Chapter 33.2 Humble Duanduan, begging for food at the door

Cooking means buying vegetables first. In fact, you have to wash and cut vegetables and then put them in the pan. Even if there was a dishwasher for washing dishes, the kitchen must always be cleaned up… In short, doing this was not only a waste of time, but also had no economic benefits. According to Ji Lin’s principle of converting everything into RMB to measure the price/performance ratio, this should not be in his own consideration at all. If he had time, replying to two more emails was better than cooking.

However, the next morning…

Ji Lin frowned at Bai Duanduan, who was feasting at his own table without any image, and wondered what possessed her. He had clearly refused yesterday despite her pleas and slips, yet early in the morning, Bai Duanduan had sent himself a WeChat–

“Boss, I’m at your door, if… I mean if you make breakfast, and if you have leftovers, can you share some with me? Anything will do…”

After this sentence was sent, Bai Duanduan also sent an expression of a dog holding a bowl with eyes waiting for the meal to start eating.

It was a bit pathetic.

Ji Lin put down his phone and decided to ignore it, however, soon, new messages came from Bai Duanduan one after another —

“It’s so cold in the corridor in the morning, Partner Ji, if I catch a cold, can this be considered a workplace injury?”

“Boss, I have your son, he says he misses you and your cat meals. Of course, if you can stop by and entertain his poor adoptive mother with a human meal, he will feel sincerely happy and joyful for his adoptive parent’s togetherness. Harmonious family relationships are a key factor in the development and character building of every child. It is scientifically proven that children with harmonious family relationships are more likely to be confident and successful ……”

“So hungry, Ji Lin, I’m so hungry, save your neighbour ……”

“Poor Duanduan is humbly begging for food at the door.”

……

Ji Lin could not stand it any longer, so he finally opened the door, only to find Bai Duanduan standing in the doorway wearing a pink pajama, holding two cats in her hands, and a rice bowl as if she was really begging for food. She was standing pitifully at the door, as if she was a victim who fled with her children during the famine and when they saw Ji Lin, their eyes lit up.

Ji Lin didn’t know how it all happened, yet the end result was that this difficult and deadly neighbour of his came into the house, then took her own rice bowl and sat down nicely at the dining table. While Ji Lin was cooking breakfast in the kitchen, she kept looking at it with salivating eyes. And then there was the moment, when Ji Lin silently stood by the wall wondering what was wrong with her brain while watching her eat breakfast with a satisfied and happy face.

That day, Ji Lin was not planning to cook breakfast as he had limited ingredients so he ended up cooking a simple egg fried rice and a few side dishes. While it was obviously just such an everyday breakfast, Bai Duanduan ate it with her eyes curled up.

“Ji Lin! The rice in this egg fried rice is so delicious! The grains are full and fragrant ! The main thing is that it’s not hard and not sticky, your mastery of the fire is simply perfect!”

“Well, this fried bok choy is also delicious! I’ve never tasted such delicious vegetables!”

“The diced ham smells so good ……”

The first rays of the morning sun shone through the window on Bai Duanduan’s fair and rosy side profile, making her whole body feel like she was bathed in warm light. Her side face was so beautiful that her eyelashes looked a little too long, and along with Bai Duanduan’s complementary features, it looked like a small butterfly constantly flapping its thin wings, while her cheeks looked like a hamster that had stored two large nuts on each side because she was wolfing down the food, and now this hamster was just wiping out the food on the table while sparing no effort to flatter the owner of the food.

This unreserved and unruly way of eating was so …… vivid that it was a little cute.

She has very bright facial features and smiling eyes.

At this moment, Ji Lin probably began to understand why there were always so many people watching food broadcasts, because there was something magical about those people. Just watching them eat makes viewers feel very happy. It was only a bowl of fried rice with eggs but it seems to be a source of great happiness. Obviously the viewers were not eating but they were infected by the other person’s emotions and felt that life was all bright and beautiful. Happiness in life was not about how much money one makes or what status one holds, but about being able to eat a full meal happily like this.

Ji Lin had seen many beautiful women, yet none of them were as beautiful as Bai Duanduan. She was more beautiful than all of them and completely different.

It can be said that Ji Lin has hardly ever met anyone like Bai Duanduan. She was beautiful and unworldly, yet her skin was incredibly thick, and she had an almost paranoid obsession with what she believed to be right, like a bushy grass that looks completely unsharp, yet always tough and rigid in the face of a storm.

Contrary to her beauty, Bai Duanduan was not at all reserved; she was direct and bold, spirited and daring, with a strong will to do what she wants to do, almost as if she has to do everything she can to achieve her goals. However, once she realises that a plan won’t work, she was able to bend and stretch and climb up the ladder faster than anyone else. She was flexible and adaptable and could judge the situation. She knows when to be submissive and agree overtly, but oppose in secret and willing to do everything she can. She can admit her mistakes but she will never admit defeat.

She was a very special and multi-faceted person. She was very beautiful, and a bit deadly just like her cooking.

Ji Lin was not a person who was not good at rejecting people, on the contrary, he could be said to be very good at it, yet he suddenly realised that he had never really been able to completely reject Bai Duanduan.

No matter how cold he was, she always had a way of making himself feel something other than a desire to ignore.

“Ji Lin, why aren’t you eating? Come and eat your breakfast! You made this yourself and it’s really too good!”

This person, however, was Lin Hui’s ex-girlfriend.

But even though Ji Lin kept mentally admonishing himself that he should keep his distance from Bai Duanduan as he was once again unable to refuse her.

Ji Lin grimaced and eventually sat down opposite Bai Duanduan and finished his breakfast to her chattering full of rainbow farts. The sunlight was mild and the two cats were rubbing against his feet. In a trance, Ji Lin wondered if his brain had been caught in the door, and for a split second the pretentious-to-the-point-of-horror word “years of togetherness” flashed through his mind.

Bai Duanduan, who was now feasting on what looked like a full breakfast, pulled out her takeaway box at last and blinked at Ji Lin, “Can I pack back what I haven’t finished for lunch?”

“……”

Bai Duanduan’s eyes were wet, like a pitiful abandoned puppy. Ji Lin knew full well that it was all a set-up, all fake, yet when facing these eyes, facing such a gaze, he was a bit at a loss.

In the end, Ji Lin almost gave up on himself and said helplessly, “Forget it, I’ll cook at noon, come over and eat by yourself.”

A grateful and sincere smile appeared on Bai Duanduan’s face.

Although at this moment she looked like a deer so innocent that she knew nothing about the dangers of the forest. However, Ji Lin knew very well in his heart that she was not a simple deer, but clearly a tigress in deer skin. Ji Lin did not know why he had somehow started to feed this tigress next door. He just likes cats, he doesn’t like tigers at all, and he is not even much of a kind-hearted person ……

By some strange coincidence, Ji Lin suddenly thought of the male praying mantis who knew what would happen afterwards but still they would choose rather to be eaten by the female mantis in order to mate ……

Creepy, male counter-examples, alarm bells ringing.

[Small Theatre]

Reader @ Crys.’s

Partner Ji: I, Ji Lin, would starve to death, die of anger, jump out of the law firm and die outside, but I would never take on a case like this!

Hey, my cooking really smells good, Duanduan, come on, try it, hey, come on, you won’t look down on me after you taste it.

Reader @ 68’s

Much later in the evening.

Partner Ji: Wife I want to…

Bai Duanduan: Are you in heat?

Partner Ji suddenly remembered Ji Mimi’s post estrus period sterilization operation that happened a long time ago and he covered the front of his pants and ran away.