She Relies on an Enchanting Scent to Turn All Beings Upside Down - Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Third Fragrance

Su Wanwan was a little stunned that he took the knife from her, but she quickly realized why. This was a live broadcast, and he was a businessman. If he came across as too hateful, his hotel business would suffer a major blow. So, no matter how much he disliked her, he had to tolerate it.

Once she understood, Su Wanwan’s lips curled up. She leaned in close to Hylia and started to give him instructions.

“You need to slice it into uniform pieces so it cooks easily later.”

“Hey! That’s too thick. You can’t cut it like that. Don’t you know how? My knife skills at seven were better than yours.”

The girl talked next to him, making small gestures. Her soft voice was filled with a teasing scolding, and she would look at him with a hint of disdain.

Hylia’s cutting motion paused, his brows furrowed, and his expression wasn’t good. The man was wearing a custom-made suit. For the sake of cutting, he had neatly rolled up his sleeves, revealing his tanned forearms with faint blue veins.

The muscles in his arm would flex and relax as he cut. His fingers were long and strong, and his movements were steady. It was visually pleasing, but the end result was a messy disaster. No wonder Su Wanwan was scolding him. None of her ex-boyfriends had ever had such poor knife skills. As for whether they had secretly learned to cook later, that was unknown.

“Why don’t you go rest? I’ll do it.” Su Wanwan was hungry and couldn’t bear to watch him waste more food. At this rate, she wouldn’t have anything to eat. She wasn’t like them, who could get by on nutrient solutions. She was a regular modern person who craved a hot and delicious meal.

Hylia glanced at the uneven chunks on the cutting board and almost wanted to laugh. He, Hylia, had never been through something like this in his life. But give the knife to Su Wanwan? He looked at her delicate fingers, her skin so thin he could see the blood vessels. The knife was so sharp; she would get hurt with a single touch. The thought made him frown, and he felt a little resistant.

He had completely forgotten how he had stood with his hands in his pockets, watching coldly from the doorway, not long ago.

“How about this?” the girl next to him spoke up again. Hylia looked over, and his body tensed up the next second. Because she bent down and slid under his right arm, which meant… he was holding her in his arms.

Feeling the man’s sudden change in breath, Su Wanwan’s lips curved in a smile. Like a mischievous kitten, her eyes twinkled with a playful light. She put her hands over his, showing him how to hold the ingredients with one hand and how to cut with the other.

“You need to hold it like this, and the knife should cut this way. Then the thickness will be consistent.”

Su Wanwan didn’t really know how to cook either, but she was definitely better than Hylia. Although she was doing this for her own dinner, she wasn’t teaching him with a sincere heart. She was intentionally and unintentionally brushing against Hylia’s body several times.

You don’t like physical contact, you germaphobe? Here’s a few more touches. Su Wanwan could already imagine Hylia’s terrible but forced expression, and her smile grew wider.

Hylia’s expression was indeed not good. A lock of his perfectly styled hair had fallen between his brows, obscuring his slightly lowered eyes and casting a shadow. His body was tensed, like a fully drawn bow, exuding a sense of readiness. If there were other Alphas on the scene, they would instantly recognize this as a sign of aggression—a precursor to an Alpha’s possessiveness rising for an Omega.

Hylia’s eyes dropped to the beautiful neck she unknowingly revealed. Her porcelain-white neck stretched out from her collar, dotted with a few black strands of hair. It was slender, fragile, and delicate. It made him want to grab it with one hand, bury his face in it, and pour all his pheromones into her, marking her.

Su Wanwan, after rubbing against him several more times, was puzzled by his lack of reaction. She let go of one hand and reached behind her, but her hand was instantly grabbed with great force. In that brief moment, however, she felt it.

He’s so hard… his muscles. Hylia, his entire body tense, gripped her little hand that had touched his abdomen. His abdomen twitched slightly from her brief touch. The elegant and composed smile on his face had vanished, leaving only a pair of dark, sunken eyes staring at her.

“Let go of me,” Su Wanwan said, feeling a little flustered under his stare. She started to struggle. I think I went too far. He looks so angry. He wouldn’t hit me, would he?

An Alpha’s physical strength was so great that he completely disregarded the little Omega’s struggle. But he adjusted his grip and let go of her hand.

Once free, Su Wanwan immediately bent down and escaped from his embrace, commanding from a distance, “You… finish cutting the rest!”

Seeing her flustered expression, Hylia knew his actions had gone too far. I scared her. What should I do?

Hylia slowly smiled, his previous emotions vanishing instantly. He said unhurriedly, “Okay.” His demeanor was incredibly good-natured, as if the gloomy expression he had moments ago wasn’t his at all.

“What was CEO Hylia trying to do just now? Hit an Omega?“

“I feel like something’s not right, but I can’t put my finger on it.”

“Am I the only one who thinks this is a little shippable?”

“To the person above, I ship it too, especially when CEO Hylia, with his germaphobe persona, is wearing a custom-made suit and dotingly cooking for love! Who can relate?! A sophisticated husband-type! It completely hits my sweet spot!”

