Sunny Rainy Clouds

Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi were the first to seize the opportunity to choose electric scooters, thus easily leaving Yu Nianxi, who was determined to exercise in the afternoon, behind.

"You guys are really going too far!" Yu Nianxi looked at the two people standing almost side by side in front of her and suddenly regretted it. "Are you going to do the same thing you did to me on the island back then?"

Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi slowed down a little bit to avoid accidentally crashing into each other in the blink of an eye.

After exchanging glances, Xi Ai smiled and responded to Yu Nianxi's accusation: "What is it?"

"When did Xi Ai and I ever do anything to you, like deceiving you, getting you, and then abandoning you?" Chu Yiqi was aiding and abetting the evildoer.

Miss Xi looked completely innocent and spoke haltingly, sounding utterly aggrieved: "That's right, there's absolutely no such thing."

Nonsense, turning black into white.

Such things do actually happen.

However, the main culprit was Chu Yiqi.

The company's anniversary event was held on a yacht, so taking advantage of their positions, all the For 8 members rushed to the island overnight after the event.

"Can someone explain this? I always remember this being a private island," Nie Chuiying said, leaning against the beach drinking coconut juice and glancing at the people preparing to head to the astronomical observatory on the hilltop.

Xi Ai had just taken the helmet from Chu Yiqi when she turned around and met Shi Yunshan's gaze. She paused for a moment and then said, "Ask Yunshan."

Shi Yunshan lowered her eyes and handed an egg tart to Nie Chuiying: "Perhaps the island lord's surname is Xi."

Xi Ai got into Chu Yiqi's car with satisfaction: "I knew our Teacher Chu was really amazing, he can even drive a motorcycle."

"I suggest you hold on a little tighter here." Chu Yiqi adjusted his helmet without turning around.

Xi Ai deliberately crossed her arms: "No."

Chu Yiqi's voice was muffled, but Xi Ai could clearly hear that she smiled before replying, "Okay."

The next moment, Xi Ai was caught off guard and pulled by the inertia, hugging Chu Yiqi: "You're annoying."

"Okay." Chu Yiqi stopped the moment Xi Ai hugged her, smiled and squeezed Xi Ai's hand, then looked at Yu Nianxi on the other side.

Little Yu Nianxi was too afraid to ride the other motorcycles in the garage, so she chose a more everyday one.

"Can we go now?"

"OK."

Chu Yiqi, having received an answer, turned back to look at Xi Ai: "Are you really not going to give me a hug this time?"

"Who said that?" Xi Ai, who is known for her flexibility, quickly hugged Chu Yiqi tightly around the waist.

So, a minute later on the road, Yu Nianxi slowly rode her bike, glanced at the young couple who had stopped just before her turn, and said angrily, "Hey, hey, hey, Yiqi, why are you like this!"

"What's wrong?" Chu Yiqi asked, slowing down slightly as she rounded the bend. "Why are you so slow?"

"That car is supposed to be for beginners, but it's at least a top-of-the-line model." Xi Ai was always eager to stir things up.

"I hate you all."

Yu Nianxi grew angrier the more she thought about it, and said, "Yes, you abandoned Yu Nianxi, who had been enduring hardship in the cold cave, from beginning to end!"

This time, Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi slowed down, waiting for Yu Nianxi to catch up.

"Could you please be nicer to the other teachers in the group?"

The team leader, who was the most well-behaved in the group, tried to persuade them, but he also sped up without hesitation. So the six of them walked almost in a row, leaving the six-person team of agents, assistants, and photographers behind them.

The rest of the journey went much more smoothly. It was only on a bridge spanning a river that the women in the photography crew finally couldn't handle the four-seater car anymore. Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai laughed and quickly ran back down the slope to help push the car.

Xi Ai's laughter was exhausted. Halfway through her run, her legs gave way and she almost fell to the ground. Chu Yiqi quickly pulled her up, but he was still pulled down as well.

Fortunately, from the moment they both lost their strength, they were not far from the ground, so they didn't suffer any serious injuries.

"Does it hurt?" Chu Yiqi wiped the dust off her palms, unsure if her knee would go back to its slightly bruised state later.

Xi Ai thought for a moment, as if she were unfamiliar with her own body: "Are you alright?"

Chu Yiqi glanced at her and suddenly understood what Xi Ai was hesitating about.

