Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 168 : Sweet as Honey

The raw chicken leg skewered on a steel stick rolled around on the blazing grill. Soon it was roasted until oil dripped down, giving off a mouth-watering aroma. After sprinkling on some cumin, a fragrant grilled chicken leg was fresh from the grill.

"Come on, taste how my cooking skills are." Bei Yaoyue turned and placed the freshly grilled chicken leg on the plate in front of Xifeng. Her pure white T-shirt sleeves had already been rolled up to her shoulders due to the heat, stained with black spots from the black smoke rising from the charcoal.

Looking at Bei Yaoyue's sweat-covered cheeks, Xifeng felt somewhat unable to bear it. Bei Yaoyue was working hard grilling skewers over there while she sat here reaping the benefits—this made her feel very guilty.

"Mine's done too, try it." He Pingge, not to be outdone, smiled and thrust a freshly grilled chicken wing in front of Xifeng.

"...Thank you."

After all, it was both their kind intentions. Xifeng couldn't directly refuse and could only laugh dryly while accepting everything, though she actually had no appetite for these things.

She picked up the glistening chicken leg, opened her pearly teeth, gently tore off a piece of chicken meat, chewed it, and swallowed.

The texture was pretty good—not too old or too tender. The taste could only be called average, but because it was grilled by Bei Yaoyue's hard work, she liked it very much.

With barbecue, whether it tastes good actually doesn't have much to do with the griller's technique. It's more about the quality of ingredients and mastery of seasoning amounts.

She also tried the grilled wing from He Pingge's hands—basically the same taste. After all, they came from the same batch of ingredients. The only subtle difference was probably in doneness and the amount of cumin.

But regardless of the facts, the necessary praise still had to be given. She put the skewer in the trash bag and smiled: "Both are skilled—very delicious."

Hearing Xifeng's praise, He Pingge couldn't help but show a happy smile, immediately becoming even more motivated. She picked up two more fish tofu skewers and placed them on the grill.

She remembered that saying—to capture someone's heart, you must first capture their stomach. The grand plan to win back Xifeng should perhaps start with conquering Xifeng's stomach.

It seemed she should find opportunities to show Xifeng her cooking skills more often, she thought.

Children from poor families mature early. Having helped her parents with housework since childhood, He Pingge naturally possessed considerable cooking skills. In comparison, Bei Yaoyue was a cooking disaster who had never even held a kitchen knife—she could burn rice even when steaming it. Only barbecue, which required no real technique, was something she could manage simply.

Perhaps because she was "injured," Xifeng received special care from everyone. In no time, her plate was filled with grilled skewers, leaving her somewhat at a loss.

Sitting here definitely wasn't good. Xifeng really wanted to help. The pain in her foot had subsided, and it seemed to have recovered well enough, but due to the need for disguise, she couldn't get up and could only sit in the chair like a doll, staring blankly.

"Why don't you go eat? I'll grill." Su Weiai reached out to wipe the sweat from Bei Yaoyue's forehead, took the half-grilled skewer from Bei Yaoyue's hand, and nudged her with her shoulder, indicating she should sit in a chair.

Bei Yaoyue looked back at her, a flash of extremely complex light in her eyes. After a brief silence, she returned a light smile: "It's fine, I'll do it. I'll go eat after finishing this batch."

Their little interaction was clearly seen by Bei Yaoluo, who was stunned for a moment, then revealed a smile full of amusement. Although she wasn't someone who liked gossip, but... these people's relationships were too complicated, weren't they?

Looking at Su Weiai and Bei Yaoyue's dynamic, it was typical unrequited love!

Flipping the cod in her hand, Bei Yaoluo couldn't help thinking: Bei Yaoyue, Xifeng, Su Weiai, He Pingge... these four people seemed to already form an incomplete square. They just needed one more side to complete a typical four-way love affair—that would be really interesting.

But this fourth side...

Bei Yaoluo secretly observed He Pingge and Su Weiai. These two should have been complete strangers before and probably didn't have much chance.

As a spectator who enjoyed watching drama unfold, Bei Yaoluo wouldn't mind if the relationships got even more complicated. Being bold, even Ye Zhenzhen could be added in, striving for a perfect pentagon.

Of course, Xifeng had no idea what strange and bizarre things her unscrupulous cousin was thinking. She sat in her chair, listlessly playing with her phone.

"Not eating anymore?"

Bei Yaoyue, finally done with her work, sat beside Xifeng, wiped her sweat with a tissue, and picked up a still-steaming grilled corn.

"I'm full." Looking at the mountain of grilled skewers in front of her, Xifeng glared somewhat resentfully at Bei Yaoyue. "Why did you grill so much for me? Do you think I'm a pig?"

She had no quantity requirements for ordinary food. Eating one skewer of each type to taste was enough—eating more was just waste.

"Aren't you?" Bei Yaoyue bit off a few slightly charred corn kernels—her favorite sticky corn, soft and sweet, like Xifeng's lips. "Eating all day, then playing, then sleeping—you're not much different from a pig."

After speaking, she looked at Xifeng's cherry-colored lips, really wanting to bite them right now. Having tasted the sweetness, she was already addicted to Xifeng's flavor.

Dismissively curling her lips, Xifeng said quietly: "Being your pig wouldn't be bad either..."

Wherever Bei Yaoyue was, even if it was a prison cell, she would accept it as sweet as honey.

"What did you say?"

Because Xifeng's voice was too quiet, Bei Yaoyue didn't hear clearly and asked back.

"Nothing!" Xifeng's cheeks slightly pink, said somewhat excitedly: "I said you're the pig!"

"What? Who's a pig?"

Bei Yaoluo had just joined the skewer-clearing team at this moment. Just as she arrived, she heard explosive news and immediately asked curiously.

But soon, He Pingge and Su Weiai also sat down. The group looked at each other and very tacitly ended the previous topic, starting to chat about amusing stories everyone could join in on, trying to eliminate the obvious surplus of grilled skewers meant for more than six people.

Everyone knew about Bei Yaoyue and Xifeng's relationship, but everyone, even including Bei Yaoyue and Xifeng themselves, pretended to know nothing, making the atmosphere among the six somewhat strange.

Due to some unavoidable conflicts of interest between certain people, the relationships among the six were actually not as harmonious as they appeared on the surface.

The seemingly friendly and joyful dinner was actually full of undercurrents, more like... the calm before the storm.