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Chapter 25: The Brothers Came to See You!

The capital of Nix Kingdom sat in the frigid land of Freldreich, and the people usually relied on fish as their main meat.

Of course, as the Queen, Clovie certainly could taste other rare meats.

Yet what she wanted to eat was never some precious delicacy; she simply longed for a familiar flavor.

Chen Yuan therefore cooked fish for her, a cod he had picked up in the supermarket.

Although it did not taste as good as the Kera fish of Nix Kingdom…

there was no way to find fish from her world in this one…

fish was fish, so they might as well make do.

When she tasted that familiar flavor again, Clovie froze, and her eyes quickly reddened.

Everything still felt a little unreal; for her, this whole day—everything that had happened—moved far too fast…

She seemed to have dreamed a very long dream in which she thought about these things every day, then woke to find she would do them again and again…

A sudden sense of dislocation struck her: what if, when she woke tomorrow, she discovered the earlier dream was real and all of this was only a dream…

Chen Yuan ladled soup for her and kept adding beef and mutton to her bowl, both considered rare delicacies in Nix Kingdom.

Back in Nix they could eat only seafood—crabs, fish, shrimp—day after day; at first that was fine, so he had gorged himself.

Yet after eating it too often, it became no different from pork every day, and he nearly threw up.

Fortunately he was half a noble, able to vary his diet and, following Clovie, occasionally enjoy venison or rabbit.

Now things were better, and Chen Yuan knew she seldom ate such meats, so he kept piling them into her bowl.

While serving he said, “Eat as much as you like; it isn’t that expensive here. If we finish it, we’ll just buy another ten or fifteen jin tomorrow!”

After he finished speaking, he set the filled bowl before her with a smile, only then noticing that she was chewing the cod with difficulty, tears shimmering in her eyes.

What?!

Is it really that bad?!

That shouldn’t be… He had not cooked cod often, but it couldn’t be that terrible…

He had eaten cod burgers before!

Was it so damn awful that it made her cry?!

Chen Yuan felt his heart clench, quickly tore off a tissue, walked to her side, and whispered, “What’s wrong? Is it not tasty? If it’s bad, don’t eat it; we’ll go out instead.”

“It is good…” Clovie spoke with her head lowered, and a teardrop fell.

Yet when she saw Chen Yuan so anxious, sweetness rose in her heart and she let out a light laugh.

Chen Yuan crouched to wipe her tears; her sudden crying and laughing left him bewildered, and he frowned in confusion: this lass… was something wrong with her head…

It seemed the pressure of being Queen was truly enormous; the once elegant, adorable Clovie had been pushed halfway to madness!

“Don’t scare Teacher…” Chen Yuan sighed and gently wiped her tears.

He had just said he would let her enjoy this world…

“Mm.” Clovie agreed meekly; she had merely lost control for a moment.

She let Chen Yuan wipe her face, and only softness remained in her clear eyes.

Ding-dong—

Ding-dong—

Suddenly the doorbell rang.

Chen Yuan stood up. “Who is it at this hour…?”

Could it be that idiot Yu Enqi?

“Stay here, I’ll take a look.”

“Mm.” Clovie nodded.

She sat at the dining table in the living room and watched Chen Yuan walk toward the door.

Chen Yuan peered out through the peephole…

A pair of huge mascara-laden eyes pressed right against the peephole!

Damn it!!

Chen Yuan almost cursed aloud.

“Move over, don’t scare Old Chen…” Huang Zhisheng pulled Li Hua aside.

Tan Haoxin shouted, “Old Chen! Open up!”

“We’re here to drink with you!” Luo Zichuan lifted two bulging bags of Snow Beer.

Liu Yuhang said, “Open up quick; we know you’re inside secretly shedding pearls!”

“A few drinks and you’ll be fine; after a good sleep everything will pass.”

Chen Yuan’s buddies knew how much he liked Yu Enqi, so in front of him they never spoke ill of her, no matter how much they disliked her.

They had tried more than once to talk sense into Chen Yuan, especially Li Hua; he dealt with girls all the time, saw through Yu Enqi most clearly, hated her the deepest, and had even quarreled with Chen Yuan twice over her.

At that time Chen Yuan had been blinded by lard, unable to recognize his good intentions.

Even so, Li Hua never held it against Chen Yuan.

Of course, all that had happened back in freshman year; now there was no estrangement between them.

Chen Yuan then realized that his brothers had come; it seemed the noon incident had reached their ears.

He had to admit, these good sons had not been raised in vain.

In his previous life, when he died, these sons had looked genuinely heart-broken at his funeral.

They had even gone to a bar to confront Yu Enqi, forcing her to kneel and apologize, but by then he had already seen through her and felt too chilled to watch.

Thinking of that, he could hardly wait to open the door and welcome these good lads.

Yet in the very next second.

Wait, no!

Clovie was still here…

He looked back and saw Clovie staring at him blankly with a bowl in her hands, her mouth chewing like a little rabbit.

By this time Clovie had bathed and changed into the slightly loose shorts Chen Yuan had bought for her; she avoided the ultra-short ones that nearly reached her groin.

It was late August and the new semester had just begun; the weather was still hot, and she, having lived in perpetually cold Nix, was unaccustomed to jeans.

He had promised to take her shopping for skirts, but time had been short, so when they bought jeans he had picked up two suitably loose women’s shorts instead.

As a result, her long legs were exposed in all their snowy whiteness…

Those legs were longer than the shorty Li Hua’s entire life!

Crap…

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