Miss Xi only cares about her own reputation. Fortunately, there are few people on this road, so she doesn't have to worry about losing face.

Xi Ai completely abandoned her inhibitions and sat on the ground, unwilling to get up. Chu Yiqi, seeing that she didn't move, glanced at the drone not far away and asked Xi Ai, "Aren't you going to care?"

“I can’t take it anymore,” Xi Ai pouted. “It hurts.”

How does it hurt?

"It hurts the way I fell."

Xi Ai seemed to feel more and more wronged as she spoke, so she spoke in a muffled voice: "My knees hurt, my hands hurt, and actually my tailbone hurts..."

Chu Yiqi pursed her lips, knowing it was inappropriate, but she still laughed and couldn't stop.

"Stop laughing." Xi Ai gently patted Chu Yiqi's hand, but then remembered a very important question: "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

Chu Yiqi recalled the details of the fall and realized that he didn't actually feel any pain—Xi Ai reached out and pulled him back when she saw that he was about to fall, so Chu Yiqi was basically not hurt.

It seemed that Xi Ai herself had fallen once, and then suffered a second injury from catching Chu Yiqi.

"Would you like to sit a little longer?"

Xi Ai shook her head. "I don't want to get up."

Chu Yiqi went to get the water, turned it on, and handed it to Xi Ai.

My afternoon water glass also contained lemon tea, which was slightly sour.

The people who were helping to push the cart had already arrived at the side, and soft laughter reached her ears. Xi Ai felt powerless for a moment, and finally, in despair, she also started to laugh.

Su Luo waved her hand: "Alright, let's rest for a while too."

The final stop on our coastal cycling trip was Golden Scale Beach.

It was just sunset.

The waves crashed onto the shore, turning into fine white foam that splashed up with an orange-yellow hue.

Shia, wearing a sun hat, sat in the middle of a pile of sand building a pyramid.

"Let's watch Miss Xi play with mud." Chu Yiqi had just returned from buying the supplies and, pretending not to be playing, began to tease Xi Ai.

Xi Ai looked up at her in protest: "Hey, hey, hey, you're talking terribly! What do you mean by 'playing in the mud'?"

Shi Yunshan heard it too, glanced at the little head she had wet and shaped with water, then looked at Chu Yiqi, unusually joining forces with Xi Ai: "Yiqi, why are you attacking me indiscriminately?"

"I'm sorry, Yunshan, but to be honest, am I wrong?" Chu Yiqi was also innocent.

At this moment, Xi Ai pursed her lips, and Chu Yiqi felt a sense of foreboding. She looked at the person in front of her warily and asked, "What mischief are you plotting now?"

“That’s right…” Xi Ai said with a smile, “Could you lend me your tools, Teacher Chu? And also, can I say now that Teacher Chu shouldn’t step in the mud anymore?”

Chu Yiqi: "..."

She looked down and saw that the spot where she was standing was a shallow pit.

Chu Yiqi sighed, took out the tools hidden behind her back, and continued to tease Xi Ai: "Are you going to eat the children's sand toys too?"

"Do you intend to snatch a whole set of a child's toys for yourself?" Xi Ai asked Chu Yiqi.

"Fine, fine, I'll give you a shovel." Chu Yiqi compromised.

Meng Yike strolled over with her glass of orange juice and, rather presumptuously, asked, "Excuse me, Teacher Xi, is this a small mountain?"

"I've put up with you two for a long time." Xi Ai suddenly spoke up indignantly, looking back and forth between Chu Yiqi and Meng Yike with a resentful look, and said, "One is a pyramid, the other is a small mountain. If it doesn't work, let's go out later and go to Panxi Eye Hospital to get checked out. I've saved my card."

"Wait, let's get off-topic. You're not really in a position to bring up this eyewear brand right now, since you already have an endorsement deal." Meng Yike's mind was completely focused on work, yet she could still spare a little time to remember the general tasks of the other members of the group.

"..."

Chu Yiqi was also shocked. He abandoned the large pit he had been diligently digging, stared at the pile of soil in front of Xi Ai, and said, "Isn't this a pyramid?"

Xi Ai finally laughed out of anger and said, "Can you all apologize to my beach penguins?"

"I'm sorry." Meng Yike was exhausted from trying to suppress her laughter. She looked around for a while before finally managing to say an apology with little sincerity.

