Seeing her boyfriend escaping reality once again, a flash of disappointment crossed Sam's eyes.
But a smile quickly spread across her face.
"You made your specialty spicy soup; is there some good news?"
"Uh!"
A flash of embarrassment crossed Jared's face. He didn't know how to tell his girlfriend that he had hit the owner of the dive shop where he worked and had been fired again.
He could only give a vague answer: "You know, my only specialties are spicy soup and quinoa bread."
Seeing Sam fall silent, her mood clearly wasn't high either.
Jared wasn't a fool; he realized it immediately.
Sam, who had many suitors, must have heard from them that he had lost his job again.
A surge of nameless anger suddenly rose in his heart.
He looked at his girlfriend, who was sexy, charming, and full of youthful vitality.
Ever since Jared confessed to her last year and won her over,
he had always felt both excited and inferior.
Jared knew very well that landing a great woman like Sam was definitely a win.
But he also knew that although his girlfriend came from a humble background, she was too outstanding.
As long as Sam lowered her standards slightly, not to mention anything else, just her suitors on the island alone could definitely give her a good life.
Not to mention the wealthy foreign tourists who came to the Bahamas for vacation.
So, every time Jared faced a setback, the thoughts of treasure hunting and getting rich quick inevitably surfaced again.
Sam's smile was forced as she said, "The time before last when you made spicy soup and quinoa bread, it was when your ex-girlfriend returned to the island. The last time you made it, you picked up a pregnant dog."
She had intended to make a joke to change the subject.
But Jared's anger had already been provoked, so he said directly, "After the storm a few days ago, many pieces of wreckage from undersea shipwrecks were swept into the offshore areas."
"Do you know Kim Ki-duk? He found a gold crucifix on the beach of the North Island."
Sam's smile became even more forced. "So, that's why you cooked the spicy soup?"
Jared didn't dare look at her; he could hear the disappointment in her voice. "I'm going out to sea to give it a try."
Sam opened her mouth, wanting to dissuade him, but then she remembered how many times she had tried in the past to no avail.
So, after a moment of silence, she said, "I took a private gig as a tour guide. Starting tomorrow, I'll be taking a tourist around the island and the nearby waters for a few days."
"Male or female?"
Jared, who had been intentionally looking down at his work because he didn't dare face his girlfriend's disappointed eyes, suddenly asked alertly.
Sam frowned, a bit displeased. "Male."
Jared's face darkened in an instant.
He looked up at Sam with a frown. "Can't you turn it down?"
Sam felt very disappointed, but she still explained patiently, "The daily rate they're offering is very good—two hundred us dollars a day."
Jared licked his lips. He certainly knew that two hundred us dollars a day was indeed very high for them.
But at the thought of his girlfriend being with another man, he immediately felt uncomfortable.
He was just about to speak and persuade Sam to give up the tour guide job again.
To his surprise, Sam seemed to have read his thoughts and said expressionlessly, "We're out of money, and the food at home is almost gone."
"If you want to fix this boat, you'll need to buy materials too."
"Otherwise, it's been sitting idle for all these years—can it really still go out to sea?"
Sam wished so much that her boyfriend would tell her dominantly to give up this tour guide job,
and then tell her that he would honestly find a job and work hard to support the family from now on.
But she was destined to be disappointed!
Jared's face was somewhat dark, and although his expression was very ugly,
in the end, he didn't say anything more.
Sam could see that he had tacitly agreed to her being a tour guide for someone else.
Even though she had always been quite content with the status quo,
seeing her boyfriend being so unmotivated, Sam couldn't help but feel a flicker of regret.
"You get busy then. I have to get up early tomorrow, so I'll just have a quick bite and get some rest soon."
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