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The yacht cut through the waves and cruised steadily toward the open sea.

As far as the eye could see, there were only rolling dark-blue swells and a pale strip of clouds along the horizon.

For people who spent all year drifting at sea, such scenery inevitably became monotonous and dull after a while.

But Su Bai stood by the railing on the flybridge deck, one hand resting on it as the damp sea breeze blew into his face, his heart unusually calm.

He had grown up inland.

During holidays in the past, all he saw were reinforced-concrete apartment buildings, congested roads, and tree-lined paths on campus that stretched from one end to the other.

Later, after making money, he had moved into a large river-view apartment and Donghu Club, but he was still surrounded by the city's prosperity and noise.

Now, as he looked into the distance in every direction, it felt as though only the boat beneath his feet and the endless ocean remained between heaven and earth. The contrast was incredibly striking.

That vastness and emptiness naturally made people relax.

Zhou Jialu carried a fruit platter onto the flybridge, stopped beside Su Bai, and naturally held a peeled grape to his lips.

"Junior, are you that absorbed in the view?"

Su Bai opened his mouth, ate the grape, and smiled.

"Kids who grew up inland do find it pretty novel, seeing the sea from this far out for the first time."

"Me too."

Ke Yujia poked her little head out from behind them, chewing small bites of dried meat from a packet in her hand.

"I'd only seen it on TV before. Now that I'm really out on the ocean, I feel especially tiny."

As they spoke, the hatch leading from the lower helm to the flybridge