Wendy deepened her hard breathing-

She had not overcome her fear of water yet.

She didn't know how to drive a motorboat.

Being the case, she would want Gavin alive until she could reach the island and kick him out of it!

While laughing, Gavin noticed Wendy's murderous look on her face. Realizing that he shouldn't have acted like that, he stopped laughing and said, "As kids, everyone has something to be ashamed of. May I share with you a shame of mine?"

"Huh?" Wendy intentionally scoffed, "Really? Special Assistant Gavin, did you have something to be ashamed of when you were a kid? I thought you were living the life of a noble that we ordinary people could hardly imagine."

"..." It seemed that Gavin was stunned, and the smile on his face was fading away. In the end, he feigned a smile with the intention of covering something up.

He didn't respond, while his handsome face looked as skittish as it had always been. Seeing that, Wendy suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of confusion.

Gavin looked skittish. Not as a rogue would, but like a variable gust of breeze with an unconventional casualness, which sometimes turned to be his charm rather than what made others dislike him.

However, as soon as she finished her words, she noticed Gavin's complex emotions from his eyes, which looked dim and upset, serving as a foil to his feigned smile as well as his casualness.

Wendy opened her mouth, and before she could say a word, Gavin suddenly smiled and said, "Well. I've been living an easy and glorious life since I was a kid. And I never had a shameful event. I was just thinking of making a story to comfort you. Now that you've seen me through-" He gave a shrug and continued saying, "Forget it then."

In fact, he had dozens of stories to tell.

Because of his black hair and black eyes that were different from those of other kids in the orphanage, he had been bullied many times until he fought back.

As they got older, at school they used to get teased about their identity as orphans, and that had always made them feel ashamed. One day he went to the guy who had taken the lead in bullying them and taught him a lesson.

"The one who was living an easy life was Wendy, who would never understand it," he thought, even if he told her his story.

Seeing Gavin's feigned smiling face, then hearing his unintelligible voice, Wendy couldn't tell whether he was telling the truth. However, she tried not to think about it and chose to trust him, then she asked, "How long will it take us to get to the island?"

Gavin checked the time and said, "About 40 minutes. Hang on."

As soon as his voice died down, the motorboat suddenly accelerated; waves from both sides sprayed on Wendy.

Wendy was so scared that with her eyes squeezed shut, she grabbed Gavin by his arm while screaming, "Gavin, slow down! Ah! damn you!"

Gavin didn't care at all about Wendy's harsh words. He steered the motorboat at ease while saying, "What an experience. Don't close your eyes anymore. Just be brave and open them!"

Wendy roared with anger, "fuck off!"

However, she opened her eyes.

The motorboat moved like a vigorous seagull on the calm sea, breaking its surface with the waves surging one after another. If she put aside her fear, it would be an experience similar to one from The Fast and the Furious.

As she started to enjoy it, Wendy couldn't help fixing her eyes on Gavin.

As he leisurely steered the motorboat, the leviathan in her eyes turned into a docile creature in his hand; its movement, speed and direction were all under his control.

When men focused on something, such as driving, they turned out to be quite handsome. And so did Gavin, a good looking man.

Wendy gazed at him, entranced, and not until a long while later did she come to her senses. As if trying to hide something, she told herself, "Luckily I know what Gavin is like, or I would be obsessed with him."

Just then, Gavin turned his head to look at Wendy and said, "How about giving it a try?"

Wendy looked away in a hurry and moved her eyes from Gavin to the boundless ocean. "No!" she said.

"Coward." Gavin didn't notice her abnormality, just sneering. Then he said to Wendy, "I'm speeding it up. Hang on."

"No. Please don't... Before Wendy could finish her words, the motorboat speeded up unexpectedly. She was so scared that she grabbed Gavin by his arm, unable to cry out.

Gavin glanced at her little hand, how it grabbed his arm like an octopus. Thinking that, on the boundless ocean Wendy had to rely on him, he felt indescribably satisfied, as if-

There was a sudden blossoming in his heart.

Gavin smiled while whistling, and stopped accelerating to pull in to shore at an appropriate speed.

As he steered, just in time, the motorboat reached the island after 40 minutes.

He handed their baggage to the island staff, jumped nimbly off the motorboat only to find Wendy still on it, motionless. He raised his chin in bewilderment and asked her with a teasing look, "Are you loath to part with it?"

