CHAPTER 430: CHAPTER 146 KESI

The Blue Star Empire is promoting gourmet cuisine, not just within the Blue Star Empire itself, but gradually expanding outward. However, their very friendly and peaceful plan to share gourmet food with all interstellar empires is not being well-received by most empires.

Those empires that are on good terms with the Blue Star Empire are fine with it. With the precedent set by the Iron-eating Beast Empire, they have started to willingly accept gourmet food, and it has indeed won them over.

But those empires that are hostile towards the Blue Star Empire, or remain neutral and don’t dare to establish diplomatic relations with it, treat gourmet food like a snake or a scorpion.

It’s not that the food isn’t tasty, nor that they dislike it. Accepting the food openly would mean establishing friendly relations with the Blue Star Empire, which would break the previous "peaceful" situation.

Therefore, no matter how much they love gourmet food or uncontrollably crave it, they can’t show even a hint of willingness to accept it. This leads many empires to continue their stubborn reliance on nutrition supplements.

Under the intense push from the Blue Star Empire, the Four Great Empires have gradually started to collapse. Those empires relying on the Four Great Empires are slowly breaking away and turning to more powerful entities for support.

The Blue Star Empire is one such powerful entity, and its grudges with the Four Great Empires are very public; they have reached a mortal, unending conflict.

Since they have broken away from the Four Great Empires, this is akin to standing against them. Their future development will naturally face opposition from the Four Great Empires. By allying with the Blue Star Empire, they might shift the focus to the Blue Star Empire, reducing damage to their own empires.

One of the neighboring small empires that Chen Yin visited was one that shifted from the Four Great Empires’ camp to the Blue Star Empire. This empire invited Chen Yin to a luncheon, not only to show the All-Star their new support, but also to express goodwill to Chen Yin.

This gesture of goodwill was accepted openly by Chen Yin, as evidenced by his attending in full regalia, but whether he accepted it in his heart... When Du Xixi and others looked at Chen Yin and saw him not mentioning the small empire at all, just meekly asking for food, they understood.

It’s just a display for the scene; there’s no need to take it too seriously.

Du Xixi chuckled lightly, shook Chen Yin’s big hand, and said gently, "Today we made tangyuan with sesame and peanut fillings. I’ll have the Mecha soldiers send you some."

"Send more peanut ones!" Chen Yin’s eyes lit up, as he eagerly longed for tangyuan. Just hearing the words "tangyuan," the sweet and hot taste leapt from his memory, making him salivate.

"Got it!" Du Xixi rolled her eyes at him helplessly but, still smiling, called 2569 to get the tangyuan. The Mecha soldiers outside seemed to have overheard the exchange between Chen Yin and Du Xixi, as the one who had delivered food many times to Chen Yin already came in on its own initiative.

"Your Majesty!" The Mecha soldier stood respectfully behind Du Xixi and gave Chen Yin a slight bow, "I’ll be delivering the tangyuan for you shortly."

Chen Yin was preoccupied with thoughts of tangyuan and didn’t care who was bringing them; he just nodded and distractedly told it, "Be quick about it!"

"Thank you for your trouble." Du Xixi turned and smiled at the Mecha soldier, then looked at the slightly goofy-smiling Chen Yin, and couldn’t help chuckling as she asked, "Do you know how to cook tangyuan?"

"Of course, I know!" Chen Yin immediately composed himself. Although he had no actual cooking experience, he had watched Du Xixi cook tangyuan numerous times on Blue Star and was often advised by her. How could he not know? "Put them in warm water, add a pinch of salt, pour water twice, and bring them to a boil three times!"

After saying that, Chen Yin tossed his hair smugly and hummed, "Your brother is indeed impressive!"

Du Xixi raised an eyebrow and watched as 2569 came over to hand the two bags of frozen tangyuan to the Mecha soldier, then teased Chen Yin, "Since you’re so impressive, you should cook them yourself later. Let’s not trouble anyone else."

If Ke Lian is a "kitchen killer" lacking both practical and theoretical skills, then Chen Yin is a "kitchen killer number two," only knowing theory and wholly unsuitable for actual cooking.

The two are truly equally matched in their incompetence.