CEO’s Best Friend Asks Him To Protect His Lil Sister But He Can’t Help But Want To CORRUPT Her

A-ba-da-bing-ba-da-bam!

Welcome to this week's

Baking and Mystery, Baking
& Murderer episode.

Listen, we're back with another book.

It is called 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦,
and it is twisted.

Every single neuron, inside of my brain.

And I'm about to tell you all about it.

This book is𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 by
Ana Huang.

It's a contemporary romance.

So, I thought...

[Off-Screen]:
Ana Huang?

Yeah.

She's Chinese?

I know!

Wow, [yeah] okay!

There shall be no dragons in this one.

There shall be no 500-year-old furry fae.

The furries are not making an appearance

in today's video because it's contemporary

romance.

However, however, this is not a

normal episode.

Everyone and their mother told me

that this is the book to read.

That this is where it's at.

this is the story of a lifetime.

I saw TikTok edits about this book.

About Alex Volkov, the main character-

the main male lead.

And I went in, knowing, zero

jack sh*t, I knew nothing about this story

and the way that my mouth was hanging on

jugular on the ground, on the floor.

because of how insane this sh*t is

about to get. I knew I was in

for a freaking ride, when the

very first words in the book are:

(clears throat)

'He has a heart of ice... but for her,

he'd burn the world."

Okay...

A b*tch, okay?

Sh*t.

(laughs)

The second line reads:

'Alex Volkov is the devil blessed with

the face of an angel and

cursed with the past he can't escape.

(screams)

Let me give you a rundown,

on what's going on.

Alex Volkov...

(laughs)

(claps hands jointly)

You good here?

(continues to laugh)

No, it's just so crazy.

It's so crazy!

Wait, what's so crazy?

I'm so confused. (laughs)

Okay, sorry.

Did I miss... a chapter?

Yeah, no, I feel like I've missed

25 chapters, okay? (laughs)

cause, that's literally

how the books starts.

Now, let me give you a rundown.

Alex Volkov is a 27-year-old,

self-made trillionaire.

(laughter erupts)

No, that's dramatic!

Wait, wait, wait.

I think he's just like a multi,

multi-millionaire.

Maybe, a billionaire? I don't know.

27, billionaire? That makes sense.

27-year-old, millionaire.

Maybe a billionaire?

But, also he looks like he could

be a contestant on Physical 100 and

America's Next Top Model.

He's hot, he's rich, he's so insanely

built, you could ski down his abs.

But, he's got the brains of a

unicorn tech company founder.

Which either means he's really smart

or really not smart.

I don't know, you tell me, okay?

He is the romance novel starter pack.

He's also a robot, zero emotions.

Nothing phases him. Someone can

get murdered in broad daylight, on the

street, in front of him and he would

just walk over the dead body.

(laughter erupts)

Why are you laughing?!

Are they... talking about me?

(laughs)

Jail.

Okay

He must also must be a Marvel boy.

A crystal girly, because his heart
is stone, cold.

There's only one in the entire world
that could begin to thaw

ice Daddy's, cold, cold heart and that is
Josh Chen.

His unexpected best friend from college.

Who also happens to be the designated
fu*k boy in today's book.

But Alex Volkov?
He's not a f*ck boy.

He's hotter than a New York City
subway station, in the

middle of butt August.

He's richer! Beyond what mere mortals
can comprehend. He's a genius!

Tell me why
this book told me his IQ is 160?

Like why is it telling me is IQ?

He has an IQ of 160 and he will never
let himself or you forget it.

I think it was mentioned like every other
chapter.

But he's not a f*ck boy.

In fact, Alex Volkov has very strict rules
to never let girls get too close to him.

Because less they want to be on the
receiving end of a really bad

case of hypothermia.

You know?

He's just too cold for them.

Josh Chen on the other hand,
textbook definition boy.

Med School student. He's smart,
he knows it, he's hot, he knows it.

And he wants to have as many girls in his
bedroom as possible.

Preferably, all at the same time.

And it is the sheer fact that he's so open
about it. That makes him...

not that unlikeable.

Okay?

Anyway, the two of them,
they have been best friends,

since forever.

Alex even spent the past eight
Thanksgivings with Josh Chen and

his family and since Alex's family...

they're all uhm...

(schhh)

Of course...

Yeah, they're all dead.

They're all dead.

