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

Let's go back to this morning, after An Suxue sent that message.

With a "what the hell" attitude, she deleted the voice message she had sent while pretending to be Xia Qing. Looking at the voice message Ye Shu sent, her face burned hot enough to make tea.

Someone came out, and I didn't hesitate for a second...

What was I doing?! How could I have come up with such a stupid idea, and now I've been exposed! I'm so ashamed!

But she felt conflicted, a little secretly pleased.

He... immediately recognized it.

It was his own voice, his own tone. Even though he was deliberately imitating Xia Qing's voice, he immediately knew it wasn't Sister Xia Qing, it was himself.

The feeling of being recognized in an instant filled her with a sweet warmth.

Two opposing emotions were battling inside her, making her face flush redder and redder. Holding her phone, she sat on the carpet, buried her face in her knees, and couldn't help but make soft, whimpering noises.

Just then, his father's voice came from outside the door again. An Jianxing stood at the top of the stairs and called up:

"Daughter, come down for dinner!"

"Coming, coming!"

An Suxue quickly got up from the carpet, hurriedly answered, threw her phone aside, patted her burning face, took a few deep breaths, and then went downstairs.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was a little awkward.

An Suxue kept her head down, shoveling small mouthfuls of porridge into her bowl, not daring to look up at her parents.

Her face was still flushed, and her mind kept replaying her foolish thought and Ye Shuhui's voice message.

She ate absentmindedly, not even noticing what food her mother put in her bowl.

Shen Jingwan and An Jianxing exchanged a glance. Something was wrong with their daughter. Her face had been flushed ever since she came downstairs, and she seemed distracted while eating.

"Xiaoxue, what's wrong? Your face is so red. Are you feeling unwell?"

Shen Jingwan put down her chopsticks and reached out to touch her forehead.

"No...nothing's wrong!"

An Suxue was startled and instinctively shrank her neck to avoid her mother's hand.

Then she realized that her reaction seemed a bit overreacting. To cover it up, she quickly reached out, without even looking at what it was, picked up a piece of food in front of her with her chopsticks, and stuffed it directly into her mouth.

But next second...

"Hmm!"

She felt as if her mouth was on fire, burning from the tip of her tongue all the way down to her throat.

She has never been able to eat spicy food since she was a child, and tears welled up in her eyes immediately, making her face even redder.

She stared at the dish with her mouth agape, her eyes brimming with tears. There was only one dried chili pepper in it, just for flavor, and she just happened to be the one who got it with her first bite.

"It's spicy, isn't it? Mom will get you some milk; milk will help relieve the spiciness."

Seeing her daughter like this, Shen Jingwan quickly got up and went to the kitchen.

An Jianxing also poured a glass of water and pushed the back of his hand towards An Suxue:

"Take a sip of water to calm down first."

An Suxue's brain was so irritated by the spiciness that she couldn't think straight. Her vision was blurred with tears, and she could barely see anything. She only heard her father tell her to drink water, so without thinking, she grabbed a cup that was next to her father.

However, she grabbed the wrong glass; instead of the water glass, she grabbed An Jianxing's wine glass.

"Hey! That's alcohol!"

An Jianxing tried to stop her, but it was too late. An Suxue had already tilted her head back and downed the whole thing in one gulp.

She treated a glass of high-proof grain concentrate like plain water and gulped it down.

"Cough cough cough...!"

Chili peppers with alcohol, only those who have tried it know.

An Suxue choked and coughed, her face turning bright red.

"Silly girl, this is wine."

An Jianxing quickly got up and patted An Suxue's back.

Shen Jingwan also came out of the kitchen with milk. When she saw her daughter coughing while covering her neck, she quickly came over.

Just as Shen Jingwan reached the table, she saw An Suxue suddenly stop coughing and collapse onto the table as if she had fainted, making the plates on the table rattle.

"Daughter, daughter? What's wrong?"

An Jianxing was so frightened that he quickly shook An Suxue, but there was no response. Shen Jingwan also came over and called out twice.

"Go to the hospital."

Startled, An Jianxing quickly grabbed his phone from the side to call an ambulance.

But when 12 was still missing a 0, An Suxue suddenly sat up again, her eyes were a little glazed, and her face wasn't as red anymore, but there were two very obvious blushes on her cheeks, like she had put on makeup to make her face red.

She blinked, her eyes slowly moving to her worried mother beside her, and then slowly turning to her father who was holding his phone.

Then, very slowly, very slowly, she opened her mouth.

"hey-hey……"

She chuckled twice, then remained in that position, her smile frozen, her eyes fixed, as if she were completely still.

Seeing her daughter like this, Shen Jingwan picked up the milk cup that had been on the table and handed it to her, gently coaxing her:

"Xiaoxue, come on, drink some milk first, it won't be spicy after you drink it."

An Suxue seemed to be a few beats slower in reacting, blinking several times before she understood her mother's words. She shook her head, the movement quite large, her long hair swinging back and forth.

"I don't want to drink... I don't want to drink milk..."

She shook her head for a while, then opened her slightly misty eyes and looked around as if searching for something. After looking around several times, she found nothing.

Suddenly, her lips trembled and her eyes welled up with tears.

"Waaah..."

Before An Jianxing and Shen Jingwan could react, they heard a loud "Wow!"

"Ye Shu, you?!...I...I want Ye Shu! Wow..."

The crying was so loud it shook the heavens and earth, so loud it made even ghosts and gods weep.

It's like a child crying with all their might after feeling wronged.

She was still crying and fidgeting on the chair, her hands flailing about as if she'd eaten a mushroom and seen a little person, grabbing at something in mid-air.

Her hair was all messed up, and tears and snot were streaming down her face; she was completely unrecognizable.

An Jianxing and Shen Jingwan were completely dumbfounded. They had raised their daughter for over twenty years and had seen her many times, but this was the first time they had ever seen her look like a three-year-old.

Shen Jingwan looked at her daughter, who was crying her eyes out in the chair, and then looked up at An Jianxing with an uncertain and slightly frightened gaze.

No way... another one, right?

An Jianxing understood what his wife's look meant, and his lips twitched as he felt uncertain.

He looked at his daughter, who was throwing a tantrum on the chair, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.

An Suxue, however, didn't care whether her parents were confused or not. She was completely immersed in her crying, sobbing so hard the roof was almost lifted off the ground. She was flailing her arms and legs, repeating the same few words over and over again:

"I need Ye Shu... Waaah... I need Ye Shu... Wow... Ye Shu... Ye Shu..."

Ye Shu shouted each time as if singing a folk song, with a long and winding melody.

Seeing her daughter crying so hard she was almost breathless, Shen Jingwan's heart softened. Forgetting whether it was yet another one, she quickly hugged An Suxue tightly and gently comforted her:

"Okay, okay, don't cry, sweet baby, don't cry... Mommy's here."

But now that her mother is here, she's no longer of any use. An Suxue's core idea is simply to get Ye Shu.

"Okay, okay, Mommy will take you to find Ye Shu, okay? Let's go find him, don't cry anymore..."

Surprisingly, upon hearing that Ye Shu was being searched for, An Suxue's crying didn't stop, but thankfully the volume did decrease a bit, changing from wailing to sobbing, as she nestled in her mother's arms and mumbled:

"Find Ye Shu...right now..."

As Shen Jingwan patted her daughter's back, she looked up and met An Jianxing's gaze. Both of them saw the same helplessness in each other's eyes.

It seems I have no choice but to go on this home delivery trip.