"Sorry to interrupt your good time!"
In the courtyard outside the house, Liu Yiyi, who had set up a large pot, burst into laughter when she saw Ye Fan running out of the house in a disheveled state.
This was the first time she had ever seen her old classmate so embarrassed and disheveled!
She wasn't surprised that Ye Fan and Qin Yao had a relationship. After all, Ye Fan was a well-known campus heartthrob in their university days, and as far as she knew, he had received many love letters and had always been popular with women.
She even considered writing him a love letter back then, but ultimately realized he wasn't the type she needed and gave up.
Stop making fun of me!
With an awkward, wry smile, Ye Fan turned his gaze to the boiling, churning pot, his eyes immediately lighting up.
Wow, you even made hot pot!
That's right, Liu Yiyi brought this big pot specifically for a hot pot meal.
For the past year, she's been making barbecue for convenience, and she's gotten tired of it.
Now that we have the means, we should get ourselves in order.
Although many things in this other world are very different from those on Earth, it is not difficult to find similar substitutes. After fiddling around for a while, I made this pot of hot pot soup base.
"Try my cooking!"
Handing over a bowl and chopsticks, Liu Yiyi smiled and poured a large bowl of Ferocious Beast meat into the boiling spicy broth in a large pot.
"Absolutely! It's not easy to find a dish from home in this foreign land!"
Ye Fan sat down without any hesitation, picked up his chopsticks, grabbed a large piece of cooked meat, and stuffed it into his mouth. The spicy and savory flavor made him exclaim with delight.
"It smells so good!"
At that moment, the door behind them was pushed open again, and a graceful figure stepped out, wiping her wet hair while sniffing with her delicate nose.
It must be said that Liu Yiyi's skills are indeed excellent, and the ingredients she uses are all rare spiritual herbs. Not only does it taste delicious, but it also contains rich medicinal power, which is very beneficial to cultivators.
Of course, the recipe for this hot pot base was something Wang Hao came up with on the spot; such a small matter was just a matter of a thought for him.
After all, he was a foodie himself. Although he was currently only in the form of Divine Thought and couldn't eat these things, it was still quite nice to look at them.
Looks like I'll have to call you sister-in-law from now on!
As she handed Qin Yao a set of chopsticks and a bowl, Liu Yiyi's bright eyes darted back and forth between Ye Fan and Qin Yao, her smile quite ambiguous.
"Don't talk nonsense, nothing happened between us!"
With a dark expression, Ye Fan tried to explain, then got up to move away from Qin Yao as much as possible, but Qin Yao grabbed his arm tightly.
" Ye Fan, you're not planning to be a scumbag who starts a relationship and then abandons it, are you?!"
Liu Yiyi gave Ye Fan a disdainful look, as if she were looking at a utterly wicked scumbag.
She had just witnessed the two of them taking a bath in the same hot spring, and their position was quite intimate. She simply didn't believe that nothing had happened between them!
The disdainful look from his old classmate made Ye Fan's face darken even more. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to explain.
He knew he was doomed the moment Liu Yiyi entered the room; given the situation, he knew he couldn't clear his name even if he jumped into lava.
In the end, Ye Fan transformed his grief and anger into appetite, and with lightning speed, he devoured the cooked Ferocious Beast meat in the pot.
Seeing that the little man beside her had finally resigned himself to his fate, Qin Yao smiled and, imitating Ye Fan's method, began to pick up meat with chopsticks, constantly adding slices of cooked meat to Ye Fan's bowl.
Wow! I can smell that familiar fragrance from far away!
A strange cry came from outside, followed by an extremely burly figure stepping in.
Upon hearing that familiar voice and turning their heads, both Liu Yiyi and Ye Fan were overjoyed.
" Pang Bo!"
"Why are you so late!"
Ye Fan quickly got up and went over to punch his old classmate Pang Bo hard in the chest, unable to hide the joy on his face.
After learning that Liu Yiyi had found an incredibly powerful teacher, he had roughly guessed that the demon race would definitely not dare to do anything to Pang Bo, and would even release Pang Bo as soon as possible. Now, it turned out exactly as he had thought.
On the other side, Liu Yiyi, though unaware of Pang Bo's experiences over the past few years, immediately took out a set of bowls and chopsticks.
Pang Bo and Ye Fan were among her few close friends during her university years. Both of them had helped her on numerous occasions. On one occasion, when she was surrounded by a group of thugs, it was Pang Bo and Ye Fan who fought back against them to save her from harm.
Seeing Pang Bo arrive, he was overjoyed.
"Don't say anything, let me have a bite of this long-missed hometown dish first!"
Picking up his chopsticks, Pang Bo immediately scooped a slice of cooked meat from the pot, not minding the heat, and stuffed it directly into his mouth, looking completely blissful.
He's also a huge foodie and a true carnivore, with hot pot being his favorite dish.
Now, after many years, eating this familiar spicy hot pot again, the taste is indescribable.
And this hot pot really does taste great, many times more delicious than any hot pot I've ever had on Earth.