Chu Yiqi didn't give them any face: "Actually, no one recognized you. Don't listen to the captain's attempts to ease the tension."

Xi Ai glared at Meng Yike with a threatening look in her eyes: "Please ask the captain to go and see Yu Nianxi, whose eyes are full of snacks. The performance is tomorrow, so please ask her to stop eating."

"Oh." Meng Yike strolled away again.

So Xi Ai turned her criticism towards Chu Yiqi: "Teacher Chu, you can focus on studying the meteorite crater and stop worrying about Xi Ai."

"That won't do. What if you get upset by what I say and start to doubt yourself?"

"I'll get angry right away." Xi Ai frowned, but there was no sign of displeasure in her eyes.

"Okay, from now on, don't talk to the meteorite crater research experts."

Xi Ai: "It's not good."

"Okay, can you put your penguin head back on?" Chu Yiqi would still go along with the little kid playing in the mud, but after doing so, he felt uneasy and started to argue with Xi Ai again, "Penguin colonies don't cut off heads."

Xi Ai sighed again.

“A hundred years from now, everyone will choose the same cemetery, with the epitaph: Died from long-term ingestion of trace amounts of poison—that is, licking one’s lips every day.” Xi Ai’s tone was icy.

Chu Yiqi glanced at her: "Don't pretend, you're more toxic than me."

"OK."

Xi Ai borrowed—used the water from Chu Yiqi and Xiaotong's bowl, and shaped a triangular head to place on the penguin's neck.

The disadvantage of the six people sitting in a row became apparent. Nie Chuiying was tired, so she leaned against Shi Yunshan to relax her neck. When she turned her head, she saw Xi Ai's masterpiece.

Chu Yiqi glanced around and saw the earphones that Nie Chuiying had been wearing and had just taken off. Clearly, Nie Chuiying hadn't heard the previous conversation.

Chu Yiqi instinctively felt things were about to go wrong, and quickly tried to cover Nie Chuiying's mouth with her hand, but obviously, the lead dancer's hand couldn't keep up with the rapper's mouth: "Xi Ai, is that a mud figure you're cosplaying as a snowman?"

Xi Ai looked very frustrated and helpless. Shi Yunshan belatedly realized and pretended to cover Nie Chuiying's mouth.

Xi Ai looked at Nie Chuiying, then at Shi Yunshan, and finally succumbed to the young couple's shared hatred of the enemy.

The scene was quiet at times, yet strangely familiar at others.

Just like Xi Ai could do again a long time ago, turning around and hugging Chu Yiqi's arm, shaking it back and forth, pretending to be aggrieved: "Chu Yiqi—they're so annoying..."

But the truth is that Xi Ai's gaze lingered on Shi Yunshan and Nie Chuiying several times before she decided to add fuel to the fire for the young couple's romance: "I declare that my eyesight is the best, that one must be a miniature version of Nie Chuiying!"

Shi Yunshan smiled and nodded. Nie Chuiying was stunned for a moment, and then turned to ask Shi Yunshan a question.

"Hmm, you have good eyesight."

...

As the last rays of sunset faded, Su Luojian finally called out to the children who had finished filming the water fight scene by the water's edge.

"Stop fooling around, let's take pictures while the lighting is good."

"Okay—" Xi Ai splashed water at Chu Yiqi one last time—but missed.

Whether or not the water splashed onto her didn't stop Chu Yiqi from criticizing Xi Ai: "You really went too far!"

"Stop talking about me. We need to take photos happily and pretend to be friendly now."

The photo freezes, and Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi's eyes meet once again across the camera.

Even his eyes concealed turbulent emotions, yet no one knew.

Like a brief moment of sunshine or rain that occurred during the day.

Yu Nianxi looked at Chu Yiqi again, and finally said, "Xi Ai, come and take a picture with me!"

"I want to take a picture with Teacher Chu." Xi Ai looked at Chu Yiqi again.

Yu Nianxi accurately predicted the outcome, and thus got her wish, saying, "Okay, I'll take the pictures! You can't refuse!"

Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai stood side by side, and upon seeing the camera, they instinctively began to scatter food.

Yu Nianxi deliberately didn't remind them, and thus took nine consecutive photos of Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi making heart shapes with their hands.