The Kitchen

"Why are you here?" I heard a familiar voice yelling.

I walk into the hotel room, just to find a lady wearing a face mask with a sleeveless shirt and underwear on the sofa.

"I never knew you had this kind of fetish." I pointed at Alex and turned my head to Yang Li as a joke.

"For the last time, she's my cousin!" Yang Li looks annoyed, it's probably I joked about him the entire time we walked here.

"At least the crybaby stopped screaming."

"He cried?" Alex heard something interesting and turns her head, "When?"

"Wanna watch the video?" I pull out my phone as it starts vibrating, Zhao Lili was calling me.

"WHERE ARE YOU!?" I picked up the phone and only heard yelling. This is probably the first time I heard that she's this angry.

"Calm down Aunt Li, don't worry, I'm not kidnapped." Her yelling made my ears ring, it was louder than she speaks normally on speaker.

"You better come home from whatever trouble, young man! You are officially grounded for life!"

Wonderful, now I'm not going back.

Alex hops off the sofa and took the phone out of my hand, "Is this miss Zhao?" Then she walked away to the balcony with my phone.

"What did you do?" Yang Li asked.

"Let's see," I took out my hand and pretending I was counting, "You know I threatened my cousin and insulted that man's brother, then I set the backyard on fire and jump off the second floor and escaped."

"Oh, then it's not that bad."

"Then what's bad enough?" Alex walks in from the balcony and overheard our conversation.

"Well, Haohao did beat a guy with a brick which barely missed his eyes, broke his leg, and left him unconscious, then she never got in trouble after claiming self-defense after revealing evidence that her victim was harassing girls."

For a second, Alex looked like she was going to kill me, then her face flipped like a book after listening to the whole story.

"Alright, I'm leaving for work." Alex took a small backpack while wearing a mask, a pair of fake glasses, and a hat. What stands out the most is that she's wearing all of this with a fancy cyan dress that covers up to her knee and high heels. Who wouldn't recognize her?

After the door closed, I asked Yang Li, who was playing on his phone, a question, "Where're your parents?"

"America, I'm actually American here." He shuts off his phone and listened.

"Anyways it's almost dinner."

"No, I'm not cooking for you." Yang Li protested, he hates cooking even though he's like a professional chef.

I stood up from the chair that I was standing, "Alright, guess I'm doing it."

"No! Get out of the kitchen! Last time you cut the cutting board instead of the potato and once you set the kitchen on fire while making soup! We already talked about you can't be in the kitchen, and this is a hotel! Who's going to pay for it if this place burns down?"

"Me." I reminded him that this time I actually have money, but he actually ignored me.

I sat on a chair backward in the kitchen while watched him cook. Great for a hotel, the kitchen is actually sparkling white, and in Asia, the kitchen is almost never clean from grease.

Yang Li was actually cooking with an apron on, slicing thin vegetables and taste testing the soup, no wonder he got a good grade for cooking in middle school, not to mention that was his only good grade. I use to wonder why he never gotten in trouble for having good grades, turns out he never failed a class or never missed a single work, he was just horrible at taking tests.

It has been a while since I teased him, "No wonder so many girls fell for you. If I was interested in a relationship, I won't have a problem dating you."

"Don't joke about this while I'm holding a knife!" He turns around and glares at me while I stick my tongue out.

"By the way, did you ever cook 'here?'" I was a bit curious since his cooking skills seem like hasn't been improving, it seems like it decreased a bit.

"No..." Yang Li took a long pause, "No one even knows I can cook."

"Good to know." I mumbled and took my phone out and took a picture, turns out flash was on.

I quickly press sent in the group chat that Li Honglie made earlier today in the meeting for fun. Yang Li puts down the knife, annoyed, pushed me out of the kitchen.

Then my phone buzzed, so did Yang Li's phone on the coffee table in the living room:

- Alex: When was this?

- Li Honglie: he's at your house?

I sat on a chair in the dining room, smirking while wondering how mad he's going to be when he checks his phone.

- Me: Just now, looks like he's cooking some kind of stew

- Zhang Liu: how good is it?

- Alex: Don't let him set the kitchen on fire

- Me: Don't worry, he cooks like a professional

- Li Honglie: no wonder he has like 4 ex

I saw him walk over setting up the tables, then he heard a ring tone from his phone.

- Alex: 4 ex? He never told me he was dating!

Yang Li took a look and shuts his phone off. Then he walks to the bathroom and closes the door, leaving the phone behind.

"I QUIT!" I heard the muffled scream from the bathroom.

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Alex Yang, who was walking to her waiting room. She grabs a towel to dry herself, she just did acting for a scene of a romance movie that includes the female lead getting almost drowned.

When she opened the door, there was a man who's slightly taller than her but she knew that this man is younger than her.

"Hello, Mr. Long." She gave a plain smile and tilted her head a little, "It seems like you're a bit early."

"How did you find my number?" Long Jingluo sat on a couch with a cold glare. The bodyguard next to him looks a bit nervous. It's not like he's going to throw everything in the room on the floor, right?

"Calm down," She sat on the opposite side of the coffee table as she pulls off the towel from the top of her head, reveals what it seems like a handful of silk that was soaked in water, "I only contacted you to apologize for a small incident. I would like to apologize for Gamma's action."

"Gamma?" Long Jingluo tries to think from the top of his head. Alex giggled for a bit and wondered how much did Xie Feihao tease him.

"You know who I am, correct?" She asked while crossing her legs in long dress pants, "Siren, real name is Alex Yang."

Long Jingluo nods.

"I'm Delta," She puts her hand on her own chest as if she was pointing at herself, "We're just a small crew, but it seems like Gamma, or you know as 'Y,' was a bit out of line. Don't you agree?"