A rhythmic sound came from the kitchen, even though Lin Xiao knew it was just the sound of Elena chopping food, he felt panicked. It didn’t sound like she was cutting food, it sound like she was pressing her enemy against the chopping board and crazily cleaving them, every chop carried an intense anger and hatred.
He didn’t understand why Elena was angry… was it because she caught him flirting with Shen DaiYing? It shouldn’t be, she already knew he liked Shen DaiYing, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to see them together, and it would make no sense for her to get angry.
She’s just a maid, so who he flirted with had nothing to do with her.
Lin Xiao guessed that she was probably angry because of the shopping… he asked her to go buy food, yet Shen DaiYing came over with a bunch of ingredients so he made her go for nothing. Also everything was of much higher quality and it was incomparable to her lousy potatoes and rotten cabbages.
Why did she have to waste all that time if she knew Shen DaiYing was going to come? Anyways, her ingredients are better, she cooks well, she has a good personality, her legs are long, she’s also beautiful, much better than this dumb maid that’s always messing up and throwing temper tantrums, right?
Thud, thud, thud!
The sound of hateful chopping was still audible.
Lin Xiao was lazing on the sofa alone, uneasily waiting for lunch being made.
He didn’t need to explain to Elena, but it was awkward when he was caught on the spot and he was worried that Elena would misunderstand, so he forced his way into the kitchen to explain that Shen DaiYing only came to fulfill her promise of making lunch.
Elena had no comment.
After the initial shock, Elena didn’t complain at all, the first thing she did was drive Lin Xiao out of the kitchen for getting in the way, then glared at Shen DaiYing who was standing next to her, like a female tiger guarding her territory.
Thud, thud, thud!
Perhaps she was substituting the knife as her fangs, and that’s why she used so much force, but unfortunately, she was still too inexperienced when it came to playing with knives…
Sure enough, the sound of the knife filled with hatred soon stopped and then Shen DaiYing’s gentle coaching voice was heard.
“Elena, that’s not the right way to cut, you’re gripping the knife incorrectly, and you can’t use so much strength, you can’t just rely on your arm strength, you have to learn how to work your wrist and fingers together!”
“Hmph… I don’t know how to, why don’t you do it?”
“Me? …Hehe, that’s fine too, let me just demonstrate for you once.”
“Demonstrate?”
Lin Xiao felt that something was off, like something was about to happen, so he peaked into the kitchen and saw Elena angrily pointing the knife towards Shen DaiYing.
“Here!”
However, Shen DaiYing didn’t mind, she didn’t flinch, or evade and never looked away from Elena’s eyes. She didn’t panic even when the blade was millimeters away from her chest.
“Hehe, thanks.”
She took the knife and gripped it with her slender fingers and twirled it around.
“Watch closely.”
Saying that, she picked up a carrot with her left hand, griped the knife with her right and took a deep breath.
In the blink of an eye, the sky was filled with knife flashes.
Lin Xiao couldn’t even react and that pitiful carrot was cut into small pieces.
Using sword arts even when cutting food? You can even do that?
Not just Lin Xiao, even Elena raised her eyebrows slightly. She was slightly surprised, but still forcibly restrained herself and deliberately pretended to not care.
“Watch closely, it’s a bit different when cutting meat.”
She pushed the carrots aside then picked up a piece of pork and placed it on the cutting board. She slightly adjusted her grip and continued her demonstration.
Lin Xiao watched dumbstruck as the slippery meat was cut into small pieces at an astonishing speed. There was no delay at all, her impressive knife skills was breathtaking.
If it was Elena, it probably would take most of the day for her to cut that piece of meat. She might even cut herself because of how slippery the meat is.
As expected of a sword expert, it turns out that her assassination techniques could even be used in this way… she could cook, was kind, could fight, Shen DaiYing was really an almighty wife!
Lin Xiao couldn’t help but think of going to Snow for another one of those slave contracts and use it with Shen DaiYing so that she’ll also become his maid, how good would that be… cough, of course, he was just kidding about that.
“Do you see what I mean?”
After demonstrating, she did a beautiful knife trick, the stupidly heavy kitchen knife was like a feather in her hands and flew towards Elena chest.
Damn!
