I pinched my waist and petted him, and I was made to cry by the ruffian Third Master.

Su Mian was shocked and stared at Shen Zhou with wide eyes, as if he couldn't believe what he heard.

"What? This...how is this possible?" she muttered to herself.

Shen Zhou seemed to have lost his patience and said impatiently: "If you want to go home, eat up all the food."

Su Mian finally came to her senses. She understood Shen Zhou's intention. Shen Zhou was deliberately making things difficult for her.

For a moment, Su Mian's heart was filled with grievance and helplessness. She muttered in a low voice: "I, I'm not hungry, you..." Before she finished her words, she was rudely interrupted by Shen Zhou.

"Just eat when I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"

Shen Zhou roared, looking at Su Mian with anger in his eyes.

"Don't you want to go back?"

Su Mian was so frightened that he trembled all over. He quickly sat down at the table, picked up the chopsticks and began to eat voraciously.

Tears welled up in her eyes, but she dared not cry out loud and could only swallow the bitterness silently.

Shen Zhou pulled out the chair opposite her, sat down steadily, and then stared at her intently.

Su Mian felt uncomfortable under his direct and passionate gaze. Shyness welled up in her heart and she couldn't help but want to open her mouth to break the awkward silence several times.

But every time he met Shen Zhou's icy eyes, the words on his lips were swallowed back.

Shen Zhou looked at Su Mian eating like a whirlwind and couldn't help but frowning, with a look of contempt on his face: "How many lifetimes have you not eaten meat?"

Hearing this, Su Mian's movement of holding the ribs in his hand suddenly stopped, then he gently put the ribs back into his bowl, lowered his head and chewed silently.

This time, she ate extra slowly, and Shen Zhou did not make any sarcastic remarks.

Su Mian ate part of it and put down his chopsticks: "I, I'm full."

Shen Zhou looked at the dishes on the table and moved his chopsticks a few times, frowning: "Finish eating."

Su Mian didn't want to eat anymore, but after meeting Shen Zhou's cold gaze, she obediently picked up her chopsticks and started eating.

This time, Su Mian ate everything, even the small pot of crucian carp soup.

Su Mian slowly stood up and began to clear the dishes on the table.

After all, I was the one who ate Shen Zhou's dinner, and I would feel bad if I didn't help clean up.

Shen Zhou still sat quietly at the table, his eyes following Su Mian's busy figure, but he never said a word.

Ever since Shao Jing's accident, they haven't had a meal together like this for a long time. This scene happened last year. At that time, Su Mian would always try every means to please him.

Shen Zhou couldn't help but think that that period of time was truly the happiest and most joyful time in his life.

Their life should have continued happily like this, but standing between them was his younger brother and the entire Shen family.

If Shao Jing had not encountered the accident, I would have married her even if it meant going against the family's wishes.

"Su Mian, why, why are you doing this?" Shen Zhou murmured in a low voice.

When Su Mian heard this, the bowl and chopsticks in his hands instantly slipped to the ground and shattered into pieces.

She squatted down in panic to pick up the broken pieces of ceramic bowl on the ground.

Shen Zhou saw this scene and suddenly shouted angrily: "Don't move!"

Su Mian suddenly heard his roar and her body trembled violently. The ceramic fragments in her hand lost control and the sharp edge instantly scratched her index finger.

Instantly, there was a stinging pain, but then warm liquid flowed out of the wound.

At this moment, Su Mian had no time to care about the injury on her hand. She stood up in panic, her eyes full of confusion and helplessness.

Stammered: "I'm sorry... I really didn't mean it..."

Before she finished her words, Shen Zhou strode towards her and grabbed her wrist.

When he saw the shocking scar on her fingertips, a barely perceptible darkness flashed across the depths of his eyes.

"You can get yourself hurt even over something as trivial as washing dishes. You're such a loser!"

Shen Zhou's tone contained a hint of blame and sarcasm.

Su Mian became even more uneasy after hearing this, and quickly explained: "I'm sorry... I really didn't mean it..."

As she spoke, she tried to retract her hand, but Shen Zhou held it tightly, and took advantage of the situation to pull her bleeding hand under the faucet, turned on the faucet, and clear water flowed down, washing the wound.

"Just stay like that."

Shen Zhou ordered in a low voice.

Su Mian nodded nervously and stood there obediently not daring to make a sound.

Shen Zhou picked up the broom beside him, skillfully swept up the ceramic fragments on the ground, and then poured them into the trash can with a dustpan.

