Chapter 352

"Passenger, please wake up."

In a daze, Luo Quan was awakened by the gentle English of a flight attendant.

"Are we almost there?" Luo Quan rubbed her eyes.

"Yes, we will soon be arriving at the final destination of this flight, Malé International Airport (the capital of the Maldives)."

"Finally here." Luo Quan stretched, feeling like she had finally had a good sleep on this flight.

The originally scheduled ten-plus-hour journey, which included a layover and delays, had been dragged out to nearly twenty-two hours!

Fortunately, the Maldives is three hours behind Beijing time, so landing now meant it was just morning.

The sleeping passengers were awakened one by one. Ten minutes later, the chief flight attendant's voice came over the intercom: "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for flying with us. We are about to land at Malé International Airport. The local temperature today is 32 degrees Celsius, with 83 percent humidity and clear skies. Please be mindful to remove layers of clothing to avoid heatstroke..."

Ten minutes later, after a bout of turbulence, the plane landed smoothly. Everyone unbuckled their seatbelts and gathered their luggage.

After entering the VIP channel, Wen Xia first did a headcount: "After everyone enters the airport lobby, those who need to pick up checked luggage, go get it. The rest of you wait right here; the Gita Hotel has already sent a yacht to pick us up.

Also, everyone should take off your coats now. It will be very hot once we get out of the airport."

As the leader of the girl group, Wen Xia took on the role of tour guide and team leader after getting off the plane. She was full of leadership presence, and all the girls nodded in unison.

After the commotion, everyone gathered on the side of the road at the airport entrance, and Wen Xia used her phone to contact the hotel staff who had come to pick them up.

Ten minutes later, a minibus stopped in front of them. A woman with brownish-red skin, aged around thirty, got off the bus.

"Are you Miss Wen's group?" the woman asked in broken Chinese.

"I am Wen Xia."

"I am the receptionist for Gita Hotel. You can just call me Brita."

Under Brita's guidance, the group took a few-minute bus ride to the seaside and then boarded a yacht.

From this point on, the female photographer from the Girls' Generation side had already started filming.

"Wow, finally seeing the ocean!" Luo Luo Chu Yi spread her arms at the yacht's railing, bathing to her heart's content in the sunlight and sea breeze.

The yacht rode the wind and waves on the sky-blue ocean, white spray churning behind the boat. The clear sky was dotted with group after group of black seabirds circling the coastline.

"In this scene, does our talented girl want to say a few words?" Wen Xia had already taken off her coat, leaning her hands on the railing as she looked at Luo Quan.

"Do you really take me for a poet?" Luo Quan grinned, but since the words were already on the tip of her tongue, she had to say a couple:

"Oh ocean, you are all water.

Oh crab, you have eight legs!"

The girls burst into laughter.

Wen Xia said disdainfully, "With your level, I could write ten poems in three minutes!"

As the head and deputy head of the atmosphere group, Luo Quan and Wen Xia contributed countless laughs along the way. It is fair to say that they were indispensable in helping the two groups go from strangers to friends.

After sailing on the sea for over ten minutes, the yacht arrived at the port. Hotel staff who had been waiting there for a long time hurried forward to take the guests' luggage, and the people and luggage were driven to the hotel in two separate vehicles.

The Gita Hotel was quite crowded in the morning, mostly with people there for breakfast. Luo Quan took a look; the passing tourists were mostly foreigners, and she didn't see many Asian faces.

The sudden appearance of such a large group of girls in the lobby immediately attracted the attention of male tourists. Fortunately, everyone was quite well-mannered; no one whistled directly at them, and they just took a few glances before looking away.

Mostly because the girls were all wearing sunglasses and hats, and hadn't changed into swimsuits yet, so there was nothing to see regarding their figures or appearances.

After finishing the check-in procedures and tourist visas, the girls took a vehicle to their accommodation, which was the area of hotel housing located in the northern part of Gita Island.

Houses that looked like rainforest cabins were arranged in a V-shape. Outside the houses was the turquoise shallow beach. The obtuse angle tip of Gita Island had no houses and was a stretch of white sandy beach.

Everyone's rooms were connected, from room 103 to 119.

"Change clothes, change clothes!"

Wen Xia rushed into her room with her luggage, unable to wait any longer to let Yuner and Yuewei properly humiliate Luo Quan.

Luo Quan didn't say anything, walking into her room on her own.

