Beijing, military compound, Fu Family.
Gu Li was busy in the kitchen, carefully preparing a “diabetes diet” meal: tomato scrambled eggs and sweet and sour pork ribs.
Finding these ingredients quickly in this era was largely thanks to Comrade Zhao Yaqin, who clearly knew how to enjoy life.
The crazy villain Fu Yishen did not believe she was merely a Fu Family maid, so she immediately volunteered herself, ah no, she actively proposed to prove herself through her cooking skills.
Time was short and the task was urgent. She could no longer rely on her biological parents in this world. Now, everything depended on Fu Yishen, the crazy villain.
She hoped that after eating her food, he would fall for her the same way the original female lead did.
After all, in the original story, the female lead only gave him a single piece of candy, and Fu Yishen had fallen madly in love with her, even casually gifting her entire courtyard house.
Meanwhile, she was giving him a full “diabetes diet” meal. Wouldn’t he end up throwing a few courtyard houses at her as well?
A rich, foolish, and emotionally starved villain like that appearing right in front of her, if she did not seize the opportunity, she would be failing the heavens.
Thinking of this, Gu Li could not help but put her hands on her hips and laugh wildly. If Fox were here, she would definitely praise her intelligence.
Fu Yishen sat in the living room, watching the self-proclaimed Fu Family maid happily working in the kitchen.
She occasionally hummed an off tune melody, as if the world of fools was always this cheerful.
He wanted to see exactly what tricks Zhao Yaqin and this foolish woman were playing.
“Comrade Fu, dinner is ready.”
Gu Li brought the two dishes to the table and called him over while holding a bowl of white rice.
She kept a small portion of food for herself, while deliberately adding extra sugar into the dishes she made for Fu Yishen.
Fu Yishen raised his lips slightly and stood up, walking slowly toward her.
His height of one meter eighty five gave him an overwhelming sense of pressure, a figure even more striking than a male model. How had she ever mistaken Fu Yishen for a woman earlier?
It was all because his face was too androgynous. Without looking at his body, his face alone looked like a stunning beauty.
“Sit down.”
Fu Yishen leaned back in his chair, fingers tapping the table lightly as he suddenly spoke, his expression unreadable.
Gu Li was unsure whether she had heard correctly, and her mind could not help but imagine the domineering CEO lines Fox liked writing, “Sit on it yourself and move.”
No way, were villains of this era this direct?
She looked at him with eyes full of innocent confusion. “Ah?”
“Sit down and eat,” Fu Yishen repeated, frowning slightly. This foolish woman looked quite pretty, but her brain did not seem very useful, nor did her hearing.
“Comrade Fu, there is no need to be so polite. I am just a maid, I can eat in the kitchen,” Gu Li quickly replied.
So he was inviting her to eat together. That was a relief, although there was a faint sense of disappointment for some reason.
Ridiculous, she would not eat with him.
She had secretly added a lot of sugar into his dishes, and even used sugar that Zhao Yaqin had hidden away.
Fu Yishen’s thin lips curved slightly. “If you do not eat first, how can I be sure you did not poison the food?”
Gu Li stared at him in disbelief.
Was this man insane? Did his parents know?
He was treating her like a testing needle, but she was not a eunuch, and he was not an emperor, so why?
But then reality reminded her, he was a wealthy golden patron with countless courtyard houses, and she was his so-called clingy follower.
“Comrade Fu, does it taste good?”
The “testing needle” Gu Li sat obediently at the table, smiling sweetly, her eyes curved.
She had already secretly eaten a small spoonful of tomato scrambled eggs with rice.
She did not dislike sweet food, she simply did not like sugar in tomato scrambled eggs. She preferred salt. Savory tomato eggs were the best.
Across from her, Fu Yishen saw that she had eaten without reaction and unconsciously picked up his chopsticks, taking a small piece of pork rib.
He had only intended to observe her trick, but the sweet and sour flavor unexpectedly drew him in, and he ended up eating it.
A faint look of satisfaction appeared on his usually cold face.
How long had it been since he last ate such homely, down to earth food? He could not even remember. For years, he had either eaten in school cafeterias or research institute cafeterias.
When he heard the foolish woman’s question, he realized his lapse in composure.
He casually put down his chopsticks and said flatly, “It tastes terrible.”
Gu Li rolled her eyes and returned to the kitchen.
What a so-called villain. He was clearly just an emotionally immature man.
……
“Yishen, you’re back?”
Zhao Yaqin had returned early from work and was surprised to see her long absent “son” sitting at the dining table, eating heartily.
Her eyes lit up as she quickly walked over, smiling as she tried to sit down.
The moment Fu Yishen heard her voice, he immediately put down his chopsticks, stood up, and headed for the door. “I came back to get something. I am leaving now.”
Zhao Yaqin’s smile froze. “Yishen, your mother misses you. Can you stay and talk with me for a while?”
Fu Yishen paused and turned back coldly. “Aunt Zhao, my mother’s name is Xie Wanyi.”
“Yishen, do you still hate Aunt Zhao? But I… I only have you as my child,” Zhao Yaqin said sorrowfully.
“No one in this family is stopping you from having children. If you chose not to have your own child just to please Fu Yanian, please do not involve me, thank you.”
“And tell Fu Yanian not to interfere in my marriage or my work again, or I cannot guarantee what I will do.”
After finishing, Fu Yishen turned and left without hesitation.
Zhao Yaqin remained where she stood, staring blankly at the door.
At this moment, Gu Li had already packed her small bundle, only two sets of clothes.
Since Fu Yishen was not a fake young master but the real one, meaning he had courtyard houses, she felt reassured.
From his words, he did not plan to return to the Fu Family, so there was no point staying. She might as well follow her golden patron.
As she passed Zhao Yaqin, she felt a little sympathy.
“Comrade Zhao, thank you for taking me in during this time. I am leaving now, and you do not need to pay me for these days.”
Before Zhao Yaqin could react, Gu Li was already gone.
“Leave then, all of you leave… and do not come back…”
Zhao Yaqin stared at the doorway and murmured to herself.