Chapter Fifteen: Two Sides

  Lin Fang looked at the 5 people in front of him discussing where to go play today, but he wasn't very interested in what they were saying.

  "There's a lake behind this villa, let's go swimming later, what good weather, it would be a waste not to swim." This is Yuan Hui, the leader of Ning Zhiyuan's group.

  "Great, great! I've already brought my swimsuit." Ye Mei exclaimed excitedly.

  "Since it's like this, then let's all go at 1 o'clock." Ning Zhiyuan was also present and suggested so.

  Lin Fang waved his hand and although he wasn't very interested in swimming, sunbathing on the side was also nice.

  Behind the villa, there is a lake. Through Sun Guan's introduction, this is also a great place to relax. Usually, people swim here or sunbathe. They have already prepared deck chairs and parasols for them.

  At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, by the lake.

  Six people are on the beach, three girls wearing swimsuits and walking in the sand, while three boys are talking beside them.

  "Ning Ge, looking at the three beauties, normally wearing formal attire doesn't make them look that pretty, but once they put on swimsuits, it's dazzling." This was said by a male colleague from Zhao Tianyu's group.

  "Chen Ze, you don't understand this, after all, you're still young. This is called temptation. Normally, they wear formal attire because of work and have to be serious and solemn, but now they're on vacation, revealing their true personalities. Add to that the swimsuits, showing a little or not showing a little temptation, of course, it makes young people like you feel very beautiful." Ning Zhiyuan said with a smile.

  "It makes sense, no wonder it's Ning Ge." Chen Ze nodded seriously with a look of being enlightened: "Lin Fang, you're not gay, are you? With beautiful girls around, you're actually lying down sunbathing." He said this while looking at Lin Fang with a hint of slyness.

  "You go ahead and talk, I'll just lie down for a bit and enjoy this rare quiet time." Lin Fang said with disdain, yawning before lying back in his chair and closing his eyes, but he could still hear the two of them chatting.

  "Ning Ge, let's go swimming too." Chen Ze saw 3 girls getting into the lake and swimming.

  "Let's go, by the way, can you swim?" Ning Zhiyuan walked towards the lake.

  "To be honest, my motor cells are quite good." The voice grew fainter and fainter, until it was no longer audible. Lin Fang estimated that they had already reached the lake shore.

  Lin Fang was thinking of enjoying himself properly when Ye Man came to invite him to swim together.

  "Xiao Fang, come swimming! Why are you sleeping here? Didn't you sleep well last night?" Ye Mei was wearing a light yellow halter swimsuit at this time, revealing her fair skin. The fabric perfectly covered her body, exuding a pure and sunny girl charm that attracted the attention of the opposite sex.

  "No, let's go later, it's rare to enjoy such good sunshine." Lin Fang said with his eyes open.

  Ye Wei didn't persuade anymore and went swimming with everyone else.

  Lin Fang can finally bask in the warm sunshine quietly and enjoy it.

  The warm sunshine on his body, combined with a gentle breeze by the lake and the sound of waves lapping against the shore, gradually immersed Lin Fang's soul in comfort.

  It was as if it had been a moment, or perhaps an eternity. Lin Fang only knew that in this environment, he seemed to have fallen asleep, like the dream of last night.

  The third disturbance also came, this time's disturbance was a bit special, it was something that Lin Fang did not expect.

  "Lin Fang, didn't expect to see you here." It was a man's voice, sounding somewhat surprised and unexpected.

  Lin Fang heard the sound and immediately reacted, opening his eyes and looking towards the source of the sound.

  That was someone Lin Fang had seen before, to be exact, more than once, Li Lin.

  "Li Lin, how is it you? How are you here?" Lin Fang said excitedly, running into Li Lin was extremely unexpected.

  "Today I had something to attend to over here, after finishing up I was just walking around and didn't expect to run into you, what a coincidence!" Li Lin said with a smile.

  "Haha, it's fate, no mistake, it's just fate." Lin Fang sat up and said.

  Just as Li Lin was about to speak, a sudden loud shout interrupted their conversation.

  "Ah!" It was a woman's cry from by the lake.

  Two people turned their heads and saw a person struggling in the water, occasionally surfacing, as if drowning.

  "Lin Fang, Ye Mei is drowning! Go save her quickly!" Ning Zhiyuan shouted loudly from a distance, because Lin Fang was the closest to Ye Mei and they still needed some time to swim over.

  Lin Fang couldn't help but rush towards Ye Wei's direction, leaving Li Lin behind.

  Ye Mei struggled ceaselessly in the water, her hands slapping against the surface, her head occasionally emerging to gasp for air. But as time passed, the frequency of her struggles decreased, and so did the duration of her gasps for air.

  Lin Fang had already jumped into the water and was desperately rushing towards Ye Wei, but seeing that Ye Wei was almost done for, his anxiety grew more and more urgent.

  Ye Wei had already stopped surfacing for air, while Lin Fang still had a distance to swim before reaching her. The lake was originally calm, but somehow, Lin Fang always felt a great resistance.

  When Lin Fang swam near where Ye Wei had fallen into the water, he could no longer see her figure on the surface of the water. He immediately dove underwater to search for her.

  The visibility under the lake was not very clear, and a layer of blurry substance blocked Lin Fang's line of sight. He couldn't find Ye Mei's figure no matter what.

  With a splash, Lin Fang emerged from the water, took a breath, still didn't see Ye Wei's figure on the surface, and continued to dive back down after taking another deep breath.

  A minute passed and Lin Fang was still searching in the blurry underwater vision.

