What are you looking at? You're the female lead too!

As Ye Wen and Shen Caichun walked out of the room and down from the second floor, they ran into Shen Xuqiu carrying a fruit platter, running towards them with his little legs clattering.

You can vaguely see that her mouth is a little bulging, and there are still a few strands of yellowish-white viscous substance left at the corners of her mouth.

It's clear she was having a great time sneaking a bite.

"I didn't steal the pudding... cough, I mean, I didn't come so late because of the pudding, yes, there was a big rat!"

Shen Xuqiu, looking guilty, spread his arms wide and gestured, "Such a big rat, it looks terrifying."

"I came so late because I was chasing that mouse."

"It definitely wasn't from eating pudding!"

"Oh~" Shen Caichun leaned back strategically: "That big rat ate all the pudding in the fridge, right?"

"Yes, yes."

Shen Xuqiu nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"Oh." Ye Wen looked at Shen Xuqiu's lips with a disappointed expression: "Then, to protect Pudding, you rushed up and French kissed that big rat, managing to snatch a little bit of pudding from the very back of the rat."

"That's why there are pudding marks around your mouth, right?"

"Yes, yes... Hmm?" Shen Xuqiu nodded repeatedly, then realized something was wrong: "Wrong!"

"Who would French kiss a rat!" Shen Xuqiu gritted his teeth in anger, while also wiping away the traces of his crime from his mouth with the back of his hand.

"Don't say such disgusting things, you big bad guy!"

Shen Xuqiu's level of cursing is as low as ever.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing. It's just that you ate more pudding than planned. We can just not let you have any next month."

Shen Caichun calmly uttered some terrifying words, smiling as she looked at Ye Wen, showing no trace of the dejected look she had earlier in the room.

"It's already this late. You've come all this way to our house, Ye Wen, why don't you stay for dinner before you leave?"

Shen Caichun puffed out her chest: "I'll make you noodles, sister."

Shen Xuqiu sighed helplessly: "Sister, I told you, don't tease Ye Wen. This blockhead won't react at all."

"You might as well tease a log than tease him."

"Huh?" Shen Caichun held a bundle of noodles in his hand: "Xiao Qiu, what are you talking about? What do you mean by teasing? We're really having noodles for dinner tonight."

Shen Xuqiu: "ﾞ=͟͟͞͞(Ŏ◊Ŏ‧̣̥̇) Eh?"

"Looks like someone has a dirty mind and is imagining dinner as something else entirely."

Ye Wen walked to Shen Caichun's side to assist her, and at the same time turned his head and silently spoke to Shen Xuqiu, his lips seemingly saying:

You little shrimp-headed woman~

Shen Xuqiu: "Eh eh eh ∑(❍ฺд❍ฺlll)"

So she was the one being teased? She was part of the play?!

Damn it, they've developed such a deep understanding in such a short time. Is this what they call mutual appreciation between perverts?

"Ugh!! I wasn't thinking anything perverted!"

Shen Xuqiu also rushed into the battlefield called the kitchen: "Don't you dare flirt with me!"

"Also, I want tomato and egg noodles."

Ye Wen casually asked, "Would you like it sweet or salty?"

Shen Xuqiu reflexively replied, "Sweet."

"Oh."

Ye Wen gave a mocking sneer: "So you really like sweets, no wonder you're such a shrimp."

"That's about it for the cricket lovers."

Shen Xuqiu: "???"

"What does my being a shrimp head have to do with my liking for sweets... Wait, I'm not a shrimp head at all!"

Knowing that she couldn't win an argument with Ye Wen no matter what, Shen Xuqiu looked pleadingly at the head of the Shen family, Riju's top combat power, her good sister Shen Caichun.

"Sister, say something!"

Use your authority to crush that bastard Ye Wen!

"Well……"

Shen Caichun pondered for about a second, then gave his younger sister an innocent smile.

"actually."

"Sister, I also like sweets."

"sister!"

Shen Xuqiu looked at Shen Caichun with resentful eyes: "You've changed. You weren't like this before. I know, it's because Ye Wen came. We're not the close sisters we used to be..."