Lin Xiao was startled and thought Shen DaiYing was paying back what Elena did earlier.
But, even though they were both pretending to stab the chest, Elena would definitely get injured this time because her bust was several times larger!
“Here you go!”
Sure enough, Shen DaiYing thrust the knife out! But it wasn’t with the blade, but the handle she pinched the blade as she handed the knife over like she was afraid of hurting Elena.
Elena paused, then silently took the knife. Shen DaiYing chuckled and looked at Lin Xiao who was peeking, like she was blaming him for worrying unnecessarily.
“Did you think I would hurt her? Your maid is so cute, so how could I?”
“Uh… okay, stop messing around, I’m still waiting!”
Lin Xiao awkwardly coughed and said something a ‘master’ would say and went back to laze on the sofa.
Thud, thud, thud… Elena’s hateful chopping continued again, but this time it was accompanied with noises of cooking.
Lin Xiao regrettably found that he couldn’t hear their conversation anymore. He was afraid of them fighting but didn’t dare to eavesdrop again and could only anxiously roll around on the sofa and hope that time passed quicker.
A beauty coming to his house to cook should be a good thing, but for some reason his stomach hurt.
He realized that he probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy today’s meal.
“Hehe, Elena, you seem to have a great deal of animosity towards me.” Through the cover of the cooking sounds, Shen DaiYing knew that Lin Xiao couldn’t hear so she approached Elena and gently spoke next to her, “Don’t worry, I didn’t come here today to declare war and I’m not going to take away your master, I just want to make a meal… can’t I?”
“In that case, concentrate and stop talking.” Elena coldly glanced at her and continued working.
“Hehe, how cold… Elena, are you jealous?”
“Tsk… Shen DaiYing, aren’t you going to teach me how to cook? If not, then I’m leaving!”
“Oh, it’s just scrambled eggs, it’s simple, just do as I say.”
Shen DaiYing got back on track and started teaching Elena had to make a beginner dish, scrambled eggs.
Shen DaiYing thought that Elena was purposely changing the topic, but she noticed that Elena was actually seriously learning, so she also concentrated and worked with her for a while and finally taught her how to make scrambled eggs. Then she began preparing the Great Qin cuisine that she excelled at.
“Elena, help me prepare the ingredients and seasonings.”
“… Okay.”
The atmosphere gradually eased and Shen DaiYing cooked halfheartedly while trying to find a chance to talk with Elena again.
“Elena, you really don’t have to think of me as an enemy, although your master likes me, but I haven’t accepted him.”
“I really can’t trust the words of a vixen who throws herself at people.”
Elena had an inexplicable dislike of Shen DaiYing, as she handed over some sugar.
“Oh, you’re referring to us hugging earlier… don’t misunderstand, that’s just because I promised him before, yet he rejected me, hm… I don’t know what he’s worried about, even if we did it, I wouldn’t make him take responsibility.”
“Doing it and not needing to take responsibility, is this what the humans call lover, or rather mistress?”
“Mistress, is it…”
Shen DaiYing prudently opened the bottle of sugar and tasted it, worried that Elena swapped it with salt, then poured it in the pot after confirming and went back to chatting.
“Un, perhaps you’re right, but I’m satisfied with that kind of relationship… but what about you?”
“Me?”
Seeing as how Shen DaiYing suspected her of swapping the sugar with salt, Elena frowned and her dislike of Shen DaiYing grew even more as she slowly handed over the cut meat.
“That’s right Elena, if I’m his ‘mistress’ then what are you? … A maid? Of course not… or perhaps, you’re actually his wife, and preparing to bear his children?”
“What!? You…”
After hearing what she said, Elena suddenly remembered that she had to bear Lin Xiao’s children to be free from the contract and couldn’t help but suddenly lose focus and dropped the bowl in her hand.
“Careful!”
Noticing her state, Shen DaiYing quickly reacted and caught the falling bowl then relaxed.
“Oh my, what are you so surprised for, could it be I hit the bullseye?”
Shen DaiYing put the bowl aside and approached Elena speaking next to her ear like a pair of intimate sisters.
“But Elena, even if you want to have his children, even if you want to be his wife, you can’t, right?”
Nearly biting Elena’s earlobe, her voice was eerie, and she finally said the words that had been brewing for so long.
