Chapter 81: Sudden Confession
All this talk about high intelligence making learning fast is a lie!
Is this guy really not sent by terrorists to get revenge on society?
Xia Chenge, tears streaming down her face, looked at the kitchen that Ling Hanmu had almost burned down, questioning her life for the hundredth time.
Ling Hanmu’s devastatingly handsome face was also blackened, his eyes appearing exceptionally bright.
“Boss, why didn’t you say you couldn’t cook earlier?” Xia Chenge lamented, accepting this reality with a heavy heart.
She had been full of anticipation for Ling Hanmu to treat her to a sumptuous dinner, but what did she get? While she was sitting comfortably in the living room, the kitchen exploded. Startled, she jumped up and rushed to the kitchen, only to see a scene of devastation, as if it were a ruin, destroyed by Ling Hanmu.
How could she have been so foolish as to trust him?
Ling Hanmu chuckled dryly, “Uh, this Young Master just had a little accident.”
“You call this an accident?” Xia Chenge looked at the messy kitchen and couldn’t help but press her forehead. “Heavens, Earth, give me a chance to go back half an hour ago, and I promise I won’t let Ling Hanmu near the kitchen.”
“Little Brother, you have to believe this Young Master. There’s nothing in this world that can stump this Young Master,” Ling Hanmu said with no confidence, trying to make Xia Chenge believe him.
Ling Hanmu had always thought cooking was a simple matter. Although he had never cooked before, he had watched many videos and instinctively believed that with his intelligence, cooking would be a piece of cake. He hadn’t expected to burn down the kitchen.
“If your family found out, they’d think I had malicious intentions and tried to kill you!” Xia Chenge said irritably.
“They won’t come here for no reason. Besides, who would dare accuse you of trying to kill me?” Ling Hanmu snorted. “Little Brother, accidents happen. Don’t worry too much. Let’s clean up and start again.”
Xia Chenge resignedly cleaned the kitchen with Ling Hanmu. After an hour of work, the kitchen was finally clean.
Ling Hanmu still wanted to cook, but Xia Chenge no longer dared to joke with her own life. She kicked him out, “You should clean yourself up first. The dignified Young Master of the Ling family looks like a refugee. I don’t want to take the blame.”
Ling Hanmu scratched his head sheepishly, “Then Little Brother, you’ve worked hard. I’ll do it next time.”
“We’ll see about next time,” Xia Chenge pushed him out and closed the door. Fortunately, it wasn’t an open-plan kitchen, or the whole house would have been destroyed by that guy Ling Hanmu.
Ling Hanmu stared intently at Xia Chenge’s blurry reflection on the glass, then, with a beaming smile, went to the bathroom.
By the time Ling Hanmu emerged from the bathroom humming a tune, Xia Chenge had already served one soup and two dishes. Although they were simple home-style dishes, they were perfectly presented with appealing colors, aromas, and flavors, making one’s appetite whet.
“Most of the ingredients were wasted by you, so this is all that’s left. Make do with it,” Xia Chenge called him over.
Ling Hanmu smiled brightly, “It smells so good! Little Brother, how are you such a good cook?”
Xia Chenge glanced at him, “People live for their mouths. We can’t mistreat ourselves no matter what.”
“Can I start eating then?”
“Eat!”
Neither of them spoke further. Apart from the occasional clinking of bowls and chopsticks, the atmosphere at the table was quiet.
Ling Hanmu’s way of eating was pleasing to the eye and elegant, clearly indicating he was a well-bred young master, completely unlike his usual overbearing self.
After the meal, Ling Hanmu voluntarily took on the task of washing the dishes.
Xia Chenge, bored, took out her mobile phone. Upon opening the screen, she discovered she had received hundreds of vulgar and malicious text messages, with more arriving:
You slut, why don’t you just die?
I curse you, you wicked woman, to have your intestines rot, sores on your head and pus on your soles, and to be hit by a car soon!
The Xia family is suffering retribution from heaven because of you, causing your parents to die early, and your grandparents to live a life worse than death. May you also have a terrible end.
Bitch, go die, bitch, go die!
I wish you contract the disease starting with ‘A’ soon, and I wish Sheng Xia goes bankrupt soon.
…
Xia Chenge’s gaze gradually turned cold. Xu Jingyi and the others had actually released her phone number. How venomous!
She didn’t reply to these messages but directly set up a function to block all unknown calls and messages. The phone finally quieted down.
As soon as Ling Hanmu came out, he saw Xia Chenge’s cold and stern expression, her eyes like deep water. He frowned, “Little Brother, why do you look so unhappy? Who made you uncomfortable again? Tell me, and I’ll get justice for you.”
“It’s nothing,” Xia Chenge casually returned her phone to the home screen, not mentioning the messages at all.
“How can it be nothing? It doesn’t look like it,” Ling Hanmu walked over and sat beside her. “Are those people saying nonsense again?”
Xia Chenge shook her head, “Really, it’s nothing. I won’t care what they say.”
“But I do care,” Ling Hanmu interjected, saying seriously, “Little Brother, I don’t know why you don’t trust me that much. But I know that when I see someone disrespecting you, I get extremely, extremely angry.”
“When others curse me, I can decide whether to pay attention based on my mood. But when it happens to you, I can’t control myself and want to teach them a lesson every time, yet you always stop me.”
“Little Brother, I don’t care what others think of me, but you are the only one I care about immensely. I don’t want you to be looked down upon by others, but I also don’t want to do things you dislike.”
“But this feeling is terrible, you know? It’s like you have something you really like and want to cherish, but you can only watch it being trampled on continuously. It’s so powerless.”
“Little Brother, I really like you. I want to do everything I can to protect you, so you never have to suffer such grievances again.”
Xia Chenge was stunned. She never expected Ling Hanmu to suddenly confess to her!
During the apocalypse, it wasn’t that no one had confessed to her, but those confessions were based on her being a strong individual and others seeking her protection. They always had ulterior motives.
Now, in this era, she was as weak as an ant, yet she was being confessed to by a guy like Ling Hanmu…
To be honest, her heart was beating a little uncontrollably.
However, this state only lasted for a few short seconds before her heart rate quickly returned to normal.
It was just that the method of directly rejecting people with force, which she had used before, seemed unusable now.
Xia Chenge turned her eyes away slightly, politely rejecting Ling Hanmu, “I have a very good impression of you too. We admire each other, which is why we can be friends. In the future, I won’t be polite when I need your help, and you don’t need to worry about me all the time. You should believe in my abilities.”
Hearing this, Ling Hanmu’s hopes were dashed, and his mood instantly plummeted to the bottom.
As intelligent as he was, how could he not understand the hidden meaning in Xia Chenge’s words?
Friends… Damn it, he didn’t want to stand by Xia Chenge’s side as just a friend at all!
Just as he was about to speak, there was a knock on the door.
