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

At seven o'clock in the morning, Liu Qiushui was cooking. She steamed goose egg custard for Lu Sui. She had specifically looked up a tutorial on her phone. After steaming, she added a little soy sauce and sesame oil. The custard was very tender, and even a spoon touching it would create ripples.

Shen Qinghuai had already woken up and was washing Lu Sui's socks and underwear outside, hanging them where they couldn't be seen at all. If they were still a little damp when he left in the afternoon, he would dry them with a hairdryer.

Last night, Lu Sui took a shower and did push-ups in his room to make his abs firmer and more noticeable. As a result, he sweated a little, and Lu Sui only touched them twice before disgustedly shaking his hand away, which made him angry. After showering, he came back and hugged Lu Sui and kissed him a lot.

Lu Sui dodged to the right, and he kissed Lu Sui's ear; he dodged to the left, and kissed Lu Sui's neck.

He tried to be friendly with the Americans, and ended up getting a slap and two insults.

He was laughing like it was free this morning.

Liu Qiushui peeked out of the kitchen to look at Shen Qinghuai, then pulled her head back in, peeked out again, dried her wet hands on her apron, and went over to talk to Shen Qinghuai, "Son, is your bed a little small?"

Shen Qinghuai splashed water on his hands, "Not small."

"Well, I bought a folding bed at the supermarket yesterday. I'll put it in your room so you can sleep on it and not crowd Xiao Lu," Liu Qiushui said thoughtfully.

Actually, Shen Qinghuai pretty much understood what Liu Qiushui meant at this point. He was silent for a moment, then slowed down his handwashing. "Mom, we're just different. I can't break up with him—"

Before she could finish speaking, Liu Qiushui interrupted her, glancing at Shen Qinghuai's door and saying urgently, "I...I didn't say anything! Don't slander me!"

"...?"

Liu Qiushui went back to the kitchen.

I thought to myself, no wonder some families have problems with the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it's all the son's fault.

When did she say that Shen Qinghuai and Lu Sui should break up?

It's absolutely terrifying.

Shen Qinghuai watched Liu Qiushui's retreating figure, wiped his hands, and went over to hug her. "Mom, thank you."

"Why are you thanking me?"

"Thank you for agreeing to us being together. I'm thinking of finding an opportunity to be honest with you later."

"You two," she said, her voice dripping with affection, "who can't tell?" Liu Qiushui said earnestly, "This place is small, unlike Beijing. You two need to be careful when you go out, don't let anyone find out. Also, before you're married—can you even get married?"

"cannot."

"Can't? If you can't, why are you sleeping in the same room with him?" Liu Qiushui pushed Shen Qinghuai away. "You'll sleep outside tonight. Even though we can't get married, we still need to go through the proper formalities. I'll go prepare the red envelopes now."

After she finished speaking, she seemed to remember something and tugged at Shen Qinghuai's sleeve, asking in a low voice, "Xiao Lu said you sometimes bully him. How do you bully him? Mom can tell he's like a child, innocent and naive. Don't take advantage of your knowledge to do bad things to him."

"What bad things could we possibly do?" Shen Qinghuai asked nervously.

"That's true." Two men, cough, what bad things could they possibly do?

Shen Qinghuai said, "It's just kids teasing each other by pulling each other's hair."

I can't bring myself to say it, and Shen Qinghuai will definitely get beaten up. Liu Qiushui will also drag him to Shen Wende's photo and make him kneel down and repent.

Shen Qinghuai will go to repent soon; Liu Qiushui doesn't need to take him.

"You pulled his hair?" Liu Qiushui glared at Shen Qinghuai. "Don't pull his hair again!"

Shen Qinghuai nodded, "Okay, let's stop arguing."

"Let's go back, or we'll be covered in cooking fumes. I'll start cooking first. Check if Xiao Lu is awake yet."

"Um."

When Shen Qinghuai opened the door, Lu Sui had just put down his phone and was going to unplug the charger; his phone had run out of battery and shut down the night before.

Shen Qinghuai closed the door behind him and went to the bedside to look at Lu Sui. Lu Sui was also looking at Shen Qinghuai, with some emotion deep in his eyes. Perhaps it was suppressed too deeply, so it was very shallow and unfathomable.

"Why are you staring at me like that?" Shen Qinghuai lowered his eyes and gently nuzzled against Lu Sui. "It's time to get up, baby."

Lu Sui's eyelashes drooped coldly. "Hmm."

Shen Qinghuai asked, "Why do you look unhappy?"

"I'm not unhappy."

Shen Qinghuai hugged and kissed him, then handed him clothes to wear. After Lu Sui finished washing up, Liu Qiushui had also prepared dinner. Wearing the new clothes Lu Sui had bought for her last time, she held a red envelope in her hand and said, "Little Lu, this is a gift from your aunt."

Lu Suiwei frowned almost imperceptibly, and after two seconds, accepted the gift without looking at Shen Qinghuai or saying thank you.

Even so, Liu Qiushui was overjoyed; her wrinkled face beamed with happiness. Shen Qinghuai placed the red envelope from Lu Sui's hand into his pocket. "Do you know why I gave you a red envelope?"

"have no idea."

"Because Mom knows we're dating, I brought you home so she could give you a gift to show her approval and welcome, and also to show that she likes you very much."

"And what about you?" Lu Suimo asked Shen Qinghuai.

"Of course I like you too."

fraud.

Lu Sui touched the red envelope in his pocket, sat down to eat, and Shen Qinghuai handed him the steamed egg custard, saying, "Mom made this, have a taste."

"Um."

After dinner, Lu Sui sat in Shen Qinghuai's room. Shen Qinghuai noticed that Lu Sui was unhappy, but couldn't pinpoint why. He pulled Lu Sui onto his lap and asked, "Did you get angry when I kissed you last night?"

Lu Sui said, "No."

He took the initiative to kiss Shen Qinghuai's cheek, lightly touching it.

This rare initiative made Shen Qinghuai's eyes crinkle into crescents, his eye bags turning into smiley faces. "Where's the red envelope Mom gave me? Did you see how much money was in it?"

"Pockets? None."

"Then let me count it for you." Although Shen Qinghuai had been holding the edge of the container, he knew there was a lot of money inside. When he took it out and counted it, it was a full ten thousand.

Shen Qinghuai said, "In families like ours, we usually give a gift of 888 or 999. If your mother gives you 10,000, it means she really likes you."

Lu Sui's knuckles curled slightly. Shen Qinghuai kissed his ear, and he frowned slightly to pull away. "They'll see."

"The curtains will block our view, so no one will see us." Shen Qinghuai put the money back into Lu Sui's pocket, hugged Lu Sui for a while, and said, "I'll go tell my mother that we're leaving at four o'clock. If you still want to stay here tonight, we can leave tomorrow and climb the mountain to watch the sunrise the day after tomorrow."

"Leave at four o'clock."

"Okay, I'll go tell Mom."

Shen Qinghuai put Lu Sui down and went to the living room, where he heard the TV news broadcast announcing the death of Lu Huai Ren, the eldest son of the Lu family.

Yesterday, Liu Qiushui and Xu Suya were watching TV in the living room, chatting loudly. The volume hadn't decreased yet, and Shen Qinghuai hadn't closed the door when he came out, so Lu Sui heard them too.

The TV was broadcasting news of someone committing suicide by jumping from a building in a nursing home. The window the camera was focused on was Fang Yu's room, which looked familiar because there were blue flowers below. Then, several photos were shown, including one of Lu Sui whose face was blurred. Shen Qinghuai grabbed the remote and turned off the TV. Liu Qiushui was confused and hadn't asked what was wrong when Lu Sui said calmly, "They're all dead."

"Yes, it's a real shame. She's so old; her kids are probably in college by now."

"Shen Qinghuai, I have no parents."