Chapter 143: Plankton and Jellyfish

Girls are creatures who love to go to the bathroom during dates.

Chen Lu waited a bit bored, taking out his DSLR and aiming the lens at the whale shark in the distance, getting a feel for it.

“Little brother, you’re so professional, do you take commissions?”

“I only take pictures for my girlfriend, sorry.”

He responded calmly, his gaze still fixed on the whale shark in the lens.

Noticing the figure that had been beside him just now was gone, Chen Lu looked at the DSLR in his hand and showed an indescribable expression.

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“No wonder so many sea kings like to play this…”

It seems that boys also need to protect themselves when they’re out, especially those with DSLRs.

Chen Lu scanned the area with his eyes and saw a chubby boy playing with his phone sitting on a long bench. He sat down beside him, also listless.

As soon as he sat down, he heard the familiar BGM.

How come it sounds so familiar?

Turning his head, it was indeed their game.

“Why did you all come to the aquarium, and you’re still sitting here playing with your phone?” Chen Lu joked.

The chubby boy sighed deeply, saying in a heavy tone: “You’ll understand when you reach my age.”

“Is this game fun?” He continued to ask.

“Fun.”

The chubby boy got excited and moved his phone a little closer to him, “If I drop a card that can reduce the card cost this time, I’ll be invincible. You know, this character’s deck plus relics, if you put them together well, you can have infinite cards in one turn.”

“Of course I know, I made this game.”

Chen Lu said calmly, walked forward and took Liang Zhirou’s hand, leaving the little boy sitting there like a statue.

In Chen Lu’s eyes, it didn’t matter if the other party believed him or not, as long as he pretended to be.

“Why are you chatting with a kid?” Liang Zhirou found it amusing.

“Kids nowadays are very mature, he even told me I’ll understand when I reach his age.”

Liang Zhirou chuckled, “He’s quite cute.”

Chen Lu snorted, “If our kids ever say that to me in the future, I’ll break his legs.”

“You can’t hit children.” Although she knew Chen Lu was joking, the girl still gave a serious reminder.

As soon as she finished speaking, Chen Lu leaned his mouth close to her ear, “So you’re agreeing to have children with me?”

“You’re a rascal.”

“Don’t praise me, I’m embarrassed.”

“You… you…”

Liang Zhirou was speechless, deciding to skip this topic and hold Chen Lu’s arm to continue browsing.

What else could she do? She couldn’t get mad at him, so she just skipped over it and stopped him from bullying her anymore.

This silly fool seemed to have endless energy, so Chen Lu simply decided to eat something casually at noon and continue browsing in the afternoon.

In the afternoon.

Liang Zhirou placed her palm against the glass, gazing at the jellyfish moving gently, and said in a low voice: “Even though they swim so hard, they still feel like they could be swept away by any little wave…”

Just like me.

Even in an aquarium, they are so powerless, let alone in the ocean. I’m afraid they’ll go wherever the waves go.

Just like life.

Seeing the girl’s expression was a little heavy, Chen Lu walked over to her and said, “Life will always find a way.”

He suddenly remembered something and tapped the glass with his finger, “There’s also a kind of jellyfish called the immortal jellyfish, it will shrink back to its embryonic form when it reaches a certain stage of development, then grow up again, which is also a kind of asexual reproduction.”

Liang Zhirou looked at him in surprise, “How do you know so much?”

Along the way, Chen Lu could answer any question she was curious about.

Chen Lu shrugged, “I happened to see it.”

Nonsense, I was afraid you might have questions you didn’t know, so I spent a long time reading up on it last night.

Who told me my girlfriend likes fish?

He turned his gaze to the jellyfish, watching it drift aimlessly, he felt that everyone saw the jellyfish differently.

In Liang Zhirou’s eyes, the jellyfish was helpless and weak, in his eyes, the jellyfish… was like his past self.

Chen Mo seemed to have said that being a jellyfish was pretty cool, just slack off, go wherever you want.

“Although it’s a stretch, it’s a kind of immortality in a way.” He chuckled, “It’s pretty cool, who hasn’t wished for immortality?”

Otherwise, Qin Shi Huang wouldn’t have sent Xu Fu to find the elixir of immortality.

Life is really too short, so short that now when I think about the future, I’m destined to part with this silly girl, and my heart will ache, so much so that I can’t breathe.

When I was a child, I thought life was long, even a summer vacation was long, and I could play for a long time. Now I feel like time is passing faster and faster, suddenly I remember what I did yesterday, and when I think about it carefully, I realize it was already a few days ago.

Just as Chen Lu was in a daze.

“Will they still have memories when they grow up again?” the girl asked.

“No, jellyfish seem to have no memory in the first place.”

Liang Zhirou nodded slightly, not caring, “What good is immortality then.

I wouldn’t want to forget you.

As long as I’m with you, even if I live only one day like a mayfly, I’m happy…”

The beginning of life is the morning with you, the sunset is also witnessed with you, and when life ends at night, you are by my side.

One day is one day.

Speaking of which, she only felt truly alive after she got to know Chen Lu, and now when she thinks about her past experiences, she still feels out of breath.

The past ten years combined really weren’t as happy as this one day.

She thought that it was the difference in their childhood experiences that led to their different views on this.

“Don’t you think one day is too short?” Chen Lu asked curiously.

Liang Zhirou shook her head vigorously and said seriously:

“Without you, even one day is too long.”

Chen Lu turned his head to look at the girl in astonishment, finding that she was still looking at the jellyfish intently, standing there motionless.

He felt that this was the most touching love confession he had ever heard.

Unexpectedly, it wasn’t from the internet, but from this silly girl.

And it was said to him…

“This is one of our rare disagreements.” Chen Lu smiled and took the girl’s hand, “This time, I’m convinced.”

He couldn’t accept a life without Liang Zhirou by his side either.

Not even for one day.

As they walked towards the exit, Chen Lu stopped and looked at the time, then asked softly, “Do you want to watch a movie?”

Liang Zhirou tilted her head and looked at him, “We can watch movies at home, and I can lie in your arms, and we don’t have to pay.”

“You’re really good at saving money.”

Chen Lu complained helplessly, then asked, “Did you have fun?”

“Fun enough to want to live only this one day.”

“That joke hasn’t gone away yet?” Chen Lu couldn’t help but laugh, “There will be many days like this in the future.”

Liang Zhirou walked forward and took his hand again, “I have a gift for you.”