"Cook?"
Mu Xianling froze for a moment.
She didn’t know how to cook at all. In fact, she had never cooked a single meal in her entire life!
The servants had always done it. She was a pampered young miss from a wealthy family, and Tang Yi was actually telling her to cook?
And what surprised Mu Xianling the most was that Tang Yi was really ordering her around like a servant?
"Of course! I’ve already sent away all the maids and servants who were assigned here. You’re my only servant. If you don’t cook for me, who will?"
Tang Yi sat down in the grandmaster chair, crossed his legs, and said this as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
"Tang Yi, you...! I’m not doing it! Someone else can do it for all I care."
Mu Xianling crossed her arms and pouted.
Previously, when Tang Yi had sent all those beautiful maids away, Mu Xianling had been secretly delighted. ’He has good character,’ she had thought, ’he won’t get distracted by beautiful women.’
But now she realized that wasn’t the case at all.
’So he got rid of the maids just to make me cook for him!’
’It would have been better to keep them around!’
"Hm?"
Tang Yi shot Mu Xianling a dissatisfied glance, then said nonchalantly, "Do you remember the consequences of disobeying your master’s orders?"
"Consequences?"
Hearing this, Mu Xianling’s mind immediately flashed back to the Void Warship, to the moment Tang Yi had spanked her.
She had been so ashamed and furious, and she had even cried from it.
And being spanked until she cried in front of so many people had been utterly humiliating. She had lost face completely.
If she were to get spanked by Tang Yi again for disobeying his order, Mu Xianling felt like she would just die.
At this thought, her expression fell. "But Tang Yi, I really don’t know how to cook," she said, defeated. "How do you expect me to do it?"
"If you’ve never done it, then learn. If you can’t even cook, how are you going to serve me in the future? This is a necessary Skill for a servant," Tang Yi said firmly.
He was dead set on making Mu Xianling cook.
"Fine, I’ll do it."
Seeing how resolute and domineering Tang Yi was, Mu Xianling had no choice but to agree. She turned and went to make food for him.
Watching her dejected back, Tang Yi broke into a wide, happy smile.
That’s right, he was doing it on purpose.
Tang Yi wasn’t trying to punish her, nor did he genuinely want her to be his servant. He just wanted to tease her a little.
In truth, Tang Yi had grown rather fond of this girl who was a little proud but also endearingly silly.
From the way she had boldly sent someone to the Tang Family to propose marriage.
From the vulnerability she showed when he spanked her for her disobedience.
From how incredibly worried she had been about him in the Divine Will Hall.
Tang Yi’s opinion of this girl had gradually changed.
She was a bit prideful most of the time, but it was also quite cute—like right now, when he was making her cook...
「An hour later...」
"I’m starving! Mu Xianling, are you done yet? What’s taking so long to cook one meal?" Tang Yi shouted impatiently.
"It’s ready, it’s ready! I just had to ask a servant for instructions on how to cook, so it took a little time. But it’s done now."
Mu Xianling placed three dishes and a soup on the table and clapped her hands in satisfaction.
She had been reluctant to cook earlier, but now that she was finished, she felt a great sense of accomplishment.
"It’s ready? What did you make? Did you cook rice?"
Tang Yi asked.
"I made three dishes and a soup: scallions with tofu, scrambled Fire Wolf Eggs with tomatoes, and stir-fried potatoes with wild boar meat. The soup is Fire Wolf Egg drop soup, and the rice is cooked too," Mu Xianling replied proudly.
"Oh? Sounds pretty good. You didn’t just have a servant make it and then claim you did it yourself, did you?"
Tang Yi was a little surprised to hear this. He hadn’t expected Mu Xianling to make three dishes and a soup on her first try, which made him suspicious.
"Absolutely not! I swear on my life, I made the rice and every single dish with my own two hands!" Mu Xianling said earnestly.
"Alright, let me see." Saying this, Tang Yi lazily got up from his grandmaster chair and walked toward the dining table.
If he hadn’t walked over and seen the dishes Mu Xianling had made, Tang Yi really would have suspected that she had gotten someone else to cook for her.
But now, standing at the table, that suspicion vanished.
There was no doubt that the three dishes and soup on the table were made by Mu Xianling!
Because...
’What the hell... you call this food?’
The scallions with tofu was just a block of tofu that had been pan-fried, with a few scallions sprinkled on top. Parts of the tofu were burned black.
Tang Yi took a bite...
’Damn it, she didn’t even add salt.’
As for the second dish, the scrambled Fire Wolf Eggs with tomatoes... Mu Xianling hadn’t even cut the tomatoes. She’d just thrown them in whole, letting the yolk and egg whites completely coat them... It looked like a yellowish sphere... The sight was too painful to look at.
Tang Yi took a bite.
Again, no salt...
The third dish, stir-fried potatoes with wild boar meat...
Alright, Tang Yi had no idea how Mu Xianling had managed this.
Mu Xianling had cut the potatoes into huge, rectangular chunks, and the wild boar meat was also in huge, rectangular chunks.
The two different ingredients were distributed with remarkable evenness.
A piece of potato on the left, a piece of wild boar on the right. A piece of potato on the left, a piece of wild boar on the right. Left... right...
Tang Yi picked up a piece of potato and took a bite.
He almost spat it out.
’Damn it, no wonder the first two dishes had no salt. She must have put all of it in the potatoes!’
And what about the final soup?
The Fire Wolf Egg drop soup...
The name was beautiful.
But...
Two stalks of scallion, three Fire Wolf Eggs... She hadn’t even whisked the eggs. She’d just thrown them into the soup, shell and all. And this time, not only was there no salt, there wasn’t even any oil.
’What the hell, and she dares to call this Fire Wolf Egg drop soup?’
After seeing the three dishes and one soup, Tang Yi was speechless. He immediately turned to check the rice Mu Xianling had cooked.
’If I can’t eat the dishes, I can at least eat the rice, right?’
But when he opened the lid of the rice pot...
This...
What was this pot of black stuff?
Seeing the astonished look on Tang Yi’s face, Mu Xianling quickly explained, "I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I was stir-frying the dishes while the rice was cooking and got so focused that I forgot all about it. So it cooked for a little too long. But I just tasted it, and it’s not bad."
’A little too long? This is completely burned...’
’And she says it’s edible? That it’s not bad?’
Tang Yi was utterly speechless.
In the end, however, Tang Yi and Mu Xianling sat down at the table and ate the ’absolutely tragic’ meal.
What else could they do?
He had sent all the servants away. They couldn’t just starve, could they?
Besides, it was Mu Xianling’s first time cooking. Everyone has a first time.
They’d just have to make do.

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