Chen Junye teased, “Wife, don’t tell me you want to nourish my body?”
“No way.” Xia Zhiyao came back to her senses and shyly pursed her lips. “Husband, you’re teasing me again.”
Inside, she thought, Hmph, once I reveal my identity, I’ll definitely scare you half to death. For now, I’ll let you stay puffed up for a while.
Otherwise, I’m afraid you’ll chicken out and won’t even dare to tease me.
…Still, she really did want to nourish her husband. After all, given his current cultivation, he no longer needed to eat.
Seeing his wife’s shy expression, Chen Junye was completely satisfied. “Fine, I won’t tease you anymore… Then, wife, can you really cook? Is it edible?”
“Of course it’s edible!” Xia Zhiyao’s bright eyes widened in indignation.
“If it were the past, I really wouldn’t have been very good at it. But for you, and for Yuan’er and Hao’er, I’ve been learning carefully all this time so that you can eat food made by your wife, and Yuan’er and Hao’er can eat food made by their mother. By now, making meals is easy for me.”
“Really?”
“Of course it’s true… Husband, don’t you believe me?”
Faced with this choice, Chen Junye didn’t hesitate at all. “Wife, I believe you.”
Then he pulled the soft body in his arms tighter. “Wife, you’ve worked hard.”
Xia Zhiyao wanted to laugh. Hadn’t she been wronged? She was a dignified Immortal Emperor!
And yet her husband kept teasing her.
“Husband, I haven’t been wronged. For you all, anything is worth it.”
Chen Junye of course knew that his wife didn’t catch his deeper meaning, and he didn’t puncture that thin veil.
“Wife, then I’ll cook with you.”
“Sure, husband, just don’t help me in a way that makes things worse.”
“Oh? So you’ve already started looking down on your husband?”
“No, that was what you said yourself.”
And so, amid laughter and cheerful chatter, they helped each other change clothes and smooth down their hems.
Once everything was in order, they ran off to experience life, the warm, smoky bustle of mortal life.
As for where the children went… they were temporarily forgotten.
Very soon, the couple busied themselves together.
Chen Junye was naturally more than willing to accompany his wife in such simple, ordinary happiness.
For a dignified Immortal Emperor to do this really was a considerable sacrifice, especially in terms of image.
“Wife, you even look beautiful in an apron…”
“Of course. I have to learn properly and convincingly so that Yuan’er and Hao’er can see that their mother is virtuous and dutiful, and so they can experience the bustle of mortal life in a family of four…” Xia Zhiyao said, then suddenly realized something.
“Husband, do you miss me that much? You’ve been praising me nonstop these past few days.”
She said that, but inside she was delighted. My husband praised me again. Keep praising me.
“Of course I miss you.” Chen Junye changed the topic. “Wife, don’t you miss me too? You’ve hardly stopped saying ‘husband’ these past few days…”
Xia Zhiyao thought it over carefully…
Her pretty face instantly flushed red again. “You bad guy.”
She got teased every time. Too hateful.
Still, they were already an old married couple. A short separation made the reunion feel like a honeymoon; that was only normal. Since Yuan’er and Hao’er weren’t around, they should make the most of it.
Husband, feel free to bounce around as much as you want! Hmph.
“Bad guy or not, I’ll take that as praise from my wife.” Chen Junye naturally leaned in closer.
The couple cooked porridge, grilled meat, and chatted at the same time.
Before long, everything was ready.
The premium immortal porridge gave off a mouthwatering aroma, and Xia Zhiyao had added quite a few good things to it.
As for the grilled meat, it was made from immortal beasts. Chen Junye sliced the meat and arranged it on a plate in neat layers.
Xia Zhiyao subconsciously said, “Husband, let me wipe your sweat…”
But when she picked up the towel… she realized her husband wasn’t sweating at all. Right, her husband wasn’t even a mortal anymore…
Just as she finished thinking that, sweat suddenly began to trickle down from her husband’s forehead again; it was acted out far too obviously.
“I’m so happy that my wife is wiping my sweat.” Chen Junye smiled.
Xia Zhiyao shot a reproachful look at the fake sweat… the atmosphere had already reached this point, and not doing something would feel out of place.
She cooperated by lifting her hand to wipe Chen Junye’s sweat, but she still couldn’t help laughing.
“Husband, just so I can wipe your sweat, you’re really going all out.”
Chen Junye said, “Of course. Wife, why don’t you try it too?”
“No.”
Xia Zhiyao felt that as a dignified Immortal Emperor, there was no need to play around like this.
“Husband, let’s eat quickly.” She pulled Chen Junye over to the table.
She had added many ingredients to the immortal porridge, all sorts of precious herbs, making it almost comparable to an immortal pill. If her husband ate it, a breakthrough in cultivation would probably be no problem at all, after all, he was only in the True Immortal realm.
She could almost already see the delighted expression on her husband’s face after his sudden breakthrough.
“All right.” Chen Junye looked at the porridge and felt moved.
Unfortunately, it couldn’t make him any stronger.
Then he tried a bite.
“Husband, how does it taste?” Xia Zhiyao asked expectantly.
Chen Junye smiled. “Wife, your cooking really is getting better and better.”
“Then, husband, eat a little more.”
“Wife, you should try it too. Come on, ah~” Chen Junye fed her with the spoon he had already used.
Xia Zhiyao felt that as an Immortal Emperor, she ought to be a little more reserved, and being fed by her husband was somewhat embarrassing.
But she still decisively opened her mouth and took it in.
Then she used her own spoon to take a bite and fed Chen Junye in return, fair and square.
“Husband, eat a little more quickly.”
Chen Junye, of course, took it in without a word.
“The porridge you feed me tastes a little better.”
Xia Zhiyao blinked. “Then I’ll keep feeding you. Come on, ah~”
She felt that she was rather childish and silly too, but right now she wasn’t the Immortal Emperor of Supreme Emperor Palace; she was just a wife, the mother of two children.
“And this grilled meat goes really well with the immortal porridge too.”
Whether she ate or not didn’t matter; what mattered was stuffing her husband full, and even if she had to coax him, she had to make sure he was full.
After quite a while,
Xia Zhiyao grew puzzled. Her husband had eaten quite a lot; she had been feeding him the whole time. So why was there no sign of a loosening in his realm?
“Husband, how do you feel?”
Chen Junye smiled. “Wife, I’m full. Although the desire for food isn’t that important to us now, it really does let us experience the joy of everyday life.”
As soon as he said that, his heart sank.
Damn it!
He had been too focused on enjoying being fed by his wife… His cultivation hadn’t gotten any stronger!
And of course he knew that this immortal porridge contained many precious medicinal herbs; an ordinary True Immortal who ate this much should be able to break through.
…Maybe I should cooperate a little?
Xia Zhiyao was confused inside, but she didn’t dwell on it too much. Maybe her husband still needed to accumulate more.
She smiled and said, “That’s true. Husband, once we no longer have any worries hanging over us, once our family is reunited, we’ll make delicious food for Yuan’er and Hao’er every day.”
“Wife, absolutely. Let’s wash the bowls and chopsticks together…” Chen Junye said, and his expression turned wonderfully subtle.
“Wife, I seem to be about to break through…”
He wanted to laugh.
But he had to hold it in.
After all, his wife was so adorable; sometimes she was just like a little scatterbrain.
Seeing this, Xia Zhiyao couldn’t stop the corners of her mouth from rising wildly.
Inside, she thought: I knew it… this is more like it.
Everything was still going exactly the way I had arranged it!
“Husband, congratulations on getting even stronger…”