I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 442 - 348: Do You Still Want a Sense of Ceremony?_2

Chapter 442: Chapter 348: Do You Still Want a Sense of Ceremony?_2

"No, no, don’t, I’m really ticklish——" Qi Xiangyun fought the urge to laugh and started to struggle: "I’m going to fight back now!"

"Then bring it on."

...

"Brother Chang Qing, I... I saw my dad again, and he, he was very angry." Liu Hongzhao said in a low voice, which she couldn’t bring herself to say in front of Lin Yaoyao and Qi Xiangyun, but couldn’t help mentioning when alone with Zheng Yichen.

The pleasant illusion made her somewhat yearning, but the transition to the harsh reality was too stark for her to take lightly. Even though she could kill without batting an eye, there were things she just couldn’t let go of, and she was all too aware of her dependency on a certain person.

"It was an illusion," Zheng Yichen emphasized this point, as Liu Hongzhao pursed her lips lightly.

"I know, my dad wanted to have those refugees spare me in the end... He wasn’t really angry, but I’d rather see him furious and scolding me."

However, that was just her wishful thinking, an opportunity she would never have again. Zheng Yichen might not be Liu Hongzhao, but he understood her feelings, and at that moment, all he did was to listen to the girl’s soft whispers.

He escorted her all the way home, where Liu Hongzhao turned to Zheng Yichen: "Brother Chang Qing, can you stay?"

Kid, you want to send your big brother to jail? Zheng Yichen touched the hand Liu Hongzhao had wrapped around his wrist: "Get some good rest, I won’t leave tonight."

Doing anything else was definitely out of the question, at most he would go without sleep, which was a minor thing for him. If bored, he could always amuse himself with the cat.

He would make sure he was the first thing Liu Hongzhao saw when she awoke the next day.

The next day, Liu Hongzhao, having woken up, first looked to her side with a twinge of disappointment, only to then see Zheng Yichen sitting at the table, a black cat’s shadow flickering away.

She smiled faintly, her expression quickly returning to its usual indifference. She had been prepared to have nightmares last night, but had slept soundly without any.

"Brother Chang Qing, you can rest here for a while." She immediately sat up, regretful that nothing more intimate had happened, but still, letting Zheng Yichen rest in her bed wasn’t too bad, was it?

"You..." Zheng Yichen handed Liu Hongzhao her clothes, finding it difficult to handle the redhead girl’s enthusiasm: "I still have things to do today, and later you’ll drive me to Dusk Territory."

Rather than having the girl overthink things in this world where she was still very young, it was better to give her a specific task. Being a female rider, that’s enough!

"Now let’s go have breakfast!"

Having finished speaking, Zheng Yichen left the girl’s boudoir. She didn’t mind changing clothes with him there.

Rubbing his cheeks, a swirl of water was flung to the floor by Zheng Yichen as the hologram of the artificial intelligence Lilith appeared on his shoulder: "Boss, this is your schedule for today."

"Hmm..." Zheng Yichen pinched the projection screen in front of him and looked at it. His original plan for the day was to continue fishing, but now that Qi Xiangyun and the others were back, he could change that. Yi Nan was likely to return today, but Zheng Yichen was prepared for the possibility that she might not be back until tomorrow.

They said three days, but delays could happen if unexpected situations arose. However, if the delay was too long, Zheng Yichen would have to find a new Diviner on his own.

He wasn’t the kind of person with time to spare, waiting around for one or two months. Work at Dusk could come up at any moment.

His willingness to wait for three more days was due to Yi Nan’s previously demonstrated high level of skill. For any ordinary Diviner, he wouldn’t bother waiting at all.

"Remove the fishing part, go to Dusk Territory after breakfast, and for the rest..." Zheng Yichen looked through the schedule filled with ’free to arrange’ entries, and after a moment of silence: "For the rest, just play it by ear."

Lilith’s schedule was essentially a prompt for Zheng Yichen to review his thoughts from the previous day. If he had any new ideas, he could carry on with them, and if not, like now, he could just directly delete them from the list.

