Du Xiaoruo was assigned to work in the kitchen, which, theoretically, meant she was under the jurisdiction of head chef Ni An.
Ni An took a light nap at noon, and when he appeared in the kitchen in the afternoon, he looked refreshed. Seeing Du Xiaoruo already there, he gave her a big smile.
Good afternoon. Did you have a good rest?
Du Xiaoruo didn't want to exchange too many pleasantries, and when she heard Ni An's question, she only gave a vague "hmm".
"It's okay, relax."
Ni An noticed that Du Xiaoruo seemed a little uneasy and assumed that this was her first time cooking, which was why she was nervous.
He took an apron with the words "Beibei Restaurant" printed on it, put it on, and comforted her.
"It's okay if you don't know how to do things. I'm a professional. You just need to help out. You should be able to clean these things without any problems, right?"
Du Xiaoruo hummed in agreement again, unconsciously distancing herself from Ni An slightly.
Ni An took out the ingredients for the hot pot broth from the refrigerator, turned around and went back to the counter to clean them, and thoughtfully gave Du Xiaoruo some instructions.
"You can do what you can first. If you don't know how, you can ask me. Don't be shy."
Du Xiaoruo hesitated for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "I see some ingredients for making desserts. Are we going to prepare some desserts?"
In Ni An's mind, girls all love desserts, so he wasn't surprised that Du Xiaoruo asked this question.
"Yes, we need to prepare some small desserts and ice cream. These are difficult to make, but I will make them later. You can make something simple and don't put too much pressure on yourself."
In the live stream room,
[Mr. Ni, my main concern is that you'll be the one feeling the pressure later.]
[Mr. Ni, is it possible that Xiaoruo is a professional dessert maker?]
[Xiaoruo, quickly show your skills and shock Boss Ni.]
[I've already obediently sat down on my little stool, and I'm all excited to see Boss Ni get his face slapped in the face later.]
After giving these brief instructions, Ni An went to prepare the hot pot base herself.
Du Xiaoruo looked around, found an empty large worktable, took out the necessary dessert ingredients and arranged them, and then began to make ice cream.
Judging from the ingredients I bought, I should be making ice cream in strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate flavors.
Du Xiaoruo originally wanted to ask, but seeing that Ni An was quite busy, she did it according to her own idea. Anyway, judging from the raw materials, the result should be pretty much the same.
After finishing making the ice cream, Ni An still didn't notice what Du Xiaoruo was doing. Du Xiaoruo looked at the remaining ingredients, then moved closer to Ni An and whispered a question.
"Teacher Ni, is it okay to make a Swiss roll for dessert?"
"A Swiss roll would be nice," Ni An finally turned around, smiling as she asked, "Would you like a Swiss roll? I'll make one later..."
Ni An stopped mid-sentence, her smile gradually fading, evolving from a blank expression to one of surprise mixed with a hint of confusion—a remarkable evolution of her facial expressions.
In the live stream room,
[Hahaha, Teacher Ni, are you surprised? Unexpected, aren't you?]
Ni An's gaze fell on the kitchen counter. "Why did you take all these ingredients out?"
Du Xiaoruo pursed her lips. "I can make some desserts."
"Really? That's great!"
An unexpected surprise appeared on Ni An's bewildered face.
"Then please make something simple. It's okay if you're not a professional. The dessert is complimentary, so it doesn't have to be fancy. Oh, by the way, you don't know how to make ice cream, do you? Then you can make the cake, and I'll make the ice cream."
In the live stream room,
[Teacher Ni, is it possible that the ice cream is already made? And there are three flavors! Wow, I really want some!]
[Teacher Ni, but we think Xiaoruo is very professional.]
[Teacher Ni's audacious and inexplicably confident demeanor is truly captivating.]
[The way she looks when she's utterly shocked and questioning her existence will be even more captivating.]
Just as Ni An started simmering the hot pot seasoning, Du Xiaoruo also put the cupcakes into the oven to bake.
