Zi Ji: Watch How I Take Down This Old Pervert

Gu Yuena refused to accept that the dishes she had painstakingly devised tasted terrible. She often conducted experiments in secret, wasting the ingredients at home and even sparing none of the ripe vegetables in the garden.

So she could only take Zhu Zhuqing to the market to buy more.

Dan Heng rarely got to enjoy some time alone.

His instruction of Zhu Zhuqing had also been quite effective; she had already advanced by one level.

All that remained was to continue training step by step.

Meanwhile, he smoothly returned to his previous peaceful life, going to and from the library on schedule.

Everything seemed to have returned to its old track...

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

A set of footsteps sounded.

Dan Heng sat up from his lounge chair. The footsteps and aura did not belong to Gu Yuena or Zhu Zhuqing, but to an unfamiliar woman.

At the courtyard gate stood a bewitching woman with impossibly long legs, a voluptuous figure, and waterfall-like black hair, looking at him with disdain.

Yes, disdain.

Dan Heng could clearly sense this woman's disgust toward him.

Even though they should never have met before.

"You are...?" Dan Heng asked.

Zi Ji raised her snow-white neck, her face cold and arrogant. "I am your wife's... distant cousin!"

"Hm?" Dan Heng was slightly surprised. Gu Yuena was naturally breathtakingly beautiful, so it was understandable for her to have such a gorgeous cousin.

But judging by their apparent ages, this cousin was clearly older...

"Please, come in."

Though he did not understand it, Dan Heng remained polite.

Though Gu Yuena was only his nominal wife and theirs was a fake marriage, he could hardly leave one of her relatives standing outside.

Zi Ji gave a hum and followed Dan Heng inside. Looking at his profile, she sneered inwardly.

This lecher really knew how to put on an act!

He was clearly some old fossil of unknown age, yet he had transformed himself to look young.

He had monopolized My Lady's beauty, yet still wanted to play at being husband and wife, indulging in this sort of flirtation. He was obviously the repressed type!

Now that this seductive cousin had arrived, he was probably already itching with desire, wasn't he?

Was he pretending not to care because he wanted to leave a good impression?

But he could not fool the clever Zi Ji!

Since he wanted to pretend, she would play along. This was the perfect opportunity to vent My Lady's anger properly!

Zi Ji sat in the living room, accepted the tea Dan Heng handed her, and took a light sip.

Her brows immediately furrowed as she said unhappily, "This tea is too hot..."

Dan Heng sat in a chair beside her, continuing to read as he casually said, "Wait for it to cool before drinking it."

It was not that Dan Heng particularly enjoyed reading. It was merely a habit he had developed in the past. But compared to that, conversing with a "relative" who clearly harbored ill will toward him was even more tedious.

Zi Ji frowned and looked at Dan Heng in confusion. She had said the water was hot—shouldn't this great beauty be approached so he could blow on it for her?

Then she could take the opportunity to splash the water on Dan Heng.

She would put on an apologetic expression and sweetly say sorry, letting this Old Pervert secretly rejoice, thinking he had gotten a huge bargain. Why was he being so cold toward her instead?

"Cough, cough. This water is so hot, Brother-in-law. Aren't you going to blow on it for me?" Zi Ji reminded him, knitting her brows and showing her displeasure.

"It'll cool down soon. Wait a little longer."

Dan Heng glanced at her, somewhat suspicious of this distant cousin's intelligence.

Not to mention that the water was not hot at all—even if it were, could she not blow on it herself?

Why did she need him to do it?

Or was there really something wrong with her intelligence?

Zi Ji ground her teeth. She felt that there was something off about the way Dan Heng looked at her, but she could not put her finger on it. Seeing that he truly had no intention of cooling the tea for her, she gave a soft snort.

"I heard my cousin found herself a good husband. I didn't expect him not to know how to care for others at all!"

Zi Ji muttered quietly, deliberately making sure Dan Heng could hear her.

Dan Heng heard her, but ignored her.

After being hunted by Blade an unknown number of times, he had come to clearly understand people like this. No matter what he said, they would maintain their original attitude.

They would keep doing what they intended to do, and there was nothing he could change.

Seeing that he did not take the bait, Zi Ji came up with another trick. Noticing a plate of Iced Waxberries on the table opposite her, she walked over and picked it up. "Since you have something so refreshing, why didn't you bring it out to entertain me? Are you reluctant to part with it?"

Zi Ji shot Dan Heng a glare.

Dan Heng looked at the Iced Waxberries on the plate, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

That had also been Gu Yuena's handiwork. All she had needed to do was wash and chill them, since waxberries were delicious on their own. But Gu Yuena had insisted on adding her own whimsical ideas, and the result...

Zi Ji popped an Iced Waxberry into her mouth, then spat it out with a "Ptoo!"

She glared at Dan Heng furiously and snapped, "What is this? Chilled sheep droppings? How did you make something so disgusting? Why didn't you throw it away?!"

Zi Ji swore that she had never eaten anything so awful in her life!

Dan Heng said flatly, "Gu Yuena made it."

Zi Ji had just raised the plate, intending to take the opportunity to throw a tantrum and smash it on the ground. Upon hearing that, she obediently set it down and said seriously, "Actually, it tastes quite good."

Dan Heng pointed at the Iced Waxberry rolling across the floor, the one Zi Ji had just spat out.

"..." Zi Ji gritted her teeth. This guy was truly annoying. Did he have to expose her like that?

Since My Lady had made it, Zi Ji had boundless tolerance for these Iced Waxberries. How could she have spat one onto the floor?

Zi Ji picked it up and tossed it back into her mouth, not even swallowing it.

Dragons were not like humans, who could not eat food once it had fallen on the ground. She did not care at all.

Even so, the flavor of the specially made Iced Waxberry still gave her a powerful jolt.

Her bewitching face scrunched into a ball.

"..." Dan Heng looked at Zi Ji in slight astonishment.

This woman was rather unhygienic...

She even ate food that had fallen on the floor? Though the floor had been swept spotless.

But putting it back in her mouth...

"What kind of look is that?!" Zi Ji noticed Dan Heng's gaze and immediately became dissatisfied.

"This was carefully made by my Elder Sister. Why would you leave it sitting there? It's obviously delicious—the most delicious thing in the world! What right do you have to dislike it?"

Zi Ji planted her hands firmly on her waist, fighting down the Iced Waxberries churning in her stomach to keep herself from throwing up.

"If you like them, you can eat them all." Dan Heng pointed at the plate of Iced Waxberries.

Perfect. Since Zi Ji was stubbornly claiming to love them, he had been worried it would be a pity to waste such relatively expensive fruit. If this "relative" ate them all, they would not go to waste.

"..." Zi Ji stared at the Iced Waxberries as though they were dishes of dark cuisine giving off black smoke.

"No need to be polite."

Dan Heng nodded.

"..." Zi Ji fell silent. She had not expected to be backed into a corner!

If she did not eat them, would that not mean she thought My Lady's food tasted terrible?

Would that not let this Old Pervert look down on My Lady?

"I'll! Eat! Them!"

Zi Ji gritted her teeth, picked up the plate, and dumped it into her mouth.

Who knew how much she had expanded her throat? In any case, she poured every last one in.

Dan Heng smiled faintly. At least none had gone to waste now.