This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 53: I’m laying all my cards on the table!

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: I’m laying all my cards on the table!

As the eerie silence lingered between the two, Chen Hua on the other side could hardly bear it anymore, shouting anxiously in his heart:

"Go on, hug each other! Where is your usual cleverness, silly apprentice?"

He was so exasperated that he wished he could physically push the two foolish disciples together!

Growing up depending on each other, Liang Yi had long since treated Su Youyi as his own sister, while she harbored secret affections amidst his meticulous care.

As an outsider, Chen Hua had realized their relationship during the period he took them as apprentices and directly chose to support the younger apprentice and ’sell out’ the older one.

However, years passed by without any development until Liang Yi’s memory loss, which marked a turning point.

Before losing his memory, Liang Yi was aware of his junior sister’s feelings, but couldn’t overcome that barrier, causing his junior sister to dare not step beyond her role as a junior sister and sister.

After the memory loss, Su Youyi’s bold actions stemmed from knowing that without his memory, the barriers in his heart would naturally vanish. Why not be bold for the sake of happiness?

She feared that one day her senior brother would suddenly regain his memory and revert to his role as her senior brother, making their relationship even more unattainable!

Chen Hua had previously said several times that he wanted to help the senior disciple investigate the memory loss, but selectively forgot to do so, creating opportunities for the junior disciple.

As for Liang Yi, although he didn’t have psychological burdens, he felt ashamed.

The junior sister was in love with who he was before, not who he is now. Her affections were developed with his former self; what did that have to do with him, Liang Yi? Now, accepting his junior sister’s confession wouldn’t sit well with his conscience.

He admitted he had fallen for his junior sister, but precisely because of it, he felt even more ashamed and dared not simply accept her.

Liang Yi opened his eyes, his gaze resolute, making a decision in his heart. He firmly held his junior sister’s shoulders, allowing her to look directly into his eyes, and said softly yet firmly.

"Could you wait a little longer, until you’ve grown up?"

Upon hearing the first part, Su Youyi’s pupils dimmed, sinking into disappointment. However, after hearing the latter part, she couldn’t help but wrap her arms around her senior brother’s neck, her face breaking into a smile, understanding the implicit meaning behind his words.

"I’m laying it out here! I do like you, junior sister!" Liang Yi thought to himself.

"Senior brother, you said it! No take-backs! Pinky swear!"

Su Youyi extended her pinky finger.

Liang Yi hesitated upon seeing the extended finger; their last pinky swear strangely resulted in a contract, could it happen again?

But seeing his junior sister’s bright and hopeful eyes, Liang Yi couldn’t bear to refuse. He sighed inwardly and linked his finger with that of his junior sister.

"Pinky swear, a deal for a hundred years, no changes allowed!"

"Let’s seal it with a stamp!"

Su Youyi pressed her senior brother’s thumb, completing the deal. From their childhood, every pinky-swear commitment was always honored by her senior brother, just like he had never lied to her.

"It seems this memory loss isn’t too bad after all!" Chen Hua, secretly observing, chuckled softly and withdrew his divine sense.

"Satisfied?"

Liang Yi looked at his junior sister who was so happy that she seemed to bubble, feeling a bit helpless.

"Very satisfied! I’m the most satisfied with you, senior brother!"

Su Youyi hugged her senior brother’s arm, resting her head on his shoulder, and called out tenderly.

"We’ll develop our feelings gradually." Liang Yi looked at his junior sister leaning on his shoulder, smelling the faint scent from her body, and at last found peace.

People must bear the consequences of their choices.

Feelings are complicated; who can really make them clear? Since he chose to accept, he wouldn’t keep stringing his junior sister along.

Liang Yi suddenly felt something off, as if a premonition struck him, and he opened his character panel only to find that his [Carefree Voyage] skill in the skill bar had unknowingly been leveled up and had now officially been initiated.

This peculiar phenomenon prompted Liang Yi to quickly check the system notifications.

"Ding! Player’s Mental State matches the Conception of [Carefree Wanderer] Daoist Skill, Skill Level +1!"

Liang Yi had some revelations; his straightforward and spontaneous mental state at that time must have matched the essence of "carefree" to succeed in leveling up, although this also involved having full intuition.

What a pleasant surprise!

Having saved a bunch of experience made Liang Yi quite happy, he patted his junior sister’s back and smiled:

"What would you like for dinner? Your senior brother will cook it all for you!"

Hearing this, Su Youyi’s eyes sparkled as she began searching through the mental food encyclopedia she had memorized.

After getting enough rest, Liang Yi, seeing that Su Youyi was lost in thought, decided to head to the kitchen first, then deliver the food to their master later.

"Senior brother, I want to eat fish!"

While on their way, Su Youyi snapped out of her thoughts, looking pitifully at her senior brother. She remembered when they were younger and wandering, her brother had stayed in the stream for a day to catch her a fish to nourish her body, only to end up with a high fever the next day.

"I’ve said I’d cook anything, what flavor do you want? Sweet, sour, bitter, or spicy?"

"Is bitterness even an option? I’ll eat anything you make!"

"Okay, then let’s make sauerkraut fish, I particularly hate picking out bones when I don’t feel like eating meat."

"Ha ha, senior brother, you’re still as lazy as ever."

Su Youyi laughed, her brother disliked fish because he hated picking out bones; disliked pomegranates because he had to spit out seeds, he loathed any food that couldn’t be chewed and swallowed directly.

It seems the habit hasn’t changed even after amnesia!

The kitchen stored fresh fish, particularly those delicate in texture and with few bones.

Su Youyi joyfully assisted on the side. Making delicious food was happiness itself, doing it with her senior brother made it doubly joyful!

Liang Yi increasingly realized that mana was a wonderful thing, greatly simplifying many time-consuming or complicated steps in cooking and enhancing the flavor to a new level.

"Ding! Experience +1500!"

Liang Yi lifted the pot lid, steam billowed, and the fragrant aroma of fish instantly filled the kitchen.

"Sizzle! Sizzle!"

Su Youyi next to him could barely resist the delicious smell.

"What a little glutton!"

Seeing his junior sister’s expression, Liang Yi took a pair of chopsticks, picked up a piece of fish, cooled it to the perfect temperature, and fed it to Su Youyi, who had been eagerly waiting with her mouth wide open.

"How’s the taste?" Liang Yi asked expectantly.

"(￣～￣) Chew!"

"Wow, delicious!"

Su Youyi opened her mouth again, signaling her brother to feed her.

"You little glutton! Go call Master! I’ll bring the rice and sauerkraut fish to Master’s yard." Liang Yi playfully gestured with a hand chop, causing Su Youyi to instinctively crouch in defense.

"Got it! I’m going now."

Su Youyi dared not resist her brother’s tyranny and left the kitchen with a sulky face.

"Sigh~" Liang Yi sighed.

He then packed a bucket of rice steamed with spiritual rice and a big pot of sauerkraut fish into a special storage food box, ready to head to their master’s yard.

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