Ni An wiped the sweat from her forehead with a towel and gave Du Xiaoruo a thumbs up.
"The cupcakes look pretty good. Now it's my turn to make ice cream."
Du Xiaoruo was taken aback for a moment, then explained in a low voice, "I'm sorry, I also made ice cream. I... I didn't know you wanted to make it too."
"Um?"
Ni An didn't understand Du Xiaoruo's words; instead, she interpreted them as Du Xiaoruo wanting to learn how to make ice cream.
"Okay, if you want to learn, you can watch me make it. Making ice cream is actually simple, it's mainly about the recipe... the recipe..."
Ni An opened the door of the freezer and froze.
Three large tubs of ice cream were neatly arranged in the refrigerator, and they were perfect in terms of color, texture, and smell.
"Did you make these?" Joan asked, pointing to the three tubs of ice cream.
Du Xiaoruo nodded. She was a little annoyed. She should have asked Ni An first. She felt that she had acted a little presumptuously.
Ni An found a spoon, scooped up a spoonful of ice cream, and put it in her mouth.
He smacked his lips.
"Wow, wow, where did you learn to make desserts? The taste is so... good, and the texture is so silky smooth."
Du Xiaoruo, “…” She couldn’t tell him that she studied pastry at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, so what should she say?
She thought for a moment, then subtly changed the subject.
"If you want ice cream to have a silky smooth texture, the proper emulsification of the ingredients and the fat ratio are very important. At the same time, overrun, or aeration rate, can give ice cream a smoother and lighter texture."
Ni An blinked. "That sounds amazing. Could you explain in detail what 'Overrun' means?"
Du Xiaoruo explained, “The meaning of air content is like when we are churning ice cream. If the temperature is too low, the liquid will become viscous and cannot incorporate more air. Therefore, we need to control the churning temperature.”
"Hmm, how come I didn't think of this aspect before?"
Du Xiaoruo: "Yes, to make a perfect ice cream, the ratio of milk fat, the types of sugar, and many other aspects are very important."
In the live stream room,
Wow, that sounds so professional! I thought she was a beginner, but she's a pro!
[This is so professional! No wonder she can make such professional desserts so effortlessly; her basic skills are so solid.]
Honestly, before the show, Du Xiaoruo was the guest I least liked. I felt her family background and abilities weren't as good as the others, but so far she's my favorite—kind and unassuming.
I also found Du Xiaoruo and Ni An's conversation quite interesting. It felt like they were each talking about their own things, yet their conversations somehow blended together in a wonderfully unique way.
[Perhaps it's because they share similar interests and hobbies, so they can both respond to what the other is saying.]
Although Xiaoruo is already married, I still really want to ship them. I've even thought of a name for them: Ni Ruoan, what a great couple!
In the design department office of the Yase brand under the Jinse Group, Otto, Yu Pan, and Secretary Jin gathered together, watching the live broadcast of [Beibei Restaurant] with great interest.
Otto blinked his captivating eyes and pointed his delicate finger at Du Xiaoruo's face on the screen.
"Why would a woman who is beautiful, well-behaved, and capable fall for that bastard sitting in the office across the street?"
Secretary Kim smiled mysteriously.
"Hey, don't say that. Our CEO Qiao is a bit different from others. After all, it's not common to see a man with eyes that look exactly like a husky."
The most honest of the three was Yu Pan, who solemnly concluded,
"According to the law of conservation of energy, if a woman is too outstanding, she will have poor taste in men."
Who do you think is worse?
A cool, languid voice suddenly sounded from behind.
The three of them froze. Oh no! They were so engrossed in watching their boss's live stream that they hadn't even noticed their boss walking up behind them.
"A husky? Energy conservation?"
Qiao An slammed down three large bags at them.
"Still shipping couples? Ni Ruoan, are you kidding me? You're getting paid by me to ship my wife with someone else, how can you be so shameless? How can you be so shameless?"
After a barrage of beatings, the three of them squatted in front of the computer, heads in their hands. One of them posted a message in the live stream saying, "Qiao An and Du Xiaoruo are a loving family." Only then did Qiao An reluctantly let them go.