"Good morning, Brother Chang Qing!" Arriving at Qi Xiangyun’s home, Lin Yaoyao greeted Zheng Yichen enthusiastically, "Xiangyun said you eat here every day, so I cooked the meal in advance."

"Then, I must taste it well."

Lin Yaoyao, with a brilliant smile, said, "When I was with Hong Zhao, I was the one who did the cooking."

"..." Looking at these overly exquisite dishes, Qi Xiangyun lightly rubbed her forehead. How should she put it? Going by a twenty-four-hour clock, Lin Yaoyao had gotten up at four in the morning, even pressing down on her hair and waking her up as well.

While Lin Yaoyao was cooking, Qi Xiangyun was wondering whether to tell her something Zheng Yichen had mentioned before, about Brother Chang Qing being a bit of a taste simpleton. After pondering for a bit, and looking at Lin Yaoyao striving for perfection, she eventually did tell Yaoyao about it.

Then, the food Lin Yaoyao cooked, besides being delightful in taste, also excelled in appearance. And so, there came to be such a table of exquisite dishes.

Not to mention how good the taste would be, in terms of appearance, without a doubt, it was top-notch food, almost shining. But to achieve this level, the taste definitely wasn’t bad either. As the assistant, Qi Xiangyun had tasted it and indeed, it was great.

"Also..." Lin Yaoyao looked at Liu Hongzhao who followed behind Zheng Yichen with a giant sword, a flicker of slightest doubt in her eyes, some questions remained unasked.

Liu Hongzhao said, "I didn’t do much."

"...So you just look disappointed??" Lin Yaoyao couldn’t help but exclaim.

Zheng Yichen looked at Liu Hongzhao’s expression. The girl in red moved her gaze slightly aside, then he looked at Lin Yaoyao. How did you read disappointment from that face?

You must have secretly learned something, right?

"Let’s eat first."

Zheng Yichen decisively didn’t dwell on the matter further. Since Lin Yaoyao had gone through the effort to make such an appealing breakfast, of course, he wanted to taste it. Although he was a bit of a taste simpleton, as long as it was something he did not find unpalatable, he could call it ’delicious’.

But he did have a standard for delicious. Beyond simply tasty, there was even more delicious, right? Without getting into the details of critique, just limited to the word ’delicious’, there were many opinions. For those without any peculiar aversions, there was no reason to resist trying even tastier food.

The primary purpose of eating is to fill the stomach and to bring joy to the person eating.

"Also, don’t think about always serving me food. Just eat normally," Zheng Yichen stated very straightforwardly after sitting down at the table. Whether it counted as a prediction or not, it was better to say it in advance to avoid any issues later, lest the three girls start serving him food in turns.

He just wanted to have a normal breakfast, especially in this ’reunion’ setting. Eat normally; don’t complicate things with extra stuff and spoil the mood. Although there might be many such gatherings recently, once he returned, they wouldn’t be as frequent.

"Got it." Lin Yaoyao appeared a bit disappointed but quickly adjusted her mood, picking up her chopsticks, "Then, let’s start the meal."

"..." Although they didn’t serve Zheng Yichen, the three girls didn’t move their chopsticks, quietly watching him.

"Act normally," Zheng Yichen tapped on the table, then picked up his own chopsticks.

"Hahaha~" Qi Xiangyun laughed after seeing Zheng Yichen begin to eat, saying, "This is our first time eating like this together, we all wanted a bit of ceremony for it."

"What’s the need for ceremony in eating a meal? That might affect the appetite. If you want to do this in the future, it wouldn’t be hard, but let’s not talk about that now. Everyone just eat as you normally would."

The atmosphere at the dining table returned to normal thereafter. Lin Yaoyao glanced at Qi Xiangyun but didn’t ask Zheng Yichen if the food was delicious. Having learned that Zheng Yichen was a bit taste impaired, how could she just ask that?

She had already tasted the dishes – the flavor was good...