Chapter 111

“I also think this one is quite good.” Then, Duanmu Xi put down the dress, picked up a bridegroom suit embroidered with the pattern of dragon and put it before Xuanyuan Mo to see if it fitted him.

A glint of amazement flashed across Duanmu Xi’s dark purple eyes, “You look so good in red clothes.”

Red clothes were suitable for both Snow and her father but they rarely wore red clothes. She had seen her father wear red clothes at her grandfather’s 60th birthday celebration once by far. As to Snow, he didn’t wear clothes of other colors than black and white.

Xuanyuan Mo’s lips curved into an enchanting smile. He directly bent down and whispered to Duanmu Xi’s ears, “Are you in such a hurry to see me dressed in red?”

Hearing that, Duanmu Xi blushed and wanted to take back the bridegroom suit before Xuanyuan Mo but her hand was grabbed by him.

“Since you want to see me wearing red clothes, I can wear them for you every day after we get married.”

His deep and husky voice made Duanmu Xi flush even more. She was about to say something when she saw someone come inside.

Upon entering the store, Xuanyuan Hao saw the couple flirting with each other and suddenly felt it was such an eyesore.

Xuanyuan Mo followed Duanmu Xi’s gaze and looked at the door. When he saw the familiar face, he immediately put on a cold look as before.

“Second Brother, you are here at the wedding…” Xuanyuan She who followed Xuanyuan Hao inside just bit his tongue upon catching sight of Duanmu Xi and Xuanyuan Mo.

Xuanyuan Hao just ignored Xuanyuan She and smiled at Duanmu Xi and Xuanyuan Mo gently, “What a coincidence! The Crown Princess and Third Brother are here too.”

Xuanyuan Hao’s calling Duanmu Xi the Crown Princess struck the people in the wedding clothes store dumb. Was this the crown princess appointed by the cyan dragon? She was so beautiful, just like a fairy maiden from Heaven. She deserved to be the daughter of the former crown prince. She was of the same immortal bearing as the former crown prince indeed.

Feeling Xuanyuan Mo’s emotional changes, Duanmu Xi slightly frowned and also became casual as usual, “It is a coincidence indeed. Are you here to buy the things for your wedding too?”

If it were not because she became the crown princess of the Qinglong Empire and they were the guests of the Qinglong Empire, she wouldn’t respond to these people, even if they were Snow’s bothers.

Xuanyuan Hao suddenly felt his heart aching. Were Duanmu Xi and Xuanyuan Mo getting married?

“I’ll take these two.” Duanmu Xi took out two blue crystals from her arms and put them before the manager.

The manager immediately came to his senses and bowed unctuously, “I’ll wrap them up for you.”

“No need.” Duanmu Xi directly flicked her sleeves and the two sets of wedding clothes were taken into Huanghe Building in the crystal ball.

The manager blinked his eyes and kind of didn’t dare to believe his eyes. Was their crown princess really a fairy maiden…

“Snow, let’s go.” Duanmu Xi dragged Xuanyuan Mo and walked outside with a total disregard for Xuanyuan Hao and Xuanyuan She standing at the door.

When Duanmu Xi and Xuanyuan Mo were about to get out of the store, Xuanyuan Hao asked, “Where are you going? How about counting me in? I’m free now.”

Xuanyuan Mo’s amber eyes glistened with annoyance but he didn’t say anything.

Hearing that, Duanmu Xi didn’t stop for a bit but continued walking ahead with Xuanyuan Mo, saying, “I don’t think that’s a good idea. We are going back to the imperial palace.”

They meant to wander around for longer but now that they ran into such two nuisances, her spirits were dampened. She decided to go back to the imperial palace to keep her grandpa company.

Staring at the two of them going far away, Xuanyuan Hao was disgruntled. Why did she only care about Xuanyuan Mo? In what aspect was he not in Xuanyuan Mo’s league?

In the imperial kitchen, the imperial head chef stared at Duanmu Xi, slack-jawed.

Did he hear it wrong? Her Highness the Crown Princess claimed to cook on her own. She looked like an otherworldly fairy maiden. How was it possible that she could cook?

Duanmu Xi slightly knitted her eyebrows and stared at the imperial head chef, saying coldly, “All of you get out of here.”

Feeling the fierceness of Duanmu Xi, the imperial head chef immediately came to his senses and bowed to Duanmu Xi, “Yes, Your Highness…”

Within a moment, only Duanmu Xi and Xuanyuan Mo were left in the imperial kitchen.

“Xi, can you really cook?” Xuanyuan Mo looked at Duanmu Xi who rolled up her sleeves and got ready to go for it, asking with uncertainty.

Hearing that, Duanmu Xi squinted her purple eyes and pouted her lips with arms akimbo, staring at Xuanyuan Mo in anger, “Humph! You don’t trust me! In this case, you mustn’t eat the dishes I cook later.”

Hearing that she didn’t allow him to eat the dishes cooked by her, Xuanyuan Mo immediately waved and said, “Of course I trust you. The dishes you cook are the best. I will eat them up for sure.” He would eat up all the dishes cooked by Xi even if they tasted bad.

The corners of Duanmu Xi’s lips twitched, “The dishes are not for you but my grandpa.”

In her previous life, her grandpa was a foodie who was particular about the food. At that time, she deliberately learned from the famous chefs for him. She was not sure whether his preference was changed or not. He loved the dishes cooked by her best before.

Hearing that, Xuanyuan Mo immediately turned to look at Duanmu Xi with aggrievances. Why did Xi always think about her grandpa only? She always gave priority to him, which was not a good sign.

