The unattainable beauty was driven to depravity and madness by a wicked seed.

"How do I demonstrate?"

Shen Qinghuai kissed Lu Sui's lips, nuzzling against him, "Baby needs to lie down properly by himself."

"No, I want to be held by you." Lu Sui held Shen Qinghuai's hand as he wiped away his tears.

"But then I can't demonstrate it to the baby."

"I can't demonstrate this to the baby..." Lu Sui's eyes were slightly red. "What should I do?"

Perhaps because he subconsciously relied too much on Shen Qinghuai, Lu Sui was very clingy when he had a fever. He would express even the slightest unhappiness, and his words were full of "hug me, hug me."

Shen Qinghuai coaxed Lu Sui to lie down, and he could hear Lu Sui counting one, two, three, four, five in his ears. But Lu Sui stopped abruptly when he reached six, his breathing becoming rapid, his eyes widening, and then tears welled up in his eyes as he asked incredulously, "Are you biting me? How could you bully me like that..."

Shen Qinghuai let out a muffled laugh, but it was blocked in his throat because he couldn't make a sound. The laugh seemed to retreat further and further away. He frowned slightly as he listened to Lu Sui sobbing, their fingers intertwined.

Ten minutes later, Shen Qinghuai drank a few sips of water, touched Lu Sui's back which was sweaty from the fever, carried him to take a quick shower, tucked him into the blanket and dressed him, and seeing that Lu Sui's ears were so hot and he wouldn't make eye contact with anyone, he opened his mouth and kissed him.

"Don't."

Why not?

Lu Sui was too shy to say it, but her beautiful, misty, reddish eyes looked at Shen Qinghuai, which softened his heart. Before he could speak, Lu Sui nestled into his arms and said, "I like you."

Who do you like?

"I like Shen Qinghuai."

"I love babies too." Shen Qinghuai pulled Lu Sui closer to him and gently patted his back with his other hand. "Go to sleep, it's late."

"Can you please not believe what they say? I'm not bad, I'm not crazy, I'm very well-behaved." Lu Sui pressed her face against Shen Qinghuai's neck, her breath making that spot damp. "It's just that they all bully me."

"I don't believe it. Our Sui Sui is a very cute, cool-faced, adorable baby."

"Can't understand."

"It just means very cute," Shen Qinghuai asked. "Did Sui Sui always think I thought you were bad?"

After asking that question, the feverish and fragile little Bao couldn't hold back his emotions, and that "hmm" hid too much grievance.

"No, I think everything Sui Sui does is cute. Even if she hits me, I'll just think she's being affectionate." Shen Qinghuai's voice was gentle yet firm, low and husky. He responded to everything Lu Sui said, and kept patting Lu Sui's back gently. Before long, he coaxed her to sleep.

Around 2 a.m.

Lu Sui was crying, muttering incoherently.

He said, "Shen Qinghuai is mine, why should he get so close to someone else..."

"Why am I different from everyone else...?"

"Why are you making me angry...?"

"I don't like Shen Qinghuai's kisses..."

"You're all talking outside, why are you leaving me alone in the room..."

Shen Qinghuai paused for a moment, then gently brushed away the tears from Lu Sui's eyes with trembling fingers. "I'm sorry."

They were all talking outside... Does that refer to the day they first went back to Wutong Town to make barbecue? But the barbecue was for them to eat, and the barbecue grill belonged to Wen Chengyu and his family. There were only two boys at home, him and Lu Sui, and he couldn't bear to let Lu Sui do it, so he had to do it himself. After he finished making some, he would go back to the room to check on Lu Sui, and he also ate lunch with Lu Sui in the room.

Shen Qinghuai thought that he would buy whatever he needed in the future, and he couldn't let Lu Sui be unhappy anymore.

"I'm sorry, this won't happen again."

Lu Sui's eyelashes were wet, his vision was blurry. He grabbed Shen Qinghuai's clothes and asked, "Why did Lu Huai Ren strangle my kitten? It was so well-behaved, it would play with me..."

Lu Sui woke up several times that night, each time disturbed by her own sleep talking. After waking up, she would slap Shen Qinghuai's mouth or pull at it, asking him why he kept talking and who he was talking to, making it impossible for her to sleep.

Shen Qinghuai apologized patiently, but felt even more sorry for Lu Sui.

As many people say, scars only heal, they don't disappear; the heart will remember the unhappy things that the brain has long forgotten.

