The unattainable beauty was driven to depravity and madness by a wicked seed.

"I like you." Lu Sui's voice was soft, and his ears turned bright red after he finished speaking. He couldn't stand Shen Qinghuai asking a second time. After half a second, feeling that Shen Qinghuai hadn't heard him clearly, he tugged at Shen Qinghuai's ear and said again, "I like you."

Shen Qinghuai replied, "I like babies too."

"But it would have been even better if the baby had said that last night too."

"...You're being indecent," Lu Sui said. "You look perfectly normal."

Shen Qinghuai composed himself somewhat, slipping his hand under Lu Suiyi's hem to pinch her waist. "People who look serious are often the most unserious, just like me. Xiaobao, got it?"

Lu Sui slapped Shen Qinghuai's hand away. "I'm hungry."

"Put your pants on first, then go brush your teeth and wash your face. I'll bring the dishes out. Today we have sweet and sour pork, and your favorite sweet and spicy tiger-skin eggs. Don't pick out the green peppers and carrots inside."

Why?

Now, when Lu Sui encounters something that Shen Qinghuai forbids her to do, she always asks him the same question over and over again, trying to awaken his conscience and change his mind. Sometimes, she even takes the opportunity to finish the things that Shen Qinghuai forbids her to do while she is asking him the question.

"Carrots are good for the eyes, so you shouldn't pick them out."

"What about the green peppers?"

"Can't."

Why?

"Green peppers are good to eat too."

"The skin is bitter."

"The green peppers I bought this time are fully ripe, the skin isn't bitter, and the carrots are chopped very finely, so there's not much carrot flavor." Shen Qinghuai put Lu Sui on the bed and half-squatted down to put socks on him.

"I'll get angry if you don't listen to me."

"I'll get angry if you don't eat your vegetables."

Lu Sui pinched Shen Qinghuai's cheek, her voice tinged with a sigh, "Shen Qinghuai, why are you so infuriating?"

Shen Qinghuai suddenly burst out laughing, "I'm annoying? How am I annoying?"

"Disobedient."

"Then let me ask you, is not eating vegetables a good thing?"

"You said that you don't have to eat things you don't like, and you shouldn't force yourself to eat them."

"I did say that, but," Shen Qinghuai didn't know what to say, so Lu Sui turned the tables and reached out to hook Shen Qinghuai's chin, "Be good, okay? You won't eat green peppers and carrots today."

"It's already finished, are we just going to throw it away?" Shen Qinghuai touched Lu Sui's palm, looking disappointed. "I spent so long making it..."

Lu Sui stood up, unconvinced, "You're faking it again."

Shen Qinghuai hummed in agreement. "If Xiaobao thinks I'm faking it, then think so... I'm not sad, Xiaobao, don't overthink it."

At the dinner table, Shen Qinghuai placed a tissue next to Lu Sui's bowl, then, without looking at him, considerately asked, "Do you need me to help you choose?"

Lu Sui couldn't quite describe his emotions at that moment. He poked at his bowl with his chopsticks, picked up a carrot, and ate it. After finishing, he realized what he was feeling and said, "I kind of want to hit you."

Shen Qinghuai asked with a smile, "Where do you want to hit?"

Seeing Lu Sui glaring at him, he asked again, "What do you want to use to fight?"

"No talking while eating."

"Okay, let's talk after we finish eating."

"..." Lu Sui took a bite of egg. "You always shut me up with your words."

"Can't we use words to shut up? Then what?"

"Shen Qinghuai! Go stand in the corner as punishment!"

Lu Sui pointed at the wall, about to explode.

Just then, Shen Qinghuai's phone rang. It was Liu Qiushui calling. He turned the screen towards Lu Sui and said, "Why aren't we married yet, and Xiao Bao is already starting to punish me?"

"I won't marry you." Lu Sui nudged him with his leg under the table.

"If we don't get married, we'll have to date for the rest of our lives," Shen Qinghuai said. "My husband loves to stand as punishment, he'll be there in a bit."

After saying that, he answered the call, and Liu Qiushui's voice came from the other end, "Hello, Mom."

"Qinghuai, you and Xiao Lu are about to start your holidays, right? Old Wang's son mentioned it today, and that's why I thought of asking you two."

"Yes, I'll be two days later than him, so we'll go back together."

"Okay, have you eaten?"

"Eating now."

"Did you cook this?"

"Um."

"Make sure you cook something delicious. If you don't know how, look at your phone and learn from the tutorials. Or you can buy some nutritious meals. Anyway, you have money now, so don't mistreat Xiao Lu."

"I know."

When Lu Sui heard Liu Qiushui say she was going to hang up, she unconsciously leaned forward a little, as if asking Shen Qinghuai, or perhaps Liu Qiushui, "Has Auntie eaten?"

He spoke softly, but Liu Qiushui, with her sharp ears, asked, "Was that Xiao Lu speaking just now?"

Shen Qinghuai took a tissue to wipe Lu Sui's mouth and handed the phone forward.

"it's me."

"Have you eaten?" Liu Qiushui's voice was noticeably gentler.

"Eating now."

"What has Qinghuai done for you?"

