Yuanyuan absentmindedly took stock of the equipment, then dragged Qu Jianlei into the kitchen.
"Get cooking, Old Kate. You and your wife are in for a treat today!"
She was so unabashedly familiar that Qu Jianlei could only shake his head and smile helplessly.
Honestly, this little one had a peculiar kind of personal charm. It was easy to let down one's guard around her.
Given Qu Jianlei's sense of security, cultivating alongside someone he had only known for a short time was practically impossible.
On the way back, he had carefully considered how he should guard against her.
After all, the Qi Gathering Array alone was enough to make Supremes fight over it, and Yuanyuan's background was quite extraordinary as well.
Yet after seeing Yuanyuan, all his plans vanished without a trace—how could such a silly, adorable little thing possibly harm anyone? Of course, he still needed to stay vigilant, but there was no need to take it too seriously.
Next, he began cooking. Yuanyuan repeatedly stressed that the dishes needed to be lighter in flavor.
"...If you want heavily seasoned food, set aside the portions for the three of us first, then add your own seasonings."
Unfortunately, after tasting her own food and then tasting Qu Jianlei's heavily flavored dishes, she made a firm decision.
"Put our food back in the wok... How strange. The flavor isn't too strong, but it just doesn't taste as good."
Old Kate and his wife were Modified Warriors and could only eat a few of the dishes, but they nodded repeatedly as they ate.
After dinner, Qu Jianlei cleared out a room and quietly sat in meditation to recover his qi.
At dawn the next day, Old Kate and his wife said their goodbyes and left.
Qu Jianlei did not rush to