Chapter 640: Sprained!
Kang Yue was dressed in a pretty skirt, taking steps down the staircase. Halfway through, she suddenly smelled something burning. How odd, she thought, wondering if something of hers was burning. She turned to look back and saw smoke billowing from the kitchen. Alarmed, she hurriedly ran down the stairs.
She almost twisted her ankle. In a swift movement, she found herself lying on the ground; the skirt had torn open, split up to the thigh because it was a long dress. She had twisted her foot badly since she had run too quickly due to the urgency, but her shoes couldn’t support her. It was hard to express the heartache in a few words.
All she could feel was intense pain in her foot. Looking back, her foot had swollen like a big bun. If only she had known, she wouldn’t have worn these shoes. Why sacrifice her feet for the sake of beauty? She feared she might not be able to walk in the future.
She felt really angry, and her tears flowed down slowly. Feeling incredibly pitiful, she thought if she really couldn’t walk in the future, wouldn’t she lose to that woman? She had long legs, which was her advantage—she couldn’t afford to lose that.
Meanwhile, Shen Dong was inside, struggling with how to cook the dish so poorly that it would be inedible, thus excusing him from eating it. Then he heard the noise outside and quickly threw down his spatula to go check. He found that Kang Yue was lying vulnerably on the ground with tears in her eyes, not crouching as he expected.
It was just her falling down straight away that scared him half to death. He hurried over to help her up. Kang Yue felt extremely embarrassed. Why did she have to fall here, especially when she was dressed so nicely? Now, she must look terrible, her hair a complete mess.
While thinking this, she felt even more aggrieved. She had planned to make a grand entrance as the protagonist. She cursed the kitchen for starting to smoke at such a time. What was going on? The smell was all burnt, and she ignored the pain in her foot as she spoke urgently, "Did you burn all my food? Smell that odor. See how thick that smoke is. Can’t you see it from the kitchen? Why haven’t you turned off the stove yet? Are you going to burn down the whole kitchen before you’re satisfied?" Kang Yue glared as she spoke, her tone full of incredulity.
Only then did Shen Dong realize he had forgotten to turn off the stove. He rushed back to turn it off. The kitchen still smelled strongly, so he turned on the exhaust fan. Looking at the charred vegetables as black as coal in the pot, he felt relieved that they were inedible since they were burnt. He had staged this scenario to prevent crushing his girlfriend’s confidence.
Little did he know that Kang Yue was so nervous that she had twisted her ankle while running down. Surely he couldn’t blame himself for that, Shen Dong thought silently and then went outside. Kang Yue’s tears were already flowing as she thought about the hard work she put into the food, which Shen Dong had burnt.