The hotel housing looked like wooden cabins from the outside, but the interior decor was no different from a normal five-star hotel. Outside the bedroom was a wooden platform and a swimming pool, just a step away from the ocean.

Luo Quan stood on the platform and looked left and right. There was a ten-meter gap between the two wooden cabins. She was in room 113, with Junzi on her left and Wen Xia on her right.

Looking into the distance, what met her eyes was a blend of turquoise, deep blue, and sky blue, representing the shallow beach, the open sea, and the sky respectively. Besides that, there were no other houses. It was so simple, yet it made one feel refreshed and relaxed.

The water quality in the Maldives was too good. With one look down, everything on the shallow beach was clearly visible, though she didn't see many fish, mostly dead things like white sand and reefs.

After watching for a while, Luo Quan turned back into the room and opened her suitcase.

Before coming, she had bought over a dozen swimsuits, and she laid them out on the bed one by one.

These swimsuits weren't too revealing, but they weren't as conservative as school swimsuits either.

"She is just my little sister, the little sister says purple has charm." Luo Quan hummed the superfluous explanation and chose a purple swimsuit.

The style was also quite conventional, like two triangular rice dumpling leaves connected in the middle by a thin string, and the bikini bottoms were just regular triangular briefs.

"This shouldn't count as revealing, right?" Luo Quan held it up to the mirror to compare, feeling it should be able to cover everything completely.

As it turned out, she had underestimated herself. After putting it on, she discovered that the swimsuit was even better at shaping than regular underwear; it was completely aimed at "pushing up."

Or was it that the brand she bought specialized in this style? Luo Quan frowned and looked in the mirror, finding that it was truly too fruitful.

"Would it be a bit too sexy?" Luo Quan rubbed her chin, considering whether to change into another one.

"Are you done yet!" Wen Xia's arrogant voice came from outside. It seemed they had already changed, and judging by the effect, it was quite good, so their morale was quite high.

"Just like this then." Luo Quan couldn't be bothered to change into another one. Revealing more or less was still revealing; since she had decided to take swimsuit photos, why be so restrained!

Putting on her slippers, Luo Quan walked to the door and opened it.

"Wow, my eyes."

The girls gathered outside the door felt as if their eyes had been flashed by a light. What was so dazzling?

"Oh my god, Class Monitor, you are too fair!" Lin Yizhu's saliva was almost dripping down. She hadn't expected that the first thing about Luo Quan to surprise her wasn't her figure, but this skin that was like ivory!

Luo Quan's body was as white as the "Venus" sculpted by Alessandro, shining brightly under the scorching sun, as if the goddess of love had been reincarnated!

Especially those flawless, round, long white legs—no matter how exaggerated the poem used to praise them, it wouldn't be an exaggeration!

"Gulp!"

Wen Xia swallowed the rapidly secreting saliva with difficulty. On one hand, it was envy; on the other, it was jealousy.

At this moment, jealousy was an emotion that every girl would inevitably feel, unrelated to any negative thoughts, because this was the greatest recognition of Luo Quan. This was humanity's longing for the most extreme beauty in the world, a direct expression of primitive desire.

"Quan-chan is really hiding her true colors." Junzi suddenly had tears in her eyes.

"Why are you crying?" Jiang Yuner looked at Junzi in surprise.

"I don't know either." Junzi hurriedly wiped away her tears, then her eyes aimed at Luo Quan's most prominent part, looked down to compare with her own, and then looked at Jiang Yuner.

Yuner shook her head helplessly: "Don't look, you can't compare; it's not the same level."

"The weather is really good today, don't you think, Wen Xia?" Luo Quan asked Wen Xia with a smile while doing chest expansion exercises.

Just a simple movement made Wen Xia feel inferior.

Usually, her friend dressed so conservatively that even in movies she would use a body double for kissing scenes. She hadn't expected her figure to be so explosive. She had really misjudged her this time.

At this moment, Luo Quan was like a walking desire transmitter, spraying flames from head to toe that were named "pure" but written as "charming."

"I give up." For the first time, Wen Xia conceded defeat in front of Luo Quan, completely and utterly convinced.

At the same time, this was the true inner thought of all the girls.

Before Luo Quan came out, no one had expected the gap to be so large, just like their looks—there was an uncrossable chasm between them and Luo Quan.

"Class Monitor, you big liar!" Lin Yizhu suddenly reacted: "Your figure is so good, not a bit of fat to be seen, why do you keep shouting about wanting to lose weight every day?!"

Luo Quan said seriously: "But my weight has indeed increased by 15 jin. It seems it was only 112 during the summer vacation."

"So where did this meat go?" Luo Luo Chu Yi asked sincerely.

However, Luo Quan didn't show mercy and tell her, because she didn't know either.

"Needless to say, Luo Quan only grows meat in two places." Wen Xia was clearly implying something. The girls were stunned for a moment, then understood.

Luo Quan looked at the group variety show photographer who had been recording all along, crying and laughing: "Cut this part, don't broadcast it!"

The girls burst into laughter...

"Are you sure it's this island?" On the sea, three men were licking their lips anxiously under the scorching sun.

"Your sister posted on Bilibili after getting off the plane: Arrived in the Maldives, next stop Gita Island!

It shouldn't be wrong, right?" Seifert confirmed the information on his phone again. According to the map, this was undoubtedly Gita Island.

"But why haven't we seen anyone after circling the island so many times?" Fred drank the last bit of liquid on the boat besides gasoline, then lay down on the deck like a beached whale.

As soon as these three brothers saw Luo Quan say she was going to the Maldives to take swimsuit photos, they immediately flew there in advance to stake out the spot. They waited for two days, and Luo Quan finally arrived, but they had circled the Gita Island coastline so many times and still hadn't seen anyone.

"Why don't we just call her? If we keep looking like this without a clue, I'm about to collapse," Gao Liang said, sitting down on the deck as well.

Seifert spread his hands: "A chance encounter, do you know what a chance encounter is?"

"Forget the chance encounter, if we don't get ashore soon, I feel like I'm going to die of thirst." Gao Liang stared straight at the seawater. If it weren't for the fact that this stuff makes you thirstier the more you drink, he would have really wanted to dive in and have a good drink.

"Alright, alright, let's go to the beach and drink some juice first. Why are you all so delicate?" Seifert was helpless, steering the boat toward the beach. He seemed to have seen a shop there when they passed by earlier.

"Boss, please give me a glass of coconut juice." Luo Quan said to the shop owner in the local Dhivehi language, then handed over two 10-dollar bills.

"You are truly a girl as beautiful as an angel." The boss performed a fancy operation on the coconut, finally inserting a straw into the coconut that had been peeled down to a layer of white skin, and placed it in Luo Quan's hand.

All expenses on the island had been paid in full when booking the hotel. This 20 dollars was a tip, not too little and not too much.

Returning to the beach, Junzi and the others were still recording the group variety show on the beach volleyball court. Wen Xia and Lin Yizhu were lying on beach chairs applying sunscreen, preparing to sunbathe for a while.

"The Gita Island lover cocktail is so famous, aren't you going to drink some?" Wen Xia pointed to the colorful cocktails on the round table and asked.

Luo Quan shook her head like a rattle: "I don't drink alcohol, I fall over at the first touch."

"Is it really that exaggerated?" Lin Yizhu took a sip, feeling it wasn't much different from a regular drink.

Luo Quan's expression was serious: "It really is that exaggerated. I don't know if I'm allergic to alcohol."

"Junior, when are we starting to shoot?" Wang Lan on the side had already debugged the equipment, looking impatient.

Swearing to God, Luo Quan was the most perfect model she had ever seen since entering this industry. She couldn't find a single flaw from head to toe.

Having such a model appear in front of her camera to take swimsuit photos, the final photos presented would definitely allow her career height to break through!

This was Luo Quan in a swimsuit! This level of model was what all photographers dreamed of!

"No rush, it's only 9:30. Wait for me to apply sunscreen first." Luo Quan said, opening the sunscreen in her backpack, squeezing a bit into her palm, and then applying it to her body.

"My god, are you applying body wash or sunscreen? Be serious, don't be so perfunctory. Be careful of getting sunburned with your delicate skin." Wen Xia saw Luo Quan's hand just slide over her body once—there was no way to apply sunscreen like that, so she hurriedly reminded her.

Luo Quan thought to herself: My skin is probably thicker than you imagine!

"I haven't applied it before. At worst, I'll just do it again." After watching the techniques of others applying sunscreen, Luo Quan clumsily imitated them.

Just as she was applying it, there was some movement from the sea.

The girls looked up and saw a luxurious yacht cutting through the wind and waves.

PS: Thanks to book friend L224 for the book coin tip, thank you!