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

"what?"

Ye Shu thought there was something wrong with her ears and that she had misheard:

"Why do I feed...?"

Feed me.

Xiao Nuan repeated it over and over again, seemingly completely unaware of how terrifying the request was.

"no......"

Ye Shu was a little flustered by the sudden request, and he asked:

"I'm asking, why do you want me to feed you? What does this have to do with tasting tofu pudding?"

Xiao Nuan looked at him, a hint of "this is obvious" flashing in her overly calm eyes, and then she gave an analysis of the optimal solution based on the on-site conditions:

"Because of what's in your bowl..."

She pointed to Ye Shu's bowl of tofu pudding, which was now almost unrecognizable:

"The distribution of the braising sauce and chili oil has reached a theoretically uniform state. This means that the taste impact of each bite is smooth, stable, and predictable."

Her gaze shifted to the bowl of tofu pudding in front of her, still snow-white and clear, with the braising sauce floating on the surface.

"As for my bowl, the braising sauce on the surface is too concentrated, while the tofu pudding at the bottom is too bland. If I were to try the first bite, I would most likely be directly exposed to the high concentration of salty braising sauce, and the taste experience would be too sharp, which might trigger negative feedback and cause me to stop trying it."

"Simply put, the flavor from your bowl is more balanced, and theoretically, the acceptance rate and success rate for first-timers are higher. Therefore, it is a more reasonable solution for you to feed me from your bowl."

......

"I don't understand, I really don't understand," Ye Shu looked at the two bowls of tofu pudding like a duck trying to hear thunder, opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know how to refute them.

"Is the difference... really that big?"

"have."

Xiao Nuan answered quickly.

"Alright..."

Ye Shu was convinced. Anyway, it was just one bite, no big deal. Let's end this somewhat strange conversation quickly.

He reached out to take the spoon from Xiao Nuan's hand:

"Then give me the spoon, and I'll give it to you..."

However, just as he reached halfway out, Xiao Nuan subtly slid her hand holding the spoon downwards and hid it under the table, avoiding his movement.

At the same time, she leaned forward slightly, crossed the small dining table, brought her face closer, and opened her mouth.

Her eyes remained fixed on Ye Shu, her gaze calm, but the posture of waiting, combined with her slightly raised chin and parted lips, created a striking image.

She waited and specified the feeding method.

Ye Shu's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, completely stunned. What... what's going on? Not using her spoon means...

His face instantly flushed, and he subconsciously tried to find a reason, such as, "Wouldn't it be inappropriate to use my spoon? I've already used it, and it has saliva on it," but he felt awkward saying those words himself.

However, before he could even finish arranging his refusal, he met Xiao Nuan's direct gaze.

Seeing that he was still hesitating, Xiaonuan urged him again clearly. Her voice wasn't loud, and her tone wasn't very varied, but somehow it carried an irresistible, matter-of-fact quality:

"Feed me, hurry up. The tofu pudding is getting cold, and the temperature drop will affect the taste assessment."

"Okay, okay..."

Ye Shu inexplicably chickened out, without even having time to think about what "taste evaluation" was. She just felt that although she didn't understand it, it was very intimidating.

He took his spoon, skimmed off the chili oil floating on the surface, and scooped up a small spoonful of tofu pudding from the bottom of the bowl. Raising his hand, his arm stiff, he brought the spoonful of tofu pudding towards Xiao Nuan's slightly open mouth.

As the distance closed, he could clearly see her long eyelashes, the tip of her upturned nose, and her calm eyes that were gazing at him. He could even feel the subtle breath she exhaled.

What's going on here?!

Ye Shu's heart was pounding, and her face was burning. She felt that her actions were extremely strange and ambiguous, yet under Xiao Nuan's matter-of-fact gaze, it seemed... impossible to stop.

The spoon finally reached her lips.

Xiao Nuan lowered her head slightly, took his hand, and gently put the spoonful of warm tofu pudding into her mouth.

Then, she sat up straight, leaned back in her chair, closed her lips, and began to savor the moment slowly and carefully.

Her eyes were slightly lowered, her long eyelashes covering her face, and her expression remained blank, but her attention seemed to be focused on analyzing the taste in her mouth.

Ye Shu stiffened his arm and slowly withdrew the spoon. Looking at the little bit of water remaining on the tip of the spoon, he didn't know if it was the soup from the tofu pudding or... He didn't dare to think about it. His ears were belatedly burning.

He quickly put down his spoon, picked up his bowl of tofu pudding, and tactically took a big gulp, trying to suppress the inexplicable heat and chaos in his heart.

Xiao Nuan slowly swallowed the spoonful of tofu pudding in her mouth, then raised her eyes to look at Ye Shu, whose ears were red and whose expression was complicated, and gave a very rational evaluation:

"Well enough."

"and then?"

Ye Shu put down the bowl in her hand and pressed for an answer. "What kind of evaluation is this? Good or bad? Like or dislike?"

"That's all."

"That's it?"

Ye Shu was left somewhat unsatisfied by this overly succinct feedback:

"No, do you like to eat it?"

Xiao Nuan looked at him, thought for a while, first nodded slightly, and then shook her head slightly.

Then, under Ye Shu's bewildered gaze, Xiao Nuan did something even more incomprehensible to him.

Holding her own spoon, she reached into Ye Shu's bowl of tofu pudding, scooped up a spoonful, and put it in her mouth.

She closed her eyes again, savored the moment for two seconds, then opened them and concluded:

"No, I still can't stand the taste."

"what?"

Ye Shu was completely baffled. "Then why did you just say 'it's okay'? And didn't you just scoop out another spoonful for yourself?"

Xiao Nuan's gaze calmly fell on his face, and she said something that made Ye Shu's brain freeze again:

"However, I can accept it if you feed me."

"Why...why? What's the difference? Aren't they both scooped from my bowl? How could they taste different?"

Ye Shu felt that her reading comprehension skills were facing an unprecedented challenge today.

So why did Xiaonuan say it was okay but then say she couldn't accept it?

A: It's a problem with the spoon. My spoon is the legendary nanotechnology spoon, which can disrupt and recombine the molecular structure of the tofu pudding, fully enhancing its deliciousness.

B: This expresses Xiaonuan's homesickness and serves as a transitional element in the text.

C: Obtuse angle

......

He pointed to the two bowls of tofu pudding, thinking that Xiao Nuan was deliberately teasing him, but looking at her serious face, it didn't seem like it at all.

This time, Xiao Nuan didn't answer him. Instead, she gently pushed the bowl of tofu pudding and spoon in front of her towards Ye Shu.

"You eat it."

Ye Shu looked down at the two bowls of tofu pudding. Apart from the appearance, he really couldn't see the difference between these "Schrödinger's tofu pudding".

When in doubt, consult quantum mechanics. There's no point in dwelling on this; he looked up and shouted towards the kitchen:

"Boss, another bowl of soy milk, please, with sugar."

"Okay."

Xiao Nuan, sitting opposite, seemed to have no objection to the arrangement.

She lowered her head, picked up a plump beef bun with her chopsticks, took a small bite, and chewed slowly. Her eating manners were very refined, with a natural elegance, which formed a strange contrast with her previous remarks that had left Ye Shu completely baffled.

She didn't answer Ye Shu's question about "where the difference lies," a difference that seemed to be felt only by herself.

Because what you feed me is sweet.