The Cross-Border Kitchen

"ahem!"

Li Bai cleared his throat.

Master Xu stopped what he was doing and turned around. He nodded. "Mr. Li!"

The kitchen was off-limits to outsiders. Apart from the staff, only the company's Big Shots could enter.

After all, the access system required facial recognition. Without the proper clearance, no one could get in. The Big Shots had the highest-level access.

"Making something?"

As he spoke, Li Bai kept his eyes on the Demoness, who hadn't looked away from the cutting board for a moment.

Listening to Master Xu explain the different ways to cook snake meat and how each one tasted, the Azure Flood Dragon was practically drooling. She had nearly forgotten the Heaven and Earth Rules suppressing her.

"Huh?"

Qingyao Demoness blinked. It took her a long moment to come back to herself. Hesitantly, she said, "I can only give Young Master half of today's extra dish."

She'd planned to keep it all to herself and eat in secret, but now... that plan had clearly fallen through.

As for that stinky carp, she'd give it one bite at most, plus a small bowl of snake-tail soup. No more than that. The Azure Flood Dragon had been unusually generous this time, considering how many carp she'd eaten over the years. Her favorite was Braised Yellow River Carp.

Now that she had money, she had them flown over alive and kept in a big pond at Kunlun Demon Realm Company. One shipment lasted a month.

But Li Bai wasn't focused on the rattlesnake that had been butchered on the cutting board. He gripped the Demoness's head in both hands and lectured her. "Stay away from those weirdos from now on."

Head pats and the like only worked on Little Red Carp. For a Great Demoness, he had to twist her