"Brother Youjie..."

"Feiya?"

As I was putting on my clothes, I saw Feiya walking towards me,

"What are you doing, Brother Youjie?"

Feiya looked around and glanced at where I was standing.

"Nothing," the incident just now shouldn't have been seen by Feiya, which made me feel a bit relieved.

"Brother Youjie... How about building a sandcastle with Feiya?"

"Huh?" I instinctively resisted this childish game.

"Can't we? Brother Youjie?"

Feiya looked somewhat disappointed... I patted her little head and smiled, saying, "Then let's build a large and luxurious sandcastle!"

"Okay..." Feiya nodded.

Feiya and I found a place, and I wanted to find a container to hold water, but Feiya said, "Brother Youjie... Can you come here for a moment?"

"Oh... What's the matter?" I walked over in confusion and saw a shovel lying on the ground.

"Brother Youjie, could you shovel up these sands for me..."

"Like this?" I followed Feiya's instructions as I shoveled the sand to one side, and soon a pit large enough for a person to lie down appeared.

Why did Feiya want to dig such a big pit? We didn't need such a large area to build a sandcastle. Just as I was puzzled and confused,

Feiya pointed at the pit and said to me, "Brother Youjie, please lie down."

"Oh... Lie down..." When my body was about to lie down, I realized something was wrong.

"Feiya, are you trying to bury me alive?" I asked in astonishment.

"How could Feiya bury Brother Youjie...?" Feiya also looked surprised.

"Then what are you doing?"

You had me dig a pit, and then you want me to lie down. Isn't that burying me alive...?

"They do this at the beach, don't they?"

Feiya asked me as if she was curious.

"They?"

"The big brothers and sisters on TV..."

Those guys, I don't know where Feiya learned this trick of playing with people from some TV drama.

"Is it another TV drama?" I asked.

"No..." This time Feiya shook her head.

"Then what is it?" Feiya's response surprised me, so I curiously asked.

"Anime..." Feiya said those two words.

"But it seems like these scenes haven't appeared in those...?" I thought about it. "Parasyte," "Spice and Wolf," even "Penguin Drum." I thought about them, but similar scenes didn't appear.

"Brother Youjie... You must be thinking of those cartoons that children watch, right?"

"Eh!?" Feiya's words made me dumbfounded.

"That means Brother Youjie sees Feiya as a child,"

Clearly, she is a real seven-year-old girl. looking at Feiya pouting, I held back and didn't say anything.

"What does Feiya watch then...?" I asked again.

"That... Isn't it something Brother Youjie often watches?" Feiya blushed for some reason, which made me instinctively smell an uneasy scent.

"What?" I couldn't figure out what it was, so I sought an answer from Feiya.

"The anime from country X, doesn't Brother Youjie often watch those girls who don't wear clothes and drool?"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!" I screamed in agony, holding my head.

"Brother Youjie, what's wrong with you?"

I was sweating profusely, my face turned pale, and my eyes turned pitch black.

"Brother Youjie... Don't scare Feiya..."

"Feiya... How... How did you know?"

Like a puppet, I made a creaking sound as I turned my head to look at Feiya.

"Feiya noticed a long time ago that Brother Youjie was secretly watching those things...Feiya thought that only adults would watch those, and Brother Youjie also wanted to become an adult. But Brother Youjie kept it hidden so well that Feiya couldn't find it at all."

"It's such a big trouble that you found it!"

I really didn't want to bring up my dark history from junior high. At that time, that evil heart was restless, and I did these shameless and unscrupulous things.

"Hmm?"

"So, you actually saw this, huh," I redirected the conversation back to Feiya's idea of me lying in a sandpit.

"Well... that is definitely a strange idea that adults have," Feiya's eyes sparkled, and I unintentionally forgot about Feiya's peculiar desire to grow up.

"But those are not adults at all, they are just high school students," I countered.

"But they are older than Feiya, so theoretically they are adults..." Feiya's argument seemed problematic.

"But lying in this sandpit is so uncomfortable..." I protested.

"Brother Youjie doesn't want to? You promised to build sandcastles with Feiya," Feiya pouted.

The disparity between actually building sandcastles and lying in a sandpit was too great.

I felt like I was being played, but Feiya didn't have any ill intentions. She just labeled them as adult practices, completely changing their nature.

"Fine... but don't bury my face," seeing Feiya's disappointed expression, I couldn't bear it, so I sacrificed myself and lay in the sandpit, burying myself in a hole.

Feiya happily piled sand onto my body, and the weight of the sand pressed heavily on my chest.

"How is it, Brother Youjie..."

"It's hard to breathe..."

"Just hold on a little longer..."

"Even if you say that..." The discomfort made me want to stand up, but the weight of the sand rendered me immobile. Feiya then enthusiastically continued piling sand onto me, patting it into place, and in no time...

"We did it, Brother Youjie..."

"Yes..."

A heavy weight on my chest made it difficult for me to catch my breath.

"Feiya, go call Sister Yuqian to come see this great masterpiece," Feiya happily ran off to find Su Yuqian, leaving me here, feeling so uncomfortable. "Please, move this sand off me," I shouted, but the only response I got was the sound of crashing waves.