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Names mentioned in this chapter (which can also be found in the glossary ):
-云舒( yún shū)- Yun Shu, the female lead
– 傅然( Fù rán)- Fu Ran, the male lead in our novel and the original novel
– 徐昊( xú Hào)- Xu Hao, Fu Ran’s secretary and childhood friend.
When Fu Ran was home, Yun Shu was already asleep.
He could see that she was exhausted since she did not even change her clothes and her phone was still in her hands. She probably fell asleep right after that phone call.
Fu Ran stroked her flushed face with love and compassion and pulled the blanket over to cover her gently. Then, he sat on the edge of the bed and stared at Yun Shu’s sleeping face.
His eyes were filled with love as if he could be like this until the end of time.
……
Of course, that was not possible because Fu Ran was hungry.
Fu Ran checked his watch. At this moment, it was nearly ten o’clock in the evening. It was no wonder that he was hungry because he did not eat at noon.
In fact, Xu Hao was not wrong. Fu Ran has indeed been very busy lately. He was so busy that it was common for him to forget to take his meals, like today. However, Fu Ran was also not lying. He was almost done with work because he had scheduled the next two days to spend time with Yun Shu. Before this, he had to do all the things that must be done… He just did not expect that Yun Shu would return earlier.
Fu Ran touched Yun Shu’s petite face again as he was somewhat reluctant to part from it. Then, he walked to the living room.
He originally wanted to order a meal, but he changed his mind after coming out to see the small kitchen.
— Mm. Let’s cook noodles. He wants to eat noodles.
Due to the miserable experience of studying abroad, Fu Ran knew how to cook some simple dishes. Cooking noodles was not a problem. It was just that his culinary talent was not ignited. However, it was not to the point of it being a dark cuisine; <sup>[1]</sup> the taste was just mediocre.
But because it had been a long time since he personally made it, he was inevitably unfamiliar and a little clumsy at first.
When Fu Ran finally cooked the bowl of noodles, Yun Shu woke up from hunger. She walked out of the room and ran into Fu Ran, who was holding onto a bowl of noodles.
Fu Ran was a bit embarrassed because his male god’s façade had finally crumbled.
Yun Shu, however, did not notice. She only stared at the freshly cooked noodles in Fu Ran’s hands and gulped ravenously. She fluttered her eyelashes and said coquettishly, “I’m hungry~.”
Fu Ran was aware of his own level of cooking. How could he be willing to let Yun Shu eat what he made? So he said, “This… This is not good. I’ll order food for you, okay?”
Yun Shu shook her head and suddenly became capricious. She insisted on eating Fu Ran’s bowl of noodles.
After foolishly bickering for three seconds, Fu Ran surrendered and whispered in a very embarrassed manner, “You eat first. If it is not good, don’t eat, okay?”
Yun Shu brought the bowl in front of her. She did not care what he said, and she couldn’t wait to wield her chopsticks and take a bite of noodles.
Yun Shu blinked and remained silent.
Fu Ran was even more embarrassed. He said, “I already said it’s not good.”
Yun Shu suddenly laughed. She did not expect Fu Ran to have such an adorable side. He feels even cuter! Yun Shu said, “This is probably nothing much. Everyone has their own area of incompetence, right?”
Fu Ran responded with an “oh” and said, “It is better for me to order food for you.”
Yun Shu shook her head, took the noodles into the kitchen, mixed some seasoning into the noodles and brought them out again. It smelled different and was much more fragrant than before.
She also took an extra pair of chopsticks.
“Here, let’s eat together.”
Fu Ran froze for a while and then smiled. “Okay.”
A bowl of noodles was only so much. After one bite after another, it soon reached the bottom. The two looked at each other and could clearly see the dissatisfaction in the other’s eyes.
“Mm. Cook two more bowls of noodles?”
“Alright. The same type of noodles as the last time would be good.”
Yun Shu suddenly smiled mischievously and asked, “Then do you want more cilantro?”
Fu Ran, “….”
— Oho. His male god’s facade has crumbled again.
<sup>[1]</sup> 黑暗料理(hēi’àn iàolǐ)- dark cuisine. This phrase can be used when the food in a snack stand was sold in an average sanitation environment and that operates late at night, or dishes and food with unpleasant appearance made by beginners or people with ordinary cooking skills. The latter is a humorous self-mockery. Also, it can refer to certain ingredients or methods of cooking that ordinary people can’t accept/swallow down. Sometimes, it can refer to deliberately made ‘creative’ food, such as: spicy and sour mooncakes.