  Two minutes have passed and Ye Wei's figure is still nowhere to be seen on the water surface. The others have already swum up beside him.

  When the time reached three minutes, Lin Fang started to get anxious. He didn't know what the best rescue time for a drowning person was, but he knew that a normal person couldn't go without breathing for more than 3 minutes unless they didn't need oxygen.

  Lin Fang didn't dare to continue thinking about it, but his anxious mood had already affected his movements, and his breathing also became urgent.

  He resurfaced again from the water, and in less than a minute, he continued to search, his breathing frequency increased, and the time for each breath also became shorter, and the time changed from three minutes to five minutes.

  "Yè Miàn, Yè Miàn where are you?" The people around also loudly called out Ye Miàn's name, but there was no response.

  When Chen Ze and Ning Zhiyuan arrived nearby, they also dived into the water to search together. There was also Yuan Hui. The remaining two girls were not good at swimming, and they brought lifebuoys with them.

  Lin Fang's mood didn't know why, it seemed like he had never felt such anxiety and unease before, as if something bad was going to happen. And this feeling, although unfamiliar, gave him a kind of intuition that this wasn't the first time he'd had it, it seemed like a premonition of losing something.

  "Nothing must go wrong, absolutely nothing."

  Lin Fang had such an idea in his heart, but he couldn't find Ye Wei's figure no matter what. The blurry objects on the lake really affected his vision too much.

  Once again emerged from the water, and this time, Lin Fang did not return underwater. He saw a person on the surface of the water.

  "I thought you couldn't swim." Ye Man said with a smile on her face in front of Lin Fang, as if she had been waiting for him at this position for a long time, but Lin Fang had already been searching there for a long time.

  "Are you okay?" Lin Fang asked with a tense face as he swam to Ye Wei's side, and after hearing Ye Wei's words, he also knew what had happened, but instead of feeling angry, he felt a sense of reassurance in his heart.

  "What's wrong, aren't you angry?" Ye Mei mischievously said to Lin Fang.

  "How dare you, how dare you, Miss Ye." Lin Fang said, though he didn't show anger, but a hint of resentment was still there, after all, the feeling of being played with wasn't pleasant.

  At this time, others have already discovered Ye Wei, and they all came over to express their condolences.

  "Thanks everyone, it's nothing, just a slight cramp in my leg." Yemeng explained, unsure if she was telling the truth or not.

  Seeing that Ye Wei was really fine, the crowd dispersed, and only one female colleague was still a bit worried about Ye Wei, asking her to go back to shore with herself.

  "Yemeng, stop swimming, otherwise you'll cramp up again and it's a hassle. I heard that after cramping, you shouldn't swim either, let's head back to shore first." This female colleague was wearing a bikini, had a slightly chubby figure, with a round face, belonging to the cute type of girl.

  "Alright alright, let's head back to shore. You can't swim, that's why you're saying this, right?" Ye Mei teased, looking at the life jacket around her female colleague's waist.

  "This is me caring about you, don't insult me, my character is impeccable."

  "Xiao Fang, Xiao Fang, what's wrong?" Ye Man said helplessly to the girl, then turned her head to look at Lin Fang, only to find him staring blankly at the shore.

  At this time, Lin Fang was a little puzzled, he had just thought of Li Lin, and when he looked at the original position, he didn't find Li Lin anywhere.

  "It's okay, it's okay, let's go ashore, I'm a bit tired." Lin Fang didn't think much of it either, guessing that Li Lin had something to do and left in a hurry, without even saying goodbye. Anyway, he could just call him later to find out what was going on.

  Maybe it was because I was too anxious when looking for Ye Wei, now that nothing is wrong, the nerve lines are no longer tense, and as they relax, the fatigue also comes.

  Three people sat on the beach chairs, Lin Fang's phone was in the villa and didn't call Li Lin at the first time.

  "Feeling better, Xiao Fang?" Ye Mei had been noticing Lin Fang's demeanor since earlier and indeed looked very tired. She gazed at him with concern, even leaning her body towards him.

  "It's better now, I'm not so tired." Lin Fang felt a bit embarrassed and subtly shifted his body back a little, because he saw that the lovely girl was looking at him.

  "Tsk tsk, when did Ye Mei beauty secretly agree?" The female colleague joked.

  "How about it, won't do?" Ye Mei turned her head and smiled at the female colleague.

  This lovely girl thought Ye Wei would be shy and not admit it, or be slightly embarrassed and not speak, but she never expected such a reaction. For a moment, she was also stunned, but she wasn't the only one who was stunned, Lin Fang was too.

  "By the way, I still don't know what to call this girl." Lin Fang changed the subject.

  "She's An Yuxuan, from Zhao Tianyu's group," Ye Man introduced.

  "An Yuxuan? This name, yeah, sounds nice." Lin Fang's first reaction to this name was that it should belong to a more elegant girl, but looking at An Yuxuan's physique, he felt a bit embarrassed and rubbed his cheek.

  "Don't you think this name doesn't quite suit me?" An Yuxuan said naturally, seemingly having been looked at like that many times before, without minding Lin Fang's gaze.

  "Huh? Isn't Chen Ze also in Zhao Tianyu's group? Doesn't that make your group 4 people now?" Lin Fang noticed a detail.

  "It's like this, our team leader had work arrangements, so he didn't come to participate in this activity. Moreover, he also came from the Jinghua district side, and just hitched a ride with someone, after arriving, he followed the driver together, didn't you see?" An Yuxuan explained.

  Lin Fang thought for a moment, and it seemed that after Zhao Tianyu had a conversation with their team leader, the team leader followed the car.