Right now, there’s a yacht that has given Li Younan a taste of this feeling. At least the yacht carries a part of the dream, operating a social media account, let’s forget about that for now.
From a narrow perspective, he certainly hasn’t truly achieved financial freedom.
But because of the system’s bonuses, he’s now acquired so many skills, materially, he really doesn’t have many desires left.
If, in the past, traveling everywhere was partly to gain skills, now it’s mostly just to see what the world looks like.
After New Year’s Day, the temperature didn’t immediately warm up; instead, it suddenly cooled down a bit as the Spring Festival approached.
Li Younan drove to Chengdu to meet Liu Li for a date.
After returning to Chengdu, it actually isn’t as convenient as before. Liu Yu’s supervision of Liu Li is still quite strict; if they’re in Chengdu, staying out all night is not permissible.
For now, Liu Li hasn’t figured out how to tell her brother, so she’s just keeping it a secret.
Of course, this isn’t a long-term solution. According to Li Younan’s idea, he should go to his grandfather’s house and catch two big geese and slaughter them, then assertively go to Liu Yu’s home, thrust the goose in his face, and ask if he’s willing to entrust his sister to him. That would be satisfying.
But such thoughts can only remain thoughts. Liu Li enjoys these types of escapades, so he lets her be, since there’s a thrilling feeling of a secret affair right now, which is quite fun.
Because Liu Li can’t stay out overnight for now, they finally found an excuse to stroll the streets of Chengdu.
Li Younan is quite satisfied with his current love life; just being quietly together with his girlfriend is wonderful.
There is a super large park on Tianfu Avenue called Tianfu Park.
It spans the central axis of Chengdu, on both sides of Tianfu Avenue.
The surface of Qinhuang Lake has a chilling blue with a thin mist, distant skyscrapers are hazy, wild ducks and herons sunbathe on the shore, and the lake quietly reflects the sky and clouds.
The huge lawn has turned a shallow dead yellow, but today is a sunny day, so many people bring sunshade tents to bask in the sun, and Li Younan and Liu Li just stroll around here.
"Li Younan, are you looking forward to the upcoming sail?"
"Hmm, quite looking forward to it, why, are you not?"
"It’s not that I’m not looking forward to it, but the sea is all water."
"Who says it’s all water?"
Li Younan shook his head, "For me, the most anticipated thing about going out to sea is to find a deserted island in the Pacific, then I step onto it and become the king there, make you the queen, and we call our kingdom Liuli Kingdom, how does that sound?"
"Ah? Really?"
"Of course it’s true, Liuli Kingdom sounds beautiful."
"No, I wasn’t talking about Liuli Kingdom, I was asking if there really are such deserted islands, you step on them, and you can declare it your territory?"
Li Younan smiled without speaking, Liu Li instantly understood that Li Younan was teasing her and lightly hit him: "Annoying."
But soon she started to anticipate: "But what you said seems right, there should indeed be many uninhabited islands in the Pacific, right? Can we own one?"
"Of course we can, owning an island is a pretty fashionable thing."
Li Younan smiled slightly: "But rather than owning an island, it’s better to have a piece of land on a larger but difficult-to-develop, unsellable island, which actually counts as virtual ownership of the entire island, and that’d really be owning your independent kingdom."
Liu Li suddenly stopped walking, her look towards Li Younan was a bit strange.
Li Younan asked: "What’s up?"
Liu Li snorted softly, "Dream maker king."
"Haha."
Here, besides the sunbathers, there’s naturally no lack of photographers, some uncles were holding cameras to photograph birds.
On the lawn, there were also some people doing sketches, using oil paint, it was clear a teacher was guiding some students.
These students varied in age, some looked like elementary schoolers, while others were adults, and a few looked like art students preparing for exams.
At that moment, the teacher made rounds and harshly critiqued a male student, even bluntly said: "Zhou Feiyu, you better not learn from me, you simply have no talent in painting."
Li Younan and Liu Li were nearby and heard the teacher’s words, out of curiosity, Li Younan subtly led Liu Li to take a look behind the student named Zhou Feiyu.
Okay, the teacher’s comment wasn’t excessive at all.
The student’s work was unspeakable, but perhaps his worst aspect wasn’t just talent, but also his attitude towards his work.
In general, it was very poor.
Then the teacher arranged for the other students to continue painting, reminding them: "I’ll be back in half an hour to see your results."
Once the teacher left, standing behind Zhou Feiyu, Li Younan was about to say something when the boy did something surprising.
He picked up the sketch board and energetically threw it towards the empty center of the lawn, as if venting his dissatisfaction.
The others were rather shocked looking at him, two people offered consolation, but quickly returned to their own assignments.
At this time, Zhou Feiyu still appeared very agitated, deeply sighed, and similarly threw his paints.
Liu Li couldn’t help but say: "Fellow student, don’t be impulsive."
The other replied: "Please mind your own business."
"What I mean is, it’s not good to throw trash like that..."
Initially silent, he then bitterly said: "You think you’re so noble, then go pick it up! I’m just not very well-behaved, wanna call the police?"
These words made Liu Li’s face slightly uncomfortable, she aggrievedly glanced at her boyfriend.
However, Li Younan simply smiled faintly, pulling Liu Li, said: "Let’s go, let’s pick them up."
Liu Li’s eyes widened for a moment, is this... this just giving in?
Nevertheless, Li Younan didn’t explain, he already went over personally to pick up the sketch board and the paints on the ground.
Though Liu Li wasn’t very happy, she pouted and accompanied Li Younan in doing this.
After everything was picked up, Liu Li was about to say something, but Li Younan smiled and said: "With such good weather, and you’re so beautiful, let me draw a portrait of you."
Liu Li froze for a moment: "Huh?"
Li Younan reached out and straightened the sketch board.
(Chapter 3600 words, there’s another update during the day! But it will be after 3 PM)

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