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

As night fell, the bedside lamp was on in the bedroom, and Ye Shu leaned against the headboard with a pillow behind her back.

Zhi Qiu nestled in his arms, her face pressed against his chest, listening to his heartbeat while scrolling through her phone.

Ye Shu also held her phone, and on the screen was the group 【I am a brother V I am fifty, crazy week (4)】.

There's no need to reveal the name; it must have been changed by Zhang Xiaoqiang out of curiosity.

The group chat is quite lively right now. During the day, the guys all have their own jobs, so this is the only time they can get together and chat and boast.

Wang Yu [@Everyone, guys, I need help urgently! My family has arranged another blind date for me. This time it was my carelessness in introducing her. She says she's her colleague's daughter, and they want me to meet her tomorrow. What should I do?]

Zhang Xiaoqiang [Go ahead]

Zhang Xiaoqiang: [Just look at your face, so much like Gorky's!]

Zhang Xiaoqiang [sat down].

Zhang Xiaoqiang's melancholic aura was so captivating that girls would be mesmerized.

Han Yang [@Zhang Xiaoqiang, could you please stop splitting a single sentence into eight parts?]

Han Yang [@Wang Yu, Qiangzi is right, when our Brother Yu makes a move, he's bound to charm countless young women. You should wear your Shohoku team uniform from your sophomore year tomorrow; wouldn't that make you look like Sakuragi Hanamichi reincarnated?!]

Wang Yu: [Thank you both so much! I specifically asked you to help me figure out how to decline this offer. Sitting down and talking about this with someone I've never met before—isn't that awkward? Awkward?]

Zhang Xiaoqiang: [Isn't that simple?]

Zhang Xiaoqiang: [Why don't you just confront your family directly?]

Han Yang [@Zhang Xiaoqiang, you son of a bitch, if you post this in segments again, I'm buying a ticket and going over there to beat you up.]

Zhang Xiaoqiang: [Just tell me, right now all I care about is making money. Women will only slow me down. Once I'm successful, I won't have to worry about not having a wife.]

Wang Yu: [If I dared to say that, my dad would plant me in our field as a scarecrow, you believe me?]

Zhang Xiaoqiang [@Human Low-budget Ye Shu, I know you're spying, come out now! You've found true love, huh? Come out and share some experience with your brother Yu.]

Seeing that she had been called out, Ye Shu stopped lurking and sent a message:

I can't really help it. My buddy was just lucky; he found true love before he got pressured to get married. He's settled down now and has no experience in this area.

It was followed by a shrug emoji.

Zhang Xiaoqiang: [@Wang Yu @Han Yang, how about the three of us chip in and beat this bastard up?]

Wang Yu: [I'll bet a hundred to beat that bastard to death!]

Han Yang: [I live nearby, you can transfer the money to me, I'll beat them up for you.]

Ye Shu looked at the message on her phone screen and felt so happy that she couldn't help but laugh.

Zhi Qiu leaned against his chest, and hearing Ye Shu laugh, she tilted her head slightly and asked:

"What are you looking at, secretly laughing to yourself like that?"

"No, I was just chatting with my buddies."

As Ye Shu spoke, she moved her phone closer to Zhi Qiu and showed it to her:

"Wang Yu, my college roommate, is being pressured by his family to go on a blind date tomorrow. He doesn't want to go, but he's too scared to tell his family. He's asking us for advice."

知秋自动忽略了屏幕上集资揍人的消息，一眼就看到了叶抒发的那一句，尤其是里面「找到真爱」那几个字。

Zhi Qiu's eyes crinkled into a smile. Although she knew that Xiao Shu was saying this on purpose in front of his friends, she still felt a sweet warmth in her heart seeing him showing off like this in front of his friends.

"A blind date..."

Zhi Qiu leaned her face back against Ye Shu's chest:

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with going to meet her. Just consider it making a new friend. If you get along, that's fate. If you don't, just have a polite meal together, and come back and say it's not a good match. Maybe the girl's family forced her to come."

"That's right."

Ye Shu nodded and began typing on her phone.

[@Wang Yu's advice: Just go meet her. Like my girlfriend, who's currently nestled in my arms, said (yes, that's right, I did it on purpose), just treat it as making friends. What if, I mean just what if, she's really nice and you two click? Even if it doesn't work out, you can just leave after dinner. Your family can't force you to be with her, can they?]

Wang Yu: [You're such a spoiled brat, you don't understand the embarrassment of an empty stomach. My main point is that I didn't want to go because I felt awkward in that situation. With a stranger, having to try so hard to find topics to talk about, and then having to tell my family how it went when I got home… just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable.]

Ye Shu sighed as he looked at Wang Yu's message. He decided to add one last bit of fuel to the fire before gracefully withdrawing.

Well, there's nothing I can do then, good luck, Yu-ge. If all else fails, just tell your family you actually like men. Anyway, I've given you the solution, I'm not going to argue with you anymore. Goodnight, everyone. It's too short for me to sleep with my sweet, soft girlfriend. Goodnight, fellow loners.

After sending the message, Ye Shu gave his phone screen a crooked smile, then looked at the messages in the group about raising funds for him on Waterdrop Crowdfunding, and turned off his phone with satisfaction.

Cool!

The feeling of showing affection in front of brothers in dire straits was indescribably exhilarating; Ye Shu felt as if his meridians had been opened up by pure bliss.

What are good buddies for? Aren't they just for showing off in crucial moments? Hehe.

Just as Ye Shu was about to put down her phone and drift off to sleep in blissful, mischievous joy, she heard Zhi Qiu's gentle voice in her ear:

"A sweet and soft girlfriend?"

Zhi Qiu tilted her head slightly upwards, looking at him from his chest, a smile playing on her lips:

"You speak so fluently, it seems you've introduced your older sister like this to many people, little Shu."

Ye Shu was a little embarrassed because he didn't expect Sister Zhi Qiu to see his casual chat with his buddy.

"Well, wasn't it just to show off a little in the group chat and annoy them?"

"Oh, I see."

Zhi Qiu put down her phone, then turned around and went from lying on her side to lying face-to-face with Ye Shu on his chest.

She was wearing a black silk nightgown, which looked hazy and alluring.

She wrapped her arms around Ye Shu's neck, pulled herself up slightly, and gently pressed her lips to Ye Shu's chin, whispering:

"Our little Shu, he only dares to talk back to his best friends on the phone. When it comes to something serious, he blushes like crazy all the time."

"I……"

Ye Shu's heart started racing from Zhi Qiu's sudden attack. He wanted to retort, but he could feel his face burning hot.

Seeing Ye Shu's blushing face, Zhi Qiu clearly had no intention of letting him off so easily. Her lips remained pressed against Ye Shu's chin, but her eyes widened slightly, her pupils fixed on Ye Shu's eyes, and she asked:

"So... you found true love, and you just said it out loud to spite them?"

"That's not it!"

Ye Shu didn't hesitate this time and blurted it out.

As he spoke, he lowered his head, trying to look into Zhi Qiu's eyes.

But he forgot that Zhi Qiu's lips were still pressed against his chin. When he lowered his head, he only felt a warm, soft touch on his lips.

His body instinctively tried to dodge, but the arm around the back of his neck suddenly tightened, pressing his head down firmly as he tried to tilt it back.

A few seconds passed before Zhi Qiu pressed her lips to his and let out a soft laugh:

"My sister knows."