The embarrassed sect master (1 / 2)

Like Chen Yang, Yun Yun was a woman of action.

Her actions always ran ahead of her thoughts.

The moment the idea arose, she began pondering which position to use later.

For some reason, Yun Yun's unblinking stare made Chen Yang feel uneasy.

That feeling did not bode well at all.

"Husband, are we still on for tonight?" Yun Yun suddenly leaned closer, looking utterly alluring as she gently poked Chen Yang's abs with a slender finger.

They were rock-hard, wonderful to touch, and full of strength.

Yun Yun's thoughts inevitably strayed, drifting to Chen Yang lifting her high.

That feeling of being up among the clouds truly drove her wild.

Ahem!

That was the limit. There really was no room to elaborate any further.

Chen Yang: "...?"

Chen Yang gave her an odd look and asked, "Have your injuries healed?"

Yun Yun: "...!"

He just had to lift the one pot that had not boiled—what an unromantic blockhead.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"

Yun Yun coughed hard and waved a hand magnanimously, looking as though she did not care in the slightest.

"It's just a little injury. Nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about!"

"Not tonight." Chen Yang shook his head. He was still quite mindful of Yun Yun's health.

After a week of nonstop, high-intensity work, she needed some rest no matter what.

Besides, even if he agreed, Little Chen Yang was on strike.

"Haste makes waste in cultivation. You still need to put in solid work. Build a firm foundation first, and your cultivation will naturally improve."

Chen Yang changed the subject. "It's getting late. Would you like me to make you something to eat?"

On this matter, Yun Yun accepted Chen Yang's advice.

After a week of intense cultivation, not only was Little Chen Yang tired, but she herself was exhausted in both body and mind.

Still, when she heard Chen Yang offer to make her something to eat, Yun Yun gave him a surprised look.

He could cook, too?!

It seemed unbelievable just thinking about it.

An unimaginably powerful expert actually knew how to cook!

"Don't look at me like that. Is it really so strange that I can cook?" Chen Yang could not stand Yun Yun's sparkling gaze any longer and steered the conversation elsewhere.

Yun Yun nodded like a chick pecking at grain. "Mm-hmm, mm-hmm!"

She honestly voiced her thoughts. "Of course it is!

"In my mind, shouldn't powerful experts like you be born to have others wait on them?

"How could someone born to be waited on possibly know how to cook!"

There was no need to bring up anyone else; she herself was a perfect example. She could not cook.

In the kitchen, she could mistake salt for sugar and vinegar for oil.

Seeing how curious Yun Yun was, Chen Yang smiled and pinched her delicate nose, saying fondly, "Not only can I cook, but I'm very good at it. I'm no worse than a Five-Star Chef!"

Puzzled, Yun Yun asked, "What's a Five-Star Chef? A chef who's really good at cooking?"

Yun Yun understood "five-star" and "chef" separately, but she had never heard of whatever they meant when put together.

"Uh..." Chen Yang opened his mouth. How was he supposed to explain?

Five-Star Chef was a chef's rank, the highest tier of hotel chef in his world, representing the very pinnacle of culinary skill.

"More or less!" Chen Yang nodded and took Yun Yun by the hand, ready to show off his cooking.

A side hall on Sect Master Peak had a ready-to-use kitchen, along with meat from captive-reared magical beasts, vegetables, and rice.

While Chen Yang cooked for Yun Yun, she had no cultivation to do anyway. Bored with sitting around, she decided to lend him a hand.

Seeing how eager Yun Yun was to help, Chen Yang assigned her the simplest tasks: washing the rice and vegetables.

"You wash the rice and vegetables!"

As he spoke, Chen Yang handed her the rice and vegetables.

Yun Yun accepted them without fuss and took them outside to wash.

As for Chen Yang, he took out his long-unused Pig-Slaying Blade and deftly began carving up the magical beast carcass on the chopping board before him.

With a year of experience as a butcher, Chen Yang's blade was swift and precise. In just a few strokes, he had broken down the entire magical beast.

Then he selected the tastiest, choicest parts of its body and sliced them into small pieces.

As his blade rose and fell, slices of lean magical beast meat as thin as cicada wings flew from the chopping board into a jade bowl filled with clear water.

"Wow! Amazing." Yun Yun happened to return after washing the vegetables and rice. Seeing Chen Yang's almost supernaturally masterful knife work, her eyes sparkled, and she could not help applauding him.

"How are you so good with a knife?"

"You must have at least a few years of cooking experience to have knife skills like that!"

Yun Yun carefully picked up a slice of meat as thin as a cicada's wing from the jade bowl of water and brought it before her eyes.

It was so thin that it was almost transparent, with light faintly shining through.

"It's been a few years, I suppose!" Chen Yang did not deny it.

He had once spent half a month learning knife skills from a cook at a Lanzhou hand-pulled noodle shop. After coming to this world, he had worked as a butcher for another year.

His knife skills had long since reached a transcendent level. With just a little care, he could slice magical beast meat of any texture as thin as cicada wings.

As they spoke, Chen Yang had already sliced a large bowlful of magical beast meat into varying thicknesses.

Some pieces were thin as cicada wings, some were large and chunky, and others were thin as crackers.

When it came to the final stage of cooking, Yun Yun, whose culinary skills were nonexistent, could no longer help at all. She could only stand to one side and admire Chen Yang's astonishing cooking skills.

A man looked his best when he was focused.

For Yun Yun, watching Chen Yang cook was a pleasure.

He had the looks, and his movements were elegant and refined, like an immortal who had wandered into a kitchen.

Yun Yun rested her chin in her hands, watching in a trance.

How wonderful. This man was hers. She felt incredibly fortunate.

Although she did not know why he had fallen for her, the fact that he was hers now was enough.

Time slowly passed, and soon a delicious aroma filled the kitchen, seeping into the heart.

Enticed by the aroma, Yun Yun's stomach suddenly growled.

Grrr!

An abrupt, drawn-out rumble broke the harmony.

The kitchen was quiet, with only the soft sounds of stir-frying and flickering flames, so that long, drawn-out rumble was clearly audible.

Caught in this sudden embarrassment, Yun Yun looked mortified and was about to explain.

Yet before she could open her mouth, that familiar rumble sounded again.

Where there was one, there was a second.

In an instant, Yun Yun blushed so fiercely that she wanted to dig a hole and bury herself in it.

Her image as a little fairy, an aloof sect master, and one of the Ten Great Experts of the Jia Ma Empire was gone!

Just... just because of those two stomach growls.

Damn it!

"Um, I can explain." Yun Yun's smile looked worse than a grimace.

Chen Yang said nothing. He knew his wife cared about saving face, so he silently placed both hands on her waist, lifted her up, and carried her over to sit at the table in the main hall.

"Be good and wait here. It'll be ready soon!" With that, Chen Yang produced a box of fruit from somewhere and set it on the table in front of Yun Yun.

Then he turned and went straight back into the kitchen, bringing out the dishes one after another and placing them on the table.

Chen Yang arranged them artfully, neat and pleasing to the eye.

Then he thoughtfully served Yun Yun a bowl filled to the brim with white rice.

Looking at the brimming bowl of white rice Chen Yang had placed before her, Yun Yun's lovely face grew even more embarrassed.

One pang of hunger ruined a thousand graceful poses.

Just one stomach growl had completely destroyed her goddess image!

In her heart, Yun Yun cried injustice and lamented her plight!

(Thanks to the reader "Kai" for the monthly vote.)