Going home for Chinese New Year, I squeezed onto a bus with three energetic young women.

Twenty minutes later.

The restaurant on the first floor.

Seven or eight home-style dishes were laid out on the long dining table, steaming hot.

Li Mengmeng brought out the last pot of winter melon and pork rib soup from the kitchen and pulled out a chair to sit down.

These girls don't pay attention to ladylike etiquette when they eat.

Chen Tingting used her chopsticks to pick up a large piece of braised pork.

Li Jiaxin grabbed a rib and started gnawing on it, her long purple hair haphazardly tied behind her head.

Lin Xiaoshuang's cheeks were bulging, like a little hamster hoarding food.

Even Xie Lingmo was led astray.

She held her bowl and followed Zhang Qian as they fought for the last two braised prawns on the plate.

"Delicious! This little dwarf's cooking is amazing!"

Chen Tingting spat out the bone and praised it loudly.

The group devoured the food in a flash.

Only Bai Li stared at the plate in front of him, not making a move.

He picked up a piece of bread and examined it from both sides.

Then, looking at the little girl opposite him, he asked:

"Mengmeng, is this my dinner?"

Li Mengmeng chewed rice, her two big eyes darting around.

"Yes!" she replied matter-of-factly.

Bai Li tapped the table with his finger:

"Then why are you all eating rice and stir-fried dishes, but I only have this stuff on my plate?"

Li Mengmeng put the bowl on the table and put her hands on her hips.

"These are the only slices of toast left at home!"

"Others want to eat it but don't have any yet!"

She leaned over the edge of the table, appearing eager to show off her accomplishment:

"Look how good I am to you! I save all the best food for you!"

Bai Li held the plate and glanced at the women across from her who were stuffing themselves.

He always felt that things weren't that simple.

But I was indeed hungry.

Bai Li opened her mouth and took a big bite of the bread with the cat paw print on it.

I chewed it twice.

Bai Li's eyes widened.

"Great!" Bai Li looked at the half-eaten bread in her hand and immediately commented, "This bread tastes really good!"

He savored it carefully:

"It has a very strong sweetness from the fermentation process itself."

"The key is... it has a touch of saltiness and savory flavor? The combination of the two makes for a really good taste."

After listening to the evaluation.

Li Mengmeng lowered her head deeply and bit her lip hard to keep from laughing out loud.

How salty it is depends entirely on how much sweat she produced on the soles of her feet today.

The thought of playing a prank on the utterly wicked Bai Li made her tremble with excitement.

"Mengmeng, you're really something."

Bai Li quickly stuffed the remaining half of the bread into his mouth and swallowed it.

"I want to eat this again next time."

Li Mengmeng raised her head, her youthful face revealing an innocent and harmless expression.

"Okay~"

"As long as Brother Bai Li likes it, Mengmeng will make it for you every day!"

The little girl was laughing inwardly, overjoyed.

Dinner ended amidst laughter and cheerful conversation.

Everyone moved to a different location.

Living room sofa area.

The coffee table was pushed aside.

A row of foot bath tubs were placed on the ground.

Herbal packets floated in the steaming water.

The six girls, along with Bai Li, lined up on the sofa and soaked their feet.

"After you've soaked your feet, everyone should get some rest and go to your own bedrooms. Don't come here unnecessarily."

After Bai Li finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Xie Lingmo:

"Lingmo, you can sleep peacefully in the room that Xiaoshuang prepared for you."

"If you encounter any problems at night, just call me."

Xie Lingmo tucked her feet into the hot water, her toes curling shyly.

This was the first time in nineteen years that she had spent the night at a man's house.

Her cheeks flushed, and she obediently nodded in agreement.

Li Jiaxin slumped on the sofa, rubbing her aching lower back with her hands, muttering to herself:

"I know, I know. I definitely won't sneak up on you tonight."

Lin Xiaoshuang hugged a cushion and yawned widely:

"Exactly, we're practically falling apart. We're willing but unable to do anything about it."

Chen Tingting casually tied her long red hair back:

"Since following my elder brother, I've gained other things, but I can recite Cao Daoyun's secrets every day!"

