Chapter 1023 A Strange Night
All theycked now was Old Madam Chu''s prescription.
Ye Fan returned to the old Chu family home two dayster. Besides practicing Dragon God Body with
Yu Yun, he had another reason for returning to the ce. He wanted to ask Old Madam Chu about her
progress with the prescription.
"Hm? No one seems to be around..." Slight confusion arose inside Ye Fan after he yelled repeatedly for
someone and received no reply.
Were they out?
As suspicion and doubt gradually unfurled inside Ye Fan, he heard a series of hacking coughs erupting
from a distant corner of the house.
"That sounds like Yu Yun." Ye Fan stared in the direction where the coughs hade. Thick billows of
smoke wereing out from the kitchen.
"What has that youngdy gotten herself into?" Ye Fan''s face darkened instantly. He covered his nose
and mouth and charged into kitchen, only to have Yu Yun rush headfirst into his arms as she dashed
out of the kitchen.
"What the hell were you up to inside? Why is there so much smoke?"
Any ordinary man would have been visibly affected if he had a beautiful woman fall into his arms.
But Ye Fan wasn''t. He shoved Yu Yun aside instantly and yelled at her instead.
This wasn''t the first time they had had bodily contact. They had to keep their backs against the other
when they practiced Dragon God Body.
Ye Fan had grown used to the touch of Yu Yun''s skin.
At present, he was more concerned about the smoke billowing from the kitchen.
"Granny''s not around. I thought I could cook something for her. I can''t seem to get a fire started though.
All I get is smoke." Yu Yun seemed to realize that she had made a mess of things. She sounded a lot
more subdued than her usual self.
Ashes had ckened her fair cheeks.
She looked ridiculous.
Ye Fan couldn''t help himself and burst outughing.
"Why are youughing? This isn''t the time forthat. Hurry up and take a look inside. Granny''s going to
yell at me if she sees the mess in the kitchen." Ye Fan''s brazenughter at her misfortune had Yu Yun
fuming.
Yu Yun''s anxious urging left Ye Fan with no choice but to charge into the smoky kitchen. It didn''t take
him long to fix her problem.
The thick smoke that had been billowing out from underneath the stove had vanished. In its ce was
a fire.
"How did you get the fire going? I couldn''t get one started no matter what I tried,” asked Yu Yun with a
mix of surprise and confusion as she stared at Ye Fan with a face stained with ash and dust.
Ye Fan smirked. "Starting a fire is a difficult and precise art. You''re not smart enough.
Don''t bother trying."
"What did you just say?" Yu Yun flushed with anger.
The scoundrel had just called her an idiot again.
He had called her an idiot when she had first begun learning swordy and he had just done it again.
She was a well-respected figure with great influence. No one had spoken to her in such a disrespectful
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manner before.
Yet here was Ye Fan, mocking her and embarrassing her repeatedly, as if she had no dignity or pride to
uphold.
Yu Yun wished so badly to cut him down with her sword.
But they had spent sufficient time together for Ye Fan to know that Yu Yun would never do that. Her
raising her sword angrily at him was simply for show. She was just trying to preserve a veneer of her
pride. She wouldn''t hurt him.
"I think you should get your face cleaned before you try to hack me to pieces. Your face is the color of
burnt charcoal. You can help serve the dishes once you''re done cleaning yourself,” said Ye Fan with a
warm smile.
Yu Yun yelled angrily at him. “You asshole, why didn''t you tell me sooner?"
She charged out of the kitchen in a fit of anger and embarrassment.
Ye Fanughed and shook his head as he watched Yu Yun make a frantic escape. She seemed so silly
and endearing.
But he knew that Yu Yun wasn''t going to remain this way for long.
He could sense very clearly that Yu Yun''s power had been increasing rapidly during the course of their
training.
She was different. The Yin Dragon Body inside her gave her healing abilities that far surpassed Ye
Fan''s.
Her injuries would recover a lot sooner than Ye Fan''s too.
The moment when Yu Yun resumed her full strength would be the moment when her former cold and
formidable self reappeared. Ye Fan did not doubt that at all.
She would be a fearsome creature who inspired awe and terror.
She would no longer be the silly and endearing young woman she was now.
As Ye Fan sighed exasperatedly about what was toe, Yu Yun had changed into a fresh set of
clothes and appeared before him again.
He had whipped up a few dishes by then and told Yu Yun to serve the dishes.
"I tried them. They might not be as salty as you prefer your food to be. You can add a little salt to the
dishes if you want. It''s in the medicinal cab by the door. Look for the white bottle in the drawer on
the left. Remember, it''s the white bottle, not the red one. Don''t get them mixed up. Not the red one,
remember!” Ye Fan said repeatedly.
They had used up the salt that had been kept in the kitchen. But there was more in the medicinal
cab. That was why Ye Fan had told Yu Yun to look for more salt there.
The cab was filled to the brim. Many of the items inside were medicines and potions that the old
She kept everything well organized and even went to the extent of using differently colored bottles for
different types of medicines and potions.
It was almost impossible to mistake one thing for something else.
"Alright! I heard you just fine the first time!” yelled Yu Yun angrily.
It was just salt. Ye Fan didn''t have to keep reminding her what it looked like.
She wasn''t aplete idiot.
"That asshole. He thinks I can''t do anything right," muttered Yu Yun angrily to herself.
She ced the dishes on the table and couldn''t resist the temptation to try a few bites.
The food was delicious, but it didck some vor.
Yu Yun went into search for some salt.
"The cab next to the door...the drawer on the left...a bottle that''s white...or red? Red or white?
Which one is it?"
She had been busy fuming at Ye Fan and had forgotten the color of the bottle that she was meant to
get.
She knew how to solve her problem though.
She simply needed to have a little taste.
Yu Yun reached out for the bottle that was nearer her and snapped the lid open. Then, she poured its
contents onto her palm and licked it.
"Salty. This must be the one.”
Yu Yun was certain that she was right. She sprinkled the crystalline grains onto the dishes and mixed
them with the food.
It didn''t take long before Ye Fan was done cooking the rice.
Everything was ready, but Old Madam Chu was nowhere to be found.
Yu Yun couldn''t wait any longer but Ye Fan insisted on waiting for the olddy''s return.
After a few minutes, they spotted Old Madam Chu with a basket of herbs on her back. She seemed to
have rushed home in a hurry.
"You''re back, Fan. Go ahead and eat without me. I just got an idea for the prescription and I need to
work on it now," said the olddy before she rushed off into her room to start work on her prescription.
"Alright." Ye Fan nodded. He was about to start eating when he realized that Yu Yun was already
gobbling everything up hungrily.
"Hey, have a heart and leave me something to eat too, won''t you? You''re eating all the meat!" Ye Fan''s
face darkened instantly. He picked up his chopsticks hurriedly and began fighting Yu Yun for the rest of
the food.
He wasn''t sure why everything seemed to taste so much better tonight.
"Have my culinary skills improved?" Ye Fan wondered secretly.
After the meal, Ye Fan was suddenly struck by how warm the weather was. He took a shower and
changed into a fresh set of clothes. Then, he headed to Yu Yun''s room like he usually did to continue
their Dragon God Body training.
"This is strange. The weather''s awfully warm today. Yu Yun, could you open the windows?”
Ye Fan had taken his shirt off. Beads of sweat rolled down the sides of his forehead as he sat bare-
chested and blindfolded on the bed.
Yu Yun had not climbed onto the bed. She had just removed her dress.