Chapter 112: Exquisite Desserts
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The next day, An Bu returned from her morning jog, while Jian Ningxuan was still asleep. The Oil Pot from h*ll last night had made him sleep poorly all night, pitifully so. An Bu deeply reflected on herself and vowed never to feed the wrong kind of cat food to her cat master again.
After preparing breakfast and leaving it in the kitchen to warm, An Bu worked on her handicrafts while reviewing veterinary medicine, which was her third time studying it. Over the years, she had learned a lot of knowledge but forgotten a lot as well. Being able to retain thirty percent was considered a success for her.
She excelled the most in languages because she listened, read, and memorized every day, making it almost instinctual. She needed to adapt to various environments to ensure that she could live normally in any country. But her favorite was still her birthplace, Country Z, so most of her new national identities were also from Country Z, just different cities.
“Bu Bu, morning,” Jian Ningxuan walked out of the room, wearing a loose set of home clothes, with slightly raised hair, making him look a bit less aloof and a bit more lazy.
“Morning,” An Bu asked, “Is your stomach still hurting?”
“It’s fine now,” Jian Ningxuan walked into the kitchen, brought out his breakfast, and sat on the sofa beside An Bu, quietly eating.
“Look, what do you think?” An Bu showed him something she had just finished weaving.
Jian Ningxuan glanced sideways, “What is this?”
“A woven hat,” An Bu stretched the hat, square-shaped, with a pompom hanging on each side.
Jian Ningxuan: “…green?”
“What? Green? I clearly chose blue rope,” An Bu stared at the green hat on her hand for a while, then calmed down, “Forget it, since I’m the one wearing it, not you.”
Jian Ningxuan: Do you think I’ll be happy if you wear it?
“I’ll decorate it a bit.” An Bu used scraps of cloth to make flowers, branches, and butterflies, and attached them to the hat, making it look like a cluster of flowers and trees on a hill.
Jian Ningxuan: You’re still wearing a green hat*…
* being cheated on
“This is tonight’s live broadcast prop, isn’t it beautiful?” An Bu put on the hat, adorned with flowers and grass, and admired herself in the mirror.
Jian Ningxuan silently looked away, focusing on his breakfast.
An Bu didn’t mind, she put away the hat and said, “Mr. Jian, I plan to go out to work.”
Jian Ningxuan immediately became more vigilant at her words.
“Aren’t you doing a live broadcast? I think this job is pretty good.”
“I don’t like staying at home all the time,” An Bu said spiritedly, “Life is about movement, youth needs vitality, and beauty relies on health.”
“…Where do you want to work, and what kind of work?” Jian Ningxuan couldn’t argue with her and didn’t want to restrict her, but letting her go out made him worry about her safety.
An Bu was silent for a moment and said, “I want to be an end-of-life care worker.”
Jian Ningxuan looked at her in surprise, not understanding why she would choose this. End-of-life care workers mainly serve terminally ill elderly people and cancer patients with little time left, not only providing them with medical care but also counseling their mental health and assisting in caring for their bodies after death. It can be said that this is a very heavy job.
Before Jian Ningxuan could express his opinion, An Bu continued, “This job mainly targets terminally ill patients with less than six months to live. If I can’t handle it, I can change jobs anytime.”
In order to take care of her own body, An Bu was very knowledgeable in nutrition and medical care, although she couldn’t become a full-time doctor, being an end-of-life care worker was more than enough for her.
The reason for choosing this job mainly had two considerations. One was that as long as she found a way to extend the life of a dying person, she could gain corresponding vitality points. The other was that she could now see the dead aura, so taking care of terminally ill patients was the most suitable way to understand the changes in this dead aura.
Jian Ningxuan pondered for a moment and finally did not object. This job did not require frequent outings, and the safety was relatively high. Although it was tiring, with An Bu’s temperament and diligence, she could completely handle it.
An Bu organized her personal information, applied online for a semi-charitable end-of-life care worker, with a salary only one-third of that of a professional nurse, but with relatively flexible scheduling.
Country Z did not particularly value end-of-life care, this field, and most of the people willing to hire end-of-life care workers were quite wealthy. The salary for this profession was very high, but there were few full-time workers because the psychological burden was too heavy. Funeral workers only needed to handle the affairs of the deceased, while end-of-life care workers had to accompany the dying through the process from life to death.
An Bu estimated that she was the most suitable person in the world for this job, walking between yin and yang, indifferent to external things, and observing the lives of others.
Because of this matter, Jian Ningxuan’s mood was not very good. He only ate two bowls of rice for lunch and didn’t shine properly.
In the evening, when he saw An Bu, who had finished her makeup and was ready to start her live broadcast, his stern expression immediately cracked.
An Bu wore a hat adorned with flowers and grass on her head, dressed in a colorful polka-dot outfit, with lantern-shaped sleeves and pant legs, and a huge blue frog painted in the middle of her face. Her left eyebrow was drawn into a chubby caterpillar, making her look like a toxic ecosystem.
