Ruan Cunyun pretended that he didn't hear what Qin Fanglu said, strode into the water park with his hands and feet together, and shook off the blush on his face with great fanfare.
From a distance, you can see all kinds of exaggerated rides in the water park, including steep slides, huge colorful whirlpools, and intertwined zigzag slides. From time to time, tiny people as small as rice grains slide quickly past them.
Although Ruan Cunyun prefers to stay at home and not go out, Water World is unexpectedly his favorite.
Firstly, most of the time is spent in the water, which is relatively cool; secondly, these activities do not require much physical energy, you just need to slide down the slide, which is very refreshing.
"Which one do you want to play first?" Qin Fanglu asked.
Ruan Cunyun looked up at the various thrilling projects, looked at Qin Fanglu, and pointed to a group of low slides.
"Okay, let's go."
The slide was very gentle, not high, and not exciting. Before anyone knew it, they had slid down and were in the water.
Watching Ruan Cunyun jumping into the water with a smile, Qin Fanglu smiled unconsciously, but at the same time he felt a little regretful.
Qin Fanglu put a lot of effort into learning how normal people fall in love.
The line shortened quickly and in the blink of an eye it was their turn to get ready.
Four to six people sit in a bubble, dive down from a high altitude, then rush up the steep slope at a 70-degree angle to the ground, and then rush down into the water at a high speed. If you want to make an analogy, it may be like a big pendulum or a pirate ship in an amusement park.
But this was too much, he didn't dare to say it.
Ruan Cunyun nodded and suggested, "Mr. Qin, do you want to ask about the swimming ring? There are many kinds of swimming rings for you to choose from!"
"Get ready, I'll push you down right away."
"No! It has to be worth the money!" Ruan Cunyun said stubbornly.
Seeing that he was quite scared, Qin Fanglu hurriedly said, "It's okay, we can play something else. If you don't want to go, then don't go."
The couple also had hot tempers. The boy said to the girl, "You must be scared," and the girl retorted, "You are the one who is scared!"
Qin Fanglu cleared his throat, pointed to an extremely steep slide and asked Ruan Cunyun: "Do you want to try that?"
Why does this name sound more and more unfamiliar the more I call it
Qin Fanglu quickly stopped him: "No, let's keep it as it is..."
Qin Fanglu thought, you could remove the word "Qin".
Qin Fanglu looked down and saw a slope so steep that he could hardly see the bottom, while the huge steep slope on the opposite side seemed to be vertical to the ground. Qin Fanglu felt a little scared when he thought that their entire ship was going to rush to the top.
It looked okay from a distance, but when I got closer I realized that this project was really big.
As soon as he finished speaking, Ruan Cunyun looked up and saw the smiling capitalist, who was running away quickly with a pot lid on his head: "Boss Qin, I'm going to queue up first, haha."
Ruan Cunyun looked up and smiled shyly: "Ah, really?"
"Why don't we go try the 'Flying Waterfall'?" Ruan Cunyun licked his lips. "Otherwise it would be a waste of money and we wouldn't get our money's worth."
The two girls made monkey calls and said, "Let's try it again after this one." It was obvious that this was not their first time to try this event.
He learned that there is something called the "suspension bridge effect", which roughly means that when two people are in a state of danger at the same time, they are more likely to like each other. Because danger can make people's heart beat faster and breathing difficult, and people may think that this is because they like the person next to them.
Qin, who is always logical, always has some scheming in mind.
This project is very high, and you can hear screams coming from above.
It's already making my scalp tingle.
Ruan Cunyun blinked and asked tentatively: "Mr. Qin?"
The people queuing next to me were all saying, “Wow, it’s so high,” “Oh I’m scared,” and “Let’s not play anymore, haha.”
After he finished laughing, Qin Fanglu turned back with a smile still on his face: "Then let's try it once. Don't be afraid. I'm next to you."
Ruan Cunyun looked at the screaming tourists on the top with fear: "I... my legs are a little weak..."
"It's okay to be afraid."
He is very confident that he will win this battle, and Ruan Cunyun's excitement will definitely rise.
"Okay." Qin Fanglu was secretly happy, thinking that his chance had come. Then he was amused by Ruan Cunyun, "You really care about the ticket price. You are also afraid that you can't make back the money for the lunch buffet."
The staff waved their hands and ordered the six of them onto the boat.
After saying this, Qin Fanglu felt that he was extremely handsome and his masculinity was off the charts.
Qin Fanglu was very rude and turned his back and laughed silently.
After playing a few rounds of easy little games, Ruan Cunyun finally seemed to be eyeing the big ones.
