Chapter Thirty-two: Team Members

  The East China Sea is one of the three marginal seas in China and has the most islands. Also known as the East China Sea, it refers to a large sea area outside the Yangtze River Estuary in eastern China, adjacent to the Taiwan Strait to the south, bordering the Yellow Sea (with the line connecting the north side of the Yangtze River Estuary and Jeju Island, South Korea) to the north, bordering the Pacific Ocean to the east, with the Ryukyu Islands as the boundary. It borders 4 provinces and cities in China: Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan.

  The above information was obtained by Ao Yuan through all-powerful Baidu.

  But his memories of Donghai were not these cold words.

  At that time, the East Sea was a vast expanse of blue, with a solitary island in the middle covered in pear trees. When the flowers bloomed, the gentle breeze would blow and it would be like a scattering of jade fragments and shattered crystal. At that time, the East Sea had General Ao, who swept away the smoke and flames of war with his silver spear, and no one dared to offend him. At that time, the East Sea had the Sixth Marquis, who could turn his hand over to make clouds and cover it to make rain, and almost the entire world acknowledged that the Sixth Marquis of the East Sea was unparalleled in wisdom and strategy.

  At that time, Donghai was Ao Yuan's hometown.

  But as he looked at the pictures that Xiaoyan had Photoshopped, he truly felt that his hometown in his memories could only exist in his memories.

  But after learning about Ao Yuan's feelings, Xia Yifei first ran to the windowsill to see where the sun was coming from today, and then expressed her own opinion with a classic 45-degree gaze at the sky.

  "You're just bored and have nothing better to do, so some part of you is aching, huh?"

  "Will girls die if they're more elegant?"

  Xia Yifei: "I'll die, I'll suffocate to death. Look into my sincere eyes."

  "Alright, you win."

  Xia Yifei was actually busy to the point of exhaustion during this period, and there were many more things to prepare for the underwater fight than usual. With the added pressure of the Jie'er matter on her shoulders, Xiao Yuan heard her phone ringing non-stop day and night, and she barely had time to eat a proper meal.

  Including when she is cooking in the kitchen, she always wears a Bluetooth headset and talks on the phone.

  Every time Xiaoyan finishes a phone call, she grits her teeth and says she wants to cut off the phone line and turn off her cell phone, but when another call comes in, she answers with an enthusiastic smile and chats with the person on the other end of the line, even addressing them as brothers.

  Every evening after washing up, Xiaoyan would collapse onto the sofa and humbly ask for help pressing her temples, saying that she had overused her brain and her CPU had completely gone on strike, seeking comfort and solace.

  Ao Yuan thought Xia Yu Fei was a very peculiar person, he had never felt that he truly understood what kind of person she was - by the way, in fact, he was quite perceptive, otherwise, thousands of years ago, he would have been kicked off his position as God long ago. At first, in that dark and eerie snake tomb, Ao Yuan thought Xia Yu Fei was someone who didn't believe in fate and refused to accept her destiny, determined to defy the heavens. But later, he felt that this person was actually two extremes, pretending to be strong in front of people but actually being a total goofball behind their backs.

  Ao Yuan always thought that if Xia Yu Fei kept a diary, then every day's entry would definitely have this sentence: Today I also successfully retaliated against society =v=

  This impression was maintained until recently, when Xiaoyan started preparing to go to Donghai, Ao Yuan discovered that her facial changing skills were actually very high. However, after hanging up the phone, she would not say anything that could be expressed in one word, and would not even use a punctuation mark, completely transforming into a taciturn person, or rather, a taciturn person with a poisonous tongue skill.

  One day, Xia Yuetai came to eat and seemed to see what Ao Yuan was thinking: "Although I don't want to admit it... but she is indeed a habitual schizoid patient."

  Before Ao Yuan could speak, Xia Yunfei herself slammed her chopsticks: "You're the one who's crazy! You... you're all crazy on this household registration book!"

  Fortunately, her IQ wasn't blown away with the rice she ate, and she didn't do something stupid like digging a hole for herself by saying that your whole family is crazy.

  "Are you sure you don't need me to go with you?" Xiaoyan asked as she carried the warm Chinese medicine, while Xiaoyu followed her into the kitchen, "Do you have enough hands?"

  Xia Yanfei lowered her head to drink the medicine, and her beautiful eyebrows and eyes drooped down, unexpectedly revealing a warm and soft meaning that had never been seen before: "Don't worry, Ao Yuan is following me down, you don't have to worry about anything."

  "It's because he followed me that I'm worried..." Xia Yuanshuai muttered in a low voice, and upon discovering Xia Yifei looking at him, quickly changed the subject. "Who else went down with you?"

  "Dragon point divination and Feng Shui are definitely things that Lan Ruoxue needs to follow, after all, this is a big deal, it's also troublesome to find. Xia Yunfei replied while washing dishes, "Then Zhang Xuan said he also has time to help me this time, but..."

  "But how?"

  Ao Yuan didn't know when he also stood at the kitchen door, he happened to be standing at the intersection of light and shadow, and his good-looking facial features were even more prominent in the intersecting light and shadow, as if they were carved with a knife.

  "Hey, what are you two doing standing here? My kitchen isn't that big, why are you all crowding in? Get out, get out."

  "You go ahead and say something."

  "Alright, I'm scared of you now." Xia Yu Fei covered her forehead in defeat and confessed truthfully, "But I really don't know how your family found out about this matter, and had to let that young lady from your household... uh, gain some experience."

  Ao Yuan listened with a confused expression, while Xia Yuanyu's face turned unusually strange after hearing the name Wen Family: "The Wen Family you're talking about is the one I know?"

  "Is there anyone else? Ah, right, Ao Yuan. Tonight, I'll tell you all about my brother and Miss Wen's story. I reckon that's enough laughter for the second half of the year."

  Xia Yu Tai: "Don't you have any conscience left, Xia Yu Fei?"

  Xia Yifei: "What's conscience? Can it be eaten?"

  Xia Yan was going out and coming back when Xia Fei happened to receive another call and had no time to send him off, so he let Ao Yuan go and send him off while closing the door.

  But she didn't know that this was exactly what Ao Yuan and Xia Yuetai meant.

  Man's words are whatever, Xia Yifei girl, no matter how tough you are, you're still a girl after all, just answer your phone obediently.

  Xia Yan stood in the corridor, lost in thought, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Ao Yuan rarely stood beside him and whispered to him, as if the two had reached an unspoken understanding through their silence.

  "Yanfei..." Xia Yanchao finally broke the silence when he finished smoking, leaning against the wall and looking up at the voice-controlled lights in the corridor, saying slowly, "This person looks incredibly strong, but actually inside she's still the same girl who was bullied back then."

  Ao Yuan listened silently as he spoke.

  "At that time I was also confused and didn't understand things clearly. But now I want to make it up to her, yet she won't accept it again."

  "All these years, she has never believed in anyone as much as she believes in you. No matter what your background is, I'm now completely entrusting Xiang Fei to you. Let me be upfront with you, if anything happens to her, don't blame me for turning my back on you."

  After a long while, Ao Yuan finally spoke up, his tone more serious than ever before.

  He said:

  "Don't worry. Xia Yu Fei's safety is more important to me than all lives in this world."