Bai Li listened to their teasing and shook her head with a smile.

It's almost ready.

He grabbed a towel, ready to dry his feet and go upstairs.

He simply bent down.

His gaze inadvertently swept over Li Mengmeng across from him.

The little girl is taking her tiny feet out of the wooden tub.

Instead of using the prepared dry towel, she grabbed the white stockings she had worn during the day and wiped the water droplets off the back of her feet.

This action is nothing to be ashamed of.

What caught Bai Li's attention was the pattern on the bottom of the white stockings.

A pink cat paw print.

Bai Li stopped moving.

He stared at the cat paw pattern.

The neat dent in the plate from earlier...

The strange salty and savory flavor when chewing...

Li Mengmeng's face was full of resentment before she started cooking...

And then there was the expression on her face when she was eating the bread, her head bowed as she tried to suppress a laugh.

All the clues connected and closed the loop in that one second.

Bai Li tightened her grip on the towel.

He looked up abruptly, his gaze locking onto Li Mengmeng, who was still humming a song while wiping her feet:

"Mengmeng".

Bai Li's voice was extremely low, and his molars were clenched so tightly they made a grinding sound:

When Li Mengmeng heard her name called, she raised her little face in confusion:

"What's wrong, Brother Bai Li?"

Bai Li stretched out his hand and pointed to the ball of white silk she was holding.

"Can you explain this to me...?"

Bai Li uttered each word carefully:

"What's with the pattern on the sole of that sock you're holding?"

Upon hearing this question...

Li Mengmeng followed Bai Li's finger and looked at her socks.

My mind went blank.

Bad thing!

The tools used in the crime were forgotten to be destroyed!

Faced with Bai Li's murderous gaze, Li Mengmeng panicked.

The body reacts faster than the brain, and the little hands wave repeatedly.

"I don't!"

Li Mengmeng shouted at the top of her lungs, inadvertently giving herself away:

"I absolutely did not make cat paw bread!"

After saying that...

Chen Tingting's foot towel fell into the basin of water.

Zhang Qian stared wide-eyed at Li Mengmeng, repeatedly exclaiming "Holy crap!"

Xie Lingmo was stunned.

This little girl actually added something to the food in an act of revenge?

Bai Li gritted his teeth.

This girl is openly taking revenge on me!

"Okay. Very good."

Bai Li put on her slippers and stood up.

He stepped over the coffee table and walked up to Li Mengmeng.

"Brother Bai Li, please let me explain..."

Seeing that things were not going well, Li Mengmeng quickly shrank into the corner of the sofa.

Bai Li completely ignored her nonsense.

He simply tucked the little girl under his armpit.

"I think you've completely gone too far!"

Bai Li, holding her in his arms, turned and headed towards the stairs to the second floor.

Li Mengmeng's feet dangled in the air, and her pink slippers fell onto the carpet.

"No! I was wrong! I was really wrong!"

The cries for mercy echoed through the villa.

Bai Li, holding her close, kicked open the bedroom door and went inside.

The door was slammed shut, blocking the view from the outside.

Ten seconds later.

The sound of sharp, loud slapping echoed from the second floor.

"Snapped!"

"Waaah—Brother Bai Li, I'll never do it again!"

"Slap! Slap!"

The sound was so loud that the women downstairs looked at each other in disbelief.

In the living room.

Xie Lingmo swallowed.

She pointed upstairs and asked Lin Xiaoshuang beside her, "Shouldn't we...go and pull them apart? They're being beaten so badly..."

Lin Xiaoshuang put her feet back into the water and waved her hand:

"Go away, I don't want to get picked too."

"It's all because Sister Mengmeng doesn't learn her lesson."

Jiang Ruyue recalled everything that happened after she met Bai Li and Li Mengmeng:

"Every time she teases that slut, she gets caught and gets thoroughly bullied."

"But she just won't change."

She thought about it seriously for a moment, and then said in a very serious tone:

"I reckon that slut is furious right now."

"If he hugged Mengmeng's butt, he could probably suck it all out in one go."