After sitting down one by one, the staff coldly told us: "Make sure you hold on to the handrails, otherwise you will be thrown out."
So he deliberately chose this amusement park with exciting water projects in order to shorten the distance between the two of them. It would be even better if Ruan Cunyun could walk on a suspension bridge with him.
The books say that, for example, if the other person is very scared after getting off a roller coaster, you can seize the opportunity to comfort him or her, buy them food and drinks, and the other person will definitely feel your reliability and thoughtfulness.
Qin Fanglu gently touched Ruan Cunyun's shoulder: "Are you scared?"
"You haven't had enough rafting?" Qin Fanglu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "And I told you not to call me Mr. Qin anymore."
Moreover, dangerous moments are the most convenient time for him to display his masculine power.
Only then did I feel that this was an exciting project.
"Of course!" Ruan Cunyun said angrily, "We can't let those capitalists succeed!"
A maximum of six people could sit on a bubble, and there were two pairs of people near them, one was a heterosexual couple, and the other was two girls.
He didn't want to force Ruan Cunyun to do anything he didn't want to do.
Qin Fanglu's heart moved, and he asked Ruan Cunyun: "Are you afraid?"
Ruan Cunyun held the armrest tightly and nodded: "I'm afraid."
Qin Fanglu's eyes were gentle, and his heart was full of light: "Don't be afraid."
Why do I feel like they are the couple that looks most like a couple
Qin Fanglu was still feeling happy when the staff suddenly exerted force without any warning and the bubbles rushed down the steep slope at a high speed.
Damn! All the pink bubbles in his heart were instantly wiped out. Qin Fanglu's heart seemed to be pulled out of his chest and thrown into the sky. A strong sense of weightlessness hit him head-on. The fear of falling made Qin Fanglu's face pale.
Other people's cries of pleasure rang in his ears, and Ruan Cunyun's voice was mixed in: "Wow! Help! It feels so good!"
Qin Fanglu's face turned even paler.
It was so exciting that he couldn't even shout.
This is not the scariest part. The small bubble slid to the lowest point, and with the influence of the strong water flow, it accelerated up the steep slope of more than 20 meters.
Qin Fanglu was lucky as he happened to be sitting at the top seat, the highest position among all the people on the ship.
He watched the scenery on the ground rapidly recede while he himself soared into the sky.
Help! He can't breathe.
Ruan Cunyun yelled clearly beside him: "Boss Qin, it's really high! Are you scared? I'm so scared!"
Qin Fanglu really wanted to tell him to shut up, but he was so scared that he couldn't say a word.
The bubble hovered at the top, and my heart stopped for a second. Then a huge feeling of weightlessness came over me like a tidal wave, and I felt like I was jumping directly down from a height.
When the feeling of weightlessness was the strongest, Qin Fanglu finally couldn't help it and screamed out.
A very unskilled, monosyllable "Aaaaaaa" uttered purely out of fear
Ruan Cunyun looked at the pale-looking Qin Fanglu in surprise as he fell faster and faster, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Don't be afraid, Mr. Qin—hold on to the handrail—"
Finally sliding into the peaceful terminal, Qin Fanglu tried his best to control his weak legs and stood up. Ruan Cunyun took a big step forward and said excitedly: "What fun!"
Qin Fanglu said "hmm" in a deep voice.
It's fun, but a bit useless.
And it was Ruan Cunyun who said to him, "Don't be afraid", which hurt Qin Fanglu's little heart a little.
Ruan Cunyun was completely excited and wanted to pull Qin Fanglu to another steep and rugged path.
Qin Fanglu's face turned pale as he looked at the high-speed slide.
"I didn't expect President Qin to scream. I couldn't tell." Ruan Cunyun squinted his eyes and smiled, like a little fox who had eaten ginseng fruit. "My colleagues couldn't hear it!"
Qin Fanglu was hit by a love attack: "So you still want to listen?"
Ruan Cunyun walked towards the speed slide, his voice getting lower and lower: "Is it okay? It's a rare opportunity to squeeze the capitalists..."
"The way to squeeze the capitalists is to listen to their screams?" Qin Fanglu laughed softly, "Then what else do you want to hear? I'll scream for you."
Ruan Cunyun was stunned for a moment, then reacted instantly and pretended not to understand: "You'll hear it in the next project!"
His heart was pounding, and he wasn't sure if Qin Fanglu was teasing him on purpose.
Ruan Cunyun thought, if I really want to hear something, can Boss Qin just yell at me? Can I hear him panting
Qin Fanglu was only showing off for a while, he didn't expect the next project to be even more exciting than this one.