"Oops~"

Shen Caichun suddenly slapped his forehead: "I just remembered, the pudding I bought today was actually on sale, it won't be available in a few days."

"Should I buy another batch while I'm at work tomorrow? Ugh, it's so hard to decide!"

Shen Xuqiu: "!"

The exquisite sweetness of sneaking a bite in the kitchen just now... oh no, chasing away the mouse still seemed to linger on her teeth. Without much thought, the girl instinctively raised her hands and jumped up joyfully.

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"Yay! Sis, you really are my sister! I love you the most!"

"Alas……"

Ye Wen, standing to the side, made a disgusted sound, as if he had seen some kind of rotten egg.

It wasn't that he had any objection to Shen Xuqiu's submission to Pudding; it was just that this action reminded him of his younger sister, Ye Xia.

Every time that ape-like creature finished exploding its gold coins, it would add, "I love my brother the most," which gave Ye Wen PTSD.

After all, he's not one of those weirdo sister-obsessed people online; he's a normal person. He would never be happy if his sister said she liked her brother the most.

"Oh, right, I almost forgot."

Thinking of his younger sister, Ye Wen stopped what he was doing: "I have to tell her (his sister) that I won't be coming home for dinner tonight."

"Let her get some bananas to tide her over for a few bites."

"Hey, you're eating noodles cooked by your older sister outside, while your younger sister is stuck at home eating bananas?"

Shen Caichun winked and said, "I didn't expect you to be such a sadist in this area, Ye Wen."

"No."

Ye Wen calmly shook his head: "Giving her a banana is already a reward for her."

"I'm even afraid she'll sneak a bite."

Shen Xuqiu, who had met Ye Xia before, nodded in deep agreement.

"really."

That girl's obsession with bananas was genuine.

"Hmm?" While contacting his sister, Ye Wen also discovered that someone else was contacting him, and several messages had already been sent out in a short period of time.

It's his president, Bai Qianyue.

[Hey! You idiot Ye Wen, why did you leave right after school? I've been looking for you for ages! (puffing up)]

[You're not going to recoup your losses, huh? I'll make a note of this in my little notebook. I'll remember this grudge!]

[You have ten seconds to reply to this guild leader, or your vice-guild leader status will be revoked!]

【You're really not replying to me? Waaah... You jerk Ye Wen, tomorrow's the day we're going on our trip together, we're a team, a team!】

"Um, so... what kind of clothes do you usually like? I'm just asking for suggestions... just suggestions! It's not like I'm planning to wear something for you tomorrow, so don't get me wrong, hmph!"

Ye Wen: "..."

Seeing this long string of messages, he promptly turned off his phone.

I think I'll refrain from replying to her for now.

Because I felt that replying would be too much trouble.

After preparing his sister's dinner, Ye Wen continued to eat noodles with the Shen sisters without any qualms.

About thirty minutes later.

Three bowls of steaming noodles were placed on the table, each with a different topping: Shen Xuqiu's was tomato and egg, Shen Caichun's was Western-style meat sauce, and Ye Wen's was stir-fried beef with scallions.

The noodles were neatly arranged on the table; it was a simple yet hearty meal.

"Alright, alright, after all this work, we can finally start eating."

Shen Caichun rolled up his sleeves: "Get your chopsticks ready, let's eat!"

"one two three……"

"Dinner's ready!"

Click.

The moment the words "Dinner is served" were uttered, just as Shen Xuqiu's hand touched the chopsticks and Ye Wen began to eat the noodles, the overhead light went out abruptly without any warning.

Darkness descended upon the entire courtyard.

At the same time, faint sounds of heavy objects moving could be heard from the perimeter of the courtyard.

thump.

This time, it was the sound of Shen Caichun putting down the bowl.

In the darkness, her voice became incredibly calm, completely devoid of its previous liveliness and intimacy, like that of a cold machine.

"Get ready, Xiao Qiu, Ye Wen, it's an enemy attack."

Shen Caichun turned his head, looked in a certain direction, and added, "Moreover."

"They're family."