout?

Tian Xiwei wore a light blue sun-protective outfit and a beige fisherman's hat on her head, looking like a female lead who had stepped out of a youth movie.

Oh, it does look similar on closer inspection.

"Are you worried about getting hungry later?" she said.

Do you know what I bought?

"I don't know." Tian Xiwei shook her head.

"Splash—"

Cheng Che suddenly pulled open the takeout bag, revealing four boxes of fries inside.

"French Fries Quartet, after careful coupon calculation, I managed to snag it for only 9.9 yuan!" Cheng Che said proudly.

"Oh!" Tian Xiwei exclaimed in realization, "So you're planning to get some fries to feed the seagulls at the pier?"

She's not a caveman, so naturally she knows this joke.

"Too shallow, too shallow." Cheng Che raised his left index finger and shook it with a profound expression.

"My plan is to grab some fries and head to the pier... I'm drooling over the seagulls!"

"...?"

Tian Xiwei sighed.

I wonder whose child ran away.

So childish, she's probably beyond saving!

【Wow! Nine yuan and ninety cents? What about the nineteen yuan and ninety cents I spent yesterday?】

[This is hilarious! You said you bought it for 9.9 yuan, so you bought it for 9.9 yuan... Brother Che, there were so many people outside, I'm begging you on my knees, please make a tutorial!]

Even the seagull never expected that its life would be filled with such an ordeal as Cheng Che's.

"Let's go." Cheng Che picked up the fries and prepared to leave.

"Aren't Ziyi and Nannan coming?" Tian Xiwei asked casually.

"Sister Xia was originally going to come," Cheng Che recalled, "but Sister Nan pulled her away, saying that there was something very important that she needed Sister Xia's advice on."

"I see." Tian Xiwei nodded, not thinking much of it, and didn't say anything more.

……

There is a seaside boardwalk not far from the villa.

At the entrance stands a faded wooden sign, the words on it long since blurred by the sea breeze.

Cheng Che stepped onto the plank road first, the wooden planks under his feet making a dull thud.

Tian Xiwei followed behind him, her canvas shoes making a softer sound on the wooden board than his.

The walkway is narrow, just wide enough for two people to walk side by side.

On both sides are low wooden fences, and outside the fences, rows of black pines stretch along the coastline, their trunks slightly tilted by the sea breeze.

Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the needles, casting dappled patterns of light on the wooden board.

The distant sea appears and disappears through the gaps in the tree shadows, like a painting cut into countless fragments, with sunlight shining on it, shattering it into millions of silver scales.

Cheng Che walked on the left, with a takeout bag tucked under his arm and a box of fries in his hand. Every now and then, he would pull out a few fries and put them in his mouth to chew.

Tian Xiwei glanced at him and said, "If you keep doing this, there won't be any fries left before we even get to the beach."

Cheng Che glanced down at the nearly empty box of fries in his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "That makes sense, but it's okay, I can order another takeout at the beach."

"Would you like a box too?" he asked.

"I don't want to!" Tian Xiwei refused with her head held high, her tone extremely firm.

Are you kidding me? She's a female celebrity with extremely high professional ethics!

I would never eat something as high in calories as French fries!

What's more, it's dipped in ketchup!

"Oh, okay then." Cheng Che didn't insist and continued chewing his fries.

Listening to the occasional noises around me, and smelling that faint aroma of fries.

Tian Xiwei took a deep breath and kept telling herself, "Tian Xiwei, how could you be so depraved?"

Have you forgotten that you promised your agent you would be disciplined?

Have you forgotten your connection with the treadmill?

It's just a box of fries, what's so great about it!

……

Five minutes later.

"You know, (chewing) who invented French fries? (chewing) How come they're so addictive?"

Cheng Che glanced at Tian Xiwei, who was also enjoying a box of fries, and sighed.

Tian Xiwei (chew chewing version) nodded in deep agreement.

I'm sorry, agent; I'm sorry, treadmill.

I didn't want to do it, but the fries were just so delicious.

I will definitely reflect on this after I finish recording the show!

……

The boardwalk meandered along the coastline, and the two walked for an unknown amount of time before two paths diverged ahead.

To the right are several wooden steps leading down to the beach, where the white sand gleams softly in the sunlight.

To the left, the steps extend upwards, leading to a viewing platform half-embedded in the rocks on the shore, where the shadows of black pines move slowly across the floor.

Tian Xiwei stopped at the fork in the road, looked left and right, and then turned right without hesitation.

"Let's go to the beach," she said.

Cheng Che nodded and followed behind her.

Tian Xiwei took off her shoes and carried them in her hand, then stepped barefoot onto the beach.

The sand was still warm and soft to the touch.

The closer you get to the sea, the darker and wetter the sand becomes, making it much firmer to step on and leaving a clear trail of footprints.

Tian Xiwei stood at the boundary between the dry and wet sand. The waves surged up, covering her ankles, and then receded, taking away the fine sand from her feet.

[So white sand beaches really do exist? My Chinese textbook wasn't lying! (A gasp of amazement from a landlubber like me!)]

White sand is mostly found in tropical and subtropical waters and is the product of broken corals and shellfish. Its main component is calcium carbonate, which is why it appears white.

[They were babbling on and on, I couldn't understand a word, but anyway, this beach is absolutely amazing!]

"It feels cool." Tian Xiwei said as if she were reporting a scientific discovery.

"If it weren't cold, it would be a horror story," Cheng Che said casually.

As he spoke, he took out the single box of fries that had tragically transformed from a "French Fries Quartet" into a "French Fries Solo," and looked up at the seagulls circling low in the sky.

He pulled out a French fry and held it high.

After about a minute or two, my arms started to ache from holding it up.

Finally, a seagull noticed his movements and the fries in his hand.

Without hesitation, the seagull flapped its wings and swooped down towards the fries in his hand.

As a single online novelist who has been single for many years, Cheng Che undoubtedly possesses incredible typing speed.

He reacted quickly; the instant he caught a glimpse of the seagull's afterimage, he flicked his wrist, pulled his arm back, and sent the fries circling in the air.

Then he precisely stuffed it into his mouth.

The seagull missed its target, its wings flapping in front of Cheng Che, creating a gust of wind as it looked up at the human in disbelief.

"Hehehe." Cheng Che waved to the seagull, looking smug.

"Gurgle, gurgle!?"

Ou had never seen such a shameless person!

"Getting impatient, getting impatient," Cheng Che mocked.

[Shocking! Is it a distortion of human nature or a decline in morality? A top online novelist actually did this to a seagull in the street!?]

[Brother Che is essentially a primary school student.]

[Just kidding, elementary school students aren't that naive.]

Seeing this, Tian Xiwei raised her hand to gently tuck a strand of hair behind her ear and smiled helplessly.

"Aren't you afraid it will retaliate against you?"

"It's just a seagull, how can it retaliate?" Cheng Che said dismissively, taking out a few more fries and stuffing them into his mouth. "Besides, it threatened me first."

"When did it threaten you?"

"It just threatened me with its eyes."

"...Eyes?"

"Yes, the really fierce kind."

"..."