9. Beep beep, Ye Shiyu level one alert!_3

She looked over, yet her standing pose for the photo remained unchanged.

Is this, an indication that I can take the picture?

Seeing this, he blinked and had no choice but to agree,

"Sure thing, Auntie."

Yan Huan walked over to Ye Shiyu's side, and her hands, originally at her sides, inadvertently changed to being crossed in front of her.

A faint scent of flowers wafted over, accompanying the sway of her black hair.

Yan Huan was a bit taller, and Ye Shiyu was just a few centimeters shorter than him; a handsome man and a beautiful woman, standing together they were particularly pleasing to the eye.

Yan Huan put on a smile, and Ye Lan's eyes lit up as she raised her mobile phone, bending slightly at the waist without any hint of a President's demeanour, directing them to move within the phone's frame.

"Move a bit to the left...too much, now a bit to the right, the light is turning you into ghosts..."

Ye Shiyu bowed her head, seeming to struggle to find a shot that would please her mother, her black shoes inching closer to Yan Huan.

"Smile, don't frown, Shiyu... You look better with a smile, yes, look, that's right."

Ye Shiyu pursed her lips, her mouth corners trembling slightly upwards, a minute degree.

Listening to Ye Lan's praise, Yan Huan's gaze instinctively turned to look at her expression.

But perhaps it was because of Yan Huan doing so, the difficultly constructed smile collapsed in an instant, returning to an expressionless face.

"..."

My fault.

Anyway, it's time to take the picture.

The first photo of the siblings.

"Alright, get ready, 'cheese'!"

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...

"It's gorgeous, look at the two of you siblings, could make it into a fashion magazine."

As the sun set, in a private room of a luxurious shopping center's Western-style restaurant next to the Oceanarium, Ye Lan who had hastily eaten some salad, gazed at the morning's sibling photo and so commented.

The photo was fixed in the phone, a handsome young man with a smile reaching out his hand in front of the camera and flashing a 'yeah' sign enthusiastically.

And beside him, the black-haired girl was quiet and elegant, her hands gracefully placed in front of her lower abdomen, so beautiful, despite the somewhat lacking expression.

But that was perfect already.

In front of him, Yan Huan holding the cutlery with several shopping bags by his side, lifted his head and smiled helplessly.

This was already the third time Ye Lan had brought up this photo since noon, from lunch at the Oceanarium to buying clothes at a luxury store next door in the afternoon, and until now...

It seemed that Ye Lan really liked this photo.

Ye Shiyu was eating gracefully, neither sad nor happy, and seemed to have no reaction to whatever her mother said.

But having spent the day together, Yan Huan knew she was always quietly listening to Ye Lan's words; she just rarely expressed her thoughts.

Only when watching the jellyfish and when labeling the clothes they just bought did her expression soften slightly.

In the afternoon, Ye Lan picked out several well-fitting clothes for them both, buying Yan Huan several shirts suitable for spring, long sleeve jackets, and a suit.

It wasn't entirely pointless, as Yuanyue Academy allowed students to wear casual clothes except for key dates, the only requirement being to wear the school's badge.

And for each piece of clothing she picked, Yan Huan felt the salary deducted for taking leave was trivial.

Best left unsaid, after dinner, the sky had completely darkened, and the time had reached around seven or eight in the evening, then Ye Lan notified the driver to prepare to take them back.

It was just after the start of spring, and despite the morning sun being strong, the temperature at night still varied greatly.

Ye Shiyu had even draped over the newly bought coat from the shopping bags, while Ye Lan also borrowed one to wear, except Yan Huan felt it was fine.

This caused Ye Lan to feel a touch of sentiment as she pinched his shoulder: "Aren't you cold, Xiao Huan?"

"Not really, Auntie, maybe I'm just used to it here."

"That's good, even through the clothes it feels warm, Shiyu and I are afraid of the cold."

Hearing the word "warm and cozy," Ye Shiyu, draped in her clothes, had a tremor in her eyes; it seemed that she was recalling the hypnosis incident from last night.

Don't mention it. Yan Huan also thought of this on the way back to the Western-style Mansion while waiting for the car.

What should she do tonight if that plague god sneaks in to hypnotize her again?

Wasn't she just testing the waters last night? What about today?

Is it time to execute her so-called "plan to make Ye Lan dislike her"?

No, maybe she should lock the door when she goes back tonight?

No matter how much she knocks, she would pretend to be asleep and not open it — that kind.

While thinking about all this, the black electric car that brought them in the morning had already stopped in front of them.

The young woman in a suit at the driver's seat got out of the car, opened the trunk, getting ready to take over the shopping bags from Yan Huan's hands.

He smiled slightly and said,

"I'll do it, thank you."

The woman glanced at Yan Huan's profile, her face slightly reddened, then nodded and got back into the car.

"Thank you, Xiao Liu."

" It's nothing, President Ye."

The female driver buckled up, turned on the GPS, glanced at Ye Lan and her daughter, who were wearing coats, and turned on the heater.

The electric car started smoothly, and Yan Huan leaned against the window, taking out his phone to browse the plane group chat.

The big sister from the mahjong group was calling for him to come play mahjong...

He was a bit tempted.

No, Yan Huan, you did reflect on this at the end of last semester.

You can't go to their place and play mahjong every week anymore!

While Yan Huan was conducting a fierce internal struggle in his mind, typing a reply to the big sisters who @ him in the "Yuan Yue Mahjong Club" group chat.

Beside him, Ye Shiyu looked down at her handbag, seemingly thinking of something, with a slight smile curving on her lips.

She opened the zipper of her bag, ready to take something out to play with.

"..."

However, after searching through her bag, she still couldn't find that item.

She didn't open her bag at all today, right?

Or was she mistaken?

How could that be?

Her pupils slowly narrowed, and she took out her phone again, turned on the flashlight, and started to search under its light.

The sudden turning on of the flashlight drew Yan Huan's attention, and he turned around just in time to see Ye Shiyu searching her not-so-large handbag for the second time.

Just as he was puzzled and about to ask, Ye Shiyu suddenly lifted her head with a cold expression, and spoke to Ye Lan in front,

"Mom, my thing, the jellyfish keychain I bought this morning, is gone..."

Yan Huan blinked and didn't quite grasp what had just happened.

However, the car suddenly slowed down, and then gradually pulled over to the side of the road.

Huh?

Yan Huan held onto the handle, and as the vehicle slowly came to a stop, Ye Lan and the female driver sitting in front widened their eyes and turned their heads to look at Ye Shiyu, whose aura was gradually turning colder.

With a glance exchanged between them, an intense alarm seemed to resonate in Yan Huan's ears as well.

Clearly, this wasn't their first time experiencing something like this.

It was a dangerous signal known as "Ye Shiyu Level One Alert."

In the atmosphere of the car interior, where the warm air didn't feel warm, Ye Shiyu pursed her lips and said softly,

"I want to go back and look for it, is that okay?"