Actually, I really wanted to turn my face over and point to her nose and tell Li Mengyao that we're no good. Don't be fooling around with me anymore.

But of course I didn't do that. For one thing, although she had signs of being interested in me, she hadn't been told that it was a little self-indulgent to say that. Second, my mother liked her so much. If I did, I guess I would have to quarrel with her here again. According to her temper, maybe I would have gone back home at that time.

I had no intention of letting her come to the beach. Although she was...