Tricking Your Daughter Away with Spicy Sticks (Revised)

February 2nd, the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year.

According to Lotus Province customs, the twenty-eighth day of the lunar year was Spring Cleaning—a day to thoroughly clean the house of a year's accumulated dust, tissues, sunflower seed shells, snack wrappers, ten-cent coins, one-yuan coins, ten-yuan notes, and hundred-yuan notes.

When Ren Suo was little, his mother had tricked him into doing Spring Cleaning with this kind of "treasure hunt" temptation. Once he grew up, because his bedroom contained some shameful bad things, he had to do the cleaning himself anyway.

Although Ren Suo had already cleaned his home until it was spotless, he wasn't surprised in the slightest when he took Luna up the elevator to the sixth floor and saw Yi Zhao with her sleeves rolled up, wiping the doorway of 602 with a rag—ordinary people only cleaned on designated days. Not everyone was as outstanding as him, treating such good behavior as a daily habit.

Yi Zhao heard the elevator and turned to see Ren Suo, looking slightly surprised. "Ren Suo? What a rare guest. Are you here to see me?"

Holding the black cat, Ren Suo stepped out of the elevator and thought for a moment before saying, "I'm here to see Teacher Fan."

"Hm? Did Luna go to your place last night?" Seeing the black cat in Ren Suo's arms, Yi Zhao immediately understood. She shook the water from her hands, wiped them on her clothes, and held out a hand toward Ren Suo. "Sorry to trouble you by bringing her back—"

"No trouble at all."

Ren Suo avoided Yi Zhao's hand. The black cat crawled up Ren Suo's body and wrapped herself around his neck like a scarf, her dark green slit pupils glaring fiercely at Yi Zhao.

Yi Zhao smiled awkwardly. "She's never