The ever-confident Miss Bae’s first step was to open the cookbook.
She was temporarily looking at the method for making chocolate rice cake...
After all, it had been a year since she last made it, and Miss Bae, who naturally doesn’t have the best memory, couldn’t recall something from so long ago.
"Uh... Miss Irene, the fans in the livestream are going wild right now."
Since it was a paid translation, Liu Xin’an stuck to calling her by her stage name, Bae Juhyun, rather than affectionately using her real name.
Bae Juhyun, engrossed in the cookbook, looked up in confusion.
"Everyone is asking why you still need to look at a cookbook."
"How can I cook without looking at the cookbook?"
"Uh... what everyone means is, do you not know how to make chocolate rice cake?"
Bae Juhyun was stunned, then hurriedly lowered her head for another glance. After doing her best to memorize the method, she sleekly placed the phone aside.
"Everyone, I actually know how to do it, it’s mainly to avoid any mistakes during the explanation, so I took another look, please don’t misunderstand."
Bae Juhyun earnestly looked at the camera and said seriously.
[You’re beautiful, so whatever you say is right]
[So today is a mukbang?]
[Isn’t Brother Xin’an on camera?]
[Waiting for Little Bae to slap her own face later]
[Hahaha, I watched the previous variety show, what she made before was a true work of art]
[Where can you watch it?]
[Someone in the live chat snapped it, you guys check it out, being able to do this shape, Sister Bae really is unusually talented]
[Probably Brother Xin’an teased Sister Bae about it, otherwise, she wouldn’t be so eager to prove herself]
"First, melt the chocolate..."
After finishing the full explanation, Bae Juhyun wiped her hands with a towel beside her and officially started making chocolate rice cakes.
The method wasn’t difficult—just melt the chocolate and mix it with the store-bought rice cakes.
After mixing thoroughly, freeze it, and it’s done.
The tricky part was the mixing, which was the step that was messed up last time after handing it to Park Sooyoung.
Bae Juhyun irresponsibly blamed the failure last time entirely on Park Sooyoung’s mishandling, completely forgetting that she had already made a mistake when first melting the chocolate.
So, when she seriously used a small spatula to stir the gradually melting chocolate in the pot, there was a moment when her expression froze.
She had filled it up too much, and before she could finish stirring, the chocolate melted at the bottom of the pot had already overcooked and turned a bit burnt. Content originally comes from noᴠelfire.net
And the hardened chocolate became even harder to stir, creating a vicious cycle, making Bae Juhyun feel more and more strained as she stirred.
She gradually went from being relaxed at the beginning to frowning tightly.
Her small hand gripping the spatula handle was turning white, which showed that Bae Juhyun was using quite a lot of force.
Finally, feeling that it was becoming more difficult to stir, Bae Juhyun helplessly looked at her boyfriend.
At this point, Liu Xin’an couldn’t just be a translator; he stepped forward, blocking the camera’s view of Bae Juhyun, and hurriedly leaned in to see what was going on.
Seeing the clearly burnt chocolate in the small pot, Liu Xin’an whispered a reminder: "You had the heat too high."
"...Using low heat takes forever to stir."
"No, I can do it myself."
Bae Juhyun took a deep breath; anyway, the fans couldn’t taste it, she’d settle for appearance over taste at this point.
Liu Xin’an better not dare wrinkle his brow while trying it!
Perhaps realizing his girlfriend was taking the ’wreck it and give up’ approach, Liu Xin’an quickly suggested, "Heat it using a double boiler; boil the water first, then melt the chocolate over the water on low heat, it’s better."
"What about this one?"
Liu Xin’an took hold of the batch that couldn’t be salvaged and picked out the hardened chocolate chunks, before handing the small pot back to Bae Juhyun.
All of this was done while his back was to the camera, so people couldn’t see him secretly helping.
However, the audience isn’t stupid; seeing Liu Xin’an’s anxious approach to help, they already guessed that Bae Juhyun had failed again this time.
"Then... can you explain to the fans...?" At this point, Bae Juhyun had lost her previous ambitious demeanor and quietly asked her boyfriend, with pitiful eyes.
"Okay." Feeling touched by Bae Juhyun’s pitiful look, Liu Xin’an couldn’t help but gently pinch his girlfriend’s cheek, but quickly realized they were still in front of the camera, so he hastily withdrew his hand.
However, this entire move was caught by the audience who were watching the livestream.
Immediately, the chat exploded, with various messages like [Scoundrel], [Jealous] flashing furiously, overwhelming anyone trying to keep up.
Liu Xin’an returned to the camera, glanced at the chat, and twitched his mouth.
Although the teasing was extreme, it’s worth mentioning that, because of his earlier affectionate gesture, no one discussed Bae Juhyun’s first failed attempt at making the dish.
"The heat control was a bit off earlier, we’ll redo it now."
[Can’t you just help out?]
[Brother Xin’an is so heartless, letting Sister Bae struggle alone]
"What nonsense, she won’t let me help, otherwise I would’ve helped a long time ago."
Liu Xin’an laughed as he explained himself, then continued to gaze at Bae Juhyun busying herself at the counter, eyes filled with warmth.
"I know some of you love to DM her, but don’t always tease her; she cares about your opinions, and sometimes she doesn’t catch on that you’re joking, so she feels bad."
Recalling Bae Juhyun’s previously aggrieved look, Liu Xin’an thought for a moment and gently shared with the online friends.
In his voice, the tenderness was crystal clear.
This made the online viewers, who originally came for some drama, suddenly feel as if they were being fed copious amounts of dog food.