(laughs)

They're all murdered.
And like this book is so crazy.

I thought, I was picking up a
contemporary romance.

Which it is, you know.

And I'm expecting a "Billionaire boy meets
poor girl."

Wild, kinky, BDSM, smut dripping off
the pages.

You cannot read this on public transit.

And it does have that, but also why is
everybody getting murdered?

Likey why are there so many
murders in this book?

I don't understand.

Some of the plot lines are
absolutely unhinged.

I feel like this book could not pick which
type of book it wanted to be.

Sometimes I be reading
and check the cover.

I'm like, "Wait, am I reading this?"

Then, I accidentally pick up
a different book.

Okay, there are some insane crimes
committed against humanity.

Just casually in the span of like
three pages.

And the writing of this book
is so nonchalant.

Like the most insane bad sh*t
plot will be taking place.

And the writing style is that of somebody
writing about how they just purchased

lemons at the farmer's market.

(Does it work?) Anyway,

It's going to work for some people.

Okay... (laughs)

Okay!

It's going to work really
well for some people and it's

going to work medium for other people.

And it's going to work really not well
for a lot of people.

Okay...?

I thought- do you want to know my opinion?

Okay, ask for my opinion.
Your opinion, please.

Okay,
So,

it's not literature, but what
smut book is literature?

You know what I mean?

It's not literature.

I was not... in the plot.
[Off-Screen]: Uh-huh.

At some point, I found myself reading
because of how unhinged it was.

Like, I was like, "I need to read more,
because it's so crazy."

There's like no way it could get crazier.

And then it kept getting crazier.
(laughs)

Okay

So,

[Off-Screen]: Let's get into it!
Let's get into it!

Alex's family is dead.
He spends every Thanksgiving with

his buddy Josh.
Josh's dad, Michael Chen,

he's going to become important later
and Ava, which is Josh's little sister.

She's pertinent to the story.
She's the sunshine to Mr.Grumpy.

She is described in the book, as I quote:
"Free spirit, who never stops seeing the

beauty in the world."
But, she also has a traumatic past

[Off-Screen]: Wait, so she's
the main girl?

Yeah.

Bru- Best friend's little sister!

[Off-Screen]: Of course.

But also, Ava has a very traumatic past,
like Alex.

You know, a lot of childhood
trauma going on.

Only she can't remember a single thing
about her childhood.

Her memory of her past, shooting blanks.
She can't recall a singular memory.

What is the story behind this picture
of you as a kid?

You cannot pay her to remember.
She will not remember.

So, that being said,

Let's get into Twisted Love.

21-year-old Ava Chen is standing in the
pouring rain, clutching her phone.

Yeah, I mean, no.

There's no way that every single Uber and
Lift is not longer in the area.

21-year-old, Ava Chen, is standing in the
pouring rain, clutching her phone.

How does that even make sense?
It's nighttime, it's pouring rain

but sure enough, she's been standing
there, taking cover in the rain

clicking 'find a ride', nonstop for the
past 30 minutes.

Normally, Ava would think:
"Okay, let's think positive thoughts

and try to see the glass half full!"

But she's alte to her older brother,
Josh's farewell party.

And she still hasn't picked up his
favorite freaking chocolate cake

that he eats once a year on his birthday
but now he's going to want it because

he's about to move to Central America, and
they don't have his special favorite

chocolate cakes there.
Which is--

[Off-Screen]: What city do they live in?
Washington, D.C.

[Off-Screen]: Okay.
Why did I want to say

'George Washington' (laughs)
What the f*ck?

Which... okay,
he's going to Central America, but we

don't know which country.
So, it's like one out of 7, right?

It's going to keep me up at night.
Like everything is kind of vague in this

book. (laughs)
[Off-Screen]: Okay.

i think there's another destination they
travel to and they just don't tell you--

[Off-Screen]: Okay.
much about the destination.

Anyway, one of the seven countries he's
going to, does not have death by

chocolate cake that he loves from the
local bakery.

So, she's got to go pick that up.

And oh sh*t, the rain just keeps coming
down. It's even stronger now.

And then Ava finally looks up and
she realizes: "You know what, I think I've

seen this film before, and I didn't like
the ending."

The film would be a literal horror movie,
where a girl gets kidnapped from the

middle of the night.
From a bus stop in the pouring rain and

then is never to be seen again.