Then he carefully wiped the sink counter to make sure there were no water stains or debris left.

After completing these, Shen Zhou turned around and looked at Su Mian who was still standing there.

She remained in the same posture as before, as if she was frozen in place.

Shen Zhou couldn't help but frown, muttering to himself: This idiot, why is he still motionless?

He walked forward, reached out and turned off the faucet, and glanced at the wound on Su Mian's finger.

After finding that the bleeding had stopped and was no longer flowing, he turned around and walked towards the living room without saying a word.

Entering the living room, Shen Zhou quickly found the medicine box, then threw it on the coffee table and said indifferently: "Disinfect it yourself."

Su Mian gently waved her hand to refuse: "No, the bleeding has stopped. Thank you."

Shen Zhou's expression was not good. He avoided Su Mian's gaze and responded indifferently: "Whatever you want."

Su Mian seemed a little reserved. She looked at Shen Zhou nervously. After hesitating for a moment, she asked cautiously, "Mr. Shen, can I go home now? My father is waiting for me at home."

Su Mian asked cautiously,

Shen Zhou hummed indifferently and said nothing.

Seeing this, Su Mian breathed a sigh of relief, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders, as if he had received an amnesty.

She turned around impatiently and walked hurriedly towards the door, just wanting to leave this depressing place as soon as possible.

As soon as I got on the bus, my cell phone suddenly rang.

Su Mian took out his cell phone with some confusion, looked at the strange number displayed on the screen, hesitated for a moment, and finally pressed the answer button.

"Hello."

As soon as he finished speaking, a strange man's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Is this Su Mian?"

"Yes, what can I do for you?"

An ominous premonition arose in Su Mian's heart.

The other party said in a serious tone: "We are from the ** police station. Your father is with us now. Come over now."

This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, and Su Mian was stunned for a moment, but he still maintained a certain level of rationality: "Hello, can I hear my father's voice?"

The other side said calmly: "Wait a moment."

After a while, Father Su's crying voice came from the other end of the phone: "Daughter, come and take me home."

After hearing his father's voice, Su Mian's mind went blank.

"Dad, don't be afraid, I'll be there soon,"

Su Mian didn't dare to delay any longer, so he got off the bus at the next stop and took a taxi to the police station.

Su Mian rushed to the police station anxiously, and saw his father sitting there blankly with bruises all over his face and a swollen nose.

Her heart tightened instantly and she rushed over quickly.

"Dad! You...what's wrong with you?"

Su Mian asked in a trembling voice, his eyes full of concern and panic.

As soon as Father Su saw Su Mian, he immediately burst into tears as if he had found someone to rely on.

Su Mian knew that his father's illness had relapsed.

She hurriedly comforted her father in a soft voice, and after a long time, Father Su's emotions gradually stabilized.

At this time, the police officer nearby explained to Su Mian: "Madam, your father just tried to snatch someone else's child, but was caught and beaten by the child's father on the spot.

After we took him to the police station and interrogated him, we found that his mental state was somewhat abnormal, so we found your contact information on him and called you."

After hearing this, Su Mian quickly shook her head and explained: "It's impossible. My father is definitely not a human trafficker! He's just not in a good mental state. This is just a misunderstanding."

However, the child's parents refused to give in and angrily scolded: "If he is mentally ill, he should be sent to a mental hospital for proper treatment, and not be released to harm others!"

Su Mian felt both wronged and helpless. She apologized to the child's parents while trying to explain her father's illness.

But the other party didn't listen at all and continued to accuse and insult.

Faced with such a situation, Su Mian's face was filled with shame, and his heart was full of regret and self-blame.

She kept bowing to the child's parents and expressing her sincere apologies, but they obviously did not intend to give up easily.

They unceremoniously demanded a high amount of compensation for mental damage from Su Mian, and threatened to send Su's father to prison if their demands were not met.

Faced with such unreasonable demands, Su Mian felt very helpless.

Although she was extremely reluctant, she finally gritted her teeth and agreed in order to prevent her father from going to jail.

She took out her bank card and paid the other party all the remaining several thousand yuan in it, which settled the matter.

After solving the problem, Su Mian walked to the corridor with a heavy heart and sat down, staring at his father who was silent beside him.

Anger and helplessness intertwined in her heart, she couldn't help but ask: "Dad, why did you run away? You clearly promised me that you would stay at home honestly!"

Before he could finish his words, tears welled up in his eyes like a dam breaking, and slid down his cheeks.

