CHAPTER 346: CHAPTER 118: SPECIAL ADMISSION

A certain CP fan: Clearly eating up material, how did it turn into being fed dog food?

The protagonist who was scattering dog food didn’t feel that her actions were harshly hurting the hearts of the single people in front of her. She saw that Chen Si was still glancing at He Yuan with small eyes, but He Yuan refused to turn her head for even a glance. She smiled and said something with deep meaning: "So, people destined to love each other, no matter how it starts or how the process goes, will end up together in the end."

"Don’t you think so?" Under Chen Si’s gaze, Du Xixi merely patted He Yuan on the shoulder, the smile at the corner of her mouth seemingly guiding her to face her own heart.

But after He Yuan caught the hidden meaning in Du Xixi’s words, she hesitated for a moment, only to quietly glance backward. Fortified by Chen Si’s hopeful gaze, she suddenly turned her head away.

At that moment, He Yuan’s heart was pounding "thump thump", yet she still made an effort to calm herself down. She took a long breath and said, "We better go practice cooking quickly, there’s not much time left until the start of the semester."

The start of the semester was two months away, and time was indeed a bit tight, but they had mostly prepared everything, with the Blue Star Empire as their backing and Blue Star University as their support. Could talking about relationship views really delay anything?

This was obviously just an excuse for He Yuan to change the subject. Realizing this, Du Xixi and a few others raised their eyebrows, feeling that this pair, clearly on the same page, was not breaking ground on their relationship fast enough.

But after all, it was their own business, and even those familiar with them, like Wenren Yu and the others, didn’t say anything. Naturally, Du Xixi just smiled silently, letting He Yuan pull her towards the sink.

"Xixi, what are we doing today?" While everyone was meticulously washing their hands, Zhang Ye, standing to Du Xixi’s right, asked. Among them, Du Xixi had the best cooking skills and naturally led everything.

Having taught countless students before, with her mind full of experiences, Du Xixi smiled slightly, letting the clear water rinse the suds off her hands, and softly replied, "The basics among you are not bad, but some areas need the right guidance, which is why the dishes might be somewhat lacking."

A clean handkerchief wiped the water droplets off Du Xixi’s hands, her pristine hands reminiscent of warm, beautiful jade, bathed in the gentle light of the classroom, looking stunningly beautiful: "Let’s take it easy, no need to be too rigid, treat it as a mutual culinary exchange."

Du Xixi didn’t want to put herself on a pedestal; the people in front of her were her colleagues, who might work together for decades, even centuries. Exalting herself without reason would only make her stand out uncomfortably.

Du Xixi said so and naturally did so, striving to be gentle and speaking softly, leaving Zhang Ye and the others momentarily disoriented, as if she was not the one who had criticized their dishes yesterday.

"Your knife skills need improvement."

Under Du Xixi’s gaze, He Yuan was slicing a piece of pork belly. The soft pork lay "submissively" on the cutting board, looking very "honest," but as soon as He Yuan went to work, it began to "wriggle" wildly, making it impossible for her to cut uniform pieces.

Du Xixi continued with a relatively gentle tone, "Actually, cutting meat isn’t difficult, you don’t need to be so tense, relax a bit, like I do..."

With that, Du Xixi picked up a kitchen knife and demonstrated with the same piece of meat. The piece, which had been quite unruly, seemed to be fixed in place, allowing Du Xixi to slice it into pieces with ease.

The neatly arranged meat slices on the cutting board, if it weren’t for the obvious cut marks between them, could easily be mistaken as uncut.

Watching Du Xixi’s demonstration, He Yuan began again, but having not grasped the essentials before, just seeing Du Xixi’s example wouldn’t immediately enlighten her.

She gently bit her lower lip, aligning the blade to the pork belly, cutting cautiously, one slice after another. Flashes of Du Xixi slicing meat filled her mind, and with bated breath, she made slight progress.

However, Du Xixi frowned, thinking that He Yuan still needed to work hard on her knife skills.

The braised pork made yesterday was by He Yuan, and without mentioning other aspects, those fatty meat pieces were likely a result of He Yuan’s inconsistent meat cutting.