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

"Hello everyone, I'm Zhi Qiu."

As she spoke, she gently nudged Ye Shu with her elbow.

Ye Shu realized what was happening and quickly forced a smile at the camera, then said:

"Uh, hello everyone, I'm Ye Shu."

"As you can see, this is my boyfriend. From today onwards, this account officially exists."

She paused, rubbed her face against Ye Shu's, and continued:

"We don't shoot any complicated skits, and we don't have any scripts. We just want to simply record our lives. It might be a meal we cooked together, a movie we watched together, a kitten we met while taking a walk, or just a lazy afternoon where we do nothing."

Her voice was soft, like the warm sunlight streaming through a window on an autumn afternoon.

"Life itself is beautiful, and we want to share these little moments of beauty with you. Of course, it's mainly a record for ourselves, to show how we met this wonderful boyfriend."

"Well……"

Just as Ye Shu was about to speak, Zhi Qiu extended a finger and pressed it against his lips, still facing the camera:

"Shh... Okay, that's it for the first video. Goodbye."

The video ends here and will automatically replay.

Ye Shu looked at herself in the picture, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up.

It's eight in the morning, and Ye Shu is unusually staying in bed, snuggled in her warm blankets, scrolling through her phone, repeatedly watching this few dozen seconds of video.

He has had an aversion to cameras since childhood. It wouldn't be considered a severe case of camera phobia, but whenever he sees a camera pointing directly at him, he becomes very uncomfortable, unsure of what to do with his hands and feet, and his expression becomes stiff.

When he was a child, being dragged by his mother to a photo studio to take those annual commemorative photos of his growth was the second most painful memory he had after being dragged by his mother to buy clothes.

As for why it's second only to buying clothes? Because buying clothes requires going to each store, while this is just changing clothes.

He had one outfit after another, from ancient costumes to prince's attire, navy uniforms, and blazers, changing them endlessly.

The only fun was watching the photographer press that electric button, watching the background scroll rise up, and then another one fall down.

But once that cannon-like camera was pointed at them, the photographer shouted, "Kids, look in here, smile, one, two, three..."

With the flashes from both sides going off, he'll most likely blink uncontrollably or freeze in his expression.

At that time, he didn't understand why his mother was so keen on taking him to take those photos, doing it every year without fail.

Now he doesn't understand why he didn't take more of those photos with his mother when he was a child.

My mind wandered, and when I came back to my senses and looked at the time, it was almost nine o'clock.

Ye Shu put her phone aside, then shrank further into the blankets, pulling them down to her nose.

No rush, not at all.

Because today is a day off.

Last night, Sister Chen Xing called him specifically to say that she had something to do today and couldn't go to work. Since Ye Shu hadn't had a break in a long time, she decided to give him a day off so he could sleep in and recharge.

At times like this, Ye Shu would always sigh and say that such a good boss is hard to find even with a lantern.

He remembered reading a novel when he was in school, in which a character's motto was "Sleep until you wake up naturally, count money until your hands cramp," which once became Ye Shu's dream.

And now, it's halfway done, and I can finally sleep until I naturally wake up.

He was half asleep, just as he was about to seduce the Duke of Zhou (a figure in Chinese mythology associated with dreams) for the second time.

Boom boom boom!

A series of knocks, not loud but frequent, came at the door, followed by a slightly trembling voice from outside:

"Ye Shu... are you... are you awake?"

Judging from the commotion and tone, you don't even need to look to know who it is.

Ye Shu now understood Zhang Huaimin; he propped himself up on his arms.

"Yes, you're awake. Come in."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door was pushed open a crack, and what peeked in first was, sure enough, a pair of fluffy, pink rabbit ears.

Immediately afterwards, An Suxue's pale face appeared from behind the door, her eyes red-rimmed, as if she had been frightened.

Upon seeing that Ye Shu was indeed awake, An Suxue ran in and rushed to the bedside.

Then Ye Shu saw An Suxue, with the smoothness of Liu Bei throwing his son A Dou, throw the carrot pillow on the ground and slip into Ye Shu's bed. She wrapped herself around Ye Shu with her hands and feet, trembling slightly.

"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

Ye Shu quickly hugged her, gently patted her back, and asked softly.

An Suxue shook her head in Ye Shu's arms, her fluffy rabbit ears tickling Ye Shu's chin.

After a long while, she slowly lifted her head from Ye Shu's embrace, looked up at him, her voice still trembling with tears:

"I...there's something on the wall...I'm scared..."

Is there something on the wall?

Ye Shu's first thought was that there was a human face. Isn't that how it's usually portrayed in horror movies?

He patted An Suxue on the back again and said:

"Don't be afraid, I'll go check. You stay here, okay?"

"Um……"

An Suxue nodded, and then slowly loosened her arms and legs that were tightly wrapped around Ye Shu.

Ye Shu got out of bed, bent down to pick up A Dou from the ground, patted him down, and handed him to An Suxue on the bed.

Without Ye Shu to hug, An Suxue immediately hugged the carrot pillow tightly to her chest, then shrank into Ye Shu's bed, leaving only her eyes showing as she nervously watched Ye Shu leave.

Ye Shu walked to An Suxue's room, pushed the door open, and saw that the lights were on and the curtains were drawn.

He went in, looked around, and saw that the blankets on the bed were a little messy, but everything else was normal. He didn't see anything there.

"On which wall?"

An Suxue's voice came from the room behind:

"Across from the bed...to the left..."

Ye Shu turned his head upon hearing this, but at first he didn't see anything. He took a few steps closer, and then he saw it.

About a person's height on the wall, close to the wall decoration, a spider was quietly lying there.

This spider is quite large, about the size of a one-yuan coin. It's black and has incredibly long legs.

Ye Shu felt goosebumps rise on her face.

Despite growing up in the fields, Ye Shu has been afraid of this thing since he was a child.

To be precise, he instinctively felt resistance to most insects, not just spiders, mainly because... they were all too ugly.

I remember back in college, a spider suddenly jumped onto my desk in the dorm. I was engrossed in playing a game at the time, and it was the first time I'd ever encountered a spider that could jump. I screamed in fright.

Then he was laughed at by the three guys in his dorm for a long time, and they even gave him the nickname Spider-Man to disgust him.

Later, Zhang Xiaoqiang even interviewed him specifically, asking:

"You said crabs and spiders both have eight legs. What was your first impression of a crab?"

Ye Shu replied:

"I want to eat it."

"What was your first impression of a spider?"

"I want to die."