Qiao An has managed to appease them, but the three people's accounts are being attacked by netizens who insist that they are paid trolls hired by Qiao An.
"Meeting!"
After beating the person, Qiao An succinctly uttered two words and strode gracefully toward the conference room.
Last time, Joanne rejected the first drafts of two designers and proposed using pearl elements in the new autumn/winter products. The two designers worked tirelessly to come up with new pearl designs, and today they are re-proposing the revised designs.
Upon entering the conference room, the group of people who had been laughing and joking moments before all became serious.
They have been following Qiao An since the establishment of the Ya Se brand. Ya Se is not as strong as Ya Jin. At first, they did not think much of Qiao An because his appearance was so outstanding that people often overlooked his abilities.
But after getting to know him, I found that although Qiao An seemed unreliable on the surface, he was very serious about his work and had a very high aesthetic sense and market insight.
In the five years since Yaser was founded, although Joan's downward management skills have been terrible—communicating with employees is either sarcastic or involves direct physical punishment—...
Strangely, his employees were all extremely loyal, creating the myth of zero employee turnover in the five years since the brand was founded.
Although they are still a very small brand, and although the brand has no presence at all under the shadow of their older brother Ya Jin, everyone is willing to quietly accompany Qiao An and follow him step by step to make the brand bigger and stronger.
Although five years have passed, Arthur still shows no sign of growing bigger or stronger.
Strangely enough, Yaser's products are actually very popular, but Joan has always disagreed with expanding production scale, releasing only a small quantity each time to keep consumers hanging, giving people the feeling that they deliberately don't want to make the brand bigger.
The revised design proposal was quickly approved. As the meeting adjourned, Qiao An suddenly remembered something and gave Secretary Jin some instructions.
"Let's have Tiancheng Button Factory handle the processing of these pearl buttons."
Tiancheng Button Factory?
Secretary Jin went through the somewhat familiar factory name in her mind before realizing that it was the button factory owned by Du Xiaoruo's family.
Although Du Xiaoruo and Qiao An got married, Yase has her own auxiliary material processing factory, so she has never cooperated with Tiancheng.
It's unclear what part of Qiao An's illness suddenly struck, but without any warning, she was suddenly required to take care of her brother-in-law's business again.
However, he didn't pry into the boss's affairs. Although he had a lot of questions, he just nodded and wrote it down in his memo.
After Secretary Jin and the others left, only Joan remained in the large conference room.
He curled his fingers, his knuckles rhythmically tapping on the white slate tabletop.
In a fleeting moment of reflection, Qiao An took out her phone and opened the live stream of the children's variety show that Du Xiaoruo was participating in.
In the live stream, Du Xiaoruo and Ni An were busy in the kitchen. Ni An was making Chinese food, and Du Xiaoruo was making desserts, showing a harmonious and down-to-earth side of the couple.
Driven by Otto's "Ni Ruo An Hao" (Ni Ruo An Hao) pairing, the comments section gradually went astray.
Although I know Xiaoruo is already married, her relationship with Ni An is really sweet; they embody the idyllic life I've always imagined.
Visitor 6789843 replied, "If you're going to kowtow to everything, I'm afraid you won't live to see the day when life is peaceful and serene."
I could watch Xiaoruo and Ni'an cook all day.
Visitor 6789843 replied, "You might be too idle. I suggest you find a job."
I think they're a really good match.
Visitor 6789843 replied, "Did you see clearly? The eyes are the windows to the soul. Go back and clean your windows."
Secretary Kim, Otto, and the other two sat in front of the computer, whispering among themselves, "This visitor 6789843 is definitely one of the big ones in the conference room."
Yu Pan nodded seriously, very familiar with this sarcastic tone.
Secretary Kim: "Let's scold him."
Yu Pan: "Okay."
Otto said in a coquettish voice, "How could you treat President Qiao like this?" Then she rolled her eyes expressionlessly, "I'll start scolding him!"
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