The Empress Doesn't Need to Eat

"Phew~"

After about two and a half hours, the living room was finally spotless. Long Yue was so exhausted that she collapsed onto the sofa.

The amount of exercise she had gotten today was more than she had done in a hundred years in the Immortal Realm...

"Oh, truly worthy of the Empress. You cleaned everything so thoroughly."

Lin Fan emerged from the bathroom carrying an empty bucket. Seeing the nearly dustless living room and the floor polished to the point of almost reflecting light, he could not help but offer sincere praise.

"Hmph, naturally. Who do you think I am? Cleaning a mere room is hardly difficult for me."

Long Yue sat up and proudly raised her snow-white neck.

"You worked hard."

Lin Fan smiled faintly. After setting down the bucket and rag, he carried the full trash bag to the door and turned back to look at Long Yue.

"After cleaning for so long, I'm getting a little hungry."

"I'm going out to throw away the trash and pick up something to eat while I'm at it. Is there anything you'd like?"

"Eat? Hmph~"

Long Yue sneered disdainfully, half-closing her eyes as she gently stroked her chest, her face brimming with pride.

"I am a Celestial Immortal Embryo. Since my birth, I have bathed in the immortal essence of heaven and earth and been nourished by ten thousand years of immortal milk. I have never needed to eat."

"Besides, mere mortal food would only affect my immortal body, leaving unnecessary impurities within it."

At this point, Long Yue paused. She pointed at Lin Fan, wearing a smug expression as though she had seen through everything.

"Demon Supreme, do you think I cannot see through you?"

"You must be trying to use eating as an excuse to make me consume mortal food, allowing impurities to slowly accumulate in my body and affect my immortal physique, right?!"

"My Azure Silver Immortal Eyes saw through your schemes long ago! Hahaha!"

Lin Fan: "..."

Lin Fan was at a loss for words, black lines practically appearing across his face.

He had the feeling that this Empress had something of a persecution complex...

"So, do you want any or not?"

"No! I will never fall for it!"

"Even if I jumped from here and starved to death in the streets, I would never eat a single bite of food from you, Demon Supreme!"

Long Yue's expression was resolute, her words firm and forceful.

"Fine, but don't regret it later."

Seeing how determined she was, Lin Fan stopped insisting. He opened the door and left the room.

"Bang."

As the door shut, Long Yue, who was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, slightly furrowed her delicate brows.

Hmph! It was only one meal. She had gone hundreds of years without eating before. What was there to regret!

Soon, the door opened again. Lin Fan returned to the room with a large bag of fried chicken and burgers in his left hand and a can of cola in his right.

"Heave-ho."

Lin Fan carried the steaming burgers and fried chicken to the table and eagerly opened the bag.

The instant the bag was opened, the distinctive aroma of fried chicken filled the entire room.

"It's been so long since I had fried chicken and burgers. This taste really makes me nostalgic."

As he spoke, Lin Fan picked up a spicy chicken burger and took a huge bite. His face immediately filled with satisfaction and happiness, so moved that he nearly shed tears.

"Mmm! This is the taste!!"

After transmigrating to the Immortal-Demon Continent and ending up in the Demon Realm, he had eaten things like rice mixed with insects, sandworm noodles, and freshly squeezed tree-bark juice every day. None of it was fit for human consumption!

After hundreds of years, tasting fried chicken and burgers again made him feel as though he had come back to life.

This was what humans were supposed to eat!

Watching Lin Fan's exaggerated eating, Long Yue wrinkled her delicate nose and could not help glancing curiously at the burger and fried chicken in his hands.

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Was that thing really so delicious that it could make the mighty ruler of the Demon Realm look so intoxicated and moved...?

It really did smell quite good...

Just as Lin Fan picked up a chicken wing and was about to put it in his mouth, he caught sight of Long Yue staring longingly from the corner of his eye.

"Hm? Empress, do you want some too?"

"I-I don't want any!"

"This Empress was merely curious about food she had never seen before. Th-that was all!"

Long Yue snapped back to her senses and hurriedly looked away, but her throat betrayed her with a swallow.

For some reason, no delicacies from the Immortal Realm had ever moved her, yet the scent of fried chicken filling the air now stirred her deeply...

Seeing Long Yue stubbornly putting on a brave front, Lin Fan found it amusing. Pointing at the corner of her mouth, he teased, "Empress, the drool at the corner of your mouth is about to drip."

"W-what...?!"

Long Yue's expression jolted in alarm. She hurriedly wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, her lovely face flushing with embarrassment and anger.

Long Yue, Long Yue—you are the Empress of the Immortal Realm, a supreme being revered by all. How could you embarrass yourself before the Demon Supreme?!

It was nothing more than mere mortal fare. How could someone with your resolve possibly be tempted by it?!

"Don't force yourself. Have a taste—it's delicious~"

"Trust this Venerable. This is a delicacy you've never had in the Immortal Realm."

Lin Fan took out another hamburger and offered it to Long Yue.

Long Yue hesitated, then her gaze hardened as she pushed the hamburger away.

"No need!"

"This Empress has said it before. This Empress is a Celestial Immortal Embryo and has no need to satisfy any appetite."

"Besides, what delicacies of mountain and sea has this Empress not eaten in the Immortal Realm? Mere mortal fare is beneath this Empress's notice."

"Stop bothering this Empress!"

With that, Long Yue resolutely closed her eyes and entered a meditative state.

The next second, a rumbling "grumble, grumble" shattered the silence in the room.

Following the sound, Lin Fan looked toward Long Yue, his gaze lowering to her abdomen.

Long Yue kept her eyes tightly shut. Though she tried her best to pretend she knew nothing, her pretty face had turned as red as an apple.

"Empress, is your... stomach growling?" Lin Fan asked.

Long Yue opened her eyes, her face still crimson as she argued indignantly, "N-no! The Demon Supreme must have heard wrong!"

"This Empress does not feel hunger. How could this Empress's stomach growl from hunger like some mortal's?!"

As soon as she finished speaking, her stomach let out another round of "grumble, grumble"...

Long Yue: "..."

Lin Fan: "..."

Long Yue and Lin Fan stared wide-eyed at each other, and the scene fell silent for a moment.

With the facts right before her, Long Yue knew she could no longer argue. Blushing, she gave a light cough and solemnly changed her explanation.

"Fine, it does seem that this Empress made that sound, but...! It was absolutely not because this Empress is hungry!"

"Th-this was merely... merely a heavenly phenomenon caused when this Empress was regulating her breath and circulating her cultivation just now...!"

"That's right! That's exactly what it was! At this Empress's level of cultivation, even the slightest movement causing minor heavenly phenomena is perfectly normal!"

As she spoke, Long Yue seemed to convince herself. She nodded approvingly to herself.

Lin Fan's brow twitched as he looked at her with sympathy.

It was over...

This Empress seemed to have been driven stupid by hunger. She even seemed a little out of her mind...