Chapter 48

Di Xueyan saw the inconspicuous glances in her direction as well as the the rigid gulp from the people on the sideline. Only the man who sat straight in the table continues eating as if nothing can move him from eating those shitty dishes.

Di Xueyan decided to cook steak and fries that can cater them all, lest they never tasted such foods before.

Yes, as a heavy eater, something like steak and fries are just a thing for breakfast for her. She even considers it as a 'light meal' since she is not gonna eat some rice.

After a few minutes, an intense aroma enveloped the whole place, making the shadow guards' stomach grumbles, a light tinge of red can be seen in their faces. They all look unperturbed, but the smell is just so tempting that they can't help but to steal another glance.

Di Xueyan uses her qi to make her work faster. She even gone as far as plating the steak as if it is from a five star restaurant. After her little garnishing, she uses her qi to levitate the plates and teleports it to the round table at her side. Her action is so precise and neat that those shadow guards can't help but blink because they all know that levitating and teleporting things that perfectly can only be performed by supreme realm cultivator - - and she doesn't looks like one. Though she is stronger than them when they faced off, that is because of something that not even them can dare to contend - - techniques.

As someone who doesn't know the special abilities of every realm and just cultivated endlessly for power and fun, how can Di Xueyan appreciate their amazement when she doesn't even know that that skills are for supreme realm cultivators?

She just accidentally discovers such skills when she was wondering why cultivators cannot turn into witch and vice versa. She remembers how Harry Potter and his peers levitate things and even how professor Dumbledor teleports from one place to another, so she tries doing it and thought as if she was doing some kind of wandless magic. How would she knew that after her long idiotic persistence, she succeeded? That was supposed to be for fun, but it turned out to be a wonderful gain.

The steak landed perfectly in the circular table, with one in front of Ye Longtian. Ye Longtian stopped moving his chopsticks and glances at her curiously before continuing his slow eating as if he doesn't care.

Di Xueyan smiled sweetly, not minding his silent treatment ( as if she really cares in the first place), and clap her hands three times enthusiastically. Instantly, ten chairs emerge and arrange itself to surround the table. She closes her eyes and spreads her arms before saying a loud " tadaaa". The shadow guards' lips twitch at her antics.

' Why does she has to act as if the chairs were not from her storage ring but appear out of nowhere?', they all have the urge to roll their eyes, but decided against it.

Di Xueyan went back to her chair the last time and smile while looking sickeningly sweet at the masked man in front of her. They are maybe separated by a lot of distance, as they are in the both ends of the table, but as cultivators, Di Xueyan's stare is still a little bit unnerving.

Ye Longtian wants to ignore her stare, but failed when for the first time in his life, someone has the guts to stare at him like that, making him a little uncomfortable. Well, not because the lady staring at him has a peerless beauty that can bring kingdoms to ruin, but because he can't very well gauge her eyes out because no matter what, what she did last night still saves him from some trouble. He is not an ingrate no matter how cruel and heartless his means are.

" Hey your highness! That steak is a million ways more delicious, sorry to offend," Di Xueyan makes a mindless peace gesture to the rigid faced shadow guards at the sideline.

" Than what you are eating! Don't tell me you have been eating that shi-- food for a long time now? Geezzz, even I, your great aunt, can't stomach it. Sorry to offend again", she rudely makes a peace sign 'again'. The shadow guards faces flush in embarassment. How can she say that?! Others are dreaming to eat their master's food desperately but she has the guts to criticise it when she is very lucky to be the first woman to taste it!

If only Di Xueyan knows what they are thinking, she might very well say, 'well I don't need to

' desperately eat your master's food' for the love of however god there is in the universe! Those people can eat it themselves, I promise I won't even let out a single sound! ', with a disgusted face.

" And don't worry your royal highness, that foods doesn't have any poison so it is considered eatable", she mocked, emphasizing the' your royal highness' part when he looks at her with suspicions.

' Well, his suspicions is atleast reasonable. It would be suspicious if he is not suspicious at all. I would have suspected that he is sick in the head otherwise', she muse when she feels the slight discomfort in her heart when she is being distrusted, but shrugged it away. So what though?

" I don't eat a stranger's food", he mercilessly replied with a very cold voice before continuing eating.

Rage immediately settled for good in Di Xueyan's head. Aside from the fact that she is a hot-headed individual, she is also offended at his merciless words. She was clouded with rage that she disregards the fact that he is still not finish eating even after fifteen minutes.

Even Ye Longtian's subordinates looks at him weirdly after they got distracted at their 'pleasant talk'. They felt weird because their master, a time conscious person, is taking a breakfast way longer than usual.

