I Don't Dislike You

A few of them took showers in their rooms, changed into fresh clothes, and prepared to head out.

Meng Wenzhou lay on the bed and pulled out his phone to call out in the group chat.

Lonely As Me: @everyone, are you ready? Can we leave?

Little Bug of the Night: Ready. We can go anytime.

Sweep All Armies: I just finished showering. Wait for me to change into something handsome.

In Su Yang and Pan Ning's room, the two of them took showers one after the other.

Pan Ning changed into a fresh, off-white plaid maxi dress. She wore a pink headband and white flip-flops, looking both sexy and adorable.

Su Yang was still dressed in a loose black-and-white T-shirt and shorts, though he had changed into flip-flops as well.

"All done?"

"Mm. You have the room card." Pan Ning stood before the mirror, fixing her hair.

"Okay. I really have to worry about this family myself, huh?"

After finishing her hair, Pan Ning turned around and spread her arms, looking at Su Yang. "How do I look?"

"I hadn't wanted to praise you, in case you got arrogant, but I really can't hold it in. Two words: a heavenly immortal descended to earth!"

"Cut it out. You're so smooth-tongued."

"Seriously. Compared to you, those celebrities and internet idols aren't even in the same league."

"Being able to share a room with a fairy like you means my life is complete~"

Pan Ning rolled her eyes again. "Enough nonsense. Let's go."

"Let's go, let's go. Tonight, I'll do my best to get you drunk."

After changing, the group gradually gathered in the hotel's lounge to wait.

It was nine-thirty at night. Quite a few tourists were sitting in the spacious, luxurious lounge, and they looked like they were preparing to go out and have fun too.

Su Yang and the others' appearance caused quite a stir among the tourists in the lounge.

The main reason was that, except for the chubby Liu Bo, whose looks were relatively ordinary, the rest of Su Yang's group were all exceptionally good-looking.

When so many handsome young men and beautiful young women appeared together, it was inevitable that other people would take a few extra glances.

Su Yang and Pan Ning, Zhang Ziming and Shen Yixue, and Liu Bo—the five of them sat on the sofa drinking coffee while waiting for Meng Wenzhou.

Seven or eight minutes later, Meng Wenzhou finally arrived slowly, like the main character making his entrance.

"If you'd been one minute later, we wouldn't have waited for you." Pan Ning glared at Meng Wenzhou.

Meng Wenzhou chuckled. "Oh, come on. Nature calls. Give me a break. I could've come out earlier, but my stomach suddenly started hurting."

Meng Wenzhou walked up to them wearing a garish short-sleeved shirt and equally garish beach shorts.

"I say, Old Meng, you're even wearing sunglasses this late at night. Can you see where you're going?" Su Yang teased.

"If I can't, you can support me later. Once I put on these sunglasses, I don't love anyone."

"All right, all right. So where are we going to have fun?"

"Follow me! I've already contacted the owner over there. Oh, right, Fatty, did you call for the car?"

Liu Bo stood up and said, "The driver has already smoked two cigarettes outside."

"Really? Then let's go!" After arriving in Lu City, Meng Wenzhou seemed like a completely different person.

Looking refreshed and invigorated, he led the way toward the hotel entrance.

The others also got up and followed him. When they reached the hotel entrance, a black Alphard had already been waiting for quite some time.

Twenty minutes later, the vehicle arrived at Lu City's famous bay, Qinghai Bay.

This was the most popular destination among tourists in Lu City, and also the liveliest of the several bays.

The reason Meng Wenzhou hadn't booked their hotel here was that there were simply too many people from all walks of life, which would have affected their stay.

After they got out, people surged along the streets. Although it wasn't peak season, there were still plenty of them, with all kinds of handsome men, beautiful women, and foreign visitors strolling around in light clothing.

The roadside vendors sold refreshing coconuts, chilled liangfen desserts, and all kinds of Lu City specialty cold drinks.

Su Yang and the others followed Meng Wenzhou through the crowd.

The group tacitly split into three smaller groups. Meng Wenzhou and Liu Bo led the way at the front, Zhang Ziming walked in the middle holding Shen Yixue's hand, while Su Yang and Pan Ning followed at the back.

When they passed a small coconut stall, Su Yang saw that almost everyone on the street had one. He had never drunk authentic coconut water before, so he suddenly felt like trying it.

"Do you want one?"

"Yes. It's scorching!"

"Okay. Boss, give me two chilled coconuts."

