Luo Qingling closed her eyes, thinking that she was dreaming but even after closing her eyes for a long time she could smell the sweet scent of chocolate.
"What is going on?" Luo Qingling could no longer ignore the scent as just her imagination as it was too strong. "Did Huian call for home delivery?"
But even if she did call for home delivery, there was no way the scent would be this strong.
Slightly confused, Luo Qingling stepped out of her room just in time to see Lup Huian taking out a tray from the oven.
’She was the one who baked?’ Luo Qingling was more than just surprised when she saw that Luo Huian was the one who baked the desserts and the sweet scent was coming from her own kitchen.
[Chocolate Lava Cake:
Agility:+3
Aura of Gloom reduction: -4
Strength: +6
Wave of happiness: three seconds.]
Luo Huian nodded after reading the stats of the dessert that she had baked.
"Oh you are awake?" Luo Huian sensed someone was looking at her with her sharp senses and raised her head to look at Luo Qingling. "Come down, the cakes are still hot and can be eaten. They will taste better when they are still hot."
Luo Qingling blinked her eyes as she looked behind her but she did not see anyone. She then turned to look at Luo Huian and pointed at herself, "You are asking me to eat what you cooked?"
"Do you see anyone else?" Luo Huian raised her head from the two cups and two bottle caps into which she was pouring milk. She tilted her head to the side and said to Luo Qingling, "Since you are the only one who is in the house, of course, I will ask you to come and eat."
However, after a pause, she narrowed her eyes and questioned sharply, "Wait. Don’t tell me that you are scared to eat it as I was the one who baked it. I am telling you that you are blessed to eat my baking."
"I don’t bake special desserts just for anyone ya know, my hands are way precious for that," Luo Huian flipped her hair behind her shoulder and then added subtly in a slightly enraged voice, "I will be damned if I went around baking all day long for no reason, my hands are getting calluses can you believe it?" She sighed exaggeratingly. "Calluses!"
Luo Huian emphasized as if worried that Luo Qingling would not understand how serious the matter was.
"No, that’s not what I meant," Luo Qingling said to Luo Huian who turned and looked at her in confusion. "Then what do you mean by saying those words?"
"That…" Luo Qingling opened her mouth to say that in the past Luo Huian never shared anything with her and forgot about making something for her, at least not after her daddy ruined their relationship.
However, she stopped herself just in time, she did not want Luo Huian to remember those days when the two of them lived like enemies.
’Maybe I am greedy and selfish for wanting such a thing,’ Luo Qingling thought with a sigh. She knew how hard it was for Luo Huian to live without her memories but when she recalled the bitter words Luo Huian said to her, Luo Qingling wished this warmth would last a bit longer.
She knew that one day Luo Huian might remember everything and hate her just as much as she used to in the past. Luo Qingling had no problem with that but she hoped that while Luo Huian had no recollection of her memories —— the two of them would make enough happy memories.
’Just a bit more, after that even if she remembers everything…I will survive on these memories alone,’ Luo Qingling clenched the railing with her fingers.
Luo Qingling made her way down the stairs, and the closer she got to the kitchen, the sweeter the scent became—— her head was throbbing and started to clear up as well.
’This is surprising,’ Luo Qingling had absorbed so much Aura of Gloom that she had constant headaches and emotional outbursts but she controlled her emotions from getting out of hand where she would harm herself or others.
And this was the first time she had felt her head clear up so much that she could think straight.
Especially after a fight.
Usually, her headache and the Aura of Gloom made it impossible for her to even get out of bed much less eat something.
’Last time, it was Ah Jing who took care of me when I could not eat anything for three weeks as the Aura of Gloom was too strong,’ Luo Qingling looked at the delicious cakes that were placed on the kitchen aisle.
Usually, she didn’t even find the will to eat until she suppressed the Aura of Gloom completely, she thought that it would be the same this time around as well.
But for some reason, these cakes made her hungry.
"What are these?" Luo Qingling asked as she sniffed the chocolaty scent. They looked like Choco lava cake but the cakes that she had eaten before did not smell delicious.
In fact, with her love for spicy food, Luo Qingling did not like sweets. So cakes have never looked appetising to her.
But these chocolate lava cakes, they seemed ethereally tempting. Did that even make sense?
"Why are you asking questions like a country bumpkin?" Luo Huian furrowed her brows. It was one thing that she did not know what these things were but why was Luo Qingling acting the same?
’That darned mouth of hers will get her killed someday,’ Luo Qingling’s worries started to pile up again as she started wondering whether she should invite some etiquette teachers for Luo Huian.
"I know that these are chocolate lava cakes but I don’t think they smell so good," Luo Qingling commented as she picked up a cup of chocolate cake and studied it carefully. No matter how she looked at it, it looked rather normal.
’That’s because they have my spiritual energy that brings happiness and destroys the Aura of Gloom. Of course, they will smell better than the others,’ Luo Huian thought inwardly.
"Gosh, why are you investigating so much?" Luo Huian said to Luo Qingling as she handed a spoon to the latter and said to her, "Just eat it. Anyone who sees it will think that I am poisoning you."
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I have heard the complaints, I agree that the chapters became a bit too expensive. Don’t worry, I have changed the price of the tiers and made them cheaper, you can purchase the 15 chapters for five hundred coins from next month aka 1 Aug. As for why not this month, its for the sake of fairness. Please do understand and bear for a while.