Adorable Food Goddess

Chapter 151: Who Cares

Translator: Kats  Editor: Perriemix

Zhao Qixuan toppled the pieces on the chessboard and said brattily to Su Yi, “I quit.”

They were playing chess in the Zhao’s house compound near the Bai Ta Temple and it was clear that Su Yi was beating Qixuan by a mile.

He then turned to Little Jing who was playing with a bird by the window and remarked, “You’ve been here for days, haven’t you? You should go home, Little Jing.”

Qixuan and Susu seldom have free days together and here was Little Jing, playing the third wheel and destroying his romantic plans.

“I have no place to go. Leave me alone and just mind your own business,” Helian Jing retorted, teasing the bird with a hair clasp.

“How can I do that when you’re here every day?” Qixuan said as patiently as he could.

Su Yi couldn’t help but laugh at the sight of his lover reigning in his temper.

Qixuan glared at him and frowned. He couldn’t just kick Little Jing out of his home since it would look disgraceful and disloyal to turn away his friend. However, he wanted and needed his own personal space back. He has to make his friend see reason and get him out of here.

“Just tell me what the problem is, Little Jing. If you’re angry at your family and want to avoid them for a while, you are more than welcome to stay at my other house as long as you want to. If you’re angry at Heavenly Residence’s new shopkeeper for not agreeing to release Li Yao, I will talk to him for you. Little Jing… hiding like this won’t solve your problem. The only way you’ll overcome it is if you face it head on,” Zhao Qixuan said.

“It’s my problem, you can’t solve it,” Helian Jing threw him a supercilious look and continued to play with the bird.

Zhao Qixuan was on the verge of breaking down. “The player sees less clearly than the bystander. We can help you, you know? Two heads are better than one.”

“Don’t rope me into your scheme,” Su Yi said softly.

“I’m just making an analogy,” said Zhao exasperatedly.

With a muffled sigh, Helian Jing tossed the hairpins away. “I’m going out.”

He couldn’t tell them that Yaoyao was really a girl and what’s more, the now famous First Lady Ye. That was Yaoyao’s secret to tell, he couldn’t just go blurting it out to everyone.

So no, Zhao Qixuan couldn’t help him.

“He’s never going to leave,” Zhao Qixuan cried out.

Su Yi put the last piece in the chess box and stood up. “I’m going out, too.”

“Where are you going? I will go with you.”

“If you want Little Jing to leave, stay here,” Su told him firmly.

He walked to the edge of the garden pool where Little Jing was sitting and started, “You know that Qixuan was right. You’re not going to solve anything by hiding out in here.”

Helian Jing stayed silent.

Su Yi sighed and continued, “If you want to hide in here, though, that’s fine. I’m just a bit worried that with all of us cooped up in here, no one would be able to help Li Yao if Liu Li decides to look for him again.”

Helian Jing suddenly tensed. The last time Liu Li summoned Yaoyao to the palace, it was only Susu’s quick thinking to involve Elder Princess Yu De that got her out of there. Now, if she gets in trouble again, there would be no one to help her, especially now that she and Chunyu had a falling out.