“I’m here, are you eating?”
Shen Xian saw Mu Anxiao’s situation and conceded, “I am.”
Feng Qishi said, “Then I shall begin.”
Mu Anxiao consciously stepped back a few paces.
In the end, Feng Qishi still made this meal.
Sitting at the table, Shen Xian ate the food that had no taste to him and asked, “Why are you looking at me?” He raised his eyes to look at Mu Anxiao, who was standing opposite him, responsible for serving the food.
Mu Anxiao served Shen Xian with her chopsticks and said, “I heard you have no sense of taste, so how do you swallow these dishes?”
Shen Xian replied, “I just swallow them, how else would I?”
“Oh,” Mu Anxiao nodded and leaned in to place the serving chopsticks in Shen Xian’s bowl, “Please, help yourself.”
“I never expected the old man to teach him even this; I never learned it myself,” Shen Xian muttered.
However, Mu Anxiao heard his words clearly.
So, she straightened up and said, “Your master didn’t teach him these dishes.”
Shen Xian was startled, “You heard that?”
Mu Anxiao said, “It’s just the two of us in this room, of course I heard you.”
“That’s true.”
“You’re quite amusing,” Mu Anxiao said, putting down her chopsticks and sitting down on a chair.
Shen Xian asked while eating, “What do you mean by that?”
“A strong sense of jealousy is not a good thing.”
“You’ve said that before,” Shen Xian glanced at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao rested her cheek on her hand, “I heard what you and Shen Fengzi said, but I didn’t expect you to believe it.”
“What do you mean?”
“It means, based on my understanding of the old gentleman,” Mu Anxiao shook her head slightly, “he is not the kind of old man who would favor anyone.”
“……”
“Still don’t understand.”
“I don’t want to talk about him with you.”
Mu Anxiao shrugged, “Alright, anyway, I just think you’re quite stupid.”
“You’re the stupid one,” Shen Xian glared fiercely at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao smiled, “Even if I were stupid, I wouldn’t be as stupid as a demon who can’t even tell who is good to you and who wants to harm you.”
“Say that again.”
“I won’t,” Mu Anxiao said, averting her gaze.
Shen Xian: “……” He slammed his chopsticks onto the table.
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao immediately stood up and said, “Alright, you’re full, I can clean up now.”
Following that, Shen Xian looked up at Mu Anxiao, “Did I tell you to clean up?”
Mu Anxiao said, “Didn’t you mean you were done eating by slamming your chopsticks down?”
Shen Xian pursed his lips and pointed at the food on the table, “Eat. After you’ve eaten, I’ll listen to you.”
That’s right, Shen Xian’s heart had been moved. He wanted to hear what Mu Anxiao had to say! It was just that, out of pride, he used eating to shut her up.
Mu Anxiao also saw Shen Xian’s intention, so she played along and temporarily put away her smugness, taking out a pair of chopsticks from her sleeve.
Seeing this, Shen Xian was surprised, “You brought your own chopsticks?”
“With so much food, I knew you wouldn’t be able to finish it,” Mu Anxiao said, sitting down and starting to eat the dishes.
Shen Xian couldn’t help but smile, “Alright, you can begin.”
“It’s not good to talk while eating.”
“What’s not good about it? There are no such rules for me.”
Mu Anxiao said while eating, “Fine, what do you want me to tell you?”
“You said my junior brother was doing it for my own good, what do you mean?”
“Oh,” Mu Anxiao picked up a piece of meat, “That fellow deliberately made you angry.”
“What?”
“What what? What I mean is, he was afraid you would encounter danger if you went tonight, so he deliberately said that the old gentleman taught him some magical technique, but actually,” Mu Anxiao took a bite of meat, “that’s not true.”
“He… was doing it for my own good?”
“Of course.”
“……” Shen Xian squinted his eyes and then asked, “Then why can he cook?”
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao’s expression stiffened. She glanced behind her and said, “Do you know about your junior brother’s reincarnation?”
“I know,” Shen Xian’s face stiffened.
Mu Anxiao also noticed Shen Xian’s sudden unhappiness and said, “It’s good that you know. Do you know about his reincarnation process and what happened afterward?”
“What?”
“You don’t know?”
“I… heard about it, but,” Shen Xian didn’t want to pretend to be knowledgeable in front of Mu Anxiao, saying, “but specifically, I don’t understand well.”
“Don’t understand,” Mu Anxiao mumbled, putting down her chopsticks and saying, “Actually, I’m quite reluctant to bring this up.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s all my fault.”
“Your fault?”
“Yes, if it weren’t for me, he wouldn’t have had to reincarnate. It’s all my fault.”
“I don’t think you should blame yourself for this.”
“You know?” Mu Anxiao was surprised.
“I heard about the wolf demon incident. You accidentally drank that cup of immortal blood, and if I’m not mistaken, you didn’t know it was immortal blood, did you?”
“How do you know I thought that?”
Back then, Gu An had followed Shen Xian for a long time, and Shen Xian had always lied to her… saying he was an immortal cultivator.
Once, Gu An saw a bottle containing immortal blood and asked what it was.
At that time, he told Gu An it was an elixir for achieving immortality, meant for his significant other. Gu An believed him.
Unexpectedly, during a crisis, Shen Xian’s bottle of immortal blood fell into a bottomless abyss.
So, he intended to go back to heaven to retrieve his immortal blood to give to Gu An, but then a mission arrived.
With no other choice, he had to put that matter aside for the moment and complete the mission.
In the end, he never managed to give the immortal blood to Gu An, nor could he tell her that it was actually his blood.
Thinking about it now, he truly regretted it!
“……” He lowered his head and said, “At that time, Gu An also thought that way.”
“Did she end up drinking it?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because…” Shen Xian shook his head slightly, pointing at the chopsticks in Mu Anxiao’s hand, “You eat.”
“Alright.” Mu Anxiao didn’t pry further.
A quarter of an hour later, after Mu Anxiao had finished all the food, she asked, “Are you sure you’re not eating anymore?”
Shen Xian said, “You’ve eaten it all, how can I still eat?”
“You’re still eating?”
Shen Xian smiled at Mu Anxiao’s exaggerated expression, “No, I was just saying.”
“That’s good then,” Mu Anxiao said, standing up and clearing the dishes, “Now, do you understand what your junior brother meant?”
“I understand.”
“Don’t be jealous anymore. In fact, being jealous of others,” Mu Anxiao picked up the tray, “only tires yourself out.”
“……” Shen Xian nodded slightly, his heart increasingly anticipating Mu Anxiao returning to being Gu An.
Mu Anxiao chuckled foolishly and said, “I’ll go out now. You rest well, and call me if you need anything.”
“Got it.”
With that, Mu Anxiao left Shen Xian’s room and returned to the kitchen.
Feng Qishi sat on a small stool, looking up calmly at Mu Anxiao, who was returning with the empty plates and bowls, and asked, “Why do you look so happy?”
Then, Mu Anxiao placed the tray on a nearby table, stepped forward, and squatted in front of Feng Qishi, “I talked to Shen Xian.”
“What did you say?” Feng Qishi became nervous.