Apocalypse Big Shot Blows Up the Kitchen on a Dating Show

Qin Qing died in battle at the end of the world, only to wake up as a B-list entertainer in a peaceful era. Her love life and career had both hit rock bottom: her boyfriend cheated on her, her career was a complete flop, and her company bundled her off to a dating reality show, saddling her with the persona of a scheming green tea villain.

Having once led a faction in the apocalypse, Qin Qing had maxed out her adaptability. Once she understood the situation, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work. First she dealt with the cheating scumbag and his mistress, then tore up her scripted persona on the show, turning the green tea role into that of an all-around powerhouse and making a comeback in popularity.

There was just one problem: Qin Qing was good at everything on the show. She could catch fish in the sea and hunt chickens in the mountains, but the cooking segment gave her a serious headache. A level-ten disaster in the kitchen, she turned other people's cooking into a kitchen explosion.

Netizens all complained: Just watching Qin Qing stand in the kitchen gives me a stomachache.

Luckily, one of the show's guests, former national heartthrob and newly crowned Best Actor Shen Yubai, had unbelievably good cooking skills. After Qin Qing tried his soy-braised ribs once, she immediately decided to pair up with him as her on-screen couple.

The first time they cooked together-

Qin Qing: His braised ribs look so good.

Shen Yubai: She's looking at me like that. Could she have fallen for me?

After one misunderstanding about cooking after another, Shen Yubai convinced himself she was in love with him and confessed first-

Qin Qing: ...You got the wrong idea. I was born with flirtatious eyes. Even my braised pork looks this smitten.

As for the netizens, they could only keep bouncing between "The romance is so sweet" and "The food looks so good."

Reader's guide:

1. A super-strong celebrity foodie x a top-tier star with amazing cooking skills. They each see their romance as: "My delicate husband who can't even take care of himself" vs. "My wife who has never lifted a finger around the house."

2. More to be added.

Coming next: A period-era food story, "Starting Over as the Imperial Banquet's Head Chef in the Seventies"

Xiang Yunwei, head chef of the imperial banquet, transmigrates into a book and becomes the tragic female supporting character in a period novel.

In the original story, her family sells her to a fool as his bride for the price of six eggs. She then falls desperately in love with the male lead to no avail, is seduced by the second male lead and loses her virginity, and finally dies in childbirth, her tragic life serving as a foil to the female lead Song Qing's happy ending.

Regarding the original plot, Xiang Yunwei says she can eat all kinds of delicacies, but she won't suffer for love.

She leaves the male lead behind, rolls up her sleeves, and uses her excellent cooking skills to get hired as the head cook in the village elementary school cafeteria.

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No one in Dawa Village doesn't pity the younger Xiang girl, saying she has a hard life because she was sold to a fool as his bride. But they also laugh at her, saying she deserves it for foolishly competing with Song Qing over a man.

But as they keep laughing, the younger Xiang girl becomes head cook at the cafeteria, then moves to town and opens a restaurant. When she returns to the village, she rides in a brand-new, shiny car. Even Song Qing's most successful man in the village still only has a motorcycle.

Her restaurant makes it all the way to the capital, and the younger Xiang girl takes her little fool of a husband along with her. They say her young husband got into college and was later hired as a university professor ahead of schedule.

It turns out the little fool wasn't really stupid. He just didn't talk much. And what he wrote on paper wasn't meaningless scribbling, but math problems they couldn't understand.

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