Duanmu Xi took a glance at the aggrieved Xuanyuan Mo, “Go and sit over there. Leave me alone.”

After saying that, Duanmu Xi just headed to the hearth.

Xuanyuan Mo could only sit aside resignedly and looked at Duanmu Xi’s proficient movements, exquisite knife skills and smooth cooking techniques. Indeed, whatever a beauty did looked great. Xuanyuan Mo was fascinated by Duanmu Xi even when she was cooking.

Duanmu Xi acted really fast and the imperial kitchen was also rather well-equipped. The fragrance of food floated from the imperial kitchen shortly.

“It smells so good!” The imperial chefs outside the kitchen couldn’t help praising upon smelling the food.

The imperial head chef also nodded inwardly. It appeared that Her Highness the Crown Princess really could cook. Suddenly, he felt like seeing how she cooked.

“So beautiful!”

“Yeah, Her Highness the Crown Princess is really gorgeous!”

Listening to the others’ compliments, the imperial head chef turned to see a group of chefs leaning over the exhaust window and looking inside.

“Get down here, all of you,” the imperial head chef shouted, making the chefs all come back in fright.

These people really showed no respect for the senior. They should let him see first!

The imperial head chef climbed up to the window after they all got down. He was dumbfounded to see Duanmu Xi cooking in a flowing way with the cooking methods that even he hadn’t seen before!

Seeing the head chef climb up after asking them to go down, the other chefs also wanted to climb up again when they heard a cough behind.

“Ahem… Humph…” Eunuch Wang looked at the backs of the imperial chefs and pretended to cough. The emperor didn’t allow him to announce his arrival before.

When the imperial chefs turned around and saw the emperor, they immediately knelt and wanted to greet him but they were stopped.

Huangfu Cang looked at the imperial head chef leaning over the window with a frown.

Seeing the scene, the imperial chefs all broke out in a sweat. A few relatively bold ones tugged at the imperial head chef’s trouser legs in secret, trying to remind him that the emperor was standing behind him.

However, the imperial head chef didn’t understand their kind reminder. He directly gave them a kick impatiently.

Seeing that, Huangfu Cang pulled a long face at once.

The imperial chefs got even more frightened and shook the imperial head chef’s trouser legs harshly.

“What are you doing? I haven’t…”

The imperial head chef bit his tongue because he saw Huangfu Cang. He directly dropped in fear. Without feeling any pain, he instantly got up and knelt before Huangfu Cang, “Your Majesty, greetings.”

The imperial head chef started to tremble slightly and big beads of sweat streamed down his head. Oh no. He had peeped at the crown princess cooking. Would the emperor punish him?

Huangfu Cang glimpsed the shivering imperial head chef and ordered coldly, “Get lost.”

“Yes.” Hearing the order of Huangfu Cang, the imperial head chef didn’t dare to take it lightly and immediately bowed himself away with the imperial chefs.

Seeing the imperial chefs go away, Huangfu Cang also climbed onto the exhaust window neatly.

When Eunuch Wang saw that, the corners of his mouth subconsciously twitched. So, the emperor just snatched the position from the chefs?

Long Ri didn’t lie. Xi was cooking for real.

In the imperial kitchen, Duanmu Xi had cooked seven or eight dishes and a soup. All these dishes were what her grandpa loved to eat before.

Looking at the delicacies on the table, Xuanyuan Mo felt like trying them.

However, before he got the dishes, the chopsticks were taken away. A glint of anger flashed across Xuanyuan Mo’s amber eyes. He was about to snatch them back when he realized that it was Huangfu Cang who took the chopsticks away.

“Grandpa!” Duanmu Xi was a bit happy to see Huangfu Cang.

“Grandpa. Come and taste the dishes. They are specially made for you,” Duanmu Xi said and meanwhile asked Huangfu Cang to sit down.

“Oh yeah? You are so sweet.” Huangfu Cang smiled and cast a complacent glance at Xuanyuan Mo, which made the latter so furious.

“Xi, how can you only ask your grandpa to try the dishes cooked by you without inviting us?” A grieved male voice came from the door. It was Huangfu Che, accompanied by Duanmu Xue.

Seeing them, Huangfu Cang got nervous. He just directly picked up the chopsticks and started eating regardless.

“Grandpa, take it easy. Be careful.” Duanmu Xi looked at Huangfu Cang devouring the dishes like a wolf and also put a bowl of soup beside him.

Seeing the scene, Xuanyuan Mo was reluctant to show weakness and also picked up the chopsticks to get the dish.

“Grandpa, this is diced fish with white sauce. Have a try.” Duanmu Xi directly put the plate in front of Huangfu Cang.

“Grandpa, this is fried scallop. It tastes really good.”

“Grandpa, this is lotus seedpod tofu. It used to be your favorite.”

Duanmu Xi mentioned it used to be his favorite but no one noticed the loophole in her words. Huangfu Cang was gobbling while Xuanyuan Mo, Huangfu Che and Duanmu Xue were gazing with aggrievances at Duanmu Xi because she put all the dishes before Huangfu Cang.

This scene was too familiar to them, except that this time it was Duanmu Xi serving the dishes and Huangfu Cang eating the dishes. These two people were so much alike.

All the dishes were eaten up by Huangfu Cang quickly. He stroked his belly with satisfaction, “Xi, the dishes are so delicious.”

“If you like them, I can cook for you every day.”

The three people still sitting by the table all pouted their lips while staring at the two of them going away. How could she show partiality for her grandpa like this…

They looked at the table again. Huangfu Cang didn’t even leave a bit of soup for them, let alone any dish. The corners of their mouths all twitched. That old man had too huge an appetite…