A Guide to Spirit-Cleansing Cuisine

[Socially Anxious Chef × Rule-Based Horror × Food-Based Solutions]

When the wasteland is ruled by seven iron laws, everyone has to get on their knees and beg to survive under the rules.

Su Wuwei only wants to find a quiet corner with no one around and cook in peace.

His hands shake. He's socially anxious and stammers when he speaks. He can barely even look people in the eye.

And yet, he awakened the strangest horror ability of all: [Taste Empathy].

He touches the cold rice on the offering table with his fingertips: "Bitter, like someone who's waited a lifetime finally closing their eyes."

He licks the goods in an abandoned supermarket: "Sweet to the point of bitterness. Possessiveness is screaming."

Others solve the rules through deduction or brute force.

Su Wuwei solves them by cooking them.

The steamer lid lifts, and the spirit tablet glows.

He plates the dish, and a double helix of food qi rises into the air.

In that moment, every cold, merciless rule kneels before his stove.

The Curse Enforcement Bureau wants to hunt him down: "He's the greatest variable in the rules."

The Hunger Wraith wants to study him: "He can heal obsessions even I can't digest."

But Su Wuwei only wants to hide behind his stove and finish cooking the bowl of rice in his hands.

Until the day the rule-storm tore through the wasteland, and all seven iron laws descended at once.

Everyone thought the end of the world had come.

Su Wuwei rose from behind his stove.

His hands were still shaking.

But he stood in front of everyone.

"Lend me the stove."

"I'll cook this meal."

[Social Anxiety. Stove Exemption. Obsessive Plating.]

[When you gaze into the rules, the rules... get hungry.]

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