The Side Character Who Wins by Doing Nothing

Sword Bu Gui suspected he had misheard.

With a wave of his hand, he opened the door. Sword Bu Gui cleaned out his ears and stared intently at Gu Jue, who stood in the doorway. ”Say that again. Your master doesn’t think he heard you clearly.”

Gu Jue fell silent for a moment but repeated himself anyway. ”Master, I was asking... can you cook?”

Sword Bu Gui: ”...”

’Oh, so I didn’t mishear. My disciple has just lost his mind.’

Sword Bu Gui remained silent, staring at Gu Jue with an indescribable expression.

Gu Jue finally couldn’t take it anymore. ”...Master, just pretend I never asked. Your disciple will take his leave.”

Gu Jue really did think there was something wrong with his brain.

But he hadn’t actually been bragging when he first answered Lu Sangjiu. In his view, as long as you could cook the food through, it counted as knowing how to cook, regardless of whether it tasted good or not.

So he had answered with confidence, until... Lu Sangjiu asked him to teach her.

If this had happened in the past, he probably would have calmly explained that while he could cook, his food wasn’t tasty, so he wasn’t fit to teach.

But just now, for some reason, as if possessed, he hadn’t explained. Instead, like his brain had broken, he had run off to ask his master.

Now that he had come to his senses, Gu Jue also felt he had been ridiculous, and his face flushed slightly.

Just as he was about to leave, Sword Bu Gui suddenly called out to him. ”Wait. It’s just cooking. Of course your master knows how. Why are you asking about this?”

Gu Jue instantly breathed a sigh of relief. Although he thought his failure to explain was stupid, he had already left Lu Sangjiu waiting. He couldn’t just turn around and tell her he didn’t know how after all.

So if his master didn’t know how either, he would have had to run out, buy some books, learn, and then inform Lu Sangjiu. He was afraid she would get impatient waiting.

It was for the best that his master knew how. He bowed to Sword Bu Gui. ”Master, there are a few dishes I hope you can teach me how to make.”

Sword Bu Gui cleaned his ears out again and asked in disbelief, ”Are you... sure you want to learn cooking from me, and not sword practice?”

Gu Jue said helplessly, ”...Please, Master, teach me.”

Sword Bu Gui was simply too curious. ”So, why do you want to learn how to cook?”

This time, however, Gu Jue was silent. He didn’t want to lie to his master, but he also... didn’t want to tell the truth.

Sword Bu Gui knew Gu Jue too well. One look at him and it was clear he didn’t want to talk, so he didn’t press the issue. He just waved his hand. ”Fine, if you don’t want to say, then don’t.”

He then took out a blank Jade Scroll from his storage ring, pressed it to his forehead, and recorded the recipes for the dishes Gu Jue had asked about. He handed it to Gu Jue. ”Just follow what’s written on here. The steps are very detailed.”

A hint of joy appeared in Gu Jue’s eyes as he accepted the Jade Scroll with both hands. ”Thank you, Master.”

After bidding farewell to Sword Bu Gui, Gu Jue immediately contacted Lu Sangjiu. ”Are you still at the inn? I’ve recorded the recipes for those dishes onto a Jade Scroll. Should I bring it to you now?”

Lu Sangjiu had been waiting for a while and was surprised to hear Gu Jue offer to deliver it. She was so startled she refused repeatedly.

”Don’t go to all that trouble! Just send them to me with a Communication Talisman.”

”I’m not at the inn right now. Um... it’s a bit inconvenient.”

Right now, Lu Sangjiu couldn’t let anyone enter this residence.

Because she had used Demonic Qi last night, the remnants of it had not yet completely dissipated.

The Barrier currently isolated it from the outside world, but if someone were to step inside the Barrier, they would definitely be able to sense it.

So, just in case, Lu Sangjiu didn’t dare tell anyone her location, giving Gu Jue only a vague reply.

Gu Jue had already walked out the main gate. Hearing her words, he stopped in his tracks and said with some vexation, ”Sorry, that was presumptuous of me.”

