The Gourmet Holographic Bistro

[Complete, please leave a five-star review! Preorder: There’s Someone in My Game] Ancient-era young chef Lan Yezhou was searching for ingredients when he missed a step and fell into a strange new world: Vegetables that sprouted from the ground every few minutes; fruit ready to harvest every three days; streams so shallow you could still catch an endless supply of fish; birds flying overhead and animals running through the woods... Even ingredients from the deep sea were easy to come by. Despite this abundance, the villagers took it all for granted and struggled through each day on stamina potions. Lan Yezhou’s foodie spirit blazed to life. He dashed into a nearby grove, gathered whatever he could find, and whipped up a proper meal. They say the moment the clay shell cracked open on his beggar’s chicken, the whole village started drooling. After that, all Lan Yezhou had to do was run his little eatery and wait for customers to line up, bringing him both ingredients and money. * The first open-world exploration VR game, Peach Blossom Paradise, has opened its first closed beta without character wipes. The 500 lucky players selected will soon enter the game. Before entering: “I hear this game is 99% realistic, perfectly recreating the scenery of Blue Star thousands of years ago. As a scenery fan, I’m going to explore every unlocked map within a week!” “I’ve bought every cookbook I could find on the market. In theory, I’ve mastered the correct way to fry a sunny-side-up egg! A little effort every day, and I’ll be the next protagonist in a foodie novel!” After entering: “LOL, I can’t even get out of the starting village. I’ll consider it a win if I manage to eat everything at Leaflet Eatery within a month!” “Why bother learning to cook? Just hunt in the woods, catch a fish in the river, pick some wildflowers and weeds by the roadside, and ask Chef Lan to make you something delicious. Isn’t that way better?” * The players all assumed Lan Yezhou was a treasure of a chef NPC, lovingly created by the game company. Little did they know, the company was just as baffled. Weren’t they supposed to be working together in a new way to explore a newly discovered planet? Who on earth was this person who’d suddenly appeared?! One planet’s ruler said, “I’ll go take a look.” He never came back, and became the little chef’s “all-purpose ingredient supplier.” [Reader’s Guide] 1. A laid-back, introverted chef bottom x a gluttonous, shameless ingredient-supplier top. 2. A foodie novel disguised as a VR game. The sheltered interstellar populace spends their days drooling nonstop. 3. Blurb written on September 13, 2021. The novel will start once there are enough preorders. Preorder: There’s Someone in My Game. Please add it to your favorites! [A money-loving, all-around life-skills bottom x a top who loves secretly stuffing things into his sweetheart’s pockets and instantly grows eighteen lovesick brains] Ran Nian grew up relying on his older brother, and the two struggled to make a life in the slums. When his brother fell into a coma after an injury, Ran Nian had no choice but to use the birthday present he’d secretly prepared for him: the cheapest VR headset he could find. He entered the VR game Fantasy World, hoping to earn the exorbitant cost of treatment. Before long, however, Ran Nian realized the game he was playing seemed different from everyone else’s. Somehow... he could understand what the monsters were saying? Fat Hen: “The tailor’s grandson folded the patterns into paper planes. One of them fell into that dead tree at the village entrance. If nobody finds it soon, the dew will soak it through~” Ran Nian climbed into the dead tree by the village entrance in the middle of the night. Sure enough, he found a pattern that was about to be ruined. After learning it, he made an adorable rabbit-fur hat that became a hit with the female players, earning him a hefty sum. Little Frizzle Pig: “There are three recipes buried under the big rock by the waterfall. They say they can make our meat taste even better. It’s terrifying for a pig like me QAQ!” Ran Nian’s eyes lit up. He hurried over and, sure enough, dug up the three recipes. After learning them, he cooked red-braised pork, rabbit with twin peppers, and saliva chicken, making the players drool and cry at the same time. He earned another hefty sum. Some time later, while other players were still fighting over a single piece of green gear and showering the food stall’s egg fried rice with ridiculous praise, Ran Nian was living the good life, with stacks of blueprints and money pouring in, thanks to all the juicy gossip and interesting stories he’d heard from the monsters. His brother woke from his coma and was stunned to hear about his younger brother’s in-game adventures. Was this really his delicate, pretty little brother? Where had this black-sesame-filled white dumpling come from?! Huo Ronglian was an ancient being discovered alongside the core of Fantasy World. His powerful mental strength was unmatched. Fortunately, he meant no harm to this world, was easygoing and went with the flow, and even took a part-time job as a “human mainframe.” On his first day at work, he realized he’d fallen in love at first sight with a young man. Theme: May good food bring people happiness.