The last time I felt weightlessness only twice, but this time it was one steep slope after another, and after the weightlessness there was another more violent drop.
Two people were sitting in a rubber boat. Qin Fanglu was sitting in the back, trying her best to control her screams, but she couldn't help it.
Ruan Cunyun was laughing in front of him and complained to him: "Boss Qin, if you keep yelling, I won't find this project exciting anymore!"
What can he do about it? It's like his fear of flying insects, it's engraved in his DNA. Qin Fanglu feels aggrieved.
He had only ridden roller coasters in amusement parks before, but because roller coasters go very fast and people are pressed against the seats, the feeling of weightlessness is limited. He didn't expect water sports to be so exciting, because there are fewer restraints and it feels more like a free fall.
There were several steep slopes, and Qin Fanglu shouted several times, until his voice became a little hoarse. Ruan Cunyun couldn't stop laughing.
After the end, Qin Fanglu sat directly in the buffer pool, hugged his knees and said to himself: "Let me take it easy."
Ruan Cunyun laughed with his hands on his hips, showing great disrespect for his boss, and then said something even more offensive: "Boss Qin, please sit here for a while, don't move around, I'm going to go buy something."
After a while, Ruan Cunyun came back with two blue sea salt ice cream cones in his hand and handed them to Qin Fanglu.
Qin Fanglu took the ice cream in silence, thinking of his meticulous "suspension bridge effect" plan - after the dangerous project is over, he would give snacks to comfort the other party when they are scared.
Ruan Cunyun curled his lips and said, "Boss Qin, you won't be afraid if you eat a little."
Qin Fanglu took a bite of ice cream and thought silently, Ruan Cunyun is really strong.
It seems that the "suspension bridge effect" is not wrong. He feels that he likes Ruan Cunyun even more.
Although the plan failed, it was also a success in another direction. After eating the ice cream, Qin Fanglu finally recovered.
Ruan Cunyun looked at the other projects sharply, and Qin Fanglu was already starting to get scared.
Observing the boss's expression, Ruan Cunyun gently repeated Qin Fanglu's original words: "If you are afraid, we won't play."
Qin Fanglu frankly admitted that he was a coward and pleaded, "Okay, can we go to the surfing pool to rest for a while?"
“Hahahaha…” Ruan Cunyun couldn’t help but burst out laughing. He didn’t know that the upright Boss Qin could be so adorable when he acted in a cute way. He said bluntly, “Qin Fanglu, you’re really a dish!”
Qin Fanglu was not embarrassed at all, but was ecstatic: "Can you call me again?"
"Ah?" Ruan Cunyun finally reacted, "Qin, President Qin."
"Tsk." Qin Fanglu was dissatisfied, "That's not what you called me just now."
Ruan Cunyun hesitated for a long time but couldn't say anything. He didn't know why, but the three words "Qin Fanglu" seemed to burn his lips and he felt very ashamed.
Perhaps it is because "Mr. Qin" summarizes the secure relationship between them, boss and subordinate, the person you know is first and foremost your leader, he is a vague reference.
But if they only call each other by their real names, then the other party will lose his job position and become a real "Qin Fanglu". They will face each other equally as naked human beings, which contains infinite possibilities.
Calling each other's names is a very intimate thing in itself.
In the end, Ruan Cunyun still didn't call out
He opened his mouth and begged for mercy with a bitter face, and Qin Fanglu generously let him go.
Anyway, at least he heard it, and Qin Fanglu was already very satisfied.
On the way to the surfing pool, Qin Fanglu bought a sausage for Ruan Cunyun and a corn for himself.
Ruan Cunyun's hair was dripping with water as he ate the grilled sausage with great enthusiasm, looking energetic and handsome. Qin Fanglu took a dry towel and wiped the water off the side of his neck.
There were two girls not far away, whispering to each other on their cell phones, casting shy glances at them from time to time.
One of the girls finally mustered up the courage, approached with her phone in hand, looked up and asked Qin Fanglu, saying the classic pick-up line: "Handsome, can you add me on WeChat?"
Considering the changes of the times, the girl looked at Ruan Cunyun again: "If this handsome guy doesn't mind."
Ruan Cunyun seemed not to hear clearly what happened and subconsciously moved aside while biting the sausage.
Qin Fanglu looked at him with surprise and sadness.
The girl tucked her hair behind her ears, still holding up her phone, and asked cautiously, "Is that okay?"
Qin Fanglu shook his head decisively: "Sorry."