Mr. Jian’s vision suffered another inhuman blow.
An Bu logged into the live broadcast room, and many fans immediately followed.
The moment they saw her makeup, everyone felt the malice from nature.
“What the heck, what is this!!!”
“It’s too d*mn brutal. From now on, when watching the host’s live broadcast, I must wear sunglasses!”
“Has the host practiced to the point where she can become her own ecosystem?”
“Hahaha, I just love this kind of toxic host.”
An Bu: “Hello, everyone, I’m Old Corpse An, welcome to watch my live broadcast.”
“Eh? No name change this time. Are you planning to use this name in the future?”
“It seems that the host has found her own style and is determined to be a corpse who contributes to the dark cuisine industry.”
An Bu: “Today’s dish is a Chinese dessert with both color and fragrance.”
“I’m skeptical about ‘both color and fragrance’.”
“Same here.”
An Bu poured glutinous rice flour, cassava flour, wheat starch, sugar, milk, and water into a container, stirring evenly to form a paste. Then, she steamed it in a steamer for 20 minutes, stirring frequently during the process until it became translucent. After cooling, she refrigerated it for a while, then took it out, cut it into small pieces, shaped them into balls, and filled them with seven different colors of pre-prepared fillings (yellow, green, red, white, blue, orange, black) placed in the bowl.
“Wait a moment, Host, what filling did you use for these?”
An Bu pointed one by one, “Bitter melon juice mashed potatoes (yellow), kiwi peanut butter (green), lantern pepper spicy sauce (red), lychee walnut sauce (white), blue rose lemon juice sauce (blue), mustard caviar (orange), coffee sesame sauce (black).”
“What… what are these fillings?!!!”
“Host, are you really human?!”
“I can feel the sourness without even tasting it…”
“Did the traditional red bean paste filling get eaten by the Host???”
Ignoring them, An Bu continued with her actions. She elongated the glutinous rice balls with the fillings, pinched out tentacle-like protrusions on them, then used edible paint to create striped patterns on them. When finished, what appeared in the camera was a colorful caterpillar.
Then she started making the second, third, fourth… seven in total, each with different features, incredibly lifelike. If not carefully observed, it was almost impossible to tell that they were glutinous rice balls. An Bu even carved a fruit flower and two leaves, placing them in the middle of the caterpillars, creating a delightful scene.
“Host, please hold onto my knees, I’m bowing down 360 degrees.”
“Indeed ‘colorful, fragrant, and flavorful,’ it takes a lot of courage to watch or eat these.”
“I’m most afraid of caterpillars, Host, you’ve successfully triggered my childhood trauma!”
“I kind of want to try them.”
“Your taste is really heavy.”
An Bu: “The caterpillar glutinous rice balls are ready. This dessert is specially prepared for my boyfriend.”
Jian Ningxuan: “…”
“Poor boyfriend, turns out you’re the caterpillar in the Host’s heart.”
“Host’s way of expressing love is truly unique.”
“Hahaha, I wonder what the boyfriend’s mental trauma area is like right now.”
“Even if it’s made by the girlfriend, one must cry and kneel to eat it!”
“For his health, I’m taking him to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow, so there won’t be a livestream.”
“Oh no, Host, your boyfriend is brave and ‘stomachless’, he doesn’t need a check-up at all.”
“Yes, under the Host’s loving care, he can definitely live until the end of the world.”
“Please continue the livestream, I want to see more of the Host’s eye-catching performances!”
“Everyone, I’m going to enjoy the caterpillar glutinous rice balls with my boyfriend now, see you next time.”
An Bu cleanly exited the livestream room, carrying a tray and approaching Jian Ningxuan.
Jian Ningxuan looked at the plate of caterpillars in front of him, feeling a slight pang in his stomach.
An Bu smiled, “One caterpillar for one kiss, what do you think?”
Jian Ningxuan immediately picked up his chopsticks, picked up a caterpillar, and put it in his mouth, prepared for the worst, but to his surprise, the filling was smooth and delicious.
He looked at An Bu strangely.
An Bu explained, “The fillings in these glutinous rice balls are not the same as the ones I mentioned in the livestream. Each flavor is carefully tailored to your taste. How about it?” She didn’t want to torture her cat master anymore.
In fact, there was no need to ask, the radiance emanating from the cat already spoke volumes, and An Bu also enjoyed the sweet taste.
After eating a caterpillar, Jian Ningxuan silently looked at An Bu: One caterpillar for one kiss, as promised.
An Bu lazily leaned back on the sofa, saying, “I made delicious snacks for you, don’t I deserve a kiss from you?”
Jian Ningxuan’s eyes sparkled, and he leaned down to gently kiss her forehead.
I love you, Bu Bu.
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