"I..." Wendy looked at Gavin helplessly and said, "I'm getting cold feet."

"Coward." While complaining, Gavin stretched out his hands toward Wendy and said, "Come on."

With her hands in Gavin's, Wendy finally got off the motorboat smoothly with his help. After a few steps, she saw Joanne and Brian walking toward her, hand in hand.

Wendy excitedly waved to Joanne. As Joanne got closer, she suddenly noticed the smile on Joanne's face, which seemed to be... meaningful.

Wendy thought, "Oh, what did she see?"

Just then, Joanne came up to them, giving her an understanding smile and said, "You can settle your things first. Take your time. We'll wait for you."

"Cousin, I..."

Wendy failed to explain, while Joanne gently patted her shoulder and said, "I saw it. I see." With that, she walked away, smiling.

...

Wendy only wanted to shout at Joanne's back, "What you saw isn't the whole story!"

Seeing Wendy eagerly staring at Joanne's receding figure, Gavin thought that she couldn't wait to board the yacht, so he said, "Go with her. I'll take care of your baggage."

"No!" Xiao Yun turned and glared at Gavin. "Why do I need your help? Do we have a good relationship!?" With that, before Gavin could reply, she angrily trotted toward the staff who was carrying her baggage.

Gavin stood there, blanked out, while touching his nose innocently; it took him some time to come to his senses after Wendy's roar.

He thought, "damn it. She's taking my kindness as ill-intended. I've never carried baggage for ladies, you know? She's really an ungrateful wretch!"

Joanne and Brian were not too far away from them, and the two naturally heard Wendy's roar.

On the shore, Brian carefully held Joanne to help her board the yacht while asking, "It seems that you tried to help but caused more trouble, right?"

"Well, not really." Joanne meticulously analyzed, "This is where things are going. Wendy will soon find that her mood is seriously affected by Gavin. Once she notices this, it won't take long for her to realize that she likes him."

As the saying went, those closely involved can't see as clearly as those outside. Although Gavin and Wendy had always been in chaos, from what they did and said, Joanne could still smell something about them-the two had good impressions of each other.

In Joanne's opinion, if all went well, they would be a couple.

Brian looked Joanne up and down, smiling. Then he asked at leisure, "When did you become so experienced?"

Joanne knew what Brian was expecting to hear, so she hesitated for a moment and decided to meet his expectation!

"When I was in college!" Joanne said, "At that time I tried to keep a balance between my studies and a part-time job, so there was only half an hour left every day for me to think the world of you."

Brian raised his eyebrow with interest and asked, "How?"

"By reading the news and reports about you!" Joanne frankly said, "Typing your name into the search bar, pressing the Enter key. And then, on the webpage the words 'Brian' marked red all leaped to my eyes. The news were all about you." She suddenly stopped talking and laughed. Afterward, she said, "You can't tell how I felt then."

Brian disliked showing up in public, and he had kept his private life with a low profile; the internet had very little news about him as a result.

Being the case, each time Joanne entered his name to search, the things she found were usually nothing new.

However, each time she saw the screen full of the words "Brian," she felt inexplicably happy, as if he were there on the screen; once she looked at it, she was full of joy.

As long as she clicked and read the reports about him, she could be happy for a long time, despite the fact that she had read them thousands of times.

At that time, all the news about Brian were great for her. After a newspaper reported about him, she became a loyal reader without hesitation.

Actually, Brian knew how she felt-it was the same for him when he looked at her photo, which made him happy but unsatisfied.

He felt happy because all that had happened to Joanne, no matter what it was, he could know as he liked.

What dissatisfied him was that he could only know the newest things about her, while being unable to show up in front of her, let alone be close to her.

Moreover, as Joanne grew up, her facial features became more and more delicate. And from time to time, he had dreamed of her falling in love with another man, in a tailored wedding dress the man got for her, walking hand in hand with that man into a wedding hall.

Fortunately, he took her hand in time.

Brian held Joanne from behind with his chin against her shoulder. "Who says I can't tell?"

"..." Joanne felt surprised, then she laughed out loud.

Brian turned his head and saw Joanne's smile on her face, then he asked, "Shall we do Gavin and Wendy a favor?"