The owner was bending his head over, cutting the husk off another customer's coconut with a knife. He looked up at the two of them and laughed heartily. "Sure thing. Coming right up!"

After waiting a few minutes, the owner finally finished cutting open their coconuts.

"Here you go, handsome and pretty." The owner handed the coconuts to Su Yang.

"How much?"

"Fifteen each, thirty total."

"Okay, I'll scan you."

Beep~

Su Yang paid.

By then, the others up ahead had already disappeared into the crowd.

"Damn, where did they go?"

"I don't know. I'll ask them to send us their location." As she spoke, Pan Ning took out her phone and sent a message.

Su Yang held his coconut and took a sip. He had thought the liquid inside would be the coconut milk he had drunk since childhood, the kind sold in supermarkets.

Who could have guessed that it would taste extremely light, with a clear liquid that had almost no flavor at all?

What the heck? It's water? Damn, I really am ignorant. I actually thought there was milk inside a coconut. Su Yang mocked himself inwardly.

After receiving the location, Pan Ning said, "They sent it. Let's go."

"Okay."

The two of them slowly walked toward their destination while drinking coconut water.

Pan Ning drank as she walked. After taking two sips of her own coconut, she frowned slightly. Then she snatched the coconut from Su Yang's hand and took a sip without caring whether he had drunk from it.

As she drank, she nodded, and the frown on her face relaxed again. "Mm, yours tastes better. I want to trade with you."

Without caring whether Su Yang agreed, she directly stuffed her own coconut into his hands, then hugged his coconut and happily drank from it.

Su Yang froze for a moment, and his heartbeat unconsciously quickened. But remembering that this was simply Pan Ning's personality, he didn't say anything.

He looked at Pan Ning walking ahead with a faintly indulgent smile and shook his head helplessly.

The two of them looked so much like a couple that they immediately attracted the attention of many passersby. Several young men cast Su Yang looks of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Su Yang couldn't care less whether anyone was watching. He quickened his pace, caught up to Pan Ning, and deliberately said, "Why did you steal my coconut? Besides, I already drank from it. My saliva is still on the straw."

"Yours tastes better. Besides, just because you've drunk from it, does that mean I can't? I don't dislike you."

Su Yang couldn't help grinning when he heard this. What exactly does this girl mean? Right, I'd better ask the system.

--System, check Pan Ning's favorability.

Pan Ning's favorability toward the host: 25

Huh? It hasn't increased? No, no, no. That's absolutely impossible. Is this really something someone with twenty-five favorability points would do?

The system's detection is normal. The host need not doubt it.

It's not that I doubt you. I just can't figure Pan Ning out.

Su Yang turned his head to look at Pan Ning beside him. No matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't understand her. Moreover, he had discovered that Pan Ning seemed to act this way only with him.

That made twenty-five favorability points even stranger. If Pan Ning liked Su Yang, then her favorability would inevitably increase.

Yet Su Yang had checked several times, and it had remained at twenty-five, still stuck at the amount where it had initially risen.

Unable to figure it out, Su Yang stopped thinking about it. He decided to test Pan Ning with his actions.

"How much longer?"

"Let me see." Pan Ning picked up her phone and looked at it. "We're almost there. Five hundred meters left. It seems to be over by the beach."

Su Yang nodded. He thought to himself, Should I try holding her hand during these last few hundred meters? If she pulls away, then it really is only twenty-five points. If she doesn't, then there must be some other reason she's deliberately suppressing her favorability.

Su Yang walked while thinking, not noticing Pan Ning beside him.

Pan Ning soon finished her coconut water and threw the coconut into a roadside trash can.

When she looked up again, she saw Su Yang walking ahead alone. She hurried after him and complained, "Why are you walking so fast? Why didn't you wait for me?"

"Huh?" Su Yang was startled. He hadn't noticed that Pan Ning had gone to throw something away.

Pan Ning glared at Su Yang, then made a move he never would have expected.

She directly reached out and hooked her arm around Su Yang's right arm, pressing the entire side of her body against him.

This was exactly the sort of gesture only couples would make.

Su Yang's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he stopped in his tracks.

"What is it?" Pan Ning asked, looking up.

"Uh... n-nothing. Let's go."

The two of them walked toward their destination with their bodies pressed closely together.

What the hell! Is this really only twenty-five favorability points?

--System, confirm it one more time?

Pan Ning's favorability toward the host: 25

Damn, could she be planning to harvest my kidney?