What is love, exactly?
Desire?
Emotion?
Benefit?
Or something else?
From a physiological perspective, it's a primal instinct for procreation.
When one encounters a suitable opposite sex, the brain secretes hormones and dopamine, affecting your mind, and subsequently your emotions and thoughts.
However, these dopamine and hormones can also be supplemented by external means.
In this world of souls, emotions are not so simple...
And sometimes, feelings arrive quite suddenly.
Take Zhang Wei, for instance, holding that soft body, finding her more endearing the more he looked.
Heartfire represents a person's emotions.
The flame is a warm orange, round like a candle.
As emotions change, burning intensely, the orange deepens to apricot, orangey-red, and dazzling pure white!
This is the visualization of intense emotions!
Flames converging with flames, burning even more vigorously!
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In short, these were three days of passionate romance.
On one hand, her physique was quite good, and Zhang Wei was also quite experienced.
The human skin doll, in her early days, had lost some of her human traits while researching the human skin shapeshifting technique.
In the days that followed, her strength grew alongside her abnormalities, distancing her further from humanity. Even her mindset was affected, becoming aggressive, dark, and bloodthirsty...
Yet, on the first day she met Zhang Wei, a culinary creation removed the deep-seated hidden dangers accumulated from years of skill cultivation, awakening her human side.
Furthermore, she later tasted many top-tier dishes.
Finally, with a mixture of Qianqian's Forget-Worry Water, Lover's Flesh, and Youyou's Forget-Love Water, the human skin doll finally regained all her human emotions.
The last of these was the taste of love.
Zhang Wei stood up, supporting his aching back. The human skin doll let out a lazy hum, "Chef... where are you going?"
"Aren't you hungry? Of course, I'm preparing breakfast for you."
"Heh heh... Good."
Zhang Wei could clearly feel that the human skin doll was much more lively.
He had only taken one step.
A wave of weakness washed over his legs...
He almost fell, stumbling slightly.
"Chef, are you alright?"
Zhang Wei roared in anger, "Just three days, it's nothing!"
Zhang Wei actually felt a lingering fear.
Women of the flesh-type were truly formidable, especially shapeshifters like the human skin doll, who had extreme control over their bodily organs!
She could control every detail of her body, doing whatever she pleased!
Initially, Zhang Wei could still gain the upper hand with his superior level and stamina. But once she grasped some techniques, she could easily overwhelm Zhang Wei and maintain firm control of the rhythm!
It was terrifying!
"Alright."
"Now, it's time to complete the second banquet dish!"
"Sweet Lovers..."
Perhaps after re-experiencing the joys of romance, Zhang Wei had an epiphany.
His thoughts flowed freely!
Prepare the ingredients!
First, the Fruit Treasure Rainbow Fruit, perfect grade, weighing 300 kilograms per piece.
Second, the Bronze Apples, ordinary grade, 0.3 kilograms per piece, five of them!
Jelly Deer Meat, twelve portions totaling 350 kilograms, ordinary grade!
Eight types of Sky Kingdom vegetables, perfect grade!
The Candy Bomber, which induces happiness, ordinary grade!
...
...
"All ingredients that can bring happiness, then combine them according to their commonalities!"
First step!
Boil sugar!
But not syrup; instead, dilute the happiness sugar with clear water, making its sweetness more natural.
Then, add vegetable juice and fruit juice according to taste...
"Lemon!"
"And the Bronze Apples should be made into a beverage-grade apple cider vinegar, about 3% alcohol is enough."
This was essential.
If you want to find the feeling of love, the sourness of lemon is a must, combined with the sweet and sour taste of apple cider vinegar, it's simply perfect!
Food, like love, needs a certain amount of sourness for balance. Otherwise, relentless sweetness will lose its depth, which is also the key to lasting longevity!
The sweet and sour of happiness...
...
"Doll, come and eat."
Her body swayed, and her Lolita-style long skirt enveloped her graceful figure.
The mask-like porcelain face was gone, replaced by the youthful appearance she had eighteen years ago.
With a deep bow, the doll seemed to shed her emotions once more.
"Chef, thank you."
"Try it."
Several Futomaki were placed on the dining table, with white sweet cream sauce on the side.
Futomaki is a method of rolling rice in nori, similar to un-cut sushi.
The human skin doll took a deep sniff.
So light...
So surprising.
Zhang Wei hailed from the Great Eastern Nation of Blue Star. Following the principles of Chinese cuisine, the more luxurious the dish, the richer and more intense the flavor, or the more unique its characteristics.
In high-class cuisine, meat and complex dishes account for over seventy percent.
The rest are vegetarian dishes, vegetables, fruits, and pastries.
"Haha... This dish is a great success. Although the finished portion is a bit small, it's definitely no less than Wuxiang."
"Wuxiang?"
"That's another of my proud creations. I'll treat you to it next time."
The human skin doll reached out and picked up a Futomaki, exclaiming, "So soft... Is this really Futomaki?"
Normal Futomaki is wrapped in nori and filled with rice, radish, shredded meat, and other ingredients, holding its shape firmly.
But this one was soft and bouncy, like a soft rubber stick, entirely wrapped in an unknown material, feeling very smooth to the touch.
"This is..."
Zhang Wei smiled, "That's Jelly Deer skin. Jelly Deer are treasures from head to toe; even their bone powder can be used as a milk tea ingredient."
"Its skin, after processing, becomes very soft and elastic, and it can be used to make a large amount of white jelly."
Making jelly from animal skin is common.
For example, aspic from the north and Ejiao from Dong'e are both made from animal skins, one from pig skin, the other from donkey skin.
However, the skin of the Jelly Deer is entirely different; when boiled down, the resulting product, after drying, becomes white jelly.
White jelly is a specialty food from the south and a necessary ingredient for making homemade jelly. It is made from plant-based jelly gum and other ingredients, offering a cooling and thirst-quenching effect with a sweet taste.
Animal skin producing plant gum is only possible in this world.
The human skin doll tilted her head, "It feels very amazing!"
"But compared to your previous works, it feels too plain."
Just six simple rolls with a small amount of sauce.
Zhang Wei's cooking had never been so modest.
Zhang Wei pondered for a moment, then finally said, "The name of this dish is Sweet Lovers."
"Hmm... A very nice name, a bit like chocolate. Why is it called that?"
"It's about the theme of love..."
Zhang Wei continued, "This dish contains my conception of love. Love should be pure."