A Guide to Leveling Up as a Culinary Redshirt

Ning Caichen transmigrates into a book because he shares a character's name. After meeting Nie Xiaoqian and refusing her request to take her along, she calls the Black Mountain Old Demon, who chops him down with one blow. He dies, only to somehow become a mission-taker tasked with helping the wronged, unlucky food-world cannon fodder turn their lives around.

To escape his fate as a disposable tool in the book, Ning Caichen travels from one world to another, playing all kinds of roles and meeting people who say things like, "You're not tasty," "Your cooking is a disaster," and "You have no food genes." He encounters all sorts of mass-produced white-jade vegetables, low-fat green vegetables, and food made with technology and additives...

Can there be any real food in these worlds!? Ning Caichen raises his knife. "You repeat offenders, if you don't like it, come and fight me. Don't get in the way while I upgrade this food planet."

Transmigrated protagonists in one-three pair with cannon fodder, and reborn protagonists in one-three match with cannon fodder. There are no mission-takers who can't work hard, and no complicated world-character halos that can't be broken. Helpless yet full of determination, Ning Caichen travels from world to world, reclaiming the gears of fate.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.