“Wuwuwu, I’m sorry. I think Su Wanwan is so beautiful and cute. I’m sorry to let you all down, but I can’t resist a beautiful face.”

“Me too…”

“Me too…”

“She’s as cute as my cat when she’s acting all bossy, wuwuwu.”

Waves of comments praising Su Wanwan flooded the screen, as if Pandora’s box had been opened. The entire screen was filled with her name. Who would have thought that just moments before, this very screen had been filled with nothing but malice toward her?

Su Wanwan’s team was making steady progress under her guidance. The other four groups were experiencing varying degrees of chaos.

After a quick look at the cooking instructions provided by the show, Xie Canglan chose the dish with the fewest steps: fried eggs. Xia Qingli was in charge of beating the eggs, and Xie Canglan was in charge of frying them. The result was a slightly charred plate of eggs after wasting a dozen of them. The screen promptly showed a “Do not imitate, wasting food is shameful” message, making the viewers in the live stream burst into laughter.

Jiang Yao and Meng Ze’s team initially just stood there doing nothing. It was only when the production team reminded them that they had to finish that they reluctantly picked some ingredients, threw them into a pot, and cooked them casually. The result was a pot of “lethal soup.”

“My goodness, can you at least wash the ingredients! That’s food! I suggest they all go and listen to Su Wanwan’s lecture!!!”

“Hahahahaha, after today, we probably won’t see CEO Hylia in that suit again.”

“I just took a look. CEO Hylia’s suit is tragic.”

Song Yuege and Jiang Chuxia were completely bewildered. The two Omegas consulted for a long time before choosing some nice-looking green vegetables. They picked a few and managed to fry a plate.

“I feel like this group is the most reliable one besides Su Wanwan’s.”

‘The world really can’t function without Omegas!”

“You’ll make CEO Hylia cry if you say that, upstairs.”

“Hahahaha, is CEO Hylia’s suit okay?”

“Not really. It’s tragic, hahahaha.”

Su Wanwan had deliberately chosen to stir-fry potato slices because it tended to splatter a lot of oil. She had originally planned to intentionally splash Hylia while cooking, but she didn’t expect him to volunteer to do the cooking. This was even better. It saved her the trouble of calculating the angles.

After the cooking session ended, all five groups went to the restaurant. The restaurant was luxuriously and beautifully decorated, but no one had the desire to eat. Except for Su Wanwan. She had no confidence in Hylia’s cooking, so to make sure she wouldn’t starve, she had also fried an egg. She was very confident in her fried egg, so before the production team could say anything, she went and served herself. That’s right, she had also cooked rice.

“Hahahaha, everyone else is looking at Su Wanwan in confusion, wondering where she got that stuff from.”

“To be honest, I don’t know what that is either. It’s white and grainy. It looks like unhatched insect eggs… Can you eat that?”

“Allow me to explain. That’s rice, the staple food of ancient humans on the Blue Star ten thousand years ago. If you don’t mind the trouble, you can cook some and try it. It tastes great.”

Out of sympathy for Hylia, who had been put through so much trouble, Su Wanwan also brought him a bowl of rice. Whether he ate it or not was his business.

Su Wanwan was starving and didn’t care about anyone else’s opinion. She sat down and started eating. The restaurant fell silent as dozens of people watched her eat. The camera even had a dedicated angle to zoom in on her face. The cameraman’s heart fluttered from the sudden close-up of her beautiful face and almost stopped. He couldn’t help but sigh in his heart that a beauty was a beauty; even eating was so pretty.

“Why are her eggs yellow?” Xia Qingli looked at the burnt eggs in front of her and then at the golden eggs in front of Su Wanwan, utterly confused.

“The color is just different. The taste should be similar.” Xie Canglan smiled and casually picked up a piece, throwing it into his mouth. The corners of his lips instantly stiffened for a moment.

“Hahahaha, Teacher Xie’s face suddenly looks so bad.”

“Honestly, just by looking at it, I wouldn’t want to eat it. Teacher Xie is a true hero.”

“Hats off to the hero.”

Xie Canglan spat it out with a smile. When Xia Qingli pressed him, he tactfully said, “I don’t really like the taste.” Xia Qingli looked at Su Wanwan, who was eating with gusto, and then at the black egg in front of her. She reached out and took a piece, putting it in her mouth.

“Ptooey! It’s so bitter!” Xia Qingli’s eyes watered from the bitterness. Her face was scrunched up, looking miserable.

“Hahahaha, Teacher Xie is so mean! Bullying our little cutie Lili!’

“Come to Mommy’s arms, baby Lili. Mommy will wipe away your tears.”

Su Wanwan had eaten enough and was ready to cause some trouble. She saw that Hylia hadn’t touched his chopsticks, so she deliberately licked her chopsticks and placed a piece of potato on the tip of his bowl, saying gently, “Why aren’t you eating? Don’t starve yourself.”

Look at her. So considerate.

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