"Braised beef brisket with tomatoes, stir-fried cabbage with tomatoes, sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, and tiger-skin eggs," Lu Sui said. "I don't like green peppers and carrots."

Liu Qiushui had been on the phone with Lu Sui, and roughly understood what he meant. Hearing this, she yelled, "Shen Qinghuai! I just said you should cook whatever Xiao Lu likes to eat. He doesn't like green peppers and carrots, so you can't put them in next time!"

Shen Qinghuai: "...Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Sui asked, "Why were you yelled at? I feel uncomfortable."

"Because it wasn't my fault, Xiao Bao felt a little guilty."

"...That's not the answer."

"That's because Xiaobao likes me too much and can't stand seeing me suffer."

"You're not wronged."

"..." Because I put green peppers and carrots in it, right?

Tomorrow is the last day for Spring Art Gallery to accept paintings. Shen Qinghuai and Lu Sui mailed out all the paintings. He watched Lu Sui wearing a hooded jacket to hide his red hair, wearing a mask, and doing everything he could to disguise himself. He asked about his doubts. Lu Sui said that he couldn't let him know that he painted the paintings, otherwise no one would buy them. He also said that he would feel sad if he couldn't sell the paintings after painting them for so long.

Shen Qinghuai wasn't sure if no one would buy it. He held Lu Sui in his arms for a long time. It was so hot that Lu Sui was sweating, and he couldn't break free. He slapped him and saw that his eyes were red. He looked down at his hand and pondered, then said, "You're faking it."

Wutong Town.

As soon as Liu Qiushui arrived home in her tricycle, Xu Suya went out from the living room to see what was happening. She saw a Wuling Hongguang mini-truck following behind her, and before she could even speak, she noticed a new bed on the truck. She was taken aback for a moment, then laughed so hard her eyes disappeared.

"Qiu Shui, with all this house renovations and bed buying, is Qing Huai's girlfriend now your future daughter-in-law?"

Liu Qiushui waved her hand, "Qinghuai's room is almost completely peeling, and the bed is small. We can't let him come home once a month and not be able to sleep well. As for the prospective daughter-in-law, it depends on whether she is willing to be one."

"There's no need to renovate now. Your Qinghuai isn't planning on getting married yet, is he? If you wait another two years and just tear down the house and build a new one, you're just wasting your money."

Xu Suya knew that Wen Chengyu had earned 100 million yuan, and she also knew that Shen Qinghuai had made money, though she didn't know exactly how much. Lately, she had been very careful in her words and actions, afraid that others would find out that they were rich. Although the neighbors usually got along very well, when it came to money, who knew who might be secretly jealous and use underhanded tricks.

When Liu Qiushui first opened her noodle shop, people felt sorry for her. But as the noodle shop became very successful, a few old ladies started to complain. Now that she's renovated her house, it's too ostentatious. Xu Suya is even afraid for her. Recently, those old ladies have been hanging around here every day, and they even buried something in the corner of Liu Qiushui's wall at night.

Xu Suya wasn't asleep at that time. She checked the security camera footage at the door, put on her clothes, grabbed her husband, put on gloves, and dug it out and returned it to the old lady. She hasn't told Liu Qiushui about it yet, afraid that she would be scared.

With just that one glance, Liu Qiushui understood Xu Suya's meaning. He smiled and said, "I don't have any spare money. Whether I can build a house in the future is another matter. I just hope Qinghuai will bring his girlfriend back soon. If you don't mind, you can stay here for a few days during holidays. If you really don't mind, I don't know what to do."

"Xiao Liu, where did your mother go?" An old woman asked, glancing sideways at the new bed.

"Yeah, it's been almost three months since I last saw you." Another old lady pouted and said, "Could you have sent him to some nursing home? The phone said it's full of elderly abusers. He suffers with you all the time, and now he has to go in and suffer too. Is this a bed you bought for yourself? You really know how to enjoy life."

Xu Suya truly couldn't stand these old ladies. "You bunch of rotten apples are a real waste of a pot of porridge. You're always gossiping about this and that. You were bad when you were young, and you're even worse now that you're old. I'm asking you, how many more years do you have left to live? Don't you have any intention of accumulating some good karma?"

"Wen family daughter-in-law, you really have a sharp tongue—"

"Why should I spare them! Why should I spare them! Why should I spare them!" Xu Suya put one hand on her hip and pointed at them with the other, jumping and shouting. Her demeanor actually intimidated the old ladies.

Wen Liuqi couldn't bear to see his wife being scolded, so he started jumping around like Xu Suya, making even louder noises. The old lady was repeatedly defeated and fled in panic.

Liu Qiushui was a little dumbfounded, and then embarrassed to apologize to Xu Suya, saying that she was so busy watching that she didn't join in cursing them. Xu Suya said it was okay, "I'm thick-skinned, I'll protect you in this area."

After saying that, she helped carry the bed into Shen Qinghuai's room. Looking up, she exclaimed in surprise, "How come the decoration is so stylish? Qiushui, tell me the truth, have you already met Qinghuai's girlfriend? Is his girlfriend already your future daughter-in-law?"

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The previous chapter featuring Lu Sui and Shen Qinghuai has been supplemented.