[Shrouding the Heavens] Counting the Emperors Who Want to Eat Me

As a chef, Lan Ning considers himself quite ordinary. He has no exceptional culinary skills or world-shaking talent. He just runs a little restaurant called Three-Person Eatery to make ends meet. If there's anything that sets him apart from other chefs... it's probably that he's lived a long time.

He's only lived a few hundred million years.

Well, put that way, he really is quite different.

Since he's lived so long, Lan Ning has met plenty of powerful figures. More precisely, he went out of his way to help them before they made names for themselves, hoping to secure a little peace and safety.

A quick inventory of his friends' ledger would look something like this:

The Desolate Heavenly Emperor planted vegetables for me.

The Tribulation-Transcending Heavenly Venerable owes me several million years' worth of unpaid bills.

The Ruthless Great Emperor worked as a waitress at my place.

The Great Emperor Wushi stopped by my place for a meal.

They say that in this starry sky, the most mysterious organization isn't the Assassin Dynasty, the Netherworld, or the Life Forbidden Zone. It's a special restaurant. Supposedly, this restaurant has existed since the Immortal Ancient Era. They say it houses immortal beings and the foremost elixir, which can be eaten without dying. It has extraordinary ties to many emperors and immortals, and conceals their supreme imperial arts... In this mortal world, if you happen upon such a restaurant, it means you have the potential to become a great emperor!

Pairing unclear, and it may be no pairing at all.

After observing Lan Ning, the great emperors concluded that if he could bloom, it might solve a mystery spanning the ages.

Lan Ning: Do you really understand what it means for a plant to bloom?

At Three-Person Eatery, we raise our cups to invite the moon, and our shadows make three.

Lan Ning: If only life could stay as it was at first meeting. Meeting again is worse than remembering.