Father Su panicked when he saw his daughter crying.

He held Su Mian's hand helplessly and stammered to explain: "My...my daughter, I'm...I'm sorry, Dad...Dad just wanted to see you and take you home. Dad really didn't mean it. Don't be angry with Dad. Dad will never run around again and will definitely stay at home and wait for you to come back."

Hearing his father's words, Su Mian's heart ached as if it were being cut by a knife.

She stretched out her arms and hugged her father tightly, buried her head in his arms, and burst into tears.

That cry contained too much grievance, sadness and helplessness.

Father Su kept apologizing to her. After Su Mian calmed down, she comforted him, "Dad, let's go home."

As he said this, he took Su's father's hand and walked out of the police station. When they stepped out of the police station door, the kind policeman gave enthusiastic advice.

"If you really don't have the time and energy to care for the patient yourself at home, perhaps it would be better to put him in a nursing home."

After Su Mian thanked the policeman gratefully, he left holding Su's father's hand tightly.

When they arrived at the apartment, the clock had already quietly passed midnight.

At this moment, Father Su seemed to have become a child who had made a mistake. His eyes were full of anxiety and guilt, and he stared at Su Mian tremblingly.

Su Mian sighed helplessly and gently comforted him, "Dad, please don't go out alone anymore, okay? If you want to go out for a walk, be sure to tell me and I will go out with you."

Hearing this, Father Su nodded like a well-behaved child and said, "Okay, daughter, I know I was wrong. I will never run around again. I will listen to you."

When Su Mian heard this, her heart ached and her eyes instantly became moist, but she quickly looked away, not wanting her father to see her crying.

At this moment, she couldn't help but regret secretly. If she had not gone to Shen Zhou today, perhaps none of this would have happened.

However, as the police said, she could not be by her father's side every moment.

Now that the family's remaining money has been paid to the victims, she urgently needs to find a job and send her father to a nursing home for professional care as soon as possible.

That night, Su Mian sat in front of the computer, opened the search engine, and typed in the words "Kyoto Sanatorium".

After the page jumped, she carefully browsed through each result, but when her eyes fell on the column of monthly expenses, she froze.

The cheapest nursing home costs 20,000 yuan a month!

This number was an astronomical figure for Su Mian. She stared at the screen with wide eyes, feeling confused.

Twenty thousand yuan was like an insurmountable wall, completely blocking her way forward.

Over the next two days, Shen Zhou noticed that Su Mian always seemed absent-minded whenever she came to cook for him.

At first, he thought it was just an occasional oversight, but when Su Mian once again put salt into the dish instead of sugar, Shen Zhou finally couldn't help but ask, "Su Mian, what's wrong with you?"

Hearing Shen Zhou's voice, Su Mian came back to his senses as if awakened from a dream.

She looked down at the spoon in her hand and found that it was filled with sugar. Her face turned red and she apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I didn't mean it."

Shen Zhou frowned and stared at Su Mian, as if trying to see through her eyes to see her inner thoughts.

After a while, he spoke again: "You have been so absent-minded these past two days, what happened?"

Facing Shen Zhou's questioning, Su Mian seemed a little nervous.

She lowered her eyes, not daring to look him in the eye, but her fingers involuntarily twirled the corner of her clothes.

After a moment of silence, Su Mian took a deep breath, as if mustering up all the courage in his body, and whispered: "Mr. Shen, I want to ask, if I become your nanny, how much will you pay me every month?"

In the past two days, she has been thinking about finding a job all the time, but the reality has put her in a dilemma.

On the one hand, Shen Zhou needed her to prepare three meals a day and he couldn't leave at all; on the other hand, her elderly and frail father at home also needed someone to take care of him.

So, she could only get up in the dark every day, rush to Shen Zhou's place to make breakfast, and then rush back to take care of her own elderly.

Fortunately, Su's father has behaved unusually well in the past two days. He no longer runs around, but stays quietly at home waiting for her to return.

However, despite this, Su Mian still did not dare to relax at all, secretly thinking that he had to send his father to a nursing home to feel at ease.

In desperation, she had to bite the bullet and ask Shen Zhou for her wages.

Hearing Su Mian asking for money, Shen Zhou couldn't help but sneer contemptuously: "So you want money?"

Su Mian's heart skipped a beat when she met his undisguised ridicule.

She was a little flustered: "I'm sorry, I, I..."

Before Su Mian finished speaking, Shen Zhou interrupted her: "Is fifty thousand enough? Or do you need one hundred thousand?"