Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 283: Get Up and Make Breakfast

Don’t even mention Xie Qingci, after chatting, Yu Xia kind of regretted not making it public at the time.

If it were public, wouldn’t she be able to openly visit and drink soup, eat meat?

Having a handsome little chef at home, what a beautiful thing.

After firmly rejecting Xie Qingci’s request, Yu Xia was making salad in the kitchen. The more she thought about it, the more it felt off. When the tasteless salad entered her mouth, her tongue seemed to taste bitterness.

This rubbish doesn’t taste as good as the dishes Xie Qingci makes.

So she dialed Xie Qingci’s number.

He hung up and switched directly to video call. Perhaps deliberately, the moment the video connected, there was a bowl of pork rib lotus root soup on the screen. In the soup, with its faint pink-purple color, lay two pieces of ribs and a chunk of lotus root, seemingly waving at her.

Staring at the screen, she struggled to feed herself salad, but the mini purple cabbage couldn’t be forked up no matter how hard she tried.

"Sister?" The soup bowl was finally moved aside, revealing Xie Qingci’s handsome face on the screen. "Why the sudden call?"

She rarely initiated calls.

Yu Xia said drily, "Oh, it’s nothing, I’m just comforting you, accompanying you to eat virtually."

Xie Qingci pursed his lips with a smile, revealing two little dimples that barely showed: "Really? Sister is so good to me."

He seemed genuinely happy and pleased.

Then he started introducing the dishes on the table, like a responsible head chef.

"This is lotus root pork rib soup, simmered over a low flame for three hours, seasoned only with salt — very aromatic, you’d likely enjoy it. This is chicken thigh stir-fried with green peas, and this is sour spicy cabbage, made for you last time, didn’t you say you liked it?"

Two dishes, one soup, plus a bowl of rice placed in the middle of a solid wood table, looked very tempting. As he spoke, he poured some soup into an empty bowl and drank a sip, commenting, "It’s really not bad."

"...Can you eat all that? You spent all afternoon cooking, right?" She poked the salad with her fork, pouting as she asked.

Xie Qingci’s eyes were smiling: "It’s rare to get two days off. You’re not here, and I have nothing to do. Cooking is nice. Besides, finishing all this isn’t hard for me."

She grimaced as she bit down on a broccoli floret, saying, "Yes, you’re a twenty-year-old college student, still growing, what can’t you eat?"

"It’s not a matter of can’t, but what I want to eat isn’t available." He took a bite of the lotus root, the stringy part between chunks and his glance toward the camera made her heart skip a beat.

This damn salad was impossible to swallow.

Can’t drink the soup, can’t eat the meat, can’t get the man—what is there to look forward to in life?

"When the program airs the day after tomorrow, you’ll see a starving me."

Xie Qingci hid his mouth, laughing lightly, swallowing the lotus root before saying, "No, two days isn’t enough to reach the starving stage."

"...Xie Qingci, quick, eat some meat and shut your mouth!"

Dieting by eating veggies often leads to a loss of interest in life. And she masochistically watched him flaunt his culinary skills. Now she was lying in bed late at night, almost wanting to run out to the streets to gnaw something.

This won’t do, as a female celebrity, how could she lose confidence in maintaining her figure?

So the next morning, Yu Xia called Xie Qingci for a video again.

Xie Qingci was still in bed, hair messy, eyes slightly squinting at the video, his voice hoarse.

"What’s up?"

"Get up and cook." she said icily.

Xie Qingci showed an incredulous expression: "?"

He came to his senses, sat up a bit, leaning against the headboard saying, "I’m not hungry yet."

"But I am, I urgently need to watch a cooking video." Yu Xia said as she fiddled with her phone, stabilizing it after a few shakes.

Xie Qingci originally intended to laugh, but then he saw her new look in the video and froze.

She was wearing a little floral strap, hair lifted, head tilted as she rested her cheek, the fair skin almost blinding his eyes.

"Quick, get up and cook, a great chef should make meals regularly. Even a donkey from the hill next door wouldn’t dare take breaks like you."

Xie Qingci heavily fell back down, shutting his eyes tight in exasperation.

"You’re tormenting me."

Yu Xia naturally wouldn’t admit, she took a whole wheat slice, elegantly biting it, swallowing before saying: "I’m urging you, don’t you know, a skilled chef unused for too long will forget his craft."

Determined to retaliate, Yu Xia made up her mind, leaving Xie Qingci helpless, lifting the covers to get out of bed. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Casually putting on a pair of home trousers, he went to the bathroom with his phone.

"Do you want to watch now? Sister."

"I’ve seen it before, hurry up and wash your face, brush your teeth, and head to the kitchen." leisurely she said, taking a sip of soy milk.

Xie Qingci amused yet exasperated, obeyed, quickly tidying himself before heading to the kitchen.

"What would you like to see me make?" opening the fridge to ask.

The phone camera scanned through the fridge contents once, Yu Xia leaned closer to scrutinize, contemplating which combination would be most complex.

"This and that, the white thing, what’s that?"

He explained gently: "White jade mushroom."

"And the colorful one? Blocking me from seeing clearly."

He introduced further: "Here? Bell peppers and scallions."

She aggressively munched on bread, eating dry ration while directing a lavish meal.

"Can it have meat? White jade mushroom looks good, bell peppers too."

Xie Qingci took out the vegetables, ready to prepare.

"How about meat slice soup? I’ve only eaten it before, never made it, could give it a try."

She nodded her regal head, wiped her hands saying: "Once done, send a local express delivery."

Xie Qingci shook his head smiling at the sink wall, then glanced at her in the video, his gaze glimmering lightly: "No need to trouble someone else, soup-like stuff isn’t easy to deliver, I’ll come over directly."

Yu Xia was stunned.

The two locked eyes in the video, one wide-eyed, the other with a subtle smirk.

"No, no need, you better eat it yourself, I’m already full. A female celebrity must maintain her figure, such meat slice soup is quite unnecessary."

This time, it was Xie Qingci who wouldn’t let up.

"Impossible, how could I refuse what you want to eat? Not deterred by distance, can be restricted by local range? Don’t worry, sister, no need to fret about me."

"..." she worried more about her own exertion, "Really not necessary, waking you up this early was my fault, better to go back and sleep, coming at this hour makes it easy for paparazzi to lurk."

He leisurely washed the bell pepper, said casually: "I’m merely retrieving some stuff from my previous residence, what could paparazzi say even if they photograph? Besides, won’t let them snap anyway. Come, darling, aside from meat slice soup, anything else you’d fancy?"

"I, am, full."

"Then it’s up to me? Thought about it, approaching the lens, smirking he said: "What I’m craving is simple, not allowed clothes changing, trade dish for dish."

Yu Xia: Oh my god.