After Failing the Exam, I Became a Master Chef in the Urban Village

After twelve years of hard study, top student Jiang Ye had consistently excelled in practice exams and was expected to get into one of the country’s top universities. But he scored only 402 on the national college entrance exam! After his snobbish girlfriend publicly humiliated and dumped him, he discovered that his real score of 685 had been bought off and replaced by a rich second-generation heir! At his most desperate, Jiang Ye unexpectedly bonded with the Gourmet Blind Box System and awakened god-tier cooking skills. He took over his family’s generations-old hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the urban village. From then on, the restaurant world gained an eccentric owner with a strict set of rules. “I only serve one dish a day, chosen at random. No special orders!” “Sixty-six yuan for egg fried rice, eighty-eight yuan for braised pork. Eat it or don’t, and supplies are limited!” At first, passersby cursed him for running a scam and mocked him for being crazy about money. Until… A fact-checking influencer with tens of millions of followers took one bite of his beef noodles, burst into tears, and bowed to apologize on the spot. The executive chef of a five-star hotel took one sip of his cabbage soup and fell to his knees in public, begging to become his apprentice. A billionaire worth hundreds of billions brought bodyguards and queued outside the alley, all for his daughter… When the truth about the stolen exam score came out and the culprits were thrown in jail, the head of admissions at one of the country’s top universities rushed over in the middle of the night with a full scholarship to recruit him. But Jiang Ye took off his apron, took the stunning homeroom teacher’s hand, and smiled calmly. “I’m not going to that university. I’m staying in the urban village to cook for my customers.”