Bride Swap Backfire: My Cousin's Rebirth Made Us a Power Couple Chapter 235 - 101: Avoiding Me?

Behind her was the searing stove, and before her was his burning-hot body. He had her trapped completely, pinned between the stove and his embrace. But more intense than either was his gaze, which felt as if it could pierce right through her clothes and skin...

Chen Wanqing couldn’t help but turn her head to look away. "I know, I know..." she whispered.

Just then, De’an’s voice called out from outside. "Jing, co quick! I’ve got sothing cool to show you."

"Jing! Jing..."

Hearing no response from Zhao Jing, De’an walked down the steps and headed for the kitchen.

Panicked, Chen Wanqing gave Zhao Jing a hard shove. "Hurry up and go!"

Zhao Jing let out a muffled grunt. Chen Wanqing worried she had used too much force and hurt him.

She turned her head to look and saw Zhao Jing clutching his chest, a pained expression on his face.

"Where are you hurt? I-I don’t think I pushed that hard. Jing, you’re so fragile..."

Zhao Jing, who had been about to complain, suddenly lowered the hand on his chest. Even his tightly furrowed brow relaxed.

He said, "Wanqing, I’d advise you to think thrice before you speak in the future..."

"Never mind thrice, I’ll think five tis! Okay, okay, just go. De’an is already here."

De’an had already reached the kitchen door, so of course he saw his sister pushing Zhao Jing out.

He asked casually, "What are you two doing?"

Without waiting for an answer, he excitedly held up the object in his hand for Zhao Jing to see. "Jing, look! I got a new set of nine-linked rings. It’s really interesting. I was too busy with the county exam before to play with it, so let’s play together now. Let tell you, this interlocking puzzle is super hard to solve. You try. If you can’t solve it, you’ll have to start calling ’big brother’!"

Never mind the cryptic smile Zhao Jing gave as he hauled De’an back to his room.

Chen Wanqing was so distracted that the al she cooked was anything but delicious.

She had mistaken the sugar for salt, and ended up putting two portions of salt in the sweet and sour pork ribs. They were so salty they could kill soone.

anwhile, she put a lot of sugar in the stir-fried greens, making them sickeningly sweet. They tasted strange no matter how you ate them.

Xu Suying tentatively asked her daughter, "Qing’er, dear, if you really don’t want to cook, you can just ask . I can do it."

Chen De’an said, "Sis, is this how you’re celebrating Jing and passing the Child Examination? BLECH! These super-sweet greens... the taste is just out of this world. Jing, how can you still eat this? Aren’t you afraid of being poisoned?"

Zhao Jing continued to pick up the food at an unhurried pace. He ate with gusto, taking a bite of a dish, then a bite of rice.

Seeing this, De’an began to wonder if they were even eating the sa food. Refusing to believe it, he picked up another piece of pork rib and popped it into his mouth. It was so salty he suspected his sister had murdered the salt rchant.

Chen De’an quickly spat out the rib. He then said to Zhao Jing, "Even if my sis made this, you don’t have to risk your life to be polite! We have things to do later. If you actually get sick from this, it’ll hold us up, won’t it?"

Chen Wanqing rubbed her nose sheepishly and quickly reached out to stop Zhao Jing. "It’s too awful, stop eating. Co on, let’s go get wontons on the street. My treat."

"It’s edible, Wanqing. You can just rinse it in so water, and it’s fine to eat."

The last sentence was directed at De’an, but De’an just scoffed. He couldn’t stand the alternating sweet and salty flavors.

If his sister hadn’t cooked this al with her own hands, he would have suspected soone was trying to poison him.

In the end, they couldn’t eat the dishes. The pork ribs were put away in the cupboard to be stead. Later in the afternoon, they could be rinsed, re-seasoned, and eaten. The greens, however, were thrown out. They had plenty of greens at ho anyway, and they would get old if not eaten soon.

So, the group ended up going out for wontons. When they returned, they were surprised to find Chen Song at ho.

"We have two promising boys in the family now, and all my colleagues ca over to congratulate . My face is stiff from smiling so much. I had to co ho to hide for a bit, or I wouldn’t be able to take it."

Chen Song said this with a shake of his head, as if it were a serious problem. But who couldn’t tell how pleased he really was?

And why wouldn’t he be? The family had produced a top scorer and a thirteenth-place finisher. With a little more effort, they would have two Scholars on their hands.

For a family to suddenly have two such promising young n was cause for celebration with firecrackers, no matter where you were.

"Every last one of them tried to push their daughters on , saying they’re a good match for De’an in age and looks, and that they’re skilled in needlework. If I agreed to one, I’d offend another, so I didn’t agree to any of them. I just pushed the matter back onto De’an, saying he’s still young and restless, and should wait a couple more years to get married."

Xu Suying nodded. "De’an is indeed still very childish. There’s no rush for him to get married."