"Hello? Is anyone there?" Ye Chen shouted, but no one answered him.
"I'm thirsty! I'm hungry! Is anyone there?!" Ye Chen was tied to a table in the kitchen, so no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free.
"Quit making all that noise! Keep it up and I'll chop you up." The landlady's voice came from outside the kitchen. Then she walked in.
But when she saw Ye Chen tied to the table, she remembered that he didn't seem afraid of the threat she'd made earlier.
"Stop making a fuss and tell me what you want. I spent all night dealing with you, and I still haven't prepared the filling. Are you going to let my little baozi shop open or not?" The landlady walked over to Ye Chen and yawned.
"Why did you tie me up?" Ye Chen asked, twisting his body hard. The table rocked along with him.
"Stop moving. If the table tips over, I won't have the strength to pick you up." The landlady rolled her eyes at Ye Chen. "There's a reason I tied you up."
After saying that, the landlady walked out of the kitchen. Ye Chen mulled over her words, and suddenly had a very bad feeling.
"Could they have decided to use me as an inexhaustible source of supplies they can tap whenever they want?!" After thinking it over for a long while, Ye Chen could reach only one terrifying conclusion.
After all, with Ye Chen around, they wouldn't have to keep looking for homeless passersby. That would make it much less likely that anyone would discover the male owner of this shop was a monster.
"Shameless!" Ye Chen cursed, but no one answered. He had no idea what the landlady and the man from last night were doing, and