A Matter of Wife and Love novel Chapter 283

Leo reached out and took the bowl.

What happened? Amelie looked at him in surprise. Is he going to throw the soup away? Even if he dislikes me, there’s no need to show it to my face, is there?

She was lost in thought, but next, she saw him taking the bowl and lowering his head to drink the soup.

H-He’s actually drinking the soup I made?

To Amelie, this was a rare occurrence. It was too strange.

“It’s delicious.”

It wasn’t until Giada came over that Amelie came back to her senses. Seeing Giada praising her and smiling at her, she also smiled. “You can have more if you like.”

“Oh, no, I need to lose weight,” Giada refused, twisting her slender waist. All this while, her eyes were hooked on Leo, who was drinking the soup not far away.

Leo had not noticed Giada’s gaze. All his attention was focused on the soup in front of him.

The milky white fish soup was silky smooth and refreshing, with a hint of sweetness in the tenderness, and not all fishy.

Without oil, salt, or seasonings, it not only didn’t affect the taste but also retained the original and authentic fragrance.

Didn’t know Amelie’s cooking skills is this good.

“You are a talented person.” Fiona walked over and hugged Amelie’s shoulder. “Unlike me, I can only sing a few songs and act in a TV drama. I can’t do anything else.”

Her admiration for Amelie in her beautiful eyes came from the heart.

Amelie smiled bashfully. “Actually, I was like you before. My father highly pampered me, and I couldn’t even fry an egg, let alone make fish soup. If it weren’t for—”

She stopped herself in mid-sentence.

Fiona looked at her strangely, not knowing why she had stopped talking.

Meanwhile, Leo slowly pursed his lips and put his attention on the ladies. After listening to their chit-chat, he could guess that Amelie learned cooking after marrying into the Alston Family.

Initially, he detested her, so he never paid attention to her preferences and talents. In his memory, she spent most of her time in the kitchen.

At that time, naturally, he thought she was good at cooking.

Which manipulative woman never considered getting a man’s heart by learning cooking?

“You must have had a hard time learning how to cook.” Although Amelie didn’t explain further, Fiona saw through it.

Amelie smiled. As a girl in her early twenties marrying into her husband’s family, unable to even cook a meal, her first stage of suffering undoubtedly came from her mother-in-law Melissa’s contempt.

Melissa treated this as Amelie’s crime. She nagged Amelie countless times every day, accusing her of aspiring to climb the social ladder yet having no intention to learn how to serve the rich.

In Melissa’s eyes, Amelie’s marrying into the Alston Family was her trying to curry favor with the rich. Hence, Amelie was not qualified to enjoy herself and could only serve them.

Rather than saying Leo got himself a wife, it was more like the Alston Family got themselves an unpaid servant, me.

In order to avoid Melissa’s nagging and attract Leo’s attention, she started to work hard at learning cooking and hoped to use her culinary skills to keep her husband’s interest, but no matter how hard she tried, the early stages were always painful.

There were many difficulties, and every time she cooked, she burned herself in various places, her hands, her body, and even her face.

This kind of training continued for a whole year before it started getting a little easier.

Amelie was excellent at other things but really bad at cooking.

That was also the reason why it took her so long to be able to cook a decent meal.

Looking back, nothing was worth mentioning. It was all in the past.

“How hard could it be? Cooking for the person you love is the best feeling,” Giada cut in.

She was talking to Amelie and Fiona, but her eyes were still on Leo.