Apocalypse Foodie System: Watch Her Cook!-Chapter 21 - 17: Hidden Troubles

Sun Jian was originally very afraid of Tang Yiyi, fearing that if he accidentally made her angry, he would end up like Wang Jian. But upon hearing Tang Yiyi misunderstand his relationship with Wang Jian, he couldn’t keep calm anymore, forgetting his fear of Tang Yiyi, he directly shouted at her. After shouting, his reasoning returned, his flushed face instantly turned pale, his gaze flickered, not daring to look at Tang Yiyi’s expression.

Tang Yiyi saw him gripping the steering wheel tightly, with such strength that his knuckles were turning white, and couldn’t help but despise him again. However, amidst the disdain, she unknowingly felt a bit of sympathy for him. This person is tall, with a heroic appearance, yet how did he develop such a cowardly temperament!

For someone like him, she couldn’t bother to threaten him anymore, dismissively saying, "If it’s not true, then it’s not true. Why are you getting so worked up? The security in Safe City has always been good, so since you’re not involved with him in that way, why do you let him occupy your house without reporting it? That’s too cowardly, isn’t it?"

Sun Jian stared straight ahead, his eyes suddenly feeling sore at these words. He always knew he was very cowardly, otherwise, he wouldn’t have ended up like this. But what could he do? Although he was a superpower user, ever since he was seriously injured, his body was nearly useless; using any superpower caused excruciating pain. He didn’t dare tell anyone about it, lest he got bullied even more!

Wang Jian is domineering and hated, and not a good person with countless flaws. While living in his house, Wang Jian not only frequently spent his credit points but also often beat him. However, precisely because Wang Jian is so disliked, when he’s around, others don’t come to bother him. So despite displeasures of Wang Jian in his heart, he still let him stay in the house.

These things he dared not tell Tang Yiyi, intuitively feeling she wouldn’t like hearing his story, and would only despise him more if she knew. Tang Yiyi was curious about how he developed such a cowardly nature, and he was curious too, how Tang Yiyi, who seemed young and fair-skinned, could grow so ruthless, killing without even a furrowed brow! If he had her boldness, would those things not have happened?

He didn’t know the answer and didn’t dare to think about it; those past events were like nightmares to him, he couldn’t even bear to reminisce about them, let alone imagine different possibilities. Besides, Tang Yiyi’s resolute nature was something he probably could never possess, so what was the point in thinking about it?

Sun Jian forced himself not to think, yet past scenes uncontrollably emerged in his mind, and unknowingly, his eyes turned red. Tang Yiyi couldn’t guess he thought so much, being quite surprised seeing his eyes reddening. She had merely asked a few questions, yet this person’s eyes turned red—was his capacity for psychological resilience really this weak?

For a moment, she didn’t know what to do. She thought of saying something, but feared it might provoke Sun Jian into tears. But as she stayed silent, Sun Jian suddenly spoke: "I’ve always been this way, can’t help it, you can despise me all you want." He thought to himself that plenty of people despise him anyway, Tang Yiyi barely knew him, as long as she didn’t want him dead, he didn’t care if she despised him or not.

His tone was very calm, yet Tang Yiyi inexplicably heard some desperation and desolation in it. She glanced at Sun Jian, unable to understand why someone so young would feel so desperate? She had been framed as a murderer, nearly sent to Evil Island to become neighbors with ferocious sea beasts, then someone tried setting her up with the zombie virus almost costing her life, yet she hadn’t despaired—what was there for him to despair over?

As long as one’s alive, isn’t there hope? Thinking about this, she despised Sun Jian even more, feeling he was truly wallowing in self-pity! But thinking of her plan, she suppressed her inner anger, saying: "Earlier you said Wang Jian has been living in your house and has no family, right?"

Although Sun Jian was cowardly, he was not dumb. Hearing Tang Yiyi’s words, he felt her questions weren’t pure, as if she was scheming something. Mitigating his sadness, he cautiously asked: "What are you asking this for?"

Tang Yiyi said nothing, instead considering the possibility of infiltrating Safe City and living in Sun Jian’s house. She had no idea what the situation was like in Songyun City now; when she fled, the superpower guards were dealing with that mutated worm, whether it was alive or dead was unclear, but either way, Songyun City was temporarily off-limits, and she didn’t plan to return. Sun Jian’s garbage truck had Qinghe City’s sign, meaning his home was in Qinghe City. If she needed a place, his home suited well.

Since Wang Jian had been living in Sun Jian’s house and had no family, then if he died, no one would probably notice. Sun Jian was weak-willed, as long as she was tough enough, she needn’t fear him being uncooperative. Of course, all of this depended on Sun Jian not having lied to her!

Tang Yiyi asked him several more questions, interspersed with repeating the same ones over and over, each answer being consistent, it seemed Sun Jian hadn’t lied to her. So after testing him several times, she said: "I’ll temporarily stay at your place, if you don’t want to die, don’t play any tricks, otherwise don’t blame me for being ruthless! You saw Wang Jian’s fate, if you don’t want to end up like him, just listen to me, understand?"

Sun Jian nodded hurriedly, yet his emotions were extremely complex. Since Wang Jian’s death, he had always feared Tang Yiyi would kill him next, hence being very careful. But after some Q&A with Tang Yiyi, he couldn’t help but feel this girl was fierce but didn’t seem like someone who would kill indiscriminately, so he couldn’t help but hope, would she let him go after disembarking? Simultaneously, he couldn’t help but think, with Wang Jian dead, those people would certainly come looking for trouble again, what would he do then?

Therefore, hearing Tang Yiyi say she would temporarily stay at his place, after initial fear, he actually felt relieved! He even couldn’t help but think with some schadenfreude that Tang Yiyi seemed quite hard to deal with, if those people came, meeting her would surely be bad for them!

As for Tang Yiyi’s looks, he didn’t pay much attention. He had long seen that Tang Yiyi, though a woman, was far more formidable than him, so he didn’t dare to have any hopes or improper thoughts. After all, even if he lacked self-awareness, he had the precedent of Wang Jian as a cautionary tale!

Tang Yiyi hadn’t expected Sun Jian would agree so readily, making her suspect Sun Jian—was he really as timid and weak as he appeared?