After saying that, he grabbed Ruan Cunyun's clothes and walked forward.
Qin Fanglu lowered his voice and asked him, his tone was hard to tell: "Do you mind?"
Ruan Cunyun had just finished eating a sausage and said incoherently, "What do you mind? Isn't she someone you know?"
He really didn't realize what happened just now. He thought the sausages were delicious, so he was thinking about buying a pair of chicken wings later.
"Of course not! Do we look familiar to each other?" Qin Fanglu tried to awaken a cold soul, "Someone just approached me to talk!"
"Oh." Ruan Cunyun nodded, "You didn't give her your number, did you?"
Qin Fanglu felt relieved: "No."
"Right. There are many new scams nowadays, so it's better not to give it to the victim for safety reasons."
Qin Fanglu was both amused and confused. After his disappointment, he reflected on himself and felt that he was too hasty.
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When the two arrived at the surfing pool, they happened to encounter a wave that was created on the hour.
People in colorful swimsuits float up and down in the blue wave pool, which is very lively.
Ruan Cunyun rushed into the wave pool first, splashing the water loudly, and excitedly joined in.
The waves in the water were very big, and the two people were tossed around by the waves, and their bodies inevitably collided with each other.
Sometimes it was a leg floating in the water, sometimes it was a shoulder. Neither of them made any deliberate movements, but just let the waves carry them gently together.
The waves pushed them into a crowded area. Qin Fanglu couldn't help himself and gently grabbed Ruan Cunyun's wrist and pulled him towards him.
Ruan Cunyun did not hide either. He looked at Qin Fanglu's wet face with a smile. The water droplets made his facial lines softer, which was really pleasing to the eye.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw a girl in a bikini not far away, having a great time having a water fight with her friends.
My eyes turned sharply and I saw a man with a beer belly sticking to the girl's back. He seemed to be floating casually with the waves, his arm underwater reaching towards the girl's waist and his other hand touching the girl's shoulder strap.
Ruan Cunyun's face suddenly changed, and he swam against the direction of the huge waves towards the man with a beer belly.
"Ah!" The girl screamed and turned around quickly, "Who the hell touched me!"
The girl's friends all stopped, and the strangers around them looked over there as if to watch the fun, but no one said a word.
Ruan Cunyun was still some distance away from them. He swam forward fiercely, grabbed the beer-bellied uncle's shoulder, and shouted, "It's this guy!"
Beer Belly was planning to swim away secretly, but he was suddenly caught by someone, who grabbed Ruan Cunyun's arm and pushed him away, saying, "You farted!"
Ruan Cunyun felt a sudden pain in his wrist, but he gritted his teeth and refused to let go, still holding on to his beer belly tightly.
"Do you have evidence? Just say it was me. The waves are so big here, isn't it normal to get bumped into anywhere?!" said the beer belly in a rough voice.
The girls' friends rushed over here, and the tourists within a five-meter radius automatically moved away from the battlefield, leaving only Ruan Cunyun and Beer Belly competing in the middle of the water.
The beer belly was very strong and Ruan Cunyun gradually found it difficult to catch it.
There was a splash of water behind him. Qin Fanglu arrived a step late and quickly twisted the man with a beer belly's hands behind his back, causing him to cry out in pain.
Qin Fanglu asked Ruan Cunyun: "Did it hurt you?"
Ruan Cunyun hid his wrist in the water: "Not bad."
The girl and her friends arrived and surrounded the uncle with a beer belly. Some of them looked for staff, while others reported the incident to the police.
Seeing that he couldn't escape, Beer Belly pointed at Ruan Cunyun's nose and cursed: "Why are you arresting me when you have no evidence! Do you have a video? Do you have a picture?"
When Ruan Cunyun was angry, even his punctuation marks were cold: "I saw it with both my own eyes. I am a witness."
The girl said with disgust: "Yes, it's this guy. I felt someone rubbing against me before, and he was always beside me. I didn't pay much attention to it, but later he became more and more bold. How shameless!"
The man with a beer belly squinted his eyes and glanced at the girl with a sticky look. He said in a rough voice in dialect: "You wear so little and come out. Haven't you considered the risks? It's normal to bump into things in the pool. With your figure, hey, I don't even want to touch you!"
Ruan Cunyun couldn't bear it any longer, so he kicked the beer belly hard under the water with all his strength. The beer belly suddenly bent over in pain, and his ugly face wrinkled into a ball.
The uncle with a beer belly cursed a string of dirty words and glared at Ruan Cunyun: "You hurt someone on purpose!"
