Names mentioned in this chapter :
-苏芮 (sù ruì) – Su Rui, our female protagonist
-顾煜城 (gù yù chéng)- Gu Yu Cheng, the male lead
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Actually, there was another reason why Su Rui chose to spend Gu Yu Cheng’s birthday here.The restaurants here are private and independent. They also offer a kitchen to cook your own meals.
With Su Rui’s cooking ability of barely knowing how to cook scrambled eggs with tomato and stir-fried shredded potatoes with green peppers now, it’s impossible to make it by herself. However, it is possible to make a DIY birthday cake.
“Birthday cake?” Gu Yu Cheng asked as he looked at the box that was brought by the waiter.
“Sort of, but it is still a half-finished product.” Su Rui batted her eyelashes and said.
When Su Rui saw that Gu Yu Cheng was about to open it, Su Rui swiftly moved to close the box.
“Wait, it’s not done yet.”
“I’ll show you when it’s done.”“Just wait here for a moment for me, it will be quick.” Su Rui said with a smile. She carried the box of half-finished product to the kitchen in the courtyard reserved for customers.
At the same time, it also provided some personal time to Gu Yu Cheng.
After all, it was the dignified chairman of the Gu Company’s birthday, even if Gu Yu Cheng didn’t have the habit of celebrating birthdays, he would have received many wishes today, right?
As for the cake, it was really like what she had said, a half-finished product.
Previously, she read an online strategy stating that it would be better to personally make a birthday cake for one’s boyfriend’s birthday.
Su Rui felt that this idea was not bad.
However, Su Rui really doesn’t know how to make cake layers or anything like that, and the condition here doesn’t allow her to do so.
Thus, when ordering the cake in advance, Su Rui also specially made a note that she would like the cake layers to be made, whipped cream, and the required tools.
There were probably a lot of people who came here for DIY, so the waiter was considerate enough to bring over the cake layers, where whipped cream had already been spread on the first layer.
So all she needed to do was just decorate the cake in the way she wanted it.
When she returned home, she would definitely give this place a positive review.
Su Rui laughed and muttered inwardly.
As for what kind of style she was going to decorate, this had already been thought out beforehand by Su Rui when she ordered the cake for Gu Yu Cheng.
The piped flowers surrounding the cake was based on something that Su Rui had found online. It requires simple techniques, but it also looks more fancy. As for the middle of the cake, it was a chibi portrait of Gu Yu Cheng that Su Rui had designed.
She took out the photo of the drawing that she drew ahead of time from her phone and glanced at Gu Yu Cheng who was answering the phone over there. Su Rui smiled and began to work on the cake according to the style in the photo.
Dark chocolate was used for the outlining of the portraits, and assorted jams that had been prepared beforehand were used for the filling in the centre.
For this step, since there is nothing particularly cross-disciplinary in terms of technical requirements, it’s not really too difficult as long as her hands are steady enough.
Su Rui was drawing seriously and did not notice that the person, she thought would be on the phone for a long time, had directly switched off his personal mobile phone, silenced his work phone and walked straight into the side of the kitchen.
The kitchen was a semi-open concept, and across the kitchen island, he saw the girl with a serious expression in front of him, Gu Yu Cheng’s heart was a little moved.
In the next second, Gu Yu Cheng had already taken out his phone and photographed the scene in front of him.
However, Chairman Gu forgot to turn off the sound of capturing the photo.
“Kacha——”
When Su Rui heard that sound, she raised her head at once and saw Gu Yu Cheng in front of her.
As they stared at each other, they were both startled as if something had crossed their minds.
“Are you done with what you were busy with?” Su Rui smiled towards Gu Yu Cheng and asked.
A trace of embarrassment flashed in Gu Yu Cheng’s eyes when he was caught in the act of secretly taking the photo of her, but he quickly regained his composure and nodded towards Su Rui.
“En.”
“Is there anything I can help you with?” Gu Yu Cheng asked.
Su Rui subconsciously wanted to refuse, but as she thought about it, she said straightforwardly.”
“What is it?”
“Can you collect the cutlery from the table for me, please?”
“Sure.”
Gu Yu Cheng responded and turned around to collect the plates from the dining table over there.
On this side, while Gu Yu Cheng went to clean up the plates, Su Rui very quickly put the last bit of finishing touches on the cake and closed the lid.
Facing the gaze cast by Gu Yu Cheng, Su Rui blinked and said, “Keep it mysterious.”
“Just leave these by the sink, I’ll wash them.” Su Rui said.
“No, I’ll do it.” Gu Yu Cheng responded, and he already walked directly to the sink with his plate and cup.
When Su Rui heard Gu Yu Cheng said that, she also did not act pretentiously and very consciously left the space at the kitchen sink to Gu Yu Cheng.
“Hold on.”
“Yes?” Gu Yu Cheng stopped and looked towards Su Rui.
“Nothing. You can continue with what you are doing.”
Looking at how Gu Yu Cheng was casually pulling up the shirt’s cuff on his arm, Su Rui was quite worried that it would be drenched by the water later.
So without thinking, Su Rui immediately walked over and stood beside Gu Yu Cheng, unbuttoned his shirt’s cuffs and then very carefully folded Gu Yu Cheng’s sleeves and folded them twice.
“Done.”
Su Rui nodded her head in satisfaction as she saw her own “masterpiece.”
When she looked up, she found that at this moment, Gu Yu Cheng had a somewhat very intense gaze on her.
Su Rui blushed a little.
“I’ll go set the table and later this side should be ready to serve.”
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End of Chapter 35 Part 1/2.
