You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"I'm sorry, please forgive me," Shen Jie finally controlled herself and bowed 90 degrees: "I really didn't mean it. I don't know what's wrong with my sense of humor."

"It doesn't matter if you don't believe me..." Xiao Yao felt a little guilty.

"No, I don't disbelieve your feelings." Shen Jie insisted.

"Ah? Anyway," Xiao Yao looked up at the sky, "Since I've been clearly rejected, it's not chivalrous to keep pestering me, right?"

So I just kept clinging on for a while, eh.

"That's true." Shen Jie nodded in agreement.

"Paradise of the Brave, what is that?" Xiao Yao's attention was attracted by a plaque not far away.

"If you want to know, just go in and take a look." Shen Jie suggested.

Chapter 18 Accusation

After entering, Xiao Yao realized that the so-called "Game of the Brave" was actually a large-scale outdoor obstacle course game, just like those obstacle course programs on TV.

This is just... awesome!

Shen Jie glanced at Xiao Yao who was eager to try, then looked at the not-so-clean water surface, revealing a hesitant look: "You go and play by yourself, can I wait for you on the shore?"

"Hey, what's the point of being alone? Why don't we play together?" Xiao Yao jumped twice lightly.

"Why do you have to play this..." Shen Jie pouted: "The clothes will get wet."

"I really liked watching this kind of program when I was a kid," Xiao Yao said excitedly, "Like CCTV's "Carp Leaping Over the Dragon Gate," have you ever seen it?"

"without……"

"I have always liked watching this kind of challenge show, but I never thought it would actually exist in real life."

"What do you mean by reality..." Shen Jie looked at him with a smile, a hint of helplessness in her eyes.

She wanted to tactfully remind Xiao Yao that she was on her menstrual period and it would be troublesome if she fell into the water, but seeing Xiao Yao's expectant eyes, she said nothing in the end.

The setting sun shone obliquely on the lake. There were not many tourists in the paradise of the brave. Occasionally, a egret would call, flap its wings and fly away.

The body is as swift as a flying duck, as elusive as a god, with graceful steps and dusty silk stockings...

Looking at Shen Jie's smooth passage, Xiao Yao seemed to empathize with the poet who returned across the Luo River two thousand years ago.

"I'm here, it's your turn!" It wasn't until Shen Jie stood at the finish line and waved and called out to him that Xiao Yao came to his senses from the days of war and battle. He also waved in response, then took a deep breath and ran towards Shen Jie.

As an entertainment project in the amusement park, the overall design of this brave park is not difficult. For a boy like Xiao Yao who can run and jump, although he has no experience, he still passed most of it without any danger.

But the fact that it is not difficult in general does not mean that it is not difficult at all. What Xiao Yao is facing now is the last level of the whole process, which is three platforms with the center as the axis, and the two ends are constantly swinging up and down like a seesaw. The difficulty of this thing is obviously not on the same level as the previous small fights. It is probably the finale specially set by the park to avoid the project being evaluated as "too unchallenging". The evidence is that there is a fork in the road here that can reach the end without running and jumping through a water gun mechanism, which allows challengers who lack courage to end the game decently.

Xiao Yao ran towards the seesaw once, but stopped when he jumped. He could see that the layout of this triple seesaw did not require high jumping ability and balance from the challenger. The key was the timing of getting on the board.

"It's okay, you can come that way." Shen Jie shouted, clasping her hands in front of her to make a trumpet shape.

But what Xiao Yao heard was obviously not what he meant.

In front of him was the goal of the finish line and Shen Jie's expectations, and behind him was another handsome young man who was eager to try.

Xiao Yao could no longer calm down and observe the right opportunity.

UI.

He started running again, running as hard as he could, and then jumped high at the end of the road.

The first one went smoothly.

The second one, about the same.

The third piece...

When Xiao Yao jumped from the second board to the third board, he found that because he did not choose the right timing, the third board was tilting towards him at this moment. He would land at the near end of the reverse slope of the board and could easily slide directly into the water.

Maybe I should have stayed on the second board for two more seconds, but it's too late to say that now.

Xiao Yao had to adjust his posture in the air and gave up using his feet to touch the board. Instead, he opened his arms and hugged the inclined platform with his hands and feet, thus increasing the contact area and avoiding sliding down.

Immediately afterwards, the board began to rise upwards, and Xiao Yao tried hard to get his feet back on the platform, but after reaching the highest point, the platform began to swing down again, and he had to resume the posture of using both hands and feet to barely keep himself on the platform.

After two rounds, Xiao Yao was already exhausted.

When the platform started to rise for the third time, Xiao Yao realized that he could not delay any longer. He came up with a bold plan. He used the kinetic energy of the upward movement of the platform to jump directly to the terminal platform at the highest point, skipping the entire third platform and reaching the terminal platform with both hands. As long as he held on to the edge of the platform, he was confident that he could climb up.

