When Alexander returned, he was carrying a tray of food instead of a maid or a butler who should be carrying it to their room.

He put the tray down on the coffee table.

Yan Xiaoran hid her depressed expression so that the mood around them doesn't change. She didn't want Alexander to be involved with her past or her problems.

She looked down at the food on the tray and raised her eyes to look at him in confusion, "What happened to the food in the dining table?"

The food that was on the tray was not the same dishes that were spread across the dining table earlier.

"I made the kitchen cook something that's light on the stomach. You're probably shocked at what happened downstairs and because I don't like how the food was exposed in front of the presence of that maid so, I made them prepare a new one." He explained.

"Won't that be too wasteful?" Yan Xiaoran felt pity for the food that was wasted just because Alexander thought that the maid earlier had turned them unsightly.

Alexander carefully sliced the steak on her plate and handed it to her, "No, I ordered them to give it to the dogs outside."

Yan Xiaoran: "..."

She looked at him and checked if he was joking but found that he was serious about this matter. He really let his pets eat such luxury food.

She sighed and started to chew the steak that Alexander had sliced into bite-size. The flavors of seasoned meat and spices exploded in her mouth, making her close her eyes in ecstasy.

She may not be a gourmet or a food critic but she knew she had to appreciate good and delicious food. Comparing this steak to the one in the Zhao mansion would insult the chef that cooked it and might even cry for being compared to the incompetent and lower chef inside the Zhao mansion.

Seeing her close her eyes in bliss, Alexander sat on the carpet below like a slave waiting upon his mistress.

"Is it that delicious?" He asked her after a while of watching her in bliss. He somehow felt jealous over what the food was making her feel.

"Yup!" Yan Xiaoran answered immediately as she licked the sauce on her lips. She raised her fork to stab another piece of meat and shoot it inside her mouth.

Alexander wore a lazy smile, "Did it energize you?"

"Uh… yes?"

Yan Xiaoran found his question strange but she still answered anyway.

He smile upon hearing her reply, "Then, will you have the energy to continue where we left off earlier?"

At this point, Yan Xiaoran was about to swallow the meat she just finished chewing when Alexander suddenly said this.

"Cough!…"

"Cough!…" Yan Xiaoran reached for the glass of water on the coffee table and drank it. She almost died from a small piece of meat that blocked her throat.

She glared at him after her struggle. "No."

Adding another piece of steak on top of her plate, Alexander wasn't giving her a way to escape, "Then, eat more. You'll need it later."

Her lips pressed in together in annoyance. This guy was becoming more shameless and bold each time they stayed together.

Was it possible that he would get even more brazen and perverted in the future? Yan Xiaoran felt an incoming headache.

"Alexander…" Yan Xiaoran started. She wanted to make things clear to him and tell him that they shouldn't take things too fast and early.

Of course, Alexander knew what she was thinking and held up his palm, "I know… I'll wait."

She smiled at him and patted his hair, "Good boy."

Yan Xiaoran went back to eating her steak when she realized that Alexander still hadn't tasted his.

She frowned, "You're not going to eat?"

"Hm."

"Why?"

Taking her other hand that wasn't holding the fork, he raised it to his lips and said, "I'm waiting for my dinner to finish eating first."

Yan Xiaoran pulled her hand away and was flustered at his sudden attack. She wished she could strangle him for being this bold and perverted in front of their food.

Wasn't their kiss enough for him? She looked at him strangely and said, "I think you should talk to the people in the kitchen below and ask them for ice cream. It'll help you with your internal heat."

This time, it was Alexander's turn to be speechless at her words.

He didn't expect her to make a comment about his internal heat that was lit by her. Even though he was a grown man and should have already dived into the world of adults where he should have several conquests and trophies on his belt, he remained to be pure and waited for the right woman to appear before him and extinguish the fire that he had kept on himself.

And she was that right woman but still, he didn't act upon his lust.

Earlier, Alexander was about to drove past his limits and his control over his body was nearly lost. The image of her moaning and screaming his name as he buried his shaft inside her and make her climax, again and again, kept on repeating in his mind.

Feeling triumphant with how his face changed like he had been slapped in the face, Yan Xiaoran continued to eat the last bite of her meat.

As she nodded her head in a good mood and licked her lips, Alexander's treacherous hands started to make its way towards her legs.

Yan Xiaoran continued to be oblivious of it but when their skin made contact with each other, she whipped her head and stared at him.

She narrowed her eyes at him, "What are you doing?"

His hand stopped on top of her thigh and was dangerously closing into the place between her legs.

"Isn't it natural for me to eat when I'm hungry?"