I turned reality into a romantic comedy.

"It's because they're all girls."

It seemed that because Chen Junqian was nearby, Chen Xi's emotions were stabilizing rapidly over time, and she even hummed a couple of times in a coquettish manner when she spoke of this.

"And... Lin Guo said I looked great in that swimsuit, and that my brother would definitely like it. It's the center of the color illustrations in some light novel. I like it very much myself."

She rambled on and on, and then added at the end, "I like it very much myself."

"Okay, so where did Xiaoxi's swimsuit go?"

"That crevice in the rock."

As he spoke, Chen Xi poked his head out from inside, pointed quickly with one finger, and then retreated back into the shadows:

"I'm not wearing anything on top... Brother, could you go see if you can retrieve it? Are the others not here?"

"They were taken by Mumu to collect seashells and can't come over for the time being."

Chen Junqian took a deep breath and began to comfort his sister.

"Alright, alright, I'll go down and look for it for you now."

"Um……"

Chen Xi responded in a low voice.

Without hesitation, Chen Junqian quickly kicked off his beach shoes, wearing only a pair of swim trunks, and plunged into the water the other person was pointing to.

The sun had completely sunk below the horizon, and the sky was visibly darkening. Chen Xi huddled alone in the shadow of the rocks, feeling the wind grow colder and the seawater more icy. Listening to the sound of the waves outside, each crash felt like it was pounding on her heart.

However, she didn't pay much attention to any of it. She just watched Chen Junqian's figure rise and fall in the waves not far away. He kept taking deep breaths and then diving into the seawater that looked as dark as ink, once, twice... three times.

Chen Xi's heart leaped into her throat. She suddenly regretted it; if she had put him in danger because of that damned swimsuit, she would never forgive herself for the rest of her life.

"Brother, maybe...maybe we should just stop looking!"

She stood by the crevice in the rocks, not caring that half of her upper body was already exposed, and shouted this at the sea.

"It's okay, I've already seen where it is."

After giving this reply, Chen Junqian dived down again.

About a minute later, in what felt like an eternity to Chen Xi, Chen Junqian reappeared in her sight. This time, he was swimming with some difficulty, one hand paddling while the other tightly gripped a dark, indistinct object.

He swam back to the rocks, braced himself against the stone platform with his palms, and nimbly flipped himself onto it.

"found it."

Chen Junqian was panting heavily, his chest heaving violently, large drops of water running down his muscles. Standing at the corner, just a step away from Chen Xi, with his back to her, he tossed the soaked fabric in his hand behind him.

"It got caught on a dead coral reef, and it looks like a button on the back was torn. See if you can still put it on."

Chen Xi trembled as she grabbed the black swimsuit she had lost and found. It felt cold and heavy. Now she didn't care about being shy anymore. With her back to Chen Junqian, she hurriedly put it on.

However, perhaps because she was too nervous, and because the snap at the back of her swimsuit was indeed deformed due to the scratches from the rocks, no matter how hard she tried, the snap seemed to be working against her, slipping away and refusing to go in.

"It...it won't fasten."

So that's what they were waiting for me.

Compared to Gu Linguo's instances where she pretended not to be able to button it up, Chen Xi genuinely couldn't button it up at first. However, Chen Junqian, who was prepared, immediately provided an answer:

"Turn around, bend down, I'll help you button it."

"Oh."

Since the area in front was already blocked, Chen Xi agreed and walked out from under the rocks. She stood with her back to him, exposing large sections of her snow-white back to his view in the dim twilight. Beneath her prominent shoulder blades, a black one-piece swimsuit hung awkwardly.

Chen Junqian reached out his hand, his fingers cool from being soaked in seawater for so long. So when he touched Chen Xi's warm and delicate skin, both of them shuddered almost imperceptibly, as if they had been electrocuted. The awkwardness reminded them of a time when they were playing a name tag ripping game.

