At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

The private room echoed with rhythmic chopping sounds as the cleaver in Gu Yu's hands danced up and down. Although it hadn't reached the point of creating afterimages, each chop made Lin Xinyue feel her heart leap into her throat.

"Slow down, don't cut yourself!"

Lin Xinyue stood to one side, covering her eyes, not daring to watch Gu Yu showcase his knife skills, fearing that the next second the bright cleaver would fall not on the cutting board but on Gu Yu's hand.

People in the rooms to the left and right were also cooking and were drawn over by the spectacle of the flashing knives on Gu Yu's side.

"Hiss— Who's the chef who came over to show off?"

Through the glass, everyone looked at Gu Yu's handsome and focused face, causing some girls' eyes to sparkle continuously.

But seeing Lin Xinyue beside Gu Yu, sometimes worried and sometimes cheering Gu Yu on, they felt a pang of shame.

This girl looks really beautiful!

The ladies' gazes lingered on Gu Yu, while the gentlemen's eyes were fixed on Lin Xinyue for a long time.

"Well! The food in the pot is burnt, were you mesmerized by the pretty girl?"

A fat woman suddenly smelled a burnt scent, turned her head, and was shocked to see the food in her pot emitting black smoke.

And her husband was still standing in front of the glass wall, watching the beauty next door, which infuriated her.
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"Hiss— Ouch, ouch, ouch!"

The man twisted his neck, and though his vital spot was grabbed by his wife, he retorted discontentedly, "Weren't you also looking at the handsome guy across?"

"Cut it out, you don't know anything. I was observing his cooking skills!" the fat woman rolled her eyes at her husband while her gaze, fixed on Gu Yu, belied her words.

"Damn, your drool is about to fall, and you tell me you're learning the skill?"

The man was unimpressed.

"Tsk, let me put it straight then! Look at him, not only is he handsome, but his technique with the knife is also top-notch. Now look at you, you can't even stir-fry cabbage without burning it!"

The fat woman stood with her hands on her hips, looking disdainfully at her hubby.

The man seethed with rage but seeing his wife's imposing figure of 180 pounds, he silently stepped back two paces.

"I don't hit women!" he reassured himself inwardly. Then, spotting a kitchen knife nearby, he picked it up, unwilling to admit defeat. "At least I learned to cook from mom! I don't believe that pretty boy's cooking skills are better than mine!"

"Ew, why don't you guys have a competition then? From the look of it, it seems he intends to make eel? Why don't you make one for me?"

The fat woman glanced at Gu Yu's work area and saw him deftly bleeding and cutting several eels.

Although it was a bloody sight, Gu Yu didn't let a single drop of blood spill from the tub, his technique was incredibly precise!

"Eel… are you sure you want to eat those slippery creatures?"

The man's hand holding the knife trembled; he had lived his whole life afraid of nothing but his wife and those long, slippery creatures.

And now his wife explicitly demanded eel!

"Yeah! Ah, I love eel and snake soup dishes the most. Ever since I married you, I haven't seen them at all."

The fat woman nodded earnestly.

No matter what, she was determined to make her husband conquer his fear of eels today.

"Um…" The man swallowed hard twice, a sign of his fear.

But looking at his serious wife and the young, skilled guy across, he gritted his teeth and decided to take the plunge!

"Let's eat! I'll also make soft-pocket long fish! Wife, open up Dou Ying and search for the recipe, I'll order now!"

Setting down the kitchen knife, the man started washing the pot while speaking resolutely.

Soon, a basin of lively, wriggling eels was brought into the private room.

Looking at the basin of intertwined yellow eels, the man felt a darkness descending before his eyes…

"Mommy! Damn, they're all alive and still moving!"

He jumped straight into his wife's arms.

"…," his wife looked at her husband speechlessly, thinking he might really brave it this time.

"..."

"They're escaping!"

In Gu Yu's private room.

Lin Xinyue was also staring in horror at the eels wriggling vigorously in the tank.

It wasn't until an eel slickly slipped from Gu Yu's palms and slid out of the tank that she screamed in fright.

"...ugh"

Gu Yu glanced at the man who was scared into his wife's arms by the eel across from him, then turned his head to see Lin Xinyue, who was tightly clinging to his collar from behind.

Though of different genders, their reactions were quite similar.

"Cough cough cough, if you keep strangling my neck, I'm going to be choked to death by you."

Gu Yu felt the small hand behind him was very strong; his collar was grabbed in a bunch, making it hard for him to breathe.

It was then that Lin Xinyue realized her reaction was a bit excessive. Her face flushed, and she quickly hid behind the stove to play with fire.

Gu Yu then bent down to pick up the eel from the ground and swiftly gutted it.

The eel whose head was chopped off could still swim in the basin, demonstrating remarkable vitality.

On the other side, the fat woman forced her husband to grab an eel while she used her free hand to search how to cook soft-boned eels.

"You must put the eel directly into boiling water to cook it thoroughly before gutting and deboning it…"

Watching the tutorial on Dou Ying, she was puzzled as she glanced at Gu Yu's technique.

But Gu Yu hadn't put the live eel directly into the pot, had he?

Had he done it wrong?

"Honey, it's your time to shine. The handsome guy across there did the eel cooking method wrong."

"Just follow this tutorial, and you're sure to make it tastier than him!"

She didn't know Gu Yu, but the tutorial on Dou Ying was made by a top chef; she definitely chose the chef's method.

Seeing that the video didn't require live slaughtering of the eel, the man suddenly felt braver.

He heated the water until it boiled, and directly poured a basin of live eels into it.

But the next second, a terrible thing happened.

The fresh eels, upon contact with the scalding water, burst out as if they were injected with adrenaline, crazily trying to escape.

In less than three seconds, a large number of scalded eels had escaped from the pot.

It was only then that the man thought of covering the lid.

But it was too late…

The entire room was a chaotic burst of white and red as eels scrambled everywhere.

"Aaaaah—"

Even the fat woman who wasn't afraid of eels was now terrified; no one could easily accept the sight of eels wriggling all over the floor.

Seeing a large eel speedily sliding toward her skirt, she jumped in fright and then leaped into her husband's arms…

"Wife…you should lose some weight…"

The man hadn't expected that cooking could result in being crushed by 'Mount Tai', and his back gave out on the spot.

The two collapsed to the ground, and the eels wriggled all over them.

Outside, the waitstaff noticed something was off in the room, and a bunch of people rushed in, equally astounded at the sight of the eels on the floor.

What happened here?

Were they playing some eel game in the room?