Chapter 74 - The Empress Is Going to Work Out

“It went up! How did it go up again?!”

Two days later, Long Yue stood on the electronic scale, staring down in disbelief at the numbers on the display.

A few days ago when she weighed herself, the scale showed 68KG. But after a few days of dieting, her weight, instead of going down, had actually gone up by 0.1KG!!

This was truly difficult for her to accept.

In order to lose weight, these past few days she had already cut down from her original four daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a late-night snack) to three. Every meal was a 'fat-loss meal,' and she had even deliberately eaten one large bowl less.

On top of that, every morning before her stream, she would follow online fat-burning videos and work out for over half an hour.

After all this for the past few days, she should have at least lost a kilogram or two, but instead, her weight had gone up!

“Empress, losing weight doesn't show results that quickly. It takes at least ten days to half a month,” Lin Fan said guiltily.

The reason the Empress's weight hadn't changed at all... he felt it might have a tiny little something to do with him…

Although the 'fat-loss meals' he had prepared for her these past few days were genuinely proper ones, he was worried she would faint from hunger like last time. So, in addition to some vegetable salad, he had added some extra rich meat and fish dishes to every meal. Every few days, he would make a meal of red-braised pork to supplement her nutrition...

Long Yue glared irritably at Lin Fan, her pretty face full of resentment.

“This is all your fault, Demon Sovereign!”

“H-How is it my fault again?”

Lin Fan asked, looking innocent on the surface, but feeling apprehensive in his heart.

Could it be... the Empress has discovered that something's not right with the fat-loss meals...?

“Of course it's your fault!”

“You made the fat-loss meals so delicious that This Empress must have accidentally eaten too much again, which is why I haven't lost any weight!”

Long Yue pointed a finger at Lin Fan and accused him with a coquettish pout.

Seeing that she was only blaming him for making the food too delicious and hadn't realized there was a problem with the 'fat-loss meals' themselves, Lin Fan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

“Empress, if food is deliberately made to be unpalatable, is there any point in making it at all?”

“…”

Long Yue was speechless. After a long silence, she asked a soul-searching question:

“Demon Sovereign, is there any way to eat and drink whatever you want and still lose weight?”

Lin Fan: “…”

Lin Fan was speechless.

“Empress, are your questions getting more and more unreasonable…?”

Last time she asked if she could lie flat and earn money, and now she's asking if she can eat and drink whatever she wants and still lose weight.

If you could really do that, then losing weight wouldn't be as hard as so many people say it is…

Long Yue also felt her question was a bit much. She sighed helplessly, put away the scale, and sat dejectedly on the sofa, lost in thought.

If her spiritual power and cultivation were still intact, why would she need to go through the trouble of losing weight like a mortal? She would only need to circulate the spiritual power in her body to purify the excess fat, and she could return to her original state in the blink of an eye.

Unfortunately, there are no 'ifs'...

Ding-dong.

Just as Long Yue was at her wit's end, the notification sound for a new message suddenly rang on Lin Fan's phone.

Lin Fan opened his phone and saw it was a message from Zhou Yan:

—Free today? Wanna come to the gym and pump some iron?

Looking at the message on his phone, and then at the dejected Long Yue sitting at his side, Lin Fan asked:

“Empress, do you want to try increasing your training intensity? It might be effective.”

“Increase the training intensity? How?” Long Yue asked curiously.

“By going to the gym, of course.”

“This world now has a complete fitness system, with many professional pieces of equipment and training exercises invented to specifically work any part of the body.”

“A gym is a place specifically for people to work out and train. There are quite a few people who go there to lose weight and tone their bodies.”

“Yanzi just asked me to go over. Do you want to go together?”

“Hmm…”

Long Yue pondered for a moment, then her gaze became firm.

“Okay, This Empress will go too!”

To lose weight, you have to control your mouth and move your legs.

Since just controlling her diet and doing low-intensity fat-burning exercises at home wasn't enough to bring her weight down, then she might as well do as the Demon Sovereign said and increase her training intensity!

“Alright then, I'll let Yanzi know.”

Lin Fan's hands tapped on the phone screen as he quickly replied to Zhou Yan.

—Okay, but your sister-in-law wants to go too.

—Sister-in-law is coming too? Of course she's welcome!

—Perfect, I'll go drag Ah Zhai along too. I'll come pick you guys up next, wait for me.

—Okay.

After the simple exchange, Lin Fan put away his phone and waited.

Not long after, two beeps from a car horn sounded from downstairs.

Lin Fan knew that Zhou Yan had arrived, so he took Long Yue downstairs.

As soon as they stepped out of the building's entrance, they saw a black luxury sedan parked downstairs.

“Lin Fan, sister-in-law, get in, quick.”

Zhou Yan rolled down the window and greeted them enthusiastically.

Lin Fan and Long Yue walked forward, opened the back door, and got into the car one after the other. Lu Zhai was already sitting in the front passenger seat waiting for them.

“You guys are going to the gym as a group, why did you have to drag me along.”

“I have a wife to accompany today.”

Lu Zhai pushed up his glasses, his face full of dissatisfaction.

He had been at home, busy conquering a new 'wife,' when Zhou Yan had suddenly called and said he was taking him to the gym to work out.

He had clearly said on the phone that he wasn't interested, but the guy, without another word, just stepped on the gas, drove to his rented apartment building, and dragged him away from his game console.

“You can accompany that 'wife' of yours anytime. What's the rush?”

“He's finally back, so of course you have to come out and hang with us bros.”

“Besides, you're cooped up at home all day. Sooner or later, you'll turn into a fat otaku. You should hurry up and come out to exercise with us.”

Zhou Yan shot an irritated glance at Lu Zhai beside him. After a peek at Long Yue and Lin Fan in the back through the rearview mirror, he stealthily leaned in close to his ear and said in a lowered voice:

“Let me tell you a secret: there are a ton of hot girls at the gym~!”

“Girls you can see and touch... aren't they better than those 2D waifus of yours?”

“Don't you want to become like Lin Fan—with a great aura, a strong body, and the ability to attract girls?”

Ever since he saw the waitress at the milk tea shop smile back at Lin Fan, and after Long Yue had publicly said how 'amazing' he was, his desire to work out and get fit had become unprecedentedly strong.

Of course, besides working out, he had another secondary purpose for going to the gym this time.

And that was to correct this guy Lu Zhai's strange fetish!

This was the very reason he had insisted on dragging him along.

With so many hot girls at the gym, any physiologically normal man would be secretly tempted. He refused to believe that Lu Zhai wouldn't be moved in the slightest!

Lu Zhai shot Zhou Yan an irritated sideways glance, seeing right through him but choosing not to say it.

What a nice way to put it. It's obvious he's the one feeling frisky and wants to go to the gym to hit on girls…

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