"Don't move, Xiaoxi."

He tried to make his movements look professional, his fingertips tracing the smooth satin and delicate skin, and finally, with amazing strength in his hands, he forced the already deformed buckle to close.

After doing all this, Chen Xi turned around again and stared straight in Chen Junqian's direction:

"what happened?"

Chen Xi raised her head, her eyes still red. She bit her lip, her voice very soft, but she spoke each word very solemnly:

"Thank you... But if you dare to mention a word about what just happened to Lin Guo or anyone else, I will still... I will not wake you up for a month... a week."

Looking at her little face, which was clearly terrified but still trying to look fierce, Chen Junqian suddenly felt that this kind of romantic comedy model play sometimes had some effect. At least it allowed him to see many sides of the female lead that he couldn't usually see. So he couldn't help but reach out and flick his sister's wet forehead.

"I understand. I also feel quite embarrassed about this embarrassing thing. So don't worry, this is a secret known only to heaven, earth, you, and me. Nobody else will know."

"Originally, it should be that Heaven, the gods, the child, and I know, but brother is wrong."

"Yes, yes, yes, it's the story of Yang Zhen from the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Yang family of Hongnong is the Confucius of Guanzhong."

Chen Junqian patted his sister's head as she continued to share historical anecdotes at this moment. He had deliberately brought up the topic to help his sister relax.

As expected, Chen Xi had completely calmed down by this time, but the aloof mask that always kept people at arm's length had shattered completely, and she lowered her head and let her brother lead her.

"But come to think of it, how can clothes actually be washed away in this place?"

"I don't know either. Suddenly a big wave came and washed away my swimsuit that I was wearing halfway and my underwear that I had placed next to me."

Thinking that he still had two pieces of clothing left in this sea area, Chen Xi looked around again, and Chen Junqian also accompanied him to search, occasionally bending down to look into various crevices in the rocks.

Then, as he once again bent down to swim to a certain reef to search, a familiar wave suddenly crashed over him.

In that instant, Chen Junqian belatedly realized...

It seems that a certain romantic comedy incident is not over yet.

After hearing Chen Junqian sigh, Chen Xi subconsciously turned around.

Although I really wanted to say that the roles were reversed, that description is not quite accurate.

After all, she saw everything clearly.

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Chapter 119: I will attack in chair form! (Two chapters combined)

It turns out that boys also need to take care of themselves when they go out.

After realizing that he was the one being tricked by fate, Chen Junqian was only slightly stunned before he immediately retreated to the same spot where Chen Xi had been, while trying to find his swim trunks again, his gaze sweeping towards the sea outside.

Sure enough, a dozen meters away, amidst the rolling white waves, a piece of black fabric with white leaf prints was drifting with the current. It was the swim trunks that Chen Junqian had just been wearing, or rather, the remnants of his swim trunks, except that he was now running towards the embrace of the vast Pacific Ocean in an extremely carefree manner.

There was a full five seconds of silence.

Compared to the previous misunderstanding involving physical contact, Chen Xi's reaction this time was completely opposite. Her face, which had been slightly pale from being startled, turned bright red as soon as she realized what she had seen. But then, fear and shyness were quickly replaced by a strange and uncontrollable sense of absurdity.

"Pfft-"

A crisp laugh, brimming with visible joy, broke the suffocating awkwardness.

Chen Xi covered her mouth tightly with the back of her hand, but the uncontrollable trembling of her shoulders completely betrayed her feelings at that moment. The embarrassment and helplessness of having her clothes ripped off by the seawater vanished instantly when she saw Chen Junqian in the same, or even more disheveled, situation. In its place was an indescribable excitement and even exhilaration.

After all, she had encountered difficulties, sought help from Chen Junqian, and was eventually helped by him. This had happened countless times in their lives so far. Although today's scene was a bit unusual or awkward, it was still within this framework.