Around 7 a.m., Shen Qinghuai took Lu Sui's temperature and found that he no longer had a fever, but he still gave him another pill. After washing up, he went to the kitchen and cooked two bowls of noodles to feed the dog. He noticed that the dog was urinating on its own, making the mat underneath very dirty.

Shen Qinghuai changed the cushion, washed his hands, and carried Lu Sui out. He coaxed him to drink water and eat. Lu Sui hugged Shen Qinghuai's waist and said, "It hurts."

"Where does it hurt?"

"head."

"I'll massage it for you after we finish eating."

"I don't want to eat." Lu Sui rubbed against Shen Qinghuai's face.

"Your body won't be able to handle not eating, can you eat a little something?"

"No."

"Just a little bit, just a little bit. My head isn't feeling well right now, and if I don't eat, my stomach will feel uncomfortable too, and I'll feel even worse."

"I don't want you to leave."

"It's the last day. I'll come back early this afternoon, unlike yesterday when I broke my promise. I'll be back at noon too... Open your mouth, ah."

"Awoo."

"Good boy, have another sip of noodle soup... Is the noodle delicious? Have another bite, are you choking a little? Drink some soup to help it down. Little Bao, do you know the saying 'original soup helps digest original food'? You should drink the soup after eating noodles so it will be easier to digest. Have a few more sips... Little Bao is so good."

Lu Sui ate until he was half full thanks to Shen Qinghuai's praise and feeding, and then lingered on Shen Qinghuai's lap, refusing to get down.

Lu Sui wouldn't get down, so Shen Qinghuai held him while he ate his meal. Sometimes he would eat too much in one bite, his mouth stuffed full, and Lu Sui would reach out and tap his cheek. Shen Qinghuai, not understanding why, would rub his forehead against Lu Sui. Near the end of the meal, he heard Lu Sui murmur, "Do I always make you like this?"

"Cough cough cough, cough cough cough cough..." Shen Qinghuai coughed muffledly, his ears, even his entire collarbone and the back of his neck, turned completely red. After swallowing the food in his mouth, he asked in surprise, "Xiao Bao, what are you talking about?"

"Shen Qinghuai is shy."

"I'm not shy."

"lie."

Shen Qinghuai placed Lu Sui on the sofa. "I wasn't lying, I just didn't react for a moment. Wait for me a minute, I'll clean up the dishes."

He went to the kitchen, put the bowls in the dishwasher, washed his hands, and when he came out, Lu Sui said, "Liar."

"?"

"You're six seconds too late."

"……sorry."

Shen Qinghuai glanced at the time, picked up Lu Sui, and walked towards the bedroom. "I'll lull you to sleep."

"The puppy is drinking milk."

"It's already been fed. I'll take it with me in a bit."

Why?

"It's too much trouble, feeding it at night will be too noisy. I'll ask around on the way here if anyone wants it, and if so, I'll give it to someone else."

"Didn't you say it was for the aunt? Will anyone else treat it well?"

Shen Qinghuai put Lu Sui on the bed, half-kneeling by the bedside to massage his temples and pinch his eyebrows. "Then I'll take him to school to feed him. He pooped by himself today. I'll put him outside tonight and feed him once when I get up at night."

"Only feed once?"

"Feed it once before bed, once in the middle of the night, and once more when you wake up in the morning."

"What if I don't wake up in the middle of the night?"

"Then let it go hungry for now."

"Will we starve to death?"

"Won't."

About ten minutes later, Shen Qinghuai coaxed Lu Sui to sleep. He took the milk powder and feeding tube, along with his suitcase, and took the elevator. When they reached the next floor, the elevator doors opened, and Jiang Wang grabbed Jiang Xiu by the collar and threw him in. The two looked at each other and nodded.

Jiang Xiu looked up and saw Shen Qinghuai, waving his hands, "Senior Shen, are you going to throw away the trash?"

"No, Sui Sui picked up a puppy, and I took it to school to take care of it."

"It's too much trouble to take it to school. I have nothing to do at home anyway, so give it to me and I'll take care of it."

"Ahem." Jiang Wang glanced sideways at Jiang Xiu.

Jiang Xiu froze, took several steps forward, and peered out. "Why does it look like a piece of poop? It's not even as big as my shoe size."

Jiang Wang: ...Why can't this brat talk properly?

How old are you?