”Then I’ll do as you say and send it via Communication Talisman.”

Lu Sangjiu finally let out a sigh of relief and said gratefully, ”Thank you so much! You’re such a good person, Mr. Gu!”

Lu Sangjiu had absentmindedly called him ”Mr. Gu” again. She didn’t notice, but Gu Jue did. After a moment’s hesitation, however, he decided not to correct her.

’She just isn’t used to calling me by my name yet. She’ll get used to it eventually.’

Soon, Lu Sangjiu received the recipes from Gu Jue and eagerly headed to the kitchen with her ingredients.

In fact, Cultivators had certain advantages when it came to cooking. For example, controlling the fire, chopping vegetables, and measuring how much of various ingredients to add could all be controlled with strict precision, leaving almost no room for error.

Thus, Lu Sangjiu was full of confidence, certain that she would be able to make a delicious meal.

Meanwhile, Gu Jue put away his Communication Talisman and was about to turn back when he suddenly heard someone call out to him.

”Mr. Gu, wait a moment!”

Gu Jue turned around, puzzled, only to find that the person who had called him was Li Yijiang.

The two of them had briefly teamed up in the Secret Realm, but because of what happened later, he had no favorable impression of Li Yijiang.

Not to mention, he had seen Li Yijiang giving Lu Sangjiu a hard time at the restaurant yesterday.

It was just that he hadn’t wanted to drag Lu Sangjiu into it in front of the Gold and Silver Gate elder and the master-disciple pair of Bai Heng. Plus, Lu Sangjiu hadn’t been at a disadvantage at the time, so he only drew his sword to intervene when Yi Ze made a move.

So now, seeing Li Yijiang again, Gu Jue naturally didn’t have a pleasant expression. He asked coldly, ”What is it?”

Li Yijiang didn’t mind his attitude. He just shoved a Memory Stone into Gu Jue’s hand and chuckled. ”You’ll understand after you watch it, Mr. Gu.”

Gu Jue was suspicious, but seeing nothing wrong with the Memory Stone, he hesitated for a moment before infusing his spiritual power into it to view its contents.

The moment he saw the contents, Gu Jue froze.

Because the image showed a night scene of Lu Sangjiu walking alongside a man in red.

The man in red was handsome, with an extraordinary air about him.

The two walked side-by-side. They didn’t exchange many words, but they looked exceptionally harmonious and comfortable together.

He had never seen Lu Sangjiu looking so completely relaxed.

He was in a daze for a moment. By the time he came to his senses, the scene had shifted to the front of a mansion.

They walked inside together, and then the image ended completely.

Xie Ningyuan’s mask could change his appearance. In the Secret Realm, Gu Jue had seen a different face, so he didn’t recognize him now.

He didn’t know who that man was, but he could tell their relationship was unusual.

This made him subconsciously tighten his grip on the Memory Stone. Li Yijiang noticed the change in his expression and knew he had finished watching.

”Didn’t expect that, did you, Mr. Gu? That Lu Sangjiu is just a fickle, promiscuous woman!”

”Last night, right after you escorted her back to the inn, she turned around and had a secret rendezvous with another man! They even went back to that man’s mansion together. I staked it out all night, and she still hasn’t come out!”

Li Yijiang was deliberately trying to stir up trouble, so naturally, he wouldn’t mention that Xie Ningyuan had left long ago.

He intentionally let Gu Jue misunderstand that the two of them, a lone man and woman, had spent the night together.

After adding these embellishments, Li Yijiang deliberately adopted a sympathetic tone. ”So you see, Mr. Gu, you’ve really been deceived by her!”

”I just couldn’t bear to see you kept in the dark, which is why I’m telling you all this.”

”If you’re still not convinced, I know where that mansion is. I can take you there to catch them in the act!”

Li Yijiang spoke with animated excitement. Seeing Gu Jue’s expression grow darker and darker, he gloated, thinking his scheme to sow discord had succeeded.

But he never expected that in the next moment, Gu Jue would draw his sword and press it to his throat!