" Huh! Really bastard? Hey you all!", she pointed at the ten shadow guards in the sideline with a red face full of anger.

" Sit here and eat! You cooked for a long time for an ungrateful person but you haven't even have your fill? Where is the human rights in

that?! ", she pointed her index finger while scolding them like a mother hen, without forgetting to label someone as 'ungrateful'.

The shadow guards didn't budge. Though they are amused because someone dared to speak that way to their master but can still spout nonsense for a long time without a single scratch is very rare, they still never dare to disobey nor disgrace their master in front of a 'stranger' .

If Di Xueyan can hear the word 'stranger' in their heads right now, she might burn the whole forest in rage. Though they actually didn't know each others name in the first place, but she saved his ass just last night! Thinking about how beneficial her 'saviour moments' to the bastard were and how little it seems to be when he saved her from the spirit kelps if compared, will maybe make her resent him in her heart. Atleast by what happened last night, they can be regarded as acquaintance right? RIGHT?!

" Sorry young miss, but we already ate---", before the one talking can continue, his stomach grumbles in protest.

" This is the perfect example of saying something but your body says otherwise. Are you going to make your master lose face? Lying is not bad, but atleast make it not so obvious, else who would lose face when you are busted?", she seems to mindlessly said, sarcasm is dripping from her voice as she tilted her head while staring at Ye Longtian. She widens her eyes as if implying something when Ye Longtian stares at her with a blank face, as if he is not sure what is happening anymore.

Ye Longtian straightens his back and wiped his mouth, staring emotionlessly at the girl who is trying to imply something. He is not naive to these gestures as he has a baby sister and a loving mother, so he knows that she wants him to acknowledge something, her eyes make him a little bit in daze that he nodded his head absentmindedly, earning a bright genuine ' I win' smile from her. Ye Longtian can only stare in wonder, like a henpecked husband that can't do anything to his domineering cute little wife.

' What have I just done?', he thought in his already clear head.

He can only stare blankly when he saw his subordinates sitting in the table without even showing a slight hesitation. His face darkens a little bit, seems like some people will be punished severely when they will come back.

His subordinates clearly feels his dampened mood, but chose to disregard it just for a little bit of food, as if he was starving them to death. The mere thought of this blatant disregard make his handsome and peeless face scrunch a little bit. For the first time in his life, he can see how his subordinates are enjoying eating very much without even caring about face.

The shadow guards use chopsticks to eat the steaks which earned a loud laugh from Di Xueyan. She immediately take ten forks and knives from her storage ring and gave it to them one by one. She taught them how to use it and given how intelligent they are, they already mastered it at first try, earning an enthusiastic 'good job' from the girl who forgot about her rage. Her bad mood started to diminish as she started to have a fun conversation about how to cook the food evenly.

She plans to take revenge at Ye Longtian for offending her little heart just awhile ago, but decided to just dismiss the idea as she just resorts to the 'ignoring' tactic and continues eating with his subordinates with ease.

' As if he cares anyway', she thought while laughing outwardly when she can't eat fries anymore because the shadow guards are already monopolizing the fries for themselves. The scene is so bustling that if someone will accidentally walks through the path near the place they settled down, they might wonder how can there be a master who lets his subordinates eat with them, and the disrespectful part is that, they are even talking loudly without reservation.

They all forgot about someone. That certain someone's face is as black as a pot right now as his subordinates are already disgracing themselves. But he didn't know why, he can't seems to stop the lively scene in front of him. He seems to can't bear wiping off the smiles on their faces, specially the girl at the far end in front him. He immediately dismisses the thought and decided to stab the steak in front of him.

Poor steak.

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A/N: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!! How are you all faring so far? I'm really sorry for the slow updates. I'm actually in thr enrollment phase of my freshman life and sometimes whenever I have time, I will just laze around the house, so yeah, which explains my slow updates.

But anyway, as this is the first novel that I have ever made, I am not really that confident about whatever nonsense I wrote in this platform. I have the necessary general idea of this book in my brain, but never have I imagined that it is quiet taxing to break it down into interactions and thoughts, so if you find the chapters a little bit messy, I deeply apologize.

Quiet honestly, I even feel awkward talking here in my own point of view ahahahahahahah. If you can see in my previous chaps, most of them are all just updates, without even a single 'hi' from the author.

And if you are wondering why I am blabbering right now, well, I just felt envious at how other authors can speak their mind freely without reservations at the end of their updates and so, I got this idea that, ' why not also pester my readers?', kidding.

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