Liu Bing felt an awful headache. Holding Chang Xi, he said, "I thought you couldn't come here with me. Besides, I figured I'd need a few decades to take care of things here, a few centuries at most. For you, that'd only be a moment of daydreaming, so I didn't say anything."
Suddenly, Liu Bing sensed something was off. His shy, socially anxious Chang Xi wouldn't talk like that. His whole body stiffened, and his gaze wandered as he said, "Um, Goddess Xi He..."
"Hm? What did you call me?" The girl in Liu Bing's arms, who had looked timid just moments ago, suddenly turned cold.
"Uh, Sister Xi He..." Liu Bing felt a sharp pinch at his waist and immediately changed his form of address again. "Little Sister Xi He, what are you doing here? And could you stop pretending to be your sister from now on?"
"Hmph. I knew you'd see through me." Xi He snorted, then got off Liu Bing and sat down on the sofa. She called toward the door, "Come on in. He recognized me after all."
As soon as Xi He finished speaking, a small figure peeked furtively around the doorway. A girl then slowly, hesitantly made her way into the room.
The girl looked exactly like Xi He, right down to their identical clothes. The only difference was that Xi He had the commanding air of a domineering career woman, while this girl seemed much more timid and meek.
Chang Xi came over and slowly sat beside Liu Bing, clutching his clothes. Her big eyes fixed on the food laid out on the coffee table. Parting her lips slightly, she murmured, "Xiao Bing, I'm hungry..."
Liu Bing sighed helplessly. How could these powerful beings possibly be hungry? They just wanted someone to eat with, like watching a livestream to see someone wolf down food and whet their appetites.
He was about to clear away the few scraps left on the table and replace them with a fresh spread.
Just then, Xi He said, "Bring out some more food. I want to eat too. Oh, and you two should join us."
After saying this, Xi He deliberately glanced at Luo Li and the girl standing by the wall, both of them looking stunned. It was obvious that her last words were meant for them.
After all, this was Luo Li's home, so Xi He was showing the hostess a little courtesy.
Hearing Xi He, Liu Bing gave Luo Li and the girl a sympathetic look. Those two are probably going to be traumatized.
Only then did Luo Li and the girl come back to their senses, though they were still utterly shocked. They stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the three breathtaking beauties who had suddenly appeared in the room, unable to utter a word.
Xi He paid no mind to their shock. She glanced toward the doorway at the broken door and frowned. "Chang'e, fix the door, then come eat."
"Hehe, sure!" Chang'e chuckled and waved a hand. The broken door lying to one side rewound in time, returning to its state before it had been damaged.
Once she was done, Chang'e headed straight for the dining room to set out the bowls and chopsticks.
The bowls and chopsticks Chang'e prepared weren't ordinary tableware. They were the God of Cookery's special culinary treasure, the Taotie Feast.
It was a set of tableware specially crafted by the God of Cookery to make food taste far better. Its one and only effect was to make anyone who used it as ravenous as a taotie, craving all kinds of food.
With the Taotie Feast in hand, even someone with an eating disorder could plow three acres of land with their mouth.
Seeing the Taotie Feast made Liu Bing's stomach clench. It reminded him of something unpleasant.
Back when he'd learned to fly through the air and burrow underground, he'd made a special trip to the Moon Palace to have a look. After all, Chang'e was the most beautiful woman in the Three Worlds. He'd been curious to see what she looked like.
At the Moon Palace, he'd seen not only Chang'e, but Chang Xi and Xi He as well. At the time, he'd been completely dazzled by the three women's beauty.
Then the real suffering began.
At the time, Xi He had happened to visit the Moon Palace to spend some time with Chang Xi. Their way of bonding was pretty down-to-earth: they ate together, chatted about everyday things, and caught up over the table.
But Liu Bing's arrival made Chang Xi, who was extremely shy around people, so uncomfortable that she stopped eating. Xi He, who had been feeding Chang Xi, was very displeased.
Xi He doted on her younger sister, and feeding her was one of her favorite activities. Liu Bing's arrival had interrupted that, so she immediately became hostile toward him. However, Liu Bing had been sent to the Primordial World by Nuwa, so Xi He wasn't going to do anything to him.
She also knew that Liu Bing had gone out of his way to study cooking under the Kitchen God and the God of Cookery. So she gave him a chance to make up for the trouble he'd caused and told him to find a way to coax Chang Xi into eating.
Liu Bing tried everything he could think of, but nothing got Chang Xi to eat. Still, his efforts weren't wasted. At least Chang Xi saw that he meant well and wasn't as wary of him anymore.
But Chang Xi wouldn't eat, and Xi He wouldn't let him leave. Liu Bing had no choice but to keep trying to coax Chang Xi into eating.
Eventually, Liu Bing ran out of ideas. He could only resort to the simplest method: eating himself, wolfing down food to tempt Chang Xi into eating.
It was just like those mukbang streamers. Watch them long enough, and you'd start craving food too. You'd want to find out if what they were eating really tasted that good.
The method worked. Chang Xi really did eat.
Seeing that Liu Bing had actually coaxed Chang Xi into eating, Xi He approved of his approach. She also went and got several sets of the Taotie Feast, then had Liu Bing make his mukbangs even more uninhibited, so they could better whet the appetites of those watching.
And then... Xi He said she was enjoying her meal.
It took Liu Bing a long time to find out that Chang Xi wasn't the one who liked eating. Xi He was. She just felt that eating alone was no fun, so she always liked coming over to feed Chang Xi and eat with her.
But Liu Bing's arrival showed Xi He another way to whet her appetite. And so Liu Bing became Xi He's personal mukbang streamer.
With Liu Bing's top-tier mukbangs to lead her along, Chang Xi also grew to enjoy eating and drinking.
But Liu Bing, cast in the starring role of the mukbang, felt like he'd forced himself to eat an entire world during that time. It was a kind of suffering most people couldn't endure.
Anyway, Liu Bing felt like his stomach had really suffered for following him around.
Even now, thinking about it gave him a bit of a trauma response.
Still, Chang Xi had healed that little bit of trauma. After all, she was so beautiful, and once Liu Bing had whetted her appetite, he could take the opportunity to feed her too.
Watching Chang Xi happily eat the food he fed her made Liu Bing feel like he could eat his way through another world.
As for his stomach? Sorry, but Liu Bing was the one putting it through all this.
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