However, this was the first time Chen Junqian had ever been in such a predicament. Her brain subconsciously blocked out the specific things she had just seen and heard. Just looking at her brother, who had switched roles and situations with her in just a few seconds, Chen Xi couldn't help but want to laugh out loud.

"Why is brother hiding here all by himself? Is something bothering you instead of going to play with Mumu and the others?"

Whether it was because the two incidents had broken down the threshold of shame in his heart in a short period of time, or because he didn't really hate this kind of thing, Chen Xi, unlike Chen Junqian who had maintained a gentlemanly posture and only stood outside the reef without coming in, was now lying on the reef in a very open manner, looking at him with a subtle condescending attitude.

Even as she asked this question, she deliberately raised her chin slightly, her originally red eyes now filled with a sly and mischievous gleam. She even adjusted the swimsuit that Chen Junqian had just found, like a victorious queen, with a smile that was both proud and amusing.

"...If you keep doing this, I'm leaving. You saw what happened earlier anyway."

Although Chen Junqian was very pleased that his sister's mood had brightened, he still wanted to protect his brother's dignity, or rather, he wanted to scare her. However, Chen Xi was completely unmoved by his attempt.

“Brother, you can come out whenever you want. I did see you just now, but there are other people on this beach besides me, and they are all girls. I don’t believe you can meet them in this… revealing outfit.”

Chen Xi did not back down. Instead of turning around, she mischievously took half a step forward.

The water rippled gently with her movements, splashing against Chen Junqian's chest, causing him to instinctively shrink further into the depths of the reef.

"Are you a female hooligan?"

"I'm a victim too, okay? It was clearly my brother who was harassing me just now."

Chen Xi crossed her arms over her chest, her fair and slender legs were quite eye-catching in the swimsuit.

"Hey, hey, hey, Xiaoxi, saying that is kicking someone when they're down and repaying kindness with enmity."

Chen Junqian wiped the seawater off his face impatiently and sighed in despair:

"I'm begging you, Xiaoxi. It's almost dark, and Mumu and the others will definitely come looking for us. Please turn around and look around for anything that can cover us. If all else fails, bring a big bath towel."

Say it again.

"Ok?"

"It means if you beg me."

"Please don't turn into some tsundere or sadistic younger sister character at a time like this, okay?"

Despite his verbal complaints, the chilly sensation on his lower body forced Chen Junqian to surrender. He secretly vowed to make his sister perform a dance for him one day.

"Alright, alright, since you're being so sincere, I'll go find you some clothes."

Glancing at the increasingly dark sky, Chen Xi decided against continuing her fight with Chen Junqian. Instead, she nimbly jumped ashore, but then, as if remembering something, turned back and added:

"No, brother forgot to say something."

"Xiaoxi's swimsuit is super, super pretty."

"...You're too skilled at this. Never mind, I'm leaving."

Watching his sister walk further and further away until she disappeared from sight, Chen Junqian breathed a sigh of relief and sat down in the water to wait.

However, before Chen Xi could return, another voice that Chen Junqian was quite familiar with rang out nearby.

"Junqian's activities are even more outrageous than I imagined. Is it really outdoors? By the way, who is he with?"

The person standing in front of him was Zhu Wenyun, who was acting as if she was very curious and walked straight up to the unsuspecting Chen Junqian without any shyness.

The main reason is that the two of them had already completed their candid dialogue a few months ago, and Chen Junqian is still sitting in the water, so this level of visual stimulation is nothing to Zhu Wenyun. After sitting down next to him leisurely, she began to ask questions while resting her chin on her hand.

"If I say it was an accident, will Yun believe me?"

"So it was an accident? Speaking of which, I just saw Xiaoxi walk out from this side, so the accident was with her? Brother X sister, isn't that called incest? It certainly sounds much better than anything like that."

"Hey, hey, hey, Wenyun already knows about the relationship between me and Xiaoxi, so please don't say things like that, okay?"