The landlord has multiple personalities and wants everyone to pay him.

"Currently, the child seems to be fine. The sudden fainting spell was initially diagnosed as an acute anxiety attack triggered by mental stress and stimulation, accompanied by hyperventilation, leading to temporary cerebral hypoxia. After returning home, try to keep her in a quiet and familiar environment and avoid further stimulation. Keep her diet light and make sure she drinks plenty of water. If you are really worried and would like to keep her in the hospital for observation for a day or two to ensure everything is alright, that's also possible."

"We need to pay more attention to her mental health in the future, try to avoid extreme emotional fluctuations, help her manage stress, prevent it from accumulating, and avoid pushing her too hard. Her situation is largely psychological. This is a warning sign; her body is protesting in this way, and she needs more understanding and patience."

After the doctor left, Shen Jingwan and An Jianxing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

An Suxue, lying on the hospital bed, remained very quiet after the doctor entered. Her gaze swept across every corner of the room; only her parents were present.

He's not in now.

Has he really left?

The unease in my heart quietly crept up again, and I couldn't suppress the soreness in my nose.

She tried to hold back, but finally couldn't. She gently tugged at her mother's hand, which was still holding hers, looked at her mother with tears in her eyes, and asked the question that had been weighing on her heart since she woke up:

"Mom...where's Ye...Ye Shu?"

She was terrified, terrified of hearing the answer, "Ye Shu is gone."

Shen Jingwan reached out and touched her face, wiping away the tears that had just fallen. She smiled at her and gently comforted her:

"Silly child, don't cry. Xiao Shu and Li Li went downstairs to buy dinner and will be back soon. Thanks to these two kids today, you suddenly felt unwell in the store, and they took you to the hospital and ran around all afternoon."

Shen Jingwan didn't ask pointless questions like "Why did you faint?"

As a mother, she knows her daughter too well. Asking these questions now would be like rubbing salt into her daughter's wounds, serving no purpose other than reminding her of those painful memories.

Moreover, after they received Ye Shu's call and rushed to the hospital, Ye Shu and Qin Lili had already recounted what had happened.

Xiaoxue herself suggested trying to go out to the shop where Ye Shu worked to find him. Perhaps she had been outside for too long, and suddenly couldn't hold on and fainted.

Qin Lili felt particularly guilty and repeatedly apologized to them, saying that she was so busy watching the excitement that she didn't notice Xiaoxue's unusual condition earlier.

Ye Shu also kept apologizing from the side.

After hearing this, Shen Jingwan and An Jianxing felt a mix of emotions: heartache, lingering fear, and bitterness... But in the end, what settled down was their pride in their daughter's cautious yet incredibly brave attempt.

They weren't the kind of people who were unreasonable; they knew perfectly well that this wasn't Qin Lili and Ye Shu's fault.

If anyone is to blame, it's fate for giving her such a fragile, crystal-like heart.

Their daughter was willing to muster so much courage to get closer to the person she cared about, even if it was just a small step, and that in itself was enough to make them feel gratified.

This attempt was just... temporarily unsuccessful.

But no one can say that this is the end.

The ward door was pushed open, and Ye Shu and Qin Lili walked in one after the other, carrying several bulging plastic bags, indicating that they had indeed bought quite a lot.

As soon as Ye Shu entered the door, she opened her mouth and asked:

"Uncle, Auntie, how is Xiaoxue?"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw An Suxue leaning against the headboard on the hospital bed, her face still a little pale, her eyes and the tip of her nose red, looking at him with a mixture of guilt and expectation.

Qin Lili, who was following behind, also saw An Suxue's pitiful appearance. She breathed a sigh of relief, didn't say anything, just put the bags she was carrying on the table, and then turned around and left.

Shen Jingwan gave An Jianxing a look, then got up and left, leaving the two of them alone.

Ye Shu walked to the bedside, sat down in a chair, reached out and touched An Suxue's face, her voice low but very gentle:

"Are you still feeling unwell? Is your head still dizzy?"

Just a word of concern was enough to make An Suxue, who had been holding back her emotions, finally break down. She looked at Ye Shu, her lips trembled, tears streamed down her face, and she sobbed.

She forgot that she still had a needle in the back of her hand, and subconsciously raised her hand to grab Ye Shu's arm, as if he would leave in a moment if she didn't grab him.

"Don't move."

Ye Shu gently pressed down on her hand receiving the IV drip:

"You still have the needle in your hand. If it comes out, it will hurt even more, and you'll have to get it stuck again. Not only will your hand be swollen like a pig's trotter, but I'll just boil it up and eat it."

