This Is Too Delicious
This made Lin Xiaojin pause in surprise.
"Youwei, did you just eat some delicious soup or stew at the Luo Family? How were you so careless that you even got some in your hair?"
As she spoke, Lin Xiaojin instinctively drew back her hand, brought it to her nose, and gave it a light sniff.
It smelled fishy, with a faintly fermented tang.
Lin Xiaojin smiled smugly. "See? I knew I wasn't wrong. Youwei, you must have eaten some kind of fish stew, right? What the Luo Family cooked must have been rare spirit cuisine. So, how was it? Hurry and tell me about the texture. How did it compare to our own cooking?"
By then, Chu Youwei's face had already flushed crimson. She had never imagined that, because Luo Tianfu's room had no bronze mirror, she had been unable to inspect herself properly and ended up making such an embarrassing oversight—failing to notice that the filthy substance had still stained the tips of her hair.
Thinking of the strange, furtive smiles in the eyes of the guards and maids as she had walked out...
Now that she thought about it, those people must have noticed the stain!
For a moment, Chu Youwei felt both humiliated and indignant, wishing the ground would swallow her whole. Her mind was already in disarray; how could she possibly listen to Lin Xiaojin's questions?
"Youwei~" Lin Xiaojin called again suspiciously. Seeing the other girl lost in thought, she immediately mistook it for her savoring the delicious spirit cuisine. Her curiosity only deepened. What kind of spirit cuisine could leave her this dazed? It must be unimaginably delicious, incredibly rare, something scarcely found in all the world.
Ever since Lin Xiaojin had entered the path of spirit cuisine, she had carried