In the kitchen.
"Come on, tell me what I can do."
Jiang Zhirou looked like she was waiting to be assigned tasks.
Chi Yu looked at her like this, and his thoughts drifted unconsciously...
A long time ago, she had also volunteered like this to be his assistant.
Jiang Zhirou didn't hear a response. She turned her head to look at the man beside her.
The next second, her gaze suddenly collided with Chi Yu's.
She didn't know how long Chi Yu had been looking at her. Jiang Zhirou inexplicably felt her heart racing. She quickly averted her gaze, turned her head, and repeated what she had just said.
"Come on, tell me what I can do..."
Hearing the voice, Chi Yu suddenly came back to his senses. He averted his gaze, picked up the vegetables at hand and handed them to Jiang Zhirou.
"Remove the over - mature parts. Only the tender shoots taste good. Like this..."
Chi Yu carefully demonstrated to Jiang Zhirou while explaining.
Jiang Zhirou's gaze fell on the vegetables in front of her, but her thoughts had already wandered away for a while. She didn't hear a single word of what Chi Yu was saying.
That sudden eye - contact just now had really made her heart race inexplicably... And she had just noticed... Chi Yu seemed to be quite good - looking.
No wonder Chen Yixia said he was popular at school.
He probably had seduced quite a few girls.
For some reason, thinking of this, Jiang Zhirou felt inexplicably jealous.
"Got it?"
Chi Yu's voice interrupted her train of thought.
She pursed her lips, snatched the vegetables from Chi Yu's hand, and said impatiently, "Got it, got it. Who can't pick vegetables? I don't need your teaching. You're such a playboy."
Everything had been fine just now. Chi Yu didn't know why she suddenly changed her mood. Looking at her suddenly unhappy face, he didn't dare to say another word, for fear that he might accidentally say something that would upset her again.
The atmosphere suddenly became a bit inexplicably solemn.
"Is this okay?"
Jiang Zhirou suddenly held out a bunch of vegetables in front of Chi Yu.
Looking at the neatly - sorted vegetables, Chi Yu's eyes flashed with surprise. He quickly praised her, "It's great. You did much better than I did when I first started learning to cook."
"Of course. Don't you know who I am?"
Jiang Zhirou was not the least bit modest and fully accepted the compliment.
Since she was so good at picking vegetables, she would surely do an even better job with the rest of the tasks.
The remaining tasks involved heavy fumes. Chi Yu was worried that she would get choked in there. He said considerately, "There's not much left to do. You can go out and wait. I'll call you when it's done."
Jiang Zhirou had just been thinking about how to show off her skills. Hearing Chi Yu's words, her face instantly fell.
Did this mean he was driving her out?
Did he think she was in the way?
Wasn't he just praising her for doing a great job?
What was going on now? Was he going to drive her out of the kitchen right away?
Jiang Zhirou put away the smile on her face and nodded heavily. "Fine! I'll go out. I won't bother you, Master Chef Chi."
After saying that, she walked out of the kitchen without looking back.
After she left, Chi Yu stepped forward and closed the kitchen door.
When Jiang Zhirou turned to look at the kitchen, she saw the closed door.
"Humph."
She was so angry that she laughed.
It was bad enough that he had driven her out.
What was this?
Was he afraid she would go in and steal food? He even closed the door. How could anyone do such a thing?!
Moreover, this was Si Moshen's territory. She was Si Moshen's younger sister. In a sense, this was also her territory. He, Chi Yu, an outsider, actually dared to guard against the host in the host's house!
"Fine! If you think you're so capable, you can do more. It won't kill you."
Jiang Zhirou stomped angrily towards the bedroom.
Now that she was free, she noticed that she was still wearing the training uniform from before.
She had sweated a lot after a morning of training.
Sweat...
Jiang Zhirou suddenly remembered something. She grabbed her clothes, lowered her head, and smelled them.
Could it be that... in the kitchen just now, Chi Yu had driven her out because he thought she smelled too sweaty?
This was so embarrassing!
Jiang Zhirou quickly stripped herself naked and rushed into the bathroom.
...
An hour later, just as Jiang Zhirou came out of the bathroom, there was a knock on the bedroom door.
"Zhirou, it's time to eat."
Chi Yu's voice came through the bedroom door.
Jiang Zhirou was startled. Her voice was a bit nervous as she shouted towards the door, "S - soon. You can start eating first. Don't wait for me."
Chi Yu didn't think much of it. "I'll wait for you downstairs."
Ten minutes later, Jiang Zhirou appeared in the dining room.
She was wearing a pure - white dress, and the smell of perfume on her almost filled every corner of the dining room.
Chi Yu raised his eyebrows, and a strange look flashed across his eyes. "You..."
Since he had entered Yuelan until now, it had been about a week, and he had never seen Jiang Zhirou wear a dress.
Normally, she would wear a pair of jeans with a loose top, and most of the time, she would just walk around in big, baggy home clothes. He had never seen her act like a girl, let alone appear in a dress like this.
And she had sprayed an excessive amount of perfume.
Chi Yu suspected that she might have hit her head while taking a shower.
"What are you staring at? Hurry up and eat."
Jiang Zhirou's voice suddenly sounded, interrupting Chi Yu's thoughts.
The woman in front of him lowered her head and quickly started to pick up food for herself, as if she were in a famine.
Chi Yu couldn't help but laugh.
Jiang Zhirou stopped in her tracks. Her face turned bright red instantly, and she wished she could bury her head under the table.
She deeply regretted what she had just done.
She couldn't even understand why she had changed into this dress that restricted her movements, and it was pure - white, which couldn't get a single speck of dust on it.
And the perfume too.
She had already taken a shower, so the sweat on her body was naturally gone. Why was she still worried about having a sweaty smell and deliberately covered it up with perfume?
Jiang Zhirou felt that she had lost all her face. Moreover, Chi Yu had just laughed at her... Now she had no mood to eat.
Jiang Zhirou suddenly raised her hand and placed it on the table. Just as she was about to stand up, Chi Yu, who was sitting across from her, suddenly spoke.
"This perfume suits you very well."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Jiang Zhirou was stunned for a moment. She unconsciously relaxed the movement of her hand and sat still in her seat.
She stared blankly at the man across from her and said,
"... Thank you."
The smile on Chi Yu's lips deepened. "Why are you thanking me? If you want to thank someone, you should thank yourself. Because it's you, the perfume smells good."
Hearing such an explicit compliment, Jiang Zhirou's heart rate soared even more. She mumbled in a low voice, "You playboy are really good at talking..."
Then she picked up the bowl in front of her again. While preparing to start eating, she said, "You're so good - talking. You must have seduced quite a few little girls. Yixia said you were a professor at school before, and a lot of girls liked you. You probably have quite a few girlfriends. Don't tell me you even didn't spare your own students?"