He joked, bent down and hugged An Suxue, holding her and the blanket together.

"Don't be afraid, it's alright now. Xiaoxue, listen, you did a great job today, really. You dared to leave the house and come all that way to find me, that's a huge improvement, it's amazing."

An Suxue pressed her face tightly against his neck, and her tears quickly soaked Ye Shu's collar.

In Ye Shu's embrace, her tense nerves found a chance to breathe, and the thoughts that had been churning in her heart for a long time finally found an outlet.

She sobbed intermittently and began to confess:

"No... I... I wasn't good at all today... I... I saw you and Sister Chen Xing... standing together... talking... and I..."

She couldn't continue, but pressed her face even harder against Ye Shu's shoulder.

"Yeah, I saw it. And then?"

Ye Shu didn't urge her, but simply maintained the same posture and slowly patted her.

"Take your time, I'm listening."

"I...I also want to...stand there with you...but I'm scared...I can't do anything right...I can only hide...I'm afraid you won't want me anymore...that you'll think I'm a burden..."

She had actually revealed this question back on the night the two confessed their feelings for each other.

Ye Shu gave a clear answer at the time, but she knew in her heart that her promise alone could not erase her long-standing insecurity.

What she needs is not just love, but absolute favoritism, an unconditional choice.

Ye Shu listened quietly, neither interrupting nor rushing to comfort her. Only when An Suxue finished speaking and only sobs remained did he slightly rise so that she could see his face.

Looking at An Suxue's red and swollen eyes from crying, Ye Shu asked:

"You're afraid that if you're always like this, afraid of everything, needing someone to be with you, hiding away, I'll get annoyed, I'll find it troublesome, and one day I might not be able to take it anymore and leave you, right?"

"Uh-huh……"

An Suxue looked at him and cried even harder, but still nodded vigorously, admitting her thoughts.

"If I told you now that I wouldn't, that I would never feel like you're a burden, and that I would never abandon you, would you believe me?"

"I……"

An Suxue was about to answer "I believe you" when she opened her mouth; of course, she believed Ye Shu one hundred percent.

But when she tried to speak, she choked up.

She wanted to say she believed, but if she really believed, how could she have broken down like this today?

The promises she had made still echoed in her ears, but her fears had not disappeared.

She looked at Ye Shu with conflicting emotions in her eyes, a struggle of "I want to believe, but my heart won't allow me to fully believe."

Ye Shu understood her gaze, but he was neither disappointed nor angry.

Some knots in one's heart cannot be changed by words alone.

He suddenly released An Suxue, sat up straight, looked into her eyes, and said:

"Xiaoxue, how about this, I'll give you a promise, okay? A promise that's more real than words."

"What...guarantee?"

An Suxue blinked her wet eyes, wondering what he was going to do.

Ye Shu smiled at her, then took out his phone from his pocket, turned on the front camera, and two faces immediately appeared on the screen.

One photo shows Ye Shu, and the other shows her with red eyes and nose from crying, and her hair is a bit messy, making her look very pitiful.

Then, before An Suxue could figure out what he was going to do, Ye Shu turned on the recording and said to the camera:

"I am Ye Shu, and this lady next to me is An Suxue, she is my girlfriend."

An Suxue's heart skipped a beat when she heard those words.

Ye Shu was still speaking to the camera:

"Today, here, I, Ye Shu, promise that I will always stay by An Suxue's side, no matter what happens, no matter what the future holds, I will never leave her."

"Use this video as evidence. If one day in the future I break my promise today, or if I delete, hide, or destroy this video without authorization, then..."

He paused here, took a deep breath, and began to swear:

"Then I, Ye Shu, am a complete scumbag, a disgrace. Nothing I do in the future will go smoothly. I'll have sores on my head and pus flowing from my feet. I'll never have chopsticks when I order takeout, and I'll only have the seasoning packet when I eat instant noodles."

An Suxue was stunned and forgot to cry.

Ye Shu hadn't finished speaking when she glanced at the date on her phone and added:

"Please keep an eye on us, today is the 20th..."

He gave the date, including the exact time.

Then, under An Suxue's watchful eye, he added a location tag to the video, set it to public, and posted it on his WeChat Moments.

"Done."

Ye Shu's WeChat Moments has been completely blank since he registered, and he has never posted anything, leading many of his friends to wonder if he had blocked or deleted them.

Today, all of Ye Shu's friends saw Ye Shu's first-ever post on WeChat Moments.

There was no caption, only a location tag and a vertical video that was less than two minutes long.