" Yiyi, you have such a skill! If I had known, I should have pursued you and married you back then."
After scooping up another large skewer of meat and stuffing it into his mouth, Pang Bo gave Liu Yiyi a thumbs up and praised her highly.
These words, however, darkened Liu Yiyi's expression as she recalled her unhappy marriage from the past.
Soon after graduating from university, she met a man through her family's introduction, and married him after dating for a year.
But she never imagined that the man was impotent, and that he only married her to cover up his problem and avoid being ridiculed by others.
To keep her secret, the man repeatedly held a kitchen knife to her neck, threatening to kill her entire family if she dared to divorce him.
He even frequently abused her after drinking, plunging her into despair.
Noticing Liu Yiyi's odd expression, Ye Fan kicked Pang Bo hard under the table, then changed the subject, laughing and scolding, "How do you know Yiyi made this hot pot? Does that mean I, the Great Food God Ye, can't make it?"
He noticed Liu Yiyi's poor condition at their class reunion years ago. After inquiring with Liu Yiyi's best friend, he learned that Liu Yiyi's marriage was very unhappy and she was often abused by her husband.
Pang Bo's words clearly reminded Liu Yiyi of her unhappy marriage.
Pang Bo realized his mistake and quickly chimed in with a laugh, "You, the Food God? Don't forget who ruined a perfectly good pot of soup by putting salt in instead of sugar during the class field trip."
As she spoke, she gave Ye Fan a disdainful look.
He knew that although his best friend was also a foodie, he was just a pure foodie. He had no problem eating, but when it came to cooking, he was the Masamune inheritor of dark cuisine.
What can someone who can't even tell the difference between salt and sugar possibly make?
"I still vividly remember the culinary skills of our great Food God Ye back in the day!"
Liu Yiyi also recalled that incident from back then and smiled.
They originally intended to make a sweet soup as dessert, but Ye Fan turned it into a completely savory soup.
Moreover, this guy is quite cunning. He knew he had ruined the soup, but he didn't say anything and just distributed it to all the classmates, causing quite a few people to fall for it.
Although she wasn't tricked by Ye Fan because of her good relationship with Ye Fan, she still tried it out of curiosity afterwards.
She still remembers that taste clearly; it's unforgettable.
"Ahem... Why did you have to bring that up!"
He glared at Pang Bo, the guy who had ruined his friend's life, with displeasure, but when he saw Liu Yiyi's expression change and that she had moved on from that unpleasant memory, he felt relieved.
He had always treated his timid old classmate Liu Yiyi like a younger sister, and had taken good care of her during their school years.
When he learned about Liu Yiyi's unhappy marriage at the class reunion, he really wanted to kill that beast.
If he could return to Earth, he would definitely make that beast perish inhumanely.
"By the way, Pang Bo, have you been taking hormones or something these past few years? You've changed so much!"
While eating, Ye Fan started chatting, and the topic naturally shifted to Pang Bo.
Back then, although Pang Bo was tall, standing at 1.9 meters, he wasn't nearly as exaggerated as he is now.
This guy is now as tall as him standing, even when he's sitting. He was going to punch him in the shoulder, but ended up punching him in the chest instead.
A rough estimate suggests this guy is at least 250 cm tall, and his muscles are far more exaggerated than those of bodybuilding champions.
He's practically an undyed Hulk!
If his face hadn't changed so much, he really wouldn't have recognized him before.
"I 'Taiqing either. They say it's because I have the Demon God Bloodline, and that's how I became like this after the bloodline was activated."
Moreover, only half of its bloodline has been activated so far; it should grow a little larger once fully activated.
While eating the meat, Pang Bo explained casually.
He didn't intend to go into detail about his experiences over the past few years, but he had roughly figured out some things from the attitudes of those demons before.
This escape was undoubtedly thanks to these two old classmates, and it seems they get along quite well with the demon race. So there's no need to bring up those unpleasant things and make everyone unhappy.
Anyway, he didn't suffer any loss; in fact, he gained a great advantage by acquiring a set of Demon Clan Emperor Scripture Scriptures for free. This thing is one of the top-tier inheritances in the entire Big Dipper Star Domain.
" Yezi, aren't you going to introduce her?"
Pang Bo, who was scooping out meat, glanced at Qin Yao, who was constantly putting food on Ye Fan's plate, and suddenly felt that the meat slices at the very back didn't taste as good anymore, and he felt even more full.
There's nothing he can do; he's still single, and he simply can't stand these saccharine displays of affection.
"My Qin Yao, and according to what you say in your hometown, I'm Little Fanfan's girlfriend."
Before Ye Fan could speak, Qin Yao smiled and declared herself Ye Fan's girlfriend.
In fact, if it weren't for Ye Fan's feelings, she would have wanted to directly establish her status as his fiancée, or even his wife.
After all, such an outstanding man is very sought after, and being able to establish a formal relationship early on would give one a significant advantage.
"Just a girlfriend? More than that, right?"
Pang Bo glanced at the towels wrapped around Ye Fan and Qin Yao, his face full of disbelief.