Shadow and Light: The Bride Who Clicks Her Way to Love-Chapter 274 - 287: The Children All Cried

The weather was exceptionally good that day, the early winter sun was not too hot or cold, making it comfortable on the skin.

She held his hand and led him to the aquarium, where in a pool of clear seawater, a few young dolphins chased each other playfully, occasionally emitting melodious calls, looking interesting and adorable.

Su Xingyu was very happy, continuously pointing things out to him, "Look at that one over there, so well-behaved! That one! And that one too! They’re all so cute..."

And he, quietly lowered his head watching her, the smile on her eyes and brows filled his heart with peace.

Dolphins and such were not important to him at all, as long as she was happy.

Su Xingyu watched the dolphins around the pool once more, then pulled him to walk through the underwater tunnel, which was built with huge transparent glass, with schools of fish swimming above and on all sides, and there were dolphins too, showing sights that couldn’t be seen from the ground pools earlier. Su Xingyu stood by the glass and watched for a long time, "They are really beautiful..."

Such friendly and beautiful little creatures, no wonder they are said to help autistic patients.

She gently extended a finger, touching a small dolphin coming towards her through the clear seawater, then took Lu Shifeng’s hand to touch the dolphin’s nose together, "Look, it’s watching us!"

Lu Shifeng was inherently indifferent to these animals; he couldn’t understand what was fun since childhood. However, seeing her crystal-clear eyes, he couldn’t bear to dampen her spirits, so he patiently touched the little dolphin. The broadcast in the underwater tunnel reminded visitors that the dolphin show was about to start, inviting everyone to return to the ground pool to watch.

Lu Shifeng said to her, "Let’s go, I’ll accompany you to watch."

However, Su Xingyu’s previously happy expression suddenly faded, her small face drooped, "Lu Shifeng... let’s not go watch it."

"Why?" He was surprised.

She said somewhat despondently, "Have you seen documentaries about dolphins? Many dolphins performing in zoos and aquariums are treated cruelly, which is why they perform various tricks! Those are all against their nature! Lu Shifeng, don’t be fooled by how happy these dolphins seem, they’re actually in a lot of pain, like the photos with tourists, jumping through flaming hoops - those aren’t things they want to do. Even if we can’t help them, at least we shouldn’t watch those shows, or be accomplices to their harm, okay?"

Lu Shifeng hadn’t thought that far, seeing her upset expression, he said, "Okay."

After thinking for a moment, he added, "I’ll have someone negotiate with this aquarium to stop their dolphin shows in the future."

"Really?" Su Xingyu’s eyes brightened again, "Lu Shifeng, you’re so great!"

"Really," he said. Unlike her, he wasn’t sentimental; although he had never been in the aquarium business, just watching them operate he understood maintaining such a large aquarium requires significant expenses. The aquarium probably had no choice. If they stop the dolphin shows, they would lose a lot of money. How could these little creatures survive?

But he would send someone to find a way to redesign the aquarium’s ecosystem and business model, seeking a path of sustainable and healthy development.

Many things in between were troublesome, for a big group like their company, this was a low return on investment, practically a wasteful project, but since it could make her happy, he would send people to handle it.

He couldn’t be bothered to tell her about these intricacies, he only said to her, "In a while, when we come back, you’ll see a different aquarium."

When Su Xingyu heard him saying they’d come again, she thought he really liked these dolphins, and she smiled with her eyes curved, "Okay."

Seems like visiting the aquarium was more effective than taking him to watch romance movies, so in the future, she would often take him to be close to nature, increasing some emotional understanding, he might gradually understand love, right?

She happily toured around the dolphin area with him, and when they returned to the ground, she went to find the restroom.

He stood at the entrance of the dolphin area waiting for her, where the loudspeaker repeatedly announced that the dolphin show was about to start and reminded everyone to buy tickets quickly.

He thought, when she came back and saw this scene, she’d definitely be unhappy, right?

So he directly called Xie Jian, "I’m at XX Aquarium, go and buy all the tickets for the dolphin show here so they won’t perform, just let things go on as usual. Also, negotiate with the aquarium about investment, I’m flexible on the price, I have only one requirement: no animal cruelty."

Xie Jian was puzzled, not understanding what his boss was thinking, but he had an excellent habit of just executing tasks assigned by the boss without questioning why, so he immediately agreed, buying up all the dolphin show tickets at the fastest speed, even recovering those that had already been sold through various means of persuasion and coercion.

Lu Shifeng was very satisfied.

Standing at the aquarium entrance, watching many parents lead their disappointed children away.

Among them, a child was crying and refusing to leave, being half-coaxed and half-dragged by his mother past Lu Shifeng, "Sweetie, though we can’t see the dolphin show today, mommy will bring you next time..."

The little boy almost began rolling on the ground, crying hoarsely, "I don’t want to! I want to see the dolphins today!"

"Sweetie, we’ll see them later, we’ll watch them jump through big fire hoops! Even higher and larger than today..."

That parent was tirelessly coaxing.

Lu Shifeng stood on the side with his arms crossed, unable to listen anymore. If Xingyu came back later and heard them saying they still wanted to see dolphins jumping through fire hoops, she’d be heartbroken, right?

So he coldly said to the noisy little boy, "There won’t be any fire hoops anymore."

What?

The little boy was throwing a tantrum, but was stunned to hear a stranger interrupting, he looked up at him.

Lu Shifeng, standing tall with no expression, spoke coldly and clearly, "I said, there will never be any dolphin shows again. No feeding, no photos, no fire hoops, you might as well forget it."

...How could this be? It’s too much!

With a loud wail, the little boy cried out much louder than usual, shouting while crying, "I want to see the dolphin show! I want to see the dolphin show!"

His earth-shattering cry made many other disappointed children nearby also start to cry, and soon the sounds of crying filled the area, forming an ocean of symphonic cacophony.

When Su Xingyu came back, this was the scene she saw.

Countless children, big and small, were crying hysterically, while a group of parents were busy soothing their kids; many were surrounding Lu Shifeng, angrily blaming him, "How could you say that! You’ve made the children cry! Are you crazy!"

Lu Shifeng stood by the sidewalk, arms crossed, face ice-cold, seemingly not feeling he had done anything wrong, but he was on the verge of exploding.