Without more time to think, this end of the platform soon reached its high point again.

Xiao Yao had already adjusted his posture and was exerting force with his feet.

At this critical moment, he felt a pain in the ankle of his jumping foot, as if he was hit by something, and then he slid to the side.

However, the arrow was on the string and had to be shot, so Xiao Yao still jumped up.

Jumping at such speed and with his own height, for a moment, Xiao Yao felt that the finishing platform was within reach, so he stretched out his hand as far as he could, with each finger stretched straight. But in the next moment, he saw the edge of the platform where he could hold his hand slip upwards in front of his fingertips, and only a wet black was left in front of him.

Just when Xiao Yao was in despair, he felt his wrist tighten, and the process of falling was as slow as bullet time in The Matrix.

He seemed to catch a glimpse of a man in white holding a slingshot on the side of the field, who was hurriedly putting the slingshot away.

But when he turned his head, he saw nothing.

Time seemed to have resumed its flow. Xiao Yao suddenly raised his head and saw that his right wrist, which he had just stretched out, was tightly grasped by a pair of slender arms that emerged from the platform. Then, Shen Jie's face also slowly emerged from the platform.

--split line--

"Yeah, yeah..." Yu's mother nodded as she answered the phone: "Thank you, Dr. Huang."

"..."

"Lord bless, Lord bless, oh, let's leave it like this for now."

"What's wrong, Yingying?" Father Yu glanced at his watch and asked with concern.

"I feel that my feet and calves are... cold? Wet?" Yu Luying closed her eyes and struggled to describe her feelings.

"Hmm? How is it?" Father Yu noticed that Yu Luying's expression changed again.

"Just now, I felt like my whole body fell into the water," said Yu Luying.

--split line--

I mourn the loss of a good relationship and mourn the passing of someone in a foreign land.

Xiao Yao eventually fell into the water, along with Shen Jie who was trying to hold him. There was no injury on his ankle, and he was not sure if he was really hit by the slingshot, nor was he sure if there was really someone who used a slingshot to cause trouble. He could only choose to take the blame for Shen Jie getting wet.

"Shen Jie, I'm sorry...you can actually let go." Xiao Yao sat on the shore, twisting the hem of his shirt.

"Uh-huh, I'm just not used to letting go. It's okay." There was no expression on Shen Jie's face. She just quietly poured water out of her sneakers.

There was a very obvious dividing line below the girl's chest, and the color below the dividing line was particularly dark. The trousers were covered with a film of water, which made them shiny and wrinkled, tightly clinging to her legs, outlining her perfect waist curve and leg shape. A pool of water had gathered under her body, and her socks were no longer white - they were the color of mud dissolved by water, which contrasted well with the gray clothes on her body.

A gust of evening breeze blew by, and the girl shivered slightly. She poured out the water from her shoes, pulled off her socks, put them into the lake water to wash, and wrung them out.

Xiao Yao turned his head and saw the pair of small and delicate feet, which were as white as if they were soaked in milk. The heels were so high that there was no transition between them and the calves. The palm seemed empty, as if a jujube could fit in it. Her toes were as tender as the tips of bamboo shoots, and her index finger was long and protruding. The other foot was still wrapped in dirty socks, and water oozed out as her toes opened and closed.

For a moment, Xiao Yao's DNA moved.

Obviously, the lake water could not remove the muddy color from the socks. Shen Jie stood up, lifted her other foot, took off the socks, and stood barefoot on the ground: "Are you thirsty?"

"Ah? Oh, I'll go buy some drinks." Xiao Yao said.

Shen Jie turned around and saw the vending machine in the distance: "I'll be there, what do you want to drink?"

"Ah? 7-Up, either is fine." Xiao Yao said subconsciously and reached out to take the sock.

"What are you doing?" Shen Jie's face turned red. It was the first time Xiao Yao saw her blush.

"I, I'll hold it for you... and wash it for you."

"No need, just throw it away." Shen Jie curled her lips, stepped barefoot on the grass, turned around and strode away.

"How can I just throw away such expensive socks?" Xiao Yao muttered to himself as he put them in the lake and began to scrub them.

He recognized the √ mark above the sock. Xiao Yao had seen this brand of sports socks in the direct-sale store for more than 80 yuan a pair, and he had never worn a pair of shoes that cost more than 80 yuan.

Xiao Yao held the pair of women's socks in his hand, as if holding the distance between him and Shen Jie.

"Marrying into the wife's family? That's only natural," Xiao Yao muttered, "But why did they choose me?"

"Xiao, Yao?" A familiar-sounding female voice came from behind Xiao Yao.

"Zhou Qi?" Xiao Yao turned around and shouted in disbelief.