So, she's like, "I need to be smarter.
I need to use my brain cells."

She picks up her phone and calls the one
person, that she does not want to call

right now.

Josh, her older brother,
the one that's moving,

the one that loves the chocolate cake.

"What happened?"

"Well, hello to you too!
Okay? Why would you think that something

happened?"

"You don't- we don't do
greetings anymore?"

"You never call unless something's wrong,
so what happened?"

"Nothing's wrong! Why would you ever..."

Josh can probably hear the pouring rain,
coming down.

"Okay, fine... okay, fine!
I'm a bit stranded—just a little bit."

"But there's... there's just no
Ubers nearby, so it's not like

I'm stranded, per se... I'm just
waiting for a ride."

"Jesus, Ava, where the hell are you?"

She tells him the exact location
and he gives her this very long lecture

about how she's an hour away from
campus, but she argues she's there

because she was doing a photo shoot.

She's a photographer. She needs to
do these things.

"Photoshoots? Photographer?"
It's like kind of her job.

Josh, have you heard of that?

And immediately, the first chapter
of the book,

I'm already mouth agape.

B*tch, because tell me why
Ava is on the phone with her brother, Josh

when she hears- this is her brother

when she hears soft moaning...
coming from the other end!

[Off-Screen]: Bruhh, what?

A woman's voice!

Ava is disgusted, which, like, same girl!

And I have a feeling the author does not
have a male sibling.

Because, like, uh, ewwww!

Anyway, that's your older brother.

Her eyes are wide. "Are you... are you
having s*x right now?"

She feels like throwing up, but
Josh says, "Technically, no."

What does that mean?

Like, logistically speaking, you're not?
Like it's complicated?

But either way, they hang up,
and Josh tells her to sit tight—

he's going to have someone pick her up.

[Off-Screen]: What do you mean
"Technically, no."

What the f*ck is he is doing there?

Technically, other things.
[Off-Screen]: Ahh, Oh my God.

He's not tell her who's picking her up,
when they're picking her up. Just wait.

That's all he tells her, which is
freaking fantastic.

She waits what feels like an eternity.

And it could be that the girl he was
just doing it with, is rolling up.

It could be a random friend, is going
to drive up.

Josh has a lot of friends,
Ava does not.

She's the type of girl that likes to
sit in the corner at parties,

just daydreaming about all the places
that she wants to travel in the world,

but she'll never get to travel
because she has a fear of flying.

Because she has water phobia.
It's called aquaphobia.

Now, while Josh-
he is the life of the party,

doing keg stands,
in the middle of the living room.

So, yeah, it could be one of his five
bajillion friends, or his girlfriends,

or it could be the one
person she hoped it would not be.

The one person, who drives a very loud,
very expensive car, an Aston Martin.

And right in that moment, a black Aston
Martin, starts speeding down the road.

Only, only mean guys drive cars like that.

Well, I don't know, okay.

But, Ava only knows one person that drives

a car like that, and he's not very nice.

This is about to be one hell of an
hour-long car ride in the pouring rain.

The car stops right in front of her, the
window rolls down, and there's

a gorgeous man sitting in the
driver's seat.

yes, you guessed it,
Alex Volkov.

Did you know that "Volkov"
means, like, wolf in Russian, I think?

(light laughs)

[Off-Screen]: Okay.

"Get in."
He doesn't even look in her direction.

"He's so rude.
It's so hot."

[Off-Screen]: Shut up.

No, that's not what I'm saying!

[Off-Screen]: Oh, that's what she's
saying?

Basically, yeah.

(laughs)

What do you mean 'shut up'

Are you trying to be rude that it's hot?

[Laughter]

She awkwardly gets into the
passenger seat and the car is dead silent.

He doesn't believe in listening to music.
No sweet tunes in this man's ears.

Gross feelings, emotions?
Music?

They're just driving in silence.

Ava naturally feels uncomfortable,
so she's trying to break

the silence a little bit.

"Uhm, thanks for picking me up.
It's really sweet of you."

No response.

In fact, Alex doesn't even glance at her.

He's got that Oppa driving stance,
one hand on the steering wheel.

Man spreading—can't be safe for
vehicular maneuvering, but he's doing it.

Ava tries—you know, she shifts back in her
seat, so she's facing the road again.

And just tries to focus on getting through
the rest of this hour-long car ride.