Chapter 258 – Lovers Who Don’t Have to Take Responsibility (2/2)

“Here you go!”

Sure enough, Shen DaiYing thrust the knife out! But it wasn’t with the blade, but the handle she pinched the blade as she handed the knife over like she was afraid of hurting Elena.

Elena paused, then silently took the knife. Shen DaiYing chuckled and looked at Lin Xiao who was peeking, like she was blaming him for worrying unnecessarily.

“Did you think I would hurt her? Your maid is so cute, so how could I?”

“Uh… okay, stop messing around, I’m still waiting!”

Lin Xiao awkwardly coughed and said something a ‘master’ would say and went back to laze on the sofa.

Thud, thud, thud… Elena’s hateful chopping continued again, but this time it was accompanied with noises of cooking.

Lin Xiao regrettably found that he couldn’t hear their conversation anymore. He was afraid of them fighting but didn’t dare to eavesdrop again and could only anxiously roll around on the sofa and hope that time passed quicker.

A beauty coming to his house to cook should be a good thing, but for some reason his stomach hurt.

He realized that he probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy today’s meal.

“Hehe, Elena, you seem to have a great deal of animosity towards me.” Through the cover of the cooking sounds, Shen DaiYing knew that Lin Xiao couldn’t hear so she approached Elena and gently spoke next to her, “Don’t worry, I didn’t come here today to declare war and I’m not going to take away your master, I just want to make a meal… can’t I?”

“In that case, concentrate and stop talking.” Elena coldly glanced at her and continued working.

“Hehe, how cold… Elena, are you jealous?”

“Tsk… Shen DaiYing, aren’t you going to teach me how to cook? If not, then I’m leaving!”

“Oh, it’s just scrambled eggs, it’s simple, just do as I say.”

Shen DaiYing got back on track and started teaching Elena had to make a beginner dish, scrambled eggs.

Shen DaiYing thought that Elena was purposely changing the topic, but she noticed that Elena was actually seriously learning, so she also concentrated and worked with her for a while and finally taught her how to make scrambled eggs. Then she began preparing the Great Qin cuisine that she excelled at.

“Elena, help me prepare the ingredients and seasonings.”

“… Okay.”

The atmosphere gradually eased and Shen DaiYing cooked halfheartedly while trying to find a chance to talk with Elena again.

“Elena, you really don’t have to think of me as an enemy, although your master likes me, but I haven’t accepted him.”

“I really can’t trust the words of a vixen who throws herself at people.”

Elena had an inexplicable dislike of Shen DaiYing, as she handed over some sugar.

“Oh, you’re referring to us hugging earlier… don’t misunderstand, that’s just because I promised him before, yet he rejected me, hm… I don’t know what he’s worried about, even if we did it, I wouldn’t make him take responsibility.”

“Doing it and not needing to take responsibility, is this what the humans call lover, or rather mistress?”

“Mistress, is it…”

Shen DaiYing prudently opened the bottle of sugar and tasted it, worried that Elena swapped it with salt, then poured it in the pot after confirming and went back to chatting.

“Un, perhaps you’re right, but I’m satisfied with that kind of relationship… but what about you?”

“Me?”

Seeing as how Shen DaiYing suspected her of swapping the sugar with salt, Elena frowned and her dislike of Shen DaiYing grew even more as she slowly handed over the cut meat.

“That’s right Elena, if I’m his ‘mistress’ then what are you? … A maid? Of course not… or perhaps, you’re actually his wife, and preparing to bear his children?”

“What!? You…”

After hearing what she said, Elena suddenly remembered that she had to bear Lin Xiao’s children to be free from the contract and couldn’t help but suddenly lose focus and dropped the bowl in her hand.

“Careful!”

Noticing her state, Shen DaiYing quickly reacted and caught the falling bowl then relaxed.

“Oh my, what are you so surprised for, could it be I hit the bullseye?”

Shen DaiYing put the bowl aside and approached Elena speaking next to her ear like a pair of intimate sisters.

“But Elena, even if you want to have his children, even if you want to be his wife, you can’t, right?”

Nearly biting Elena’s earlobe, her voice was eerie, and she finally said the words that had been brewing for so long.