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

Bai Li raised his eyebrows.

[And this is an unexpected surprise?]

[I was just trying to smooth things over by going along with what An's parents were saying, but I didn't expect it to break down this little landmine's defenses.]

[64 points of affection, in the admiration stage.]

[He verbally abuses me every day and threatens to kill me, but deep down he's become dependent on me.]

Women really are all two-faced creatures.

He looked towards the entrance hall.

An Yaoyao stood next to the shoe cabinet.

She was wearing a black and pink striped dress with a landmine-like design, and her gradient gray hair was a little messy.

With his hands behind his back, head down, and toes lightly kicking the patterns on the floor.

Bai Li asked a question he already knew the answer to:

"What's wrong, Yaoyao?"

"Is there anything else you need to do besides rest?"

Hearing the sound, An Yaoyao stopped kicking the floor.

She looked up at Bai Li, who was sitting on the sofa.

An Yaoyao left the entrance hall and walked towards Bai Li in her slippers.

She stopped on the other side of the coffee table.

"Why?" An Yaoyao gripped the hem of her skirt with both hands, staring directly at Bai Li. "Why would you do this?"

Bai Li continued to feign ignorance:

"Why? Why?"

An Yaoyao pouted.

Her usual explosive temper vanished without a trace, leaving her completely devoid of any sharpness.

She sniffed, her voice very soft:

"Didn't you just tell me to go back?"

"You could have said bad things about me when my parents were here."

"You can say I have a bad temper, that I threaten you with a stun gun every day, or that I don't work properly."

"Then, naturally, my parents took me away and sent me back to my hometown."

"Why say so many nice things...?"

An Yaoyao's voice grew softer and softer as she spoke, and her cheeks flushed.

What happened today had a huge impact on her.

Her parents came from afar carrying woven bags to visit her, but she couldn't even come up with a decent excuse.

She always regarded Bai Li as the enemy who had seen her naked.

But this enemy gave her plenty of face in front of her parents.

Instead of exposing her, they praised her for being meticulous and clever, making her a source of pride for her parents.

Bai Li looked at An Yaoyao's conflicted expression.

He spoke, interrupting An Yaoyao:

"Because you're already very good."

Bai Li's words came from the bottom of his heart, without any hint of sarcasm.

From his perspective, An Yaoyao never did anything out of line.

A young girl who had just turned eighteen, after being seen naked by him, came to Ping County, a place she knew no one, to find him.

She never slacked off when she stayed to work as a cleaner.

Today at her studio in the old street, she took a rag, knelt down on the floor, and wiped the more than 1,000 square meters of flooring clean.

No girl can remain calm after being seen naked; she's just putting on a brave face.

This was the first time An Yaoyao had been praised so directly by Bai Li.

She stood beside the coffee table, loosening the hem of her skirt with both hands.

From childhood to adulthood, no one except her parents had ever been so certain of her.

What's more, this affirmation came from the heartless philanderer she cursed a thousand times in her heart every day.

An Yaoyao's nose tingled with emotion, and she was about to speak, moved to tears.

Bai Li leaned back on the sofa, looking at her and adding:

"Apart from the fact that they were going to shock me with a stun gun and put a dog leash on me, everything was fine."

An Yaoyao's initial surge of emotion was shattered by those words.

She rolled her eyes and blurted out to Bai Li:

"If I stop flirting with you in the future, will you think I've always been a good person?"

The moment those words were spoken, the atmosphere in the living room changed.

Chen Tingting, who was leaning back on the sofa playing on her phone, immediately sat up straight.

She raised her eyebrows and looked at An Yaoyao:

"What's wrong?"

Li Jiaxin and Lin Xiaoshuang exchanged a glance.

Lin Xiaoshuang spoke directly:

"No, does this mean he's about to throw himself into my arms?"

Li Jiaxin chimed in from the side:

"I think so. Just now, when her parents were here, she said she wanted to be with her older brother so he could die."

The radar of these young women is very sharp.

This little landmine usually glares at Bai Li, but now it's actually starting to want to gain favor with him. This is definitely a dangerous sign.

Jiang Ruyue sat to the side, hugging a SpongeBob SquarePants pillow.

She seemed to care a lot about An Yaoyao's earlier statement that she wanted to "be worthy of Bai Li's death."

Jiang Ruyue looked at An Yaoyao, her innocent face filled with seriousness:

"That's what I thought before the exam too."

"But now, I admit I am an incompetent wife."

An Yaoyao blushed deeply at those words and didn't know what to do with her hands.

Before she could even refute it.

Li Mengmeng jumped off the sofa, ran to Bai Li's side, and grabbed Bai Li's arm with both hands, pulling him up.

"Alright."

She pouted and looked at An Yaoyao:

"If Brother Bai Li keeps flirting like this, I'm afraid Little Landmine won't be able to sleep tonight."

Zhang Qian also stood up and grabbed Bai Li's other arm:

"Little landmine, big brother, we're taking it with us." She pulled Bai Li towards the stairs.

"After all, there are still projects worth tens of billions to discuss."

Chen Tingting and Li Jiaxin also stood up and followed behind.

An Yaoyao stood there, her words only halfway through when she was forcibly interrupted by the group.

She stomped her feet in anger as she watched the girls pulling at Bai Li.

"Pooh!"

An Yaoyao shouted:

"A bunch of big titters!"

"All you do is do those kinds of things!!"

But no one paid any attention to her complaints.

The four energetic young women, along with Li Mengmeng and Jiang Ruyue, surrounded Bai Li and walked towards the master bedroom on the second floor without looking back.

An Yaoyao watched their figures disappear around the corner of the stairs, hands on her hips.

She gritted her teeth and shouted towards the second floor:

"You've been so cruel to him!"

"You're just using him as a kneading machine to satisfy your disgusting desires!"

Jiang Ruyue, who was walking at the back, stopped when she heard this.

She stood on the stairs, turned around, and blinked her big eyes.

She spoke up to correct An Yaoyao's words:

"Letting your older brother wrap the child in toilet paper and play with him like a firecracker, that's truly cruel..."