By late August, less than a week remained before school started.
Seeing that the children's summer vacation was almost over and neither family had really gone anywhere, Zhang Wanxin suggested they all take a trip to the seaside during the few days they had left.
Everyone agreed.
The next morning.
Both families got up early to drive to the nearest bay for a day of fun.
Before they set off, Shen Qinghan did as she usually did and went to get into Lin Yansheng's car so she could sit in the back with Lin Zichen.
Lin Zichen felt it wasn't quite right to keep luring someone else's daughter into their car, so he suggested riding in Shen Jianye's car instead.
About two hours later.
They arrived at their destination without a hitch.
The two families rented a seaside villa. After carrying everything inside and getting settled, they soon headed to the beach together.
It was the height of summer, and the beach was bustling.
People filled the entire view.
Lin Yansheng and Shen Jianye, the two grown men, kept catching sight of sexy women in bikinis passing by. They wanted to look but didn't dare, and ended up practically cross-eyed from holding it in.
Lin Zichen, also a man, wasn't interested in bikini-clad beauties in the slightest.
His gaze swept back and forth across the beach.
He was looking for a quiet spot where he could swim.
With the [Water Fusion Fortune] trait, just seeing water excited him.
The strange sensation of being immersed in water at the swimming pool last time had left him wanting more. He couldn't wait to experience it again.
"Xiao Chen, there's a changing room over there. I'm going to change into my swimsuit. Wait for me outside."
Shen Qinghan pointed to a building ahead.
She could have changed into her swimsuit back at the seaside villa, but she'd been too embarrassed. Only after they reached the beach, where everyone was wearing swimsuits, had she gradually relaxed.
Lin Zichen walked with her to the changing room.
He waited outside.
As for him, he'd come wearing only his swim trunks, so he wasn't nearly as shy as Shen Qinghan.
About ten minutes later.
Shen Qinghan came out of the changing room.
She was wearing a very modest swimsuit—so modest it didn't even show her navel. Only her arms and legs were exposed.
It hardly looked like a swimsuit at all.
Even so, Shen Qinghan felt terribly embarrassed, and her face was flushed when she came out.
"Xiao Chen, do I look weird in this swimsuit?"
"Not at all. I think it looks great."
"Really?"
"Really."
Lin Zichen said it against his better judgment.
Did it look good?
It looked great!
But it covered so much that it looked a little strange.
Shen Qinghan had no idea what he was really thinking. Hearing him say he thought it looked great, her delicate face immediately lit up with a smile.
Before long, the two of them found a relatively quiet spot to play in the water.
As luck would have it, their parents were there too.
All six of them had hit upon the same idea and chosen this little paradise.
"Xiao Chen, the seawater is so cold!"
"It's like that when you first get in. Take your time getting used to it, and soon it won't feel cold anymore."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Zichen submerged himself completely and began the long-awaited swim.
With the [Water Fusion Fortune] trait, he felt right at home in the water. Every part of his body felt especially comfortable.
[You are swimming. Vitality +1, full-body muscle strength +1, full-body muscle coordination +1, water affinity +1, swimming skill +1]
[You are underwater swimming. Vitality +1, full-body muscle strength +1, full-body muscle coordination +1, water affinity +1, oxygen deprivation resistance +1, water pressure resistance +1, underwater swimming skill +1]
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With the aid of Use-Disuse Evolution, Lin Zichen seemed to become a fish that had lived in the sea since birth, swimming with greater ease by the second.
He tried breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, freestyle... every style.
He didn't repeat a single one from start to finish.
On the shore.
Zhang Wanxin was lying back in a chair, enjoying the sun. When she saw how well Lin Zichen could swim, she exclaimed in surprise,
"Honey, look at Xiao Chen! How did he get so good at swimming? I don't remember taking him to the pool more than a few times when he was growing up."
"Maybe he learned at school."
Lin Yansheng answered absentmindedly, happily grilling all kinds of delicious meat skewers nearby.
Just then, Shen Jianye stood on a rock a short distance ahead and called out to him:
"Old Lin, come over here! There's a rock you can jump off. I checked the water below, and there's nothing hard down there. It's safe to jump!"
"Coming!"
The moment Lin Yansheng heard he could jump into the water, he forgot all about the barbecue and hurried over.
Soon, the childish voices of the two grown men rang out from beside the rock.
"Woohoo! The crow flies on a plane!"
"Splash!!!"
"Wa-la-la—"
"Check out my depth charge!"
"Splash!!!"
"Wa-la-la—"
The two men got more and more worked up, slamming into the water and sending sprays flying as they competed to see who could make the biggest splash.
Zhang Wanxin and Xu Meng, watching from the shore, could only shake their heads. They grumbled that the two fathers were already so old and still acted so childishly—not nearly as mature as the kids.
Elsewhere.
Relying on his powerful core strength, Lin Zichen floated almost perfectly still on the sea's surface and watched the two jumpers from afar. He thought it was pretty entertaining. There was nothing childish about it.
After all, a man remained a boy until the day he died. As a man himself, he understood.
"Xiao Chen, don't just swim by yourself! Come teach me how to swim!"
Standing in the shallows with water up to her knees, Shen Qinghan saw that Lin Zichen had left her on her own. Feeling a little put out, she called to him.
Hearing her, Lin Zichen realized that he'd been having so much fun swimming that he'd accidentally left Shen Qinghan by herself.
As soon as he realized, he swam back and taught her, guiding her through each movement by hand.
"Xiao Chen, swimming is so easy! I learned it right away!"
"Xiao Chen, underwater swimming is easy too! I learned that right away!"
"Wow, Xiao Chen, I'm amazing! I've always heard people say it's hard to open your eyes in the sea and that it stings terribly, but I don't feel uncomfortable at all. My eyes even feel cool. It's pretty nice."
"..."
Under Lin Zichen's instruction, Shen Qinghan suddenly seemed to have an epiphany.
The moment she entered the water, it was like coming home.
No matter what swimming technique he showed her, she learned it right away.
She could even open her eyes underwater without needing any time to adjust. She felt freer than she would wearing goggles.
Lin Zichen was completely dumbfounded. He couldn't understand how Shen Qinghan did it.
Was she naturally good in the water?
But no matter how naturally good she was, there was no way she could pick up every swimming technique at once!
That wasn't normal at all!
Wait? Not normal?
Hold on!
Speaking of abnormal, there was another thing about Shen Qinghan that wasn't normal—and it had to do with water too!
At that moment, the words "not normal" that had suddenly popped into his mind made Lin Zichen think of Shen Qinghan's tendency to wet the bed and her pants.
Especially when he remembered what Xu Meng often used to say about her as a child: "How did you wet yourself again? You little thing, are you made of water or something?"
He had a bold guess.
Shen Qinghan's tendency to wet the bed and her pants might not be caused by a problem with her urethra, her bladder, or the nerves that controlled them.
Instead, she might have some special innate connection or relationship with water, and that was why she was so prone to wetting the bed and her pants.
In other words, her bedwetting might not be a medical problem, but a supernatural one!
It might not be the bad thing everyone assumed it was, but a good thing whose benefits had yet to be discovered!
For example... a special cultivation constitution from the immortal cultivation novels in his previous life!
The more Lin Zichen thought about it, the more excited he became. He realized he might have uncovered some earth-shattering secret.
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