The visitor was Xiao Yao's classmate. She was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, with a chubby face. She looked quite cute, but Xiao Yao didn't want to see her at all.

"Why are you here?" they both asked at the same time.

"I'm……"

"What's that in your hand?" Zhou Qi's trouser legs and shoes were also wet, and it was obvious that he had also participated in the brave challenge.

"Nothing." Xiao Yao was about to stuff his socks into his trouser pocket, but Zhou Qi grabbed his hand, like a thief caught in the act.

"You are so good! Yesterday you stole Yu Luying's underwear, and today you stole some little girl's socks?" Zhou Qi grabbed Xiao Yao's hand and started yelling, attracting the attention of some passers-by.

"Are you crazy? What's wrong with you? Let go, let go! Let go!" Xiao Yao pulled his hand away forcefully, but Zhou Qi was pushed forward two steps and fell heavily to the ground.

"Well, you dare to hit someone!" Zhou Qi turned around, pointed at Xiao Yao and yelled, "Did you all see it?"

Just when Xiao Yao was so angry that he was speechless, a loli voice with a cold tone came from behind him.

"Lying is not good," the barefoot girl said with a serious expression while holding a bottle of drink in one hand. "I saw it all. It was you who held his hand tightly, so he was so strong."

"Who are you?" Zhou Qi sat on the ground and continued yelling.

"I'm his future wife," Shen Jie said without blushing, and took the pair of socks from Xiao Yao and stuffed them into his trouser pocket: "These are my socks, I gave them to him, is that not okay?"

The crowds of onlookers gathered around whispering to each other, lamenting how bold the young people of today are.

"Hey, girl, let me tell you something," Zhou Qi stood up and patted his buttocks, "I'm his classmate. This guy is a joke in our class and a shame to our class. Previously, he stole the underwear of a girl in our class. I tell you, you must keep your eyes open when looking for a man, don't be..."

Zhou Qi spoke as fast as a machine gun, and within a few seconds he finished the whole thing. However, Shen Jie took a step forward and spoke in a cold tone, "What does it have to do with you? What does it have to do with me?"

"You——" Zhou Qi was speechless for a moment.

"Being prudent and not spreading rumors about others is a lady's virtue." After Shen Jie said this, she bent down to pick up her sneakers, stuffed them into Xiao Yao's hands, and took Xiao Yao's arm: "Let's go."

Because a small number of readers complained that the male protagonist's dating performance was too bad and his character was too boring, so I decided to make a simple explanation here. First of all, this novel explores a question: What will happen if you meet the right person at the wrong time? I think it is entirely possible that two people who will fall in love in the future will be completely unworthy of the other when they are 15 years old, and this is exactly one of the "conflicts" in this story. Of course, the protagonist will definitely get the beauty (and won't make you wait too long), but it is normal to make a fool of yourself at the beginning. In online novels, we are used to seeing a hexagonal male protagonist who is at ease with most things as soon as he appears. This is also a more mature business routine, but readers who are familiar with me know that this is not my style. Compared with the brainless Long Aotian, I prefer to portray the growth of a real little person. Imagine, if Xiao Yao was a boy who was at ease, would he be single from birth until he was 30 years old? Would he need his daughter to come back from the future to help him cheat? The "failure" of the first date is actually a "necessity". At this stage, the male protagonist is like most 15-year-olds, straight and clumsy, but he will grow up quickly in the following stories and adventures. And Miss Shen Jie, when facing such an imperfect male protagonist at the beginning, still gave her acceptance, companionship, patience, accommodation and even "love" (although it was not unlimited) - maybe a little idealistic, but this is exactly what I want to highlight, her valuable qualities.

Chapter 19 Interrogation

The night enveloped this steel forest of desire, and the twinkling lights of thousands of houses made the brilliance of the stars and the moon disappear. On the outer ring elevated road, a Santana taxi was speeding at a speed of 100 yards per hour.

In the back seat of the taxi, a young boy was texting, with a girl wrapped in a blanket sitting next to him.

The girl placed her two bare feet on the leather sofa, hugged her knees with her hands, and leaned to the outside.

She looked at the scene outside the window with a blank expression.

"I really didn't take your lost things. I promise you that with your Jesus Christ."

One minute after sending the text message, I didn’t receive any “received” notification, which means I was most likely blocked.

Xiao Yao closed his phone irritably and turned to the girl next to him.

"Thank you," Xiao Yao said, "for what happened just now."

"Ah."

"That woman, Zhou Qi, is the one I told you about this afternoon. She ignored me because others isolated me. I didn't expect that she would become more and more excessive now..."

Shen Jie didn't say anything, but her shoulders shook slightly.

"Are you still cold?"

"Hmm." The girl snorted.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have dragged you to play that." Xiao Yao said.

"You always say that afterward."

"What did you say?" Xiao Yao was stunned.

"nothing."