[Stop talking nonsense and start working.]
"Oh so you can reply too grandma," Luo Huian looked at the screen and the infuriated words on them. She placed her hand under her chin with one finger jutting out and the rest slightly curled. "I thought I asked you to destroy my memories, what happened to that? Cannot do it? Don’t tell me you miss me too much?"
Luo Huian teased the screen only for it to disappear.
"Tsk, that old hag has always been so unamusing," Luo Huian clicked her tongue as she made her way to the kitchen. "Now what should I make?"
Luo Huian muttered as she skimmed through the tons of recipes that were loaded in her data system.
With her finger sliding the recipes one by one, Luo Huian finally came to a stop at a particular recipe.
"Ah, this looks the least troublesome," she exclaimed while looking at the screen. She did not want to put too much effort given that she was still trapped inside the penthouse.
’I will make a better one if she allows me to go out. Anyway it was enough to finish the mission…there was no need for me to put in extra effort,’ Luo Huian thought. To her, everyone in her path was nothing but a key to her return to the immortal world.
She had no intention of opening her heart to anyone.
’Huian,’ a blurry face and that soft voice called out to Luo Huian again and she smashed her fists on the platform of the kitchen. "Damn it."
Xiao Bai looked at Xiao Hei, and even though the two of them did not say anything, they knew why Luo Huian was showing such an expression. She most likely remembered that big brother whom she had trusted only to be betrayed by him.
Luo Huian took a moment to gather herself. She then pressed the download skill button and waited for the desired skills to be transferred to her before she said to the two snakes, "Let’s go, we need to hunt the ingredients before we can start baking."
"W…we?" Xiao Hei was startled when he heard Luo Huian say ’we’, why did it sound so sinister from her mouth?
"That’s right, we.." Luo Huian smiled at the two snakes sweetly. She resembled an angel but for some reason, the two snakes saw two devil horns on her head despite her angelic appearance. "Since the three of us are a team, and you two are my familiars. You cannot expect me to do all the work alone, do you?"
Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai: ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!
Fifteen minutes later.
"This is snake exploitation, I am telling you! I will file a complaint against you in the world of familiars! Just wait, I will not leave this matter alone," Xiao Hei sobbed as he chopped the chocolate blocks until they were nice and small. His little tail shook with the weight of the knife that he was holding.
"Just stop crying and continue working," Luo Huian told the snake as she boiled water and waited for Xiao Bai to crack eggs.
Xiao Hei glared at Luo Huian with a single pearly tear hanging from his left eye as he turned his attention back to chopping the chocolate. However, with the harsh impact he was bringing the knife down on the chocolate.
One would think that he was chopping a certain someone’s flesh.
Xiao Bai on the other hand was a bit better as she cracked the eggs with a certain delicate touch.
"Alright," Luo Huian picked up the chopped chocolate and then poured it into the bowl that was sitting inside the bowl of warm water. She added butter to it followed by the cream and cake flour.
She followed the rest of the steps before whisking the mixture until everything was nice and smooth.
"It’s time to bake!" Luo Huian giggled as she poured the liquid into small cups before placing them on a tray and putting them inside the preheated oven. She turned the dial to the correct temperature and pulled away, "Now all we need to do is wait," she said to the two snakes with her hands resting on her hips.
As the cakes continued to bake, a sweet and savoury scent of chocolate started to waft out from the oven before spreading all over the penthouse.
Luo Qingling who was sleeping in her room, sniffed the air and opened her eyes. "What is going on?" She muttered, her blond hair was scattered all over the pillow, which looked a bit messy.
With her hand pressed against her forehead, Luo Qingling smelled the sweet scent once again to make sure that she was not dreaming.
"Someone is baking?" Luo Qingling found it hard to believe. Ever since she was a child, no one ever cooked for her. Other than the chefs and the butlers, no one had cared for her. However, no matter how well those people cooked and cared for her, they were only servants who worked to receive decent pay.
They lacked the familial touch that Luo Qingling craved to have.
Her daddy was so busy trying to snatch everything from daddy Ye that he did not have the time to care about his daughter.
After all, in her daddy’s eyes as long as Luo Qingling had clothes to wear and three proper meals a day, who cared how she ate those meals?
Even if she was alone and lonely, with servants taking care of her —— Her Daddy never thought that Luo Qingling was suffering.
Back when the fight between her daddy and Daddy Ye was not so fierce and her daddy had not touched Luo Huian, Daddy Ye would sometimes share his cooked meal with her.
Luo Huian didn’t mind it either.
But then the fight became fierce and she along with her daddy became the enemy of Ye Shun and Luo Huian.
Neither of them cared for her even though she did nothing but protect them at every turn. As for her daddy, he was too busy to shower his wife with affection that he had no time to care for his daughter.
Thus, the last time someone cooked for her was when she was just ten years old.
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