I'd Like to Wok With You (Yizhan Romcom)

Chapter 4

"I have cancer, Zhanzhan, and it's terminal." She suddenly looked 10 years older, and tired.

Xiao Zhan is speechless. "But..how? When?"

"I found out last year. Breast cancer stage 3."

"Last year!! Did you tell Mingjue about this? Have you done anything about it?"

"No, I did not tell Mingjue about it. I don't want him to see me like this. You're the only one I trust right now, Zhanzhan. Please?" 

Xiao Zhan's head whirling around, tried to find some sense in the words that came out from Ziyi's mouth. Breast cancer stage 3?

"Is it curable? Have you done chemo?"

"It is curable, with operation and a lot of chemo. But I'm really scared right now. That's why I want you to go to France with me, I heard the treatment there is best." Ziyi grabbed Xiao Zhan in a desperate manner now. "Please, Zhanzhan," she looked at him in the eye, "Moreover, I also need you to take over my job as a Chef in Savoy."

Damn Ziyi. She really knew how to push his buttons.

"Ziyi, you literally gone for three years, left me at the altar, and now you wanted me to go with you? To France? And Savoy of all places?" He shook his head and sit on the chair, feeling exhausted.

"You know it's not fair, right, I used to love you, then you left me. Now I've moved on with my life, and you came back to throw me off balance again. Why me? Why not Mingjue? I'm just a small fish compared to him."

She's quiet now, not answering him. 

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The next day came, and the movie crew prepared their equipments on the studio, but he couldn't find Yibo. He was just about to ask, when he saw the man, sauntered into the apartment, looking tired, aloof and unapproachable. So different from the other night, when he looked so soft and happy and sexy. Now he doesn't even look at Xiao Zhan.

Xiao Zhan sighed, he needs to talk to him, preferably alone. But now, he had to do his job.

He knew Yibo loved noodles. He loved slurping it until the last morsel, and that's how he got an idea of how to make Yibo talked to him. He made preparation, before they start filming. 

They're both standing side by side behind the island, and Xiao Zhan told Yibo to mix the meat filling for the dumpling, while he prepared the skins. Yibo only nodded stifly and started to mix the meat. Xiao Zhan already prepared the dough for both the skin and the noodles, so he prepared the skin, and gave it to Yibo.

"Here, let me show you how to wrap the dumpling." Xiao Zhan purposedly enveloped Yibo's hand by showing him, intimately, how to wrap. Yibo stared at him incredulously, as if knowing why he did this thing, but at least he was distracted enough to not noticing the wrapper.

"Why is this red?"

Well, that went well for 5 seconds.

"I added red dragonfruit juice, you can also add spinach juice, or whatever fruit/veggies that you like to make it colorful like this."

He kept his mentor's voice going, and left Yibo to finish wrapping by himself while he prepared his surprise.

"Xiao Laoshi, I'm done, what should we do ne..." he turned around to find Xiao Zhan's already prepared the table, and there's a full meal of noodles and dumplings and broth. He looked at the meal closer, then looked at Xiao Zhan.

"Everything's pink."

Yibo looked at Xiao Zhan, still unreadable.

"You know I hate pink."