Return of the Antagonistic Lady Boss

Chapter 380 - 354: Infallible Prediction

Qian’s dark culinary talent was fully exposed to everyone on this day.

Though she pretended to be calm, inside Qian was crumbling. To make up for her mistake, she decided to show her talents in other areas after leaving the kitchen and wash away the impression of being a kitchen idiot.

Mrs. Yu also didn’t expect Qian to make such a shocking result out of cooking stuffed dumplings. Honestly, she has lived half her life and it’s the first time she’s seen it—it’s really eye-opening.

"Qian, don’t take it to heart too much. Not being able to cook isn’t such a big issue," Mrs. Yu tried to find a topic to comfort Qian.

Because she noticed Qian seemed quite concerned about this.

She came out of the kitchen with a serious expression.

"Mom, you didn’t say that to me before. You complained that I couldn’t cook!" Yu Mingxi protested.

"Can you find a man like your brother? It’s fine if Qian can’t cook as long as the youngest can!"

Mrs. Yu originally intended to comfort Qian, but as soon as she said that, the previously smiling Yu Mingxi’s face instantly turned sour. Qian could even feel that the moment Mrs. Yu mentioned the topic of finding a partner, Yu Mingxi seemed to have swapped souls.

A psychologist’s intuition is always particularly accurate; if Yu Mingxi had shown a sunny side before, after Mrs. Yu mentioned choosing a partner, she immediately switched to another side.

Yu Mingxi forced a smile, "Yeah, I should find a man like the youngest, but I can’t."

What’s going on? Brother complex? Qian thought for a moment, no, Yu Mingxi’s relationship with Yu Minglang was good but definitely not twisted affection, and based on her judgment on Mingxi, she shouldn’t be fond of a man like Minglang.

That means, in Yu Mingxi’s words, "a man like Yu Minglang" doesn’t represent a specific person, but a particular group.

Qian felt like she might be close to the truth, seemingly seeing a little bit of the edge of the sources of Mingxi’s stress. But just as Qian planned to explore further, Yu Mingxi returned to her normal state.

If she tried to probe further, she couldn’t feel it anymore.

Mrs. Yu shifted the topic elsewhere, and Qian occasionally joined in. But as Qian expected, Yu Mingxi was a person extremely aware of self-protection. Though she seemed carefree and cheerful like a boy, she was thoughtful beneath that facade.

Things better left unsaid, emotions needing concealment, not a word uttered, and not much valuable information gained.

Yu Minglang and Mr. Yu teamed up to whip up two small dishes, and Yu Mingxi was pulled to drink. Meanwhile, Mrs. Yu took the opportunity to pull Qian into a small room to talk alone.

"Did you ask her?"

"Yes, she said she dreamed of turning into a giant, locking a rainbow-colored snake in a bottle — what does that mean?"

"Hmm... it’s snakes again."

Lots of people have been dreaming about this lately, Qian thought she could really set up a stall and tell fortunes at the bridge, charging small monies only if it were inaccurate.

"Aunt, did you and uncle set any specific requirements for Xiaoxi in terms of choosing a partner? Like asking her to find someone with certain conditions, who matches the family status or something?"

Qian had never encountered such a situation before, turning into a giant and locking the snake?

"No, we and her dad are always open-minded when it comes to our children’s partners, we don’t interfere — oh, we did interfere with the second child, that was obviously unsuitable... aside from that, we really haven’t instilled any concepts into them. As long as they’re happy, it’s okay."

Though the Yu Family parents had a good family background, they’ve been through hard times due to it from an extraordinary era, Mrs. Yu almost couldn’t marry Mr. Yu due to family status issues, and suffered a lot. Therefore, on the issue of their children’s partners, she advocates not caring about family background, as long as the person is morally good.

Qian was puzzled, if it wasn’t a family education issue, why would this situation occur?

Dong Yi dreamed of being sprayed by a snake, which already represents a certain degree of repression. Meanwhile, Yu Mingxi was even more intense; she turns giant and locks the snake...

"Qian, is this good or bad?"

"Snakes in psychology have a lot of symbolic meaning, they can represent male organs, venomous snakes represent harm and hatred, snakes can also indicate cold-bloodedness or evil, but snakes could also be a embodiment of wisdom, or excessive parental pampering — I think the last point can be excluded."

The Yu Family parents aren’t excessively pampering the children, judging by Yu Mingxi’s current condition, her stress doesn’t come from there.

She locks the snake, maybe she’s trying to control something, and this thing brings her stress, seems to be emotional.

"I can’t determine what’s wrong with her just based on the current situation, but her insomnia can be helped by regular phone hypnosis, the rest needs me to continue observing."

"Speaking of snakes, I remembered they’re really quite scary. I’m afraid of them, but I found that Panpan is even more afraid." Mrs. Yu said to Qian.

Isn’t it said that life is like a blank paper? Kids haven’t encountered these, theoretically shouldn’t be scared.

But Mrs. Yu found that Panpan especially disliked snake-shaped toys, would turn her head away from snake pictures, she’s been like this since very young. She also observed the twin brothers at Yu Mingli’s house, they’re not afraid. Even when they couldn’t talk, they laughed when seeing snakes at the zoo.

"The fear of snakes comes from evolution in primitive societies. I’ve seen many patients with ophidiophobia, many of them haven’t ever seen snakes. Our ancestors in primitive societies rarely discovered these silent cold-blooded animals, so this unknown fear was retained during evolution. If you show a normal baby pictures of snakes, they won’t find it scary, but if they’ve encountered harm like Panpan, they will awaken an unknown terror, the brain will prioritize processing fear-related matters."

Mrs. Yu nodded repeatedly while listening, "I see, your talent is completely focused on your professional field, so your brain also prioritized handling the cooking matter."

No wonder you’re a chief physician, your ability to extrapolate is quite powerful. Qian just told her one thing, and she deduced Qian’s bizarre reactions in the kitchen.

Regarding the cooking skills she couldn’t master, Qian retained the human instinct of fear, her brain prioritized processing it, considering outsiders see it as a simple matter, treating it as a serious issue to ponder over, so seriously it made those around her couldn’t help but study along.

Qian was speechless, ’Future mother-in-law, do you know how good you are at reasoning?’