"Sun Nian, go and invite Young Master Bai over. He's been staying at Shifang Academy these past few days."

Shopkeeper Bai had a sudden inspiration and remembered Bai Heng. His master had told him before leaving that if there was anything he couldn't solve, he should go to Young Master Bai.

"Yes, shopkeeper."

Sun Nian quickly ran towards Shifang Academy.

Inside the main hall of Guangfulou Restaurant, Ye Shaoling sat down opposite Jiang Hua. The once empty table was now set with freshly prepared dishes.

Jiang Hua glanced at them without showing any emotion; they were all new dishes launched by Mingyue Tower.

"Young Master Ye, what do you mean by this?" Jiang Hua asked calmly.

"Miss Jiang, don't you understand what I mean?" Ye Shaoling asked with a light laugh.

"Forgive my ignorance, but I can't see what Young Master Ye means by setting up such a feast to entertain me?" After a pause, Jiang Hua continued, "But it's a real pity, I've already had dinner."

"Jiang Hua, stop pretending to be stupid and hand over your cooking recipe!" Ye Guicheng, standing behind Ye Shaoling, didn't have that kind of patience. Seeing Jiang Hua's stubbornness, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

"Shut up! How can you treat our guests like this!" Ye Shaoling snapped coldly.

"Master, I just couldn't stand her disrespect towards you!" Ye Guicheng's tone immediately softened.

Jiang Hua just watched the two of them quietly, one playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.

"Didn't Young Master Ye recently collaborate with Lin Shuyan? Are you not interested in the secret formula she has?" Jiang Hua interrupted the two of them and asked.

"Miss Jiang, what are you saying? Which restaurant owner doesn't want to be the only one in the business? Don't you think so?" Ye Shaoling ignored Ye Guicheng behind him after Jiang Hua took the initiative to speak.

“Miss Jiang, you and Miss Lin each have your own merits. Wouldn’t it be even better if you came together? You would be perfect.”

Jiang Hua looked at Ye Shaoling when he mentioned Lin Shuyan, his voice filled with gentleness. It seemed that yet another man had fallen for her, the leading lady.

"This will disappoint Young Master Ye. I don't get along with your Miss Lin, and besides, I've already partnered with Mingyue Tower," Jiang Hua said with a smile.

"If Young Master Ye's eyesight is not impaired, you would already know about these things."

"So what you mean is?" Ye Shaoling's previously smiling face suddenly turned cold.

"Jiang Hua, are you trying to refuse a toast only to suffer the consequences?"

As soon as Ye Shaoling finished speaking, a dozen or so thugs dressed in night clothes appeared in the hall and surrounded them.

"Young Master Ye, are you already losing your composure so quickly?" Jiang Hua asked with a smile, her expression unchanged, as she pulled out a dagger from her spatial storage.

"What do you want in exchange for handing over the secret formula?" Ye Shaoling asked in a cold voice.

"Secret recipe? What secret recipe? Didn't you already cook the dishes?" Jiang Hua asked, looking at the plates of food on the table.

"The taste is clearly different, you must have some secret recipe in it!" Ye Guicheng retorted.

"The taste is different? Didn't your Miss Lin already tell you how to make each dish and what ingredients to use?" Jiang Hua exclaimed in surprise.

"What? You still haven't been able to make a dish that tastes exactly the same?"

"If that's the case, why don't you reflect on whether your cook is incompetent or whether your Miss Lin is holding back her skills?"

“Impossible, Miss Lin would never do such a thing.” Ye Guicheng immediately objected to her criticizing Lin Shuyan.

"It's getting late, Young Master Ye, I should head back," Jiang Hua said, standing up.

"I told you, if you don't listen to reason and instead have to suffer the consequences, then don't blame me for being impolite." Ye Shaoling narrowed his eyes and met Jiang Hua's ambiguous smile as he spoke.

Just now, he almost suspected Yan Yan. These past few days, Yan Yan has been researching the dishes of Mingyue Tower for him, and she was so tired that she fainted. How could she possibly be hiding anything!

Ye Shaoling thought about it and looked at Jiang Hua with increasing dissatisfaction: "Tie her up and use some methods on her. I don't believe she won't say anything."

After saying that, Ye Shaoling went up to the private room on the second floor, leaving Jiang Hua with a dashing back view.

"Jiang Hua, I've put up with you for so long. I've let you be arrogant, but in the end, you still fell into my hands." Ye Guicheng said lewdly, rubbing his hands together.

If it weren't for him, he would have been scolded like a grandson by his employer. Ye Guicheng was a vengeful person, and he started to hate Jiang Hua ever since he failed to get the brine recipe from her.

"Get her!" Ye Guicheng ordered, and the black-clad thugs all moved closer to Jiang Hua, their broadswords gleaming in the candlelight of the hall.

With a crash, Jiang Hua stood up and overturned the table, sending all the dishes on it sliding to the floor.

The dagger hidden in her sleeve was also revealed. Jiang Hua showed no mercy to the approaching people, quickly stepped forward, and took them by surprise, slit the throats of two black-clad thugs.

The remaining black-clad thugs didn't even have time to react before they were gone.

He immediately raised his knife and slashed at Jiang Hua... Ye Guicheng watched as Jiang Hua's nimble figure weaved through the black-clad thugs, and gradually, all the black-clad thugs on his side fell down one by one.

"You, you, you put the knife down right now!" Ye Guicheng watched helplessly as Jiang Hua held a blood-stained dagger to his neck.

What happened?

Why didn't anyone tell him that this woman could take on ten men at once?

“Of course we should find Ye Shaoling,” Jiang Hua whispered in his ear.

Upon hearing that Jiang Hua wanted to find her boss, Ye Guicheng, her heart, which was about to jump out of her chest, immediately calmed down. Jiang Hua could handle these thugs, but her boss might not be able to defeat them.

"Master, Jiang Hua wants to see you!" Ye Guicheng said, knocking on the door of the private room on the second floor.

"Come in." Ye Shaoling's voice drew closer.

Jiang Hua kicked the door open and shoved Ye Guicheng, who was standing next to her, inside. Ye Shaoling looked at Ye Guicheng, who had suddenly appeared, without even glancing at him, and kicked him away without any mercy.

Dizzy and disoriented, Ye Guicheng crashed into a pillar in the private room, coughed up a mouthful of blood, and passed out.

"Miss Jiang, I underestimated you." Ye Shaoling said meaningfully, looking at the blood-dripping dagger in Jiang Hua's hand.

Before he could say another word, Jiang Hua had already raised the dagger in her hand and stabbed at him.

Ye Shaoling was no pushover either. At a young age, he had become the head of the Ye family's business, and his martial prowess was not to be underestimated.

He dodged quickly with a swift movement, and the folding fan he usually carried became his handy weapon.

The two exchanged blows, and Jiang Hua realized that Ye Shaoling was simply toying with her.