Zhang Guoqing glanced at his friend thoughtfully. He didn’t intend to interrupt, but he was musing that these two made a great match. Ever since they got into college, not only were they at the same school, they were also in the same class. Both he and Zhou Jiao felt that this pair, equal in status and compatible in temperament, would be perfect if they got married.
Unexpectedly, they truly had the fate of a couple.
"That day, we didn’t dare to go to Daqing Mountain, so we went to the mountain with a reservoir instead. It was right during the summer drought, even the mountain was unbearably hot.
At that time, we walked for a full three hours and only found a shady little valley by midday. There was a small village at the foot of the mountain nearby, so we planned to play on the mountain until before dark and then find accommodation in the village..."
Yeah, right~
Walking for a full three hours, why didn’t you drop dead from exhaustion?
Zhang Guoqing and Li Qinglin exchanged glances, both realizing that their buddy had long fallen into the trap of love unknowingly. If it were any other girl, he wouldn’t even dream of taking her up the mountain, let alone get scared away.
At dawn, they set off, walked for more than three hours, stopping and resting while chatting and laughing, but it was truly tiring, and it was tough to finally reach the place.
Zhao Yuanyuan, covered in sweat, touched her damp short hair, staring intently at Zhang Yuntao.
Still expecting him to carry her? Zhang Yuntao lamented his unlucky fate, thinking how a moment of softness got him on board this pirate ship. "How about I take you to find some water to wipe off the sweat first?"
Zhao Yuanyuan grinned, "Okay, let’s go. Actually, I can manage on my own, but I’m scared there are snakes around, and I’m not sure if the snake repellent sachet Jiao Jiao gave me will be effective."
"Afraid of snakes, yet you climb the mountain?" Zhang Yuntao rolled his eyes at her in disdain, "You’re such a silly girl."
"You’re the silly one~" Zhao Yuanyuan shook her fist at him, "Do you want me to really hit you?"
"You? Not to underestimate you, but I can handle you with one hand."
The two young people bantered as they finally found a ditch. They filled a pot with clean water for the picnic, and both happily jumped into the ditch with a tacit understanding.
Soaked in the cool stream water, Zhao Yuanyuan was too busy to quarrel with Zhang Yuntao now. She lay in the ditch, squinting at the sky and the passing clouds, with the cool breeze blowing away the heat.
The more Zhao Yuanyuan thought, the more wrong it felt. Spitting out the water, she shouted upstream to Zhang Yuntao, "Come down, let’s switch places, I refuse to drink your foot water."
Foot water?
Zhang Yuntao, raised in a well-off family, was strong and tall, over six feet, and an athlete who had won several awards for his alma mater.
Tall as he was, lying down made the water shallower, switching places would only mean less soaking for him. On hearing her, he firmly shook his head, "No way, what if you can’t hold it in and pee, I’ll be worse off."
This guy can’t help but court disaster!
At these words, Zhao Yuanyuan, who had no intention of getting up, immediately stood up and stormed at him angrily.
Zhang Yuntao initially didn’t notice the difference between men and women, but now, looking at Zhao Yuanyuan coming towards him wet and dripping, he suddenly realized. After all, this friend was different from him, a man.
"Don’t come over!"
"You, ... " Zhao Yuanyuan got even angrier! How dare he not move? Let’s see how she would handle him. Heaven has a path yet you refuse to walk it, Hell has no door and yet you insist on entering?
You’re done for!
The thoughtless girl took Zhang Yuntao as her often-played-with older brothers, which only fueled her anger more, and Zhao Yuanyuan waded faster towards him through the water.

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