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

When Ye Shu opened the gate of Yunduanyuan, he saw that in the entrance hall, Potato Chips was lying motionless on Xiaoxue's slippers.

They can't possibly... starve to death!

"Chips! Chips! Potato chips!"

Ye Shu quickly squatted down and waved the potato chips in her hand.

Fortunately, the potato chip seemed to be asleep. It opened its eyes, and the moment it saw Ye Shu, the little yellow ball bounced off the slipper.

"Woof! Woof woof woof!"

Potato Chips, with its two short legs propped up, jumped up and unleashed a barrage of attacks on Ye Shu.

Although Ye Shu couldn't understand dog language, she felt the insults were incredibly vulgar.

He bent down to change his shoes, casually scooped up the potato chips, and said as he walked towards the doghouse:

"Okay, okay, stop scolding me, I was wrong. Here's the food I prepared for you."

Potato Chips lay in the doghouse, still barking at Ye Shu, but its little tail was wagging very happily.

That's how puppies are; you can tell if they're happy or not just by looking at their tails.

Ye Shu returned with dog food and poured a large bowl of it into the small bowl of potato chips.

The potato chip suddenly leaped over, burying its head in the dog food and starting to eat it with gusto.

The way they ate suggested the child was starving.

Ye Shu sat on the sofa, looking at the potato chips, which were in such a state that they would starve to death if they ate them a second later, and thought to himself, no way... let's get one of those automatic feeding machines.

Those that connect to your phone or can be set to a specific time, so you won't go hungry for chips even when you're not home.

If Xiaoxue and I make up for it, then there will be a famine in the family. Who can bear that?

……

Meanwhile, the guest rooms at Anjia Villa.

Xia Qing groggily got out of bed, yawning before even opening her eyes.

She squinted, reached out and scratched her messy hair, looked around, and then frowned.

This bed feels wrong, these cups feel wrong... nothing feels right, this isn't Ye Shu's room.

She looked again carefully. This was her parents' guest room. Where was Ye Shu?

Xia Qing closed her eyes and tried to recall what had happened. In her memory, someone seemed to have called her to get up... Ah, it was Ye Shu. He seemed to have called her.

But she was too tired at the time, and she thought it was a dream, so she just answered casually and then fell asleep again.

In other words...

Ye Shu left on his own, without taking her with him.

Xia Qing sat on the bed, and in that instant, she suddenly felt abandoned.

A feeling of injustice, a feeling of being wronged for no reason, suddenly welled up in my heart.

She was already grumpy when she woke up, and this only made things worse.

Moreover, she actually really enjoyed that feeling, the feeling of walking on the street with Ye Shu, even if it was just going to and from get off work. That sense of belonging that we were a group made her feel very at ease.

This feeling was something I had been looking forward to, but this opportunity was personally rejected by my own sleepy self.

"Fool!"

Xia Qing cursed, not knowing whether she was cursing Ye Shu for not forcibly pulling her up, or cursing herself for being so lazy.

The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. Coupled with her morning grumpiness, which kept simmering around her, she suddenly felt a lump in her throat and tears started falling.

She didn't wipe it off, letting the sour feeling run rampant in her heart.

With a thud, she lay down on the bed again, then raised her foot and kicked the bed hard in a fit of anger.

There was a muffled thud, but the sound was very loud.

Sure enough, a short while later, there was a knock on the door.

"Daughter, are you awake?"

Xia Qing quickly wiped her tears on the pillow, then called out towards the door:

"Um."

Shen Jingwan pushed open the door and walked in, and then saw her daughter lying on the bed with her face buried in the pillow.

"Get up, the sun's already high in the sky."

Shen Jingwan walked to the bedside and sat down, gently patting her daughter's bottom:

"You can't skip breakfast; if you keep skipping breakfast, your stomach will get damaged."

Xia Qing didn't move; she was still seething with anger and feeling wronged.

Besides, she didn't want her mother to see her cry over such a trivial matter; that would be too embarrassing.

So she just lay there, her back to Shen Jingwan, without moving.

But who is Shen Jingwan? She is this child's mother. They say that a mother and child are connected at heart. Even if Xia Qing makes a move, Shen Jingwan knows what she wants to do.

"What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"

Shen Jingwan asked softly, gently stroking Xia Qing's back to help her catch her breath.

"Um……"

Xia Qing had nothing to hide from her mother, and responded with a muffled sound from under her pillow.

"Come on, tell Mommy, who made Xiaoqing unhappy?"

Xia Qing didn't look up, her hand still clutching the corner of the pillow, and said with a wronged expression:

"It's just... Ye Shu, he left first without me..."

Shen Jingwan couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, and she rubbed the back of Xia Qing's head:

"Silly girl, Xiao Shu was just being considerate of you. She saw you sleeping like a little pig and didn't want to wake you. Xiao Shu said that she saw you were all too tired these past few days and was worried that you would overwork yourself, so she wanted you to get some rest."

"I know……"

Xia Qing mumbled from under the pillow:

"But I just don't feel well..."

What bothered her wasn't that Ye Shu left without calling her, but that the seat that should have been hers was empty, and she had missed the chance to walk side by side with him.

Even though she rationally knew it was for her own good, she just couldn't get over the feeling of being abandoned.

Shen Jingwan sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her daughter's awkward little face, and her feelings could only be described in two words.

Glad.

The Xia Qing of the past was like a little hedgehog who would bristle if anyone provoked her; she was covered in thorns and no one could get close to her.

But now? She actually cries over such a trivial thing as Ye Shu not taking her to work.

This girl has really put her heart into that person.

Shen Jingwan smiled, then reached out and patted Xia Qing's bottom again, before standing up and saying:

"If you miss Xiao Shu so much, then get up and eat quickly, and go find him after you finish eating."

Hmm...right, why don't we just go find him?

Xia Qing suddenly lifted her head from the pillow. Her eyelashes were still wet, but her eyes suddenly lit up.

That's just how things are sometimes; those involved are often blinded by their own perspective.

The solution is actually incredibly simple, so simple that you don't even need to think about it.

But because I got stuck in that emotion, I trapped myself in the dead end where he didn't take me, and the path I took became narrower and narrower, and I felt more and more wronged.

Now that her mother's words had pulled her out of her shell, Xia Qing sat up straight in bed, wiped her eyes with her sleeve, and, no longer caring about putting on a brave face in front of her mother, ran barefoot straight to the bathroom.

Shen Jingwan stood there, watching her daughter hurriedly grab her clothes to go find her husband. She wanted to say something, but in the end, she swallowed her words back.

She couldn't bear to see her daughter's reaction after hearing those words; it broke her heart.

She sighed, turned and left the room.

As for those words, let Xiao Shu say them.