My Girlfriend is the Cutest in the World

  [Deceptive Merry-Go-Round]

    “Welcome to the merry-go-round!

    “We’re different from traditional merry-go-rounds yo~

    “Two people must be grouped up before we check your tickets, yo ~

    “The rest….

    “I can’t say, I can’t say….”

    Su Lin: “………”

    He really fucking disliked this amusement park.

    Lu Yuanyuan also finished reading the introduction sign, and her voice carried only excitement, “Go on, senior! We happen to be two people exactly.”

    After saying that, she took the lead and bounced off to line up.

    “……”

    Su Lin didn’t want to go at all.

    But she was scared so badly just now. He took great efforts to divert her attention, he….

    Fuck.

    Forget it.

    He ruffled his hair in annoyance and followed.

    There weren’t too many people in line. Five minutes later, the two were ready to enter the venue under the direction of the staff.

    Out of the corner of his eye, Su Lin once again glanced at the words [Deceptive Merry-Go-Round]. This time, it was followed by an, [Are You Afraid].

   ….?

    He suddenly had a sense of foreboding in his heart.

    In other amusement parks, there would be two horses side by side. Meanwhile, the entire construction of the carousel platform looked normal here, but there was something different. He looked carefully. In each row, there was a horse side by side to a…. boat?

    The boat was shaped like an ordinary boat. The seat wasn’t tiny; there was more than enough room for a single person to sit comfortably.

    Su Lin breathed a sigh of relief.

    Sitting in a boat…. was definitely better than riding a winged horse.

    Otherwise, he’d get a chill down his back in the future when he remembered the scene of himself riding a horse.

    “Senior, you take the boat. I’ll ride this pony.” After checking the tickets and getting on the platform, Lu Yuanyuan quickly found a horse with wings and called to him over her shoulder.

    He nodded as he walked over: “Mm.”

    Because they were both suspended on pillars, the horse and the boat were raised off the ground. So, after the two were in position, the two were almost at the same height.

    Lu Yuanyuan looked at him and suddenly tilted her head with a smile, “Senior, you look like a sailor.”

    Su Lin smoothly returned: “You look like a horseback rider.”

    Once the words were out, both of them froze.

    After recovering, Lu Yuanyuan immediately fell onto the horse’s back laughing, “Hahahahahaha, what nonsense are we talking about….”

    “……”

    Su Lin touched the bridge of his nose. Thinking about the brain-dead conversation just now, he also couldn’t help but quirk his lips.

    “Okay! Everyone sit tight! Prepare to start, ah!” The staff stood next to the platform and yelled, then Su Lin felt a vague vibration coming from the ship.

    It began to move.

    The roof suspending the whole merry-go-round began to rotate, the ship and the horse alternated with each other, rising up and down in turns. The beginning notes of the instrumental tune sounded, and the melody gradually became clear.

    “Sen-ior!”

    He turned his head sideways.

    Lu Yuanyuan’s face was full of excitement, and she seemed like a completely different person from the one who was bawling on the bench just now.

    Because the music was getting louder, she needed to shout: “Isn’t-this-fun-!”

    “……”

    He’d never tried his hand at this kind of thing. At present, it only felt barely acceptable because he had to keep her company.

    But he nodded his head anyway.

    “I’ll take a picture of you, okay!” Lu Yuanyuan’s eyes lit up and suddenly said, “Senior, you must rarely come to this kind of place. After I take pictures, I’ll send it to you over WeChat. Won’t it be nice to have it as a memory!”

    “……” He hadn’t replied yet.

    But Lu Yuanyuan had already quickly pulled out her phone and pointed the lens at him, “Get ready!”

    Su Lin thought about it.

    Actually…… if she could have a picture of him in her phone…. it seemed….

    Quite nice?

    He actually rarely took pictures. The last instance he remembered was freshman year when they took military training group photos. After the photos were developed, the others in the dorm all lamented the injustice of God; how could someone with a scowling face still be so photogenic?

    Well…. and that’s what happened.

    He had just turned his head to look at her, but Lu Yuanyuan tilted her head a little and pointed to his side, “Senior, what’s that by your hand?”

    Hmm?

    Su Lin looked down.

    It was a white, very thick hemp rope tied in a knot.

    He didn’t know what it was used for….

    “Ah!” She shouted, a look of dawning realization appearing on her face, “Senior, this should be used to pull the boat.”

    Not waiting for him to answer, she said excitedly again: “Perfect!  As you sit in the boat, hold the rope, and I’ll snap a photo, okay!”

    “……” Okay.

    It was just a rope. It wouldn’t look weird just because he was holding it.

    He didn’t really want to take it, so he just held it loosely in his left hand and faced toward her lens.

    Lu Yuanyuan’s familiar voice came: “3….2….”

    “1” had not been called yet-

    The merry-go-round platform with the soothing piano music suddenly stopped, then a female’s voice came through the speakers: “Sorry, visitors. Due to our mistake just now, we had played the wrong music. Please enjoy the real soundtrack now.”

    Lu Yuanyuan paused for a moment.

    After listening to it, she didn’t care and once again counted down to Su Lin: “Senior, look here! 3……2……”

    “1” hadn’t been said again-

    Loud and clear music with a strong folksy vibe came through the speakers: “Sister, you sit on the bow, ah. Brother will walk by the shore….”

    “…… Grace and love, the boatman’s rope swinging around……1“

    “………”

    Riding a horse, walking on the shore, Lu Yuanyuan.

    And holding the boatman’s rope, sitting on the bow of the boat, Su Lin.

    Stared at each other.

    Time seemed to have stood still.

    With the loud and noisy country song in the background, Su Lin and Lu Yuanyuan both had the same confusion written in their eyes.

    Her fingers moved slightly.

    He seemed to faintly hear a “click”.

    “………”

    Su Lin quickly dropped the rope in his hand, gritted his teeth, took out his phone from his pocket, and opened WeChat.

    Found his chat history with Qin Fang.

    Then typed: You stinking dumbass.

The author has something to say.

[Deceptive Merry-Go-Round, Are You Afraid]

Lin ge: Afraid, afraid.

Lin ge, crying bitter tears: Author, let me fucking leave this messed-up amusement park.

# Qin Fang: ? #

# The first time in my life I’ve gone on this bullshit. I’ll never do this a second time #

1 Lyrics from an old love song titled 纤夫的爱. It’s about a man who’s on a horse while the woman he loves is sitting on a boat. Essentially, their roles? Reversed.