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

When Ye Shu and Qin Lili returned home, the dumplings had already been made, and the three parents were sitting on the sofa chatting and watching TV.

"Mom and Dad, we're back."

Ye Shu greeted them, and as she changed her shoes, her eyes were already looking towards the stairwell.

"Yes, we're just waiting for you to come back. The dumplings will be cooked right away."

Shen Jingwan turned around and smiled. Qin Lili changed her shoes and went to the sofa to rest and enjoy the air conditioning.

Ye Shu didn't go there, but went straight upstairs. He opened the bedroom door and saw Xiao Xue sitting on the bed with her back to the door, curled up in a ball with her two pink rabbit ears drooping on both sides, looking very small.

"Xiaoxue, I'm back."

Ye Shufang walked to the bedside in a soft voice and patted her shoulder.

But Xiaoxue didn't move or say anything; she just sat there.

"What's wrong? Are you angry?"

Ye Shu asked again, trying to crane his neck to look at Xiao Xue's face, but Xiao Xue didn't move or speak. She just sniffed, and her voice sounded congested.

She did cry, just as expected.

Ye Shu went around to the other side of the bed and saw Xiao Xue holding Little Su No. 2, her eyes were red and tears were streaming down her face, dripping all over Little Su No. 2, and the pillow was soaked with tears.

Ye Shu felt a pang of sympathy for Xiaoxue's pitiful state. He quickly sat down on the edge of the bed, reached out and hugged her and the pillow together, and grabbed a few tissues to wipe Xiaoxue's face.

"Don't cry, don't cry."

Xiaoxue ignored him, her eyes still fixed on the Podocarpus macrophyllus outside the window, her lips pursed so much they could hang clothes on them.

Seeing the little girl's angry and aggrieved expression, Ye Shu quickly apologized:

"I was wrong, I was really wrong, it's all my fault."

Hearing him say that, Xiaoxue sniffed and spoke in a trembling voice, her voice trembling with tears:

"You're wrong...what did you do wrong...?"

"My mistake was going out without telling you."

Ye Shu was stunned after speaking. Why did this seem a bit off? It was like the scene in some yandere novels where the imprisoned male protagonist sneaks out, is caught, and confesses to the female protagonist. It sounded so submissive.

Upon hearing this, Xiaoxue slowly turned her head, her red eyes looking at him with a hint of resentment, truly resembling a little rabbit.

She sniffed again before asking:

"Where did you and Sister Lili go?"

"We went to buy ties."

As Ye Shu spoke, he picked up a small paper bag from the side, inside which was a tie.

"I bought a suit this morning, and then I got busy and realized I forgot to wear a tie. I was worried about wasting time, and since you were sleeping so soundly, I didn't wake you. Here, this is it."

He took a cardboard box out of the paper bag, inside which was a nice-quality tie.

Of course, he prepared this on his way back. Sister Lan's custom-made suit included a tie, so there was no need to buy one separately.

But when Ye Shu received Xiao Xue's call, he could roughly guess why Xiao Xue was unhappy, but he couldn't tell her about buying a wedding ring, so he came up with this excuse.

They bought this tie on their way back from a small shop for only twelve yuan; it was just a prop anyway.

Xiaoxue stared at the tie for a while, then gasped, tears still streaming down her face, her voice muffled:

"So... will you... still leave so suddenly in the future...?"

"No, no, absolutely not."

Ye Shu quickly pulled her into his arms again, wiping away her tears while comforting her:

"From now on, I'll definitely take you with me wherever I go. If you don't want to go, or if you fall asleep like you did today, I'll let you know immediately, okay?"

"Um……"

Xiaoxue responded through her nose, and her tense body finally leaned into Ye Shu's arms, pressing her face against Ye Shu's neck, tears streaming down her face again.

Seeing that the person in Ye Shu's arms had finally calmed down, he took the opportunity to pick up a small paper bag from the side and wave it in front of Xiao Xue:

"Look what this is. Are you hungry? We'll have to wait a while before we eat dumplings. Have some of this to tide you over."

Xiaoxue, with tears welling up in her eyes, looked at the paper bag from his arms. It was a packaging bag from a pastry shop, with the shop's logo printed on it.

Then Ye Shu took out a small transparent box containing pastries from the bag. Inside was a piece of glutinous rice cake, sprinkled with a thin layer of brown sugar. It looked quite exquisite, and there was a small wooden spoon next to it.

Xiaoxue stared at the glutinous rice cake, and whether she was crying or just smelling it, she sniffed it.

Because her face was now pressed against Ye Shu's neck, Ye Shu clearly heard a sound of swallowing.

Then, the person in his arms pressed their face against Ye Shu's neck again. The temperature was a little high, and their nose was still snorting. They said to Ye Shu in a coquettish tone:

"Then...you feed me..."

"Okay, I'll feed you."

Ye Shu held Xiao Xue in her arms, with a cake in one hand and a spoon in the other, and began feeding the rabbit in this somewhat awkward posture.

To be honest, this little spoon is really hard to use. To put it nicely, it's a spoon; to put it bluntly, isn't it just a piece of broken wood? It's a bit like the wooden piece that came with those little bowls of ice cream we bought when we were kids, except it has a shallow dent on it, like someone pressed it with their finger.

The main problem was that the glutinous rice cake was soft and sticky, and the wooden piece was polished to a very smooth, curved surface, which made it take Ye Shu a long time to cut off a small piece.

He held the small piece of glutinous rice cake and spooned it towards Xiaoxue's mouth.

Xiaoxue opened her mouth and ate the cake.

The soft and chewy texture of the glutinous rice, combined with the subtle sweetness of the brown sugar, makes it truly delicious.

It's just that the weather outside is too hot, so this cake is only lukewarm. It would probably taste better if it were chilled in the refrigerator.

She chewed quickly, thinking as she chewed.

"How is it? Is it delicious?"

Ye Shu looked down at her. When Xiaoxue ate, her little mouth pursed up and down, and she chewed very quickly, just like a little rabbit nibbling on vegetable leaves. Except she didn't have a rabbit's three-lobed mouth, but she looked very cute.

"Um……"

Xiaoxue swallowed the small bite of glutinous rice cake, licked the brown sugar off her lips, then tilted her head back and opened her mouth again:

"I want more."

Ye Shu smiled as he watched Xiao Xue, who was so easily appeased by a piece of glutinous rice cake, and fed her another one.

Xiaoxue ate it in one bite, her eyes fixed on the remaining glutinous rice cake in Ye Shu's hand. She chewed and chewed, her previous pitiful look completely gone.

Meanwhile, Qin Lili, who had come to call the two downstairs for dinner, stood at the door watching their affectionate feeding scene. She twitched her eye, rolled her eyes, and turned to leave.

After coming downstairs, Shen Jingwan saw that she was coming down alone and asked:

"Where are the two of them?"

"They're not hungry."