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

After seeing Chen Xing off, Zhi Qiu returned to the ward and closed the door behind her.

She still had a gentle smile on her face as she walked back to Ye Shu's side and took the half-peeled orange from Ye Shu's hand.

She sat on the edge of the bed, head down, slowly peeling the orange, tearing off the white pith one by one.

"Your boss is actually quite kind."

Ye Shu looked at her face, her expression gentle, but he could sense that Sister Zhi Qiu seemed to be hiding something in her heart.

He hesitated for a moment, then said:

"Yes, Sister Chen Xing is a really nice person, very helpful... Sister Zhi Qiu, were you... feeling unwell just now? Are you alright?"

Zhi Qiu had just plucked the last bit of white silk when she heard this. Without looking up, she simply gathered the orange peel in her palm and threw it into the trash can next to her.

Then, she broke off a segment of orange and held it to Ye Shu's lips.

"I?"

She then raised her eyes and looked at Ye Shu, her face bearing her usual warm smile:

"What could possibly be wrong with me?"

Ye Shu opened her mouth and ate the orange segment.

The tangerines were bought by Han Yang. They weren't very sweet; they seemed unripe and a bit sour.

He chewed slowly, but his eyes never left Zhi Qiu's face.

"And your attitude towards Sister Chen Xing just now..."

He swallowed the orange and decided to stop beating around the bush and speak his mind.

He understood Zhi Qiu; she was used to processing some of her emotions on her own, but keeping things bottled up for too long was not good.

"Is there something wrong with my sister's attitude?"

Zhi Qiu's smile widened, and she even raised an eyebrow at Ye Shu.

She broke off another segment of orange, but didn't hand it over; she just held it between her fingers.

"Generally speaking, there shouldn't be any problems."

Ye Shu carefully chose her words, making sure they didn't sound like a complaint:

"You were very polite and courteous, but a little too polite. It made me feel uncomfortable and a bit too distant. It was like I was being a little awkward. It wasn't like you at all."

He didn't intend to hide anything, so he told everything in detail.

But after he finished speaking, he looked into Zhi Qiu's eyes and asked another question:

"Sister Zhi Qiu, you believe me, right?"

"Yes, of course I believe in little Shu."

Zhi Qiu's smile faded slightly.

Ye Shu looked at her and continued to ask:

"You know that Sister Chen Xing has a boyfriend, right?"

"Um."

Zhi Qiu nodded again. She had already guessed what Ye Shu was going to say. The smile on her face faded a little. The orange segment was held between her fingers, and some juice had already been squeezed out.

"Didn't you say... you were already engaged?"

"yes."

Ye Shu nodded and asked directly:

"Since you know about Sister Chen Xing's situation and trust me, then Sister Zhi Qiu, what exactly are you being so hesitant about? You've been carrying something on your mind since just now. Can you tell me about it?"

He looked at Zhi Qiu and leaned forward slightly:

"Sister Zhi Qiu, is there anything we can't say to each other? If you have any thoughts, please don't keep them to yourself or make wild guesses. Many unnecessary misunderstandings start from what I think and believe. Let's not do that between us, okay?"

Zhi Qiu fell silent.

The last trace of a smile vanished from her face. She stopped looking at Ye Shu and slowly lowered her head to look at the orange segment in her hand that had been squeezed until it burst with juice.

After a moment of silence, Zhi Qiu sighed softly.

"I'm sorry, little brother Shu."

She raised her head, her eyes, which always held a smile, now filled with complex emotions. She confessed to Ye Shu:

"Sister just now... she did show some inappropriate hostility towards Chen Xing. It was my fault."

After saying that, fearing that Ye Shu might misunderstand, she quickly explained:

"But, it's not because I suspect there's anything between you two, really not. I know Chen Xing has a fiancé, and I know you two are just friends. I'm not the kind of person who makes wild guesses."

Ye Shu didn't interrupt her. Of course he knew that Zhi Qiu wasn't that kind of person, otherwise he wouldn't have asked her like this.

"But... I can't explain why, but I just feel really uncomfortable."

She took a deep breath and continued:

"After you left this morning, I was home alone, and I saw a video of you dancing on my phone."

Ye Shu blushed. Oh no, he had been found out after all.

Zhi Qiu continued:

"Seeing you like that, and the thought of it happening in front of her, makes me feel... very unbalanced and uncomfortable. Little Shu, I'm upset because I wasn't the one who filmed this video."

As she spoke, her head slowly lowered again:

"I know this is unreasonable and childish. But I just can't help thinking this way. When I saw that video, my heart... ached a little."

Ye Shu never expected that Zhi Qiu's emotional reason was that he had danced in front of others... Is this what they call possessiveness?

This is bad. Has Sister Zhi Qiu awakened some incredible attribute?

"Then……"

Zhi Qiu continued over there, confessing and seeking leniency:

"Just as I was still recovering from the discomfort in my digestive tract, I received a call from Han Yang saying that you had been hit by a car."

She started to get emotional, and tears welled up in her eyes again.

"At that moment... I forgot everything in my mind, completely, and all that was left was fear."

Her voice began to choke, and although she tried hard to control herself, tears still streamed down her face.

"On my way here, I couldn't stop thinking about so many things... What if you're really badly injured? What if you break an arm or a leg? What if... what if something happens to you? What will I do? What will we do?"

She became more and more agitated as she spoke, and the orange segment she had been holding in her hand finally broke and fell onto the bed sheet.

She reached out and grabbed Ye Shu's hand tightly.

"But even when I see you're alright, I'm still terrified! I'm so scared... Ye Shu, I'm afraid that one day, what if you really... aren't by our side anymore? What will we do? What will I do?"

As Zhi Qiu spoke, her emotions seemed to completely collapse. The composure and calmness that she had been trying to maintain in front of Han Yang, Chen Xing, and Ye Shu had completely vanished.

She lowered her head and rested it on Ye Shu's leg, crying very hard.

"I'm sorry... Little Shu... I'm so sorry..."

Tears instantly soaked a large patch of Ye Shu's pants.

"Sister shouldn't have done that... Sister was just... just very scared... afraid you'd disappear..."

A nurse passing by the door saw the two people inside through the glass window in the door and couldn't help but sigh, "This young couple has such a good relationship; they're crying like this over a sprained ankle."