Ruan Cunyun shrugged, his eyes full of contempt: "You are so ugly, have you never considered the risks? The city appearance will be deducted because of you. Isn't it normal to bump into things in the water? You said I hurt people intentionally, do you have any evidence, do you have any video or photos? You are slandering me without anything. I would not even touch you if you were given a million dollars."
The staff came quickly to control the situation and took a group of people to the office to make records.
When Ruan Cunyun finished taking notes, he came out and saw Qin Fanglu leaning on the railing waiting for him, with the girl and her friends standing next to him.
The girl walked up to Ruan Cunyun and thanked him: "This is the first time I've encountered such a thing. Thank you for helping me catch him. Maybe that bastard would have escaped."
She looked at Ruan Cunyun and sighed sincerely: "It's rare for a boy to stand up these days. Thank you."
Ruan Cunyun pursed his lips and shook his head: "It should be."
"I'm really grateful to you." The girl took out a killer whale plush toy from her bag. "I bought it in the park at noon. It's brand new. I'll give it to you as a thank you gift. Don't despise it."
The little toy was not expensive, so Ruan Cunyun accepted it with a smile.
The girls said goodbye to them. Ruan Cunyun no longer had the mood to continue playing the exciting activities. She sat side by side with Qin Fanglu by the pool, hanging their legs in the water and paddling.
"You were swimming too fast, and I was half a minute late before I noticed it." Qin Fanglu stared at the red marks on Ruan Cunyun's hands caused by his beer belly, "I'm sorry, otherwise I wouldn't have let you get hurt."
Ruan Cunyun turned his wrist to an angle: "It's really okay, it doesn't hurt, but I feel pretty sick."
Qin Fanglu looked at him seriously and said, "If you encounter this kind of thing again in the future, can you remind me immediately? Objectively speaking, I am stronger than you and may be able to handle it more efficiently."
"Okay." This was the fact, and Ruan Cunyun had no reason to argue.
He smiled and said, "I was really too anxious today. I rushed over without thinking. Because I know that this kind of thing can't wait. If I'm a second late, I don't know what will happen. Maybe he will escape."
Ruan Cunyun is always like this, putting others first. Qin Fanglu is helpless, but now is not the time to talk about this, because he knows that Ruan Cunyun's choice to rush forward is completely correct.
"Actually, actually it's because..." Ruan Cunyun lowered his eyes and watched his toes making ripples in the pool. The image of the Mr. Triangle Head who helped him catch the candid photographer at the comic convention appeared in front of him.
A desire to talk surged out.
"I was almost harassed during the holidays after high school." Ruan Cunyun said in a relaxed tone.
Qin Fanglu's fingers shrank and he felt a sharp pain in his chest.
"But someone helped me and gave that pervert a good lesson." Ruan Cunyun smiled faintly, "So from then on, I thought that if others were in the same situation as me, I would
To help her."
"But I was so scared at the time that I didn't even have time to thank that person before he left." Ruan Cunyun scratched his head, "I really regret it."
Qin Fanglu said in a low voice: "Then I will thank that person on your behalf for keeping you safe from harm."
Qin Fanglu knew that this kind of thing would leave the most unspeakable scar in the victim's heart, so he did not ask what exactly happened at that time.
He just felt sad and regretful. If he was there at that time... he would definitely beat up the person who bullied Ruan Cunyun himself.
Ruan Cunyun looked at the dazzling sunlight and his eyes felt a little painful.
At that time, the photographer who took the picture under her skirt said, "She dressed like this just for me to take the picture." Today, the guy with a beer belly said, "Didn't she consider the risks when she came out wearing so little?" How come four or five years have passed, and they still haven't made any progress.
Looking back, it seemed that most of the discomfort Ruan Cunyun suffered occurred when he was wearing girls' clothes. His father's friends said he was neither male nor female, photographers at comic conventions took pictures under his skirt, some tourists said he had flat chest, and some people looked at him blatantly.
Ruan Cunyun felt very tired.
This is not just a single case of candid photography and swimsuit harassment, but repeated candid photography and harassment. These acts are openly imposed on a group and are given the names they deserve.
Qin Fanglu gently touched him with his shoulder and whispered, "I can't get involved in your past. It can't be changed."
"But if I had been there a few years ago and seen you in such a predicament, I would not have let you get hurt."
"Even then I didn't like you."
Ruan Cunyun's heart was pounding and every nerve in his body was numbing.
Qin Fanglu looked at him seriously and continued, "Just like you asked me not to be afraid today, and just like you helped me catch the flying insects back then